YAF Announces 2018 GPA Redistribution Video Contest
Leftists are constantly urging conservatives to “pay their fair share” and insisting that “the 1%” need to have their wealth redistributed to those who don’t have as much. Well, now’s your chance to tell them to put their money—or in this case their grades—where their mouth is by challenging your peers with a petition to […]
University Of Tennessee Sex Week To Include ‘Black Liberation Through Sexual Pleasure’ and ‘Butt Stuff 2.0’
The University of Tennessee’s 2018 “Sex Week” promises to top their previous sex week events with a syllabus of programs that could make the most sexually-liberated blush. Sessions on “Black Liberation through Sexual Pleasure” and “Reproductive (In)Justice” are just the tip of this leftist sexcapade that also promises a drag show, cabaret, and “Sex Week […]
California ‘Refuse Fascism’ Groups Vow To Drive Kristan Hawkins Off Campus
Proving again that the anti-fascist crowd is (ironically) quite fascist, several “Refuse Fascism” groups in California have announced plans to oppose an upcoming Young America’s Foundation lecture featuring Kristan Hawkins on April 10. The radical leftists who oppose the event, hosted by the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at California State University—Los Angeles, are calling […]
Young Americans For Freedom Adds New Board Members To Guide Increasingly Influential Chapters
From the time Young Americans for Freedom was born with the drafting of the Sharon Statement in William F. Buckley, Jr.’s Connecticut home, young people have been integral to the leadership of YAF. As the visible presence of the Conservative Movement on their campuses, Young Americans for Freedom activists have carried forward our shared ideas […]
OP-ED: The Fight For Free Speech At Hobart And William Smith Colleges
by Katrina Willis, HWS Young Americans for Freedom If an explosive Ben Shapiro lecture at UC-Berkeley is like figure skating at the Winter Olympics, activism at Hobart and William Smith Colleges as a member of Young Americans for Freedom is like cross-country skiing. The stifling bias we face is not a flashy must-see event attracting […]
FONTOVA: Anti-NRA Student Walkout Features Che Guevara As Poster Child
by Humberto Fontova “About 1,400 students wearing orange shirts gathered on a hill at East Chapel Hill High School in North Carolina to listen as student organizers read the names of each of the Parkland victims…students gathered in discussion circles to talk about gun violence in America…”It’s really scary to me how in America we […]
February Chapter Of The Month: Virginia Tech Young Americans For Freedom
For their ability to plan, organize, and host a record setting event at their school, Virginia Tech Young Americans for Freedom (VT YAF) has been named chapter of the month for February. After hosting a number of successful Young America’s Foundation-sponsored lectures, VT YAF recognized that the student body at Virginia Tech had a burning […]
These Are The Pro-Freedom Students The Media Ignores
Anti-gun media outlets, and public officials continue to claim that American students are unanimously demanding their schools and communities become gun-free zones. But in taking for granted the fact that students are monolithically opposed to the Second Amendment, they ignore millions of students who recognize the importance of firearms used to protect them at school, […]
YAF Liberal March Madness: Round One Results
Young America’s Foundation’s Liberal March Madness competition is in full swing and the final results of round one matchups are in! YAF put together the Sweet 16 of the maddest liberals, leaving it up to you to vote for the maddest of them all via Twitter poll. With the completion of round one, we have […]
On ‘National Walk Out Day,’ Conservative Student Threatened With Arrest For Not Following Anti-2A Agenda
Andy Dalsin, a senior at New Prague High School in Minnesota, reported being confronted by administrators as his school took part in the ‘National Walk Out Day’ and threatened with being kicked off campus merely for having a sign that didn’t follow the anti-Second Amendment agenda being pushed. It read: “Guns don’t kill people, people […]
“Tolerant” Leftists Destroy Pro-Life Memorial In A Futile Attempt To Silence Conservatives
In yet another case of leftists’ utter disregard for conservatives’ free speech rights, students at Clemson University took the time to rip crosses out of the ground and vandalize signs that the Clemson Young Americans for Freedom chapter had put up to remember all of the lives lost to abortion. The Clemson YAF chapter put […]
YAF Announces New Student Initiatives To Promote Second Amendment Freedoms On High School Campuses
As high schools across America plan walk outs in protest of legal gun ownership, a freedom enshrined as a God-given right in the Constitution, Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) National Chairman Grant Strobl announced two new initiatives for freedom-loving students: I am excited to announce two initiatives for hundreds of high school Young Americans for […]
Super Bowl Champ Burgess Owens Checks The Reality Of Whining Leftists At HWS
Super Bowl champion and bold conservative Burgess Owens spoke at Hobart and William Smith Colleges this week as part of Young America’s Foundation’s nationwide campus lecture program. After an inspiring speech on leadership, the importance of conservative ideas, and an optimistic outlook on America’s future, Owens took questions from the packed student audience. One student […]
#LadiesWhoLead: YAF Edition
While the Left prides itself on preaching the ideals of feminism and equality, conservative women across the country have been working to defy the stereotypes, strengthen themselves as leaders, and shatter the glass ceilings put in place by the Left. Many of these women are the leaders of our YAF chapters. As the Left claims […]
YAF Sues Kennesaw State University For Discriminatory Fee Charged For ‘Controversial’ Pavlich Lecture
The Kennesaw State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (the chapter affiliate of Young America’s Foundation) filed a complaint in federal court Monday against administrators at Kennesaw State University over the school’s assessment of viewpoint-discriminatory security fees for the upcoming KSU Young Americans for Freedom lecture with Katie Pavlich.University administrators are demonstrating their anti-conservative […]
THROWBACK: YAF’s First National Conservative Student Conference
Foreign policy concerns dominated the late 1970s as the Cold War escalated and communists were taking over higher education. Young America’s Foundation’s goal was to give young conservative activists the education they needed to deal with the academic Left and defend their ideas in the classroom. James Taylor, a current member of Young America’s Foundation’s […]
Shapiro Brings Conservatism To Hotbed Of Liberalism
You will be surprised by what happened Monday night at the University of Minnesota. With the help of Young America’s Foundation, this could be your campus! A packed hall of eager young people turned out to engage in an academic program on the value of America’s free market system and the importance of free speech. […]
Desperate Much? Leftists Fail In Hypocritical False Flag Smear Of UB YAF
Showing once again that their ideas don’t hold up in a fair debate, leftists on the University at Buffalo’s campus have launched a desperate false flag attack in a feeble attempt to undermine the UB Young Americans for Freedom Chapter. “#ENDWOMENSRIGHTS” proclaims the poster made to look as if it came from UB YAF. The […]
Celebrate Women’s History Month By Crushing The Left’s Stereotypes of Women
The month of March is celebrated as Women’s History Month – a narrative that is often controlled by leftist feminists. A common claim by the Left is that the Conservative Movement is dominated by old men who are anti-women. Here at YAF, we celebrate the diversity of the Conservative Movement and Women’s History Month is […]
LIVE TONIGHT: Ben Shapiro Talks Capitalism And First Amendment
Ben Shapiro’s concise, compelling defense of American ideals has secured his spot as the #1 requested speaker on our nation’s campuses. America is under attack as never before from enemies both without and within, making the spread of thoughtful conservatism more important than ever. TONIGHT, Ben Shapiro will continue his 2018 Young America’s Foundation campus tour at the […]
UPDATE: DePaul Bans Steven Crowder, Continues Pattern Of Suppressing Conservative Speech
Update: DePaul YAF has received the following email from the administration that the school will reconsider the chapter’s application to host Steven Crowder. Upon further review of the Student Organization Speaker Review procedures, it has been determined that the procedures were incorrectly followed in the case of the DePaul Young Americans for Freedom (DYAF) speaker application […]
Young America’s Foundation Puts University Of Minnesota On Notice For First Amendment Violations
Young America’s Foundation (YAF) and Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) put the University of Minnesota on notice Tuesday that a lawsuit is imminent if the school doesn’t remedy its disparate treatment of conservative students working to host Ben Shapiro through YAF’s nationwide campus lecture program on February 26. The letter sent to the University of Minnesota can […]
After Quarantining Ben Shapiro In Desolate Venue, University Of Minnesota Approves Counter Event On Main Campus
In an inexplicable turn of events proving the University of Minnesota’s anti-conservative bias, the U of M’s Women’s Center and several leftist organizations on campus have just announced a counter event to Young America’s Foundation’s February 26 lecture featuring Ben Shapiro, titled “White Supremacy in the Age of Trump: An Anti-Racist Teach-In.” Unbelievably, the University […]
Nearly 1-in-5 Students Say Violence ‘Acceptable’ To Shut Down Offensive Speech: Report
More than half of students in a recent survey (51%) said disrupting speech they disagree with “by loudly and repeatedly shouting so that the audience cannot hear the speaker” is acceptable. This and other startling statistics are in a new report by John Villasenor analyzing a survey conducted at the start of the 2017-2018 academic year […]
