Tennessee Student Solidarity Network (TSSN) is a youth-led organization aiming to develop youth leaders as long-term political workers. TSSN organizes primarily with working-class students and students tied to strategic institutions across Tennessee looking to engage in power-building campaigns to improve their immediate conditions, the conditions for workers at their institutions, and our region as a whole. 

A Luta Sigue’s youth leaders founded TSSN after they helped organize a protest at the TN Capitol in response to the tragic Nashville Covenant School shooting, which led to the expulsion of the “Tennessee 3”. These events led to a mass mobilization of young people. ALS’s youth leaders founded TSSN to channel this energy toward long-term efforts prioritizing rigorous base-building, strategic campaigns, and leadership development. 

TSSN fosters the creation and development of student unions and youth committees, providing them with guidance and capacity support while acting as a central body for groups to build connections, struggle for alignment, share lessons, and coordinate consolidated efforts around citywide or statewide priorities.