Inside Bernie's boot camp for students via blrshepherd
WASHINGTON — Hector Chaidez Ruacho was huddled in bed next to his siblings in an Austin, Texas, hotel. It was past midnight, and Ruacho was nervous that the hazy glare of his laptop would wake them after the most recent leg of their group road trip. The 25-year-old graduate student at the University of Buffalo kept his keystrokes quiet and his screen dim, but he was dedicated to his task — Ruacho, after all, was in summer school.
Story continuesInclusion in this cycle’s campus corps was a motivating goal for Ruacho, an immigrant from Mexico who became a U.S. citizen during the last presidential election in order to support Sanders’s 2016 bid in Nevada. But not every assignment came naturally for him. Eighteen-year-old Kayla Sloan, an incoming Sarah Lawrence College student, focused her version on how her cystic fibrosis poses difficulties in securing long-term health care. She felt similarly tense.
“If we just look at how movements happen, especially youth-led movements, from Parkland, but even Occupy, the Sunrise Movement, BLM, it’s never done by influencers,” Cho added. “Thinking that just because these are Zoomers, and they are digital native, it must be influencers that launch it, history shows us differently. History shows that it’s all about grassroots organizing, and we’re just giving people the tools to make it happen.
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