The Feminist Majority Foundation's new Campus Campaign for Choice will reach tens of thousands college students with a pro-choice message through study and action components including public education events and specific projects such as "Adopt-a-Clinic," in which students will be trained as volunteers for local clinic defense and escort services.

"The radical religious right pours massive resources into campus organizing," said Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation. "For example, The Campus Crusade for Christ has an international staff of 14,200 people. Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum Collegians is on over 100 campuses. The Collegiate Network, which funds right-wing college newspapers, has launched 54 newspapers at some of our country's most prestigious schools. Feminist and progressive groups must invest more resources on campuses."

The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliances will conduct the Campus Campaign for Choice, which focuses on choice in four major areas: Saving Reproductive Choice, Narrowing of Choice, Choices in Leadership, and Choices in Careers. Two dozen student interns are currently in training at the Feminist Majority Foundation's Arlington, VA and Los Angeles offices to take the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliances back to their campuses this fall.

"The Feminist Majority Foundation is already a familiar name on a lot of campuses," said Dee Martin, National Programs Associate of the Feminist Majority Foundation. "Students have heard about us through our Web site, which receives over 30,000 hits a day; through our Expo '96 conference which attracted over a thousand college students; through our speaking tour at hundreds of colleges; and through the Freedom Summer and Freedom Fall program in which hundreds of interns participated."

The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliances will target community colleges as well as four-year colleges and universities. For more information contact Dee Martin at (703) 522-2214.