Faiz Shakir, executive director of More Perfect Union, said he hopes the new campus initiative will start an economic populist movement.
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The progressive media organization More Perfect Union announced a new initiative Wednesday aimed at building “collective power” on college campuses, The New York Times reported. More Perfect University bills itself as an antidote to Turning Point USA, the widespread campus organization founded by conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, and will attempt to recapture young voters who moved to the right during the 2024 presidential election.
Turning Point has “been wildly successful,” Faiz Shakir, executive director of More Perfect Union, told the Times. “We’re hoping that an economic populist movement for the next generation will start through More Perfect Union on campuses.”
Unlike Turning Point, More Perfect University will not have campus chapters. Instead, the organization will host events on campus that are “meant to bring together students across majors, clubs, Greek life and all corners of campus life to meet, laugh, learn from each other and organize against corporate greed on their campus and locally,” according to its website. The group will host in-person events on campuses and digital events on Discord, as well as train college students in content creation with the goal of developing leftist media influencers.
Upcoming events will feature Sen. Bernie Sanders and former chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission Lina Khan. The initiative will focus on public institutions with high percentages of working-class students, the group told the Times.
