Recent Activities
After the 6th National Congress, ULDY made several distinguished activities including:
- Popular aid to thousands of internally displaced people due to the Israeli aggression against Lebanon during July and August 2006.
- Hosting the Coordinating Council meeting of WFDY in November 2006 in Beirut with the participation of tens of international leftist and communist organizations and hundreds of attendants from Lebanon.
- Several camps hosting hundreds of participants in Summer of 2007.
- "The Spring March" that toured Lebanon for 34 consecutive days in the summer of 2008 under the slogan of "All of Lebanon is for us all" and demanding the unity of the Lebanese people across the sectarian division lines drawn by the Lebanese political and social system.
- An open solidarity protest for 24 days near the UN offices in ESCWA building in downtown Beirut during the Israeli aggression against Gaza from December 25, 2008 to January 18, 2009. During this period several demonstrations, protests and solidarity events were held in Beirut and across Lebanon, mainly towards the Egyptian,U.S. and Canadian embassies in addition to the EU commission and Arab League representatives, in collaboration with other Lebanese and Palestinian leftist youth organizations.
- ULDY organizes a set of youth camps every summer which include Educational, Dialogue, Pioneers, Artistic and Voluntary work camps throughout Lebanon.
- In the beginning of 2011, ULDY together with some Left organizations and activists organized a campaign to support the Arab revolutions especially during the peak of the revolutions of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen and Bahrain. The campaign conducted different protests in front of the embassies and consulates of those countries and had a daily protest in front of the Egyptian embassy including the day when the demonstrators tried to enter the embassy.
- ULDY was an effective and leading factor in the campaign to change the sectarian regime in Lebanon. Five central demonstrations were organized in Beirut and three others in Saida, Tripoli and Byblos between February 27 and June 26, 2011. The biggest demonstration of the campaign had around 30.000 protestors in the streets of Beirut on March 20, 2011.
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