Milwaukee’s young people know that it is our time to take control of our democracy and liberation. Because of the work we put in over the years, we also know the youth have a strong political home with LIT.

    2021 Victories

  • Spring 2021


    UW-GB; The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay stopped sending university police officers to conduct wellness checks and created a collaboration between the university’s student health services and the residence halls to conduct wellness checks.
  • Spring 2021


    YPA Endorsements; Rather than endorsing candidates for the Milwaukee Public Schools board, our members invited candidates to endorse our Youth Power Agenda- LIT’s vision to dismantle the school to prison to deportation pipeline in Milwaukee Public Schools. In Spring of 2019, 8/9 candidates endorsed our platform. Fast forward to Spring of 2021, all candidates endorsed the YPA.

    • 2020 Victories

  • June 2020


    After two years of organizing, the Milwaukee Public School Board introduced a resolution to end contracts with police. We mobilized young people across Milwaukee and organized a rally to demand the board Get MPD out of MPS. Thanks to this advocacy, the board voted to end all police contracts.
  • April 2020


    We implemented a digital-first organizing model to respond to Wisconsin's primary during the coronavirus pandemic. Our digital content led to 19,807 absentee ballot requests from voters across the state.

    • 2019 Victories

  • October 2019


    We were profiled by Brave New Films for our work fighting against the school to prison pipeline and our civic engagement work that is turning out Milwaukee voters in the hundreds of thousands.
  • September 2019


    After over a month of organizing, advocacy and testimony from young people, the Milwaukee Public Schools AFP Committee voted NO to a proposed $217,600 contract with ADANI Systems for airport-style x-ray metal detectors in MPS High Schools.
  • MAY 2019


    The Milwaukee Public School Board voted to divest $600,000 from the security and policing budget and invest those funds into 6 new trauma-informed mental health positions, marking the first Invest Divest win directly from our Youth Power Agenda.
  • MARCH 2019
    High school LIT members conducted interviews with School Board candidates and got 8 out of the 9 candidates to endorse our Youth Power Agenda.

    • 2018 Victories

  • November 2018


    Thanks to our organizing efforts for the midterm election, we saw a 6% increase in voter turnout in our target areas, an increase in youth voter turnout 4% above the national average, and wins in Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, U.S. Senate, and U.S. Congress races.
  • september 2018


    We were profiled by Now This News for our work fighting voter suppression and engaging young voters in Milwaukee.
  • april 2018


    With the Center for Popular Democracy, we developed and released a 30-page report, Failure from Freedom: Dismantling Milwaukee’s School to Prison Pipeline with the Youth Power Agenda.
  • March 2018
    Our students won the fight to get the Milwaukee Public School Board to reject a reckless and discriminatory policy that would have further criminalized Black and Brown youth in our schools, by mandating police be called just for suspected criminal activity with no evidence of wrongdoing. This would have put more Black and Brown students directly in the hands of the police. Our campaign and students were highlighted in national outlets like Blavity, The Intercept, and ThinkProgress.