In the last six years I have seen a lot of brave efforts to concieve, convince, and contrive a broad youth movement across the US and around the world. There are actually several organizations that hold this effort as one of their undergirding principles. Old-line youth orgs like scouts, Boys & Girls Club, and YMCA […]
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Is There a Youth Movement?
US: National Youth Rights Meeting Discusses Ageism, Promotes Youth Voting
This past Sunday, youth rights activists from around the country, from as far as Washington, D.C., came to the National Youth Rights Association's (NYRA) annual meeting (www.youthrights.org) in San Francisco to discuss ageism in the community and what progress the individual regional chapters have made to combat it. Five people from NYRA's Berkeley chapter, including […]
US: Know Your Rights: Skipping School to Protest
It is a dark day in the history of America when an eighth-grader commits suicide after participating in a student walkout, protesting anti-immigrant legislature. On March 30, Anthony Soltero -- an organizer of his school's walkout -- shot himself in the head after the administration of De Anza Middle School in Ontario, Calif., threatened Soltero […]
US: New Albany resident trying to bring back curfew for kids
If it was up to Djuana Harris, no child under the age of 17 would be allowed on the streets after 9 p.m. without adult supervision.Sound drastic? Harris doesn't think so, especially after vandals used spray paint on several cars parked on her street recently. And the vandalism didn't end there."I live on a nice […]
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