Students tear down 'Berlin Wall'

Students on more than 100 college campuses across the nation today marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by tearing down mock representations of the barrier that once divided the German city.

The original wall fell at 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 9, 1989. Today, 20 years later, students tore down mock walls

as part of Young America's Foundation Freedom Week.

Schools including the University of California–Berkeley, University of California–San Diego, College of William and Mary, University of Florida, Cornell and George Washington University participated.

In addition to the destruction of the wall representations, students also distributed literature from Young America's Foundation that expresses "how socialism always leads to widespread misery, rationing and colossal oppression," the organization said.

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Students were given details about Che Guevara, the former Cuban revolutionary and mass murderer who has become an iconic figure in recent years. One campaign office for President Obama even sported Guevara's image during the 2008 campaign.

One poster read, "Reject Oppressive Socialist Ideas; Embrace Freedom." It then explained that more than 100 million people were murdered under progressive socialist movements while more than 400 million were freed from communism by Ronald Reagan and worldwide freedom movements.

"It was President Reagan who brought real 'hope' and 'change' when he defeated communism," Patrick Coyle, the vice president of YAF, said. "Sadly, even though socialist ideas have been thoroughly repudiated, liberals in Washington and academia still push to increase the power of the federal government."

An estimated two billion people still live under oppressive regimes today. The foundation's Freedom Week is meant to educate young people in the principles of freedom and democracy and to encourage them to fight for those who seek freedom from oppressive governments.

With the Castro regime still intact in Cuba, and tyrannical regimes across the globe from North Korea to Sudan, YAF's goal is to mobilize the younger generation to fight for freedom against ever-encroaching socialism.

As Young America's Foundation reported, a Rasmussen survey showed that 33 percent of young people prefer socialism to capitalism, with another 30 percent undecided.

For the last 38 years, Young America's Foundation has served as the principal outreach organization of the conservative movement. The organization is dedicated to promoting conservative ideas on college campuses across the nation as well as encouraging and supporting young people to be activists.