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	Youth Empowerment Center
		Youth from under-resourced communities are not given the support they need to develop as healthy human beings and effective citizens, and they are blamed for the conditions in their communities.
		Youth organizing can both change young peoples' understanding of their own role in society and change society itself.
		By running a Support Center and sponsoring youth projects, YEC is able to introduce a whole new meaning to the phrase "youth empowerment." Our job is empowering the youth and the projects they belong to.
	www.youthec.org /yec_support (493 words)

	National Youth Rights Association - Links
		Power to the Youth is an organization of youth (and cool adults) around the nation who are taking charge of their schools, lives, and world.
		Youth Service America's Youth Voice Initiative is a national campaign to increase the quantity and quality of opportunities for young people to serve as decision-makers in organizations and communities.
		The Youth Vote Coalition is a national nonpartisan coalition of diverse organizations dedicated to increading political and civic participations among young people, building an inclusive, accountable, and responsive government, and increasing public awareness about the value of participation in democracy through the electoral process.
	www.youthrights.org /links.php (2117 words)

	Viewpoints - Youth Activism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		At the heart of it, activism is a way to alleviate and change some of the problems that exist in society and to help the disadvantaged and the oppressed.
		Activism to increase profit making or that which is used to keep the status quo that is exploitative are questionable types of activism.
		This is told to the youth by the people who run the agency who believe that these are isolated incidents and are separate issues unrelated to social conditions and factors which may cause youth to rebel against their family and authority.
	www.aamovement.net /viewpoints/youth_activism.html (1097 words)

	Youth-Led Social Activism
		These are all progressive youth-led or youth-focused activism organizations, websites, and resources that conduct or promote youth activism for broad social justice.
		YouthAction's vision is to prepare the new wave of youth who are, and will continue to be, the lifeblood of community improvement efforts for the coming decades.
		Established to provide for the educational and emotional needs of children whose parents have suffered because of their progressive activities and who, therefore are no longer able to provide fully for their children.
	www.freechild.org /youth_activism_2.htm (966 words)

	WKCD - What Kids Can Do (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Youth Rising, an in-depth study that builds on the author’s undergraduate thesis, details the landscape of today’s youth organizing movement through four illuminating case studies and insightful analysis.
		In youth organizing groups, most members are low-income, under the age of 18, and tend to work on neighborhood or citywide issues that directly affect their lives, families, and communities.
		Additionally, while youth organizing often includes various practices of youth development—such as leadership development, community service, or mentoring—youth organizing goes further, involving a membership of young people in direct action, an analysis of power in society, and recognition of the need for institutional change.
	www.whatkidscando.org /research/youthactivism.html (1086 words)

	Youth Activism
		Research and public attention to young people’s participation on political and social issues is often critical or negative in representation.
		But research of various kinds on young people's understanding of and engagement with the forces—local, state and global—that shape their lives, their sense of political efficacy and active citizenship, is sparse, fragmented and not easily accessed.
		The Youth Activism Web Forum hopes to positively impact on this state of affairs by highlighting different facets of youth activism.
	ya.ssrc.org (252 words)

	Armenia Youth and Community Action Program
		Youth are the strategic focus of this program as a youth focus connects all elements of society and contributes to sustainability by developing young leaders as catalysts for change.
		By focusing a community's attention on retaining and engaging its youth, the community can rally to support the youth in their endeavors to improve their community.
		Generating civic activism among Armenia's young men and women and adults and rallying communities to address public issues will be crucial steps in achieving this goal.
	www.aed.org /Projects/armeniayouth.cfm (602 words)

	Youth Activism — www.greenwood.com
		It covers the historical aspects of youth activism to the present, "from chatrooms, to grass roots movements, from gangs and politics to Riot GRRLS and Campus Crusade for Christ." The preface thoroughly describes each major topic.
		This volume offers a positive perspective on youth activism in an effort to bring about greater understanding and provide an alternative to reporting that contributes to fearful views about youth based on descriptions of delinquency, violence, substance abuse, and teen pregnancy.
		The youth activism encyclopedia is a cutting-edge exploration of activism among youth, both domestically and worldwide.
	www.greenwood.com /books/bookdetail.asp?sku=GR2811 (555 words)

	Activism
		I am a youth activist because I want to protect the future of our generation, all over the globe, from poverty, gender inequality, and helplessness which are perpetuated through inadequate sexual health education and resources.
		As a member of Advocates for Youth's International Youth Leadership Council and an active member of Hyas for Choice and the GU AIDS Coalition at Georgetown University, I have been able to speak out against policies which negatively affect youth* all over the world.
		I feel that, by participating in youth activism, I have made a great impact on those around me by speaking out by showing that young people are taking control of their future and demanding the services they need.
	www.advocatesforyouth.org /youth/advocacy/activists/yaolivia.htm (525 words)

	Youth Activism - Success Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The Multnomah Youth Commission in Portland analyzed the coverage of youth in the region's largest daily newspaper, The Oregonian and found that few articles about youth were printed and those articles that were printed were about crime or sports.
		Youth Making A Change surveyed students, figured out the cost at $109/pupil per year and convinced the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to place a mental health counselor at every public high school.
		Over 2,000 youth came to the rally at the State Capitol and the TV cameras rolled, broadcasting handmade banners including "I Want Fresh Air." One group of students painted their faces white to symbolize those who have died from secondhand smoke.
	www.youthactivism.com /success.htm (5409 words)

	Youth activism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Youth activism is best summarized as youth voice engaged in community organizing for social change.
		This is the predominant form of youth activism today, as millions of young people around the world participate in social activism that is organized, informed, led, and assessed by adults.
		Youth activism as a social phenomenon in the United States truly became defined in the mid- to late-nineteenth century when young people began forming labor strikes in response to their working conditions, wages, and hours.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Youth_activism (751 words)

	Student Activism Success Stories
		Youth Together organized to create a Youth Center on a high school campus in Oakland, California.
		Kids First Youth Organizers united with students from Youth Together and other youth groups to make presentations, develop messages, coordinate actions and collect over 3,500 postcards to win free and affordable transportation for low-income students in the AC Transit service area.
		Youth Action hosts an annual National Gathering for Youth Organizing in different parts of the nation, with one focus being on schools.
	www.soundout.org /hopeactivism.html (732 words)

	Foreign Policy In Focus \| Explosion of Youth Activism Around the Iraq War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Polling also suggests that youth are fearful of a draft (when the question is asked, about 80% of young people are against reinstating conscription) and turning against the war in droves.
		Organizations like the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition that had worked on the student strike got less press attention that they did before the war, even when compared to the attention that was given to other peace groups like United for Peace and Justice during the same period after the invasion.
		In particular, youth activism around the election prepared a shift in youth culture that will greatly benefit the peace movement in 2005 and beyond.
	www.fpif.org /fpiftxt/1200 (2339 words)

	Oneworld Multimedia :: Youth Activism in Armenia :: November :: 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Fresh from visiting Baku, she says that youth in Azerbaijan are markedly different from their Armenian counterparts in so much as the most educated generally don’t end up leaving their country.
		In recent months, as part of an ongoing investigation of youth in Armenia, I’ve begun to find a few intelligent youth here that are becoming part of small groups and large organizations pushing for change.
		When one youth activist from the Bem Youth Progressive Action Center told me he believed that many youth groups will emerge from being underground to being out in the open in the next five years, I had to disagree.
	oneworld.blogsome.com /2005/11/16/youth-activism-in-armenia (650 words)

	Youth Activism in Palestine & Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Baladna is an Arab youth organization founded to give Arab youth in Israel a non-partisan, comfortable forum for youth activities and informal education, centering on a discussion of identity.
		PYALARA is for Palestinian youth, boys and girls, of all walks of life and all regions.
		Yahoo newssite for youth has a special section on the conflict between Israel and Palestine with many links, including articles about the conflict from around the world, and other organizations and information.
	www.freechild.org /PromotingCoexistence.htm (696 words)

	ACLU of Northern California : Youth Activist Committee
		The Youth Activist Committee is open to all high-school age youth in Northern California.
		The Friedman Youth Project is the youth activism and education program of the ACLU of Northern California.
		In addition to the Youth Activist Committee, the Friedman Youth Project coordinates classroom and community presentations for high schools on a range of civil liberties topics, plans an annual student teacher activist retreat, and trains school teachers and administration on ways to address bias and discrimination and create safer campus environments for students.
	www.aclunc.org /youth/youth_activist_committee.shtml (460 words)

	Ypulse: Media for the Next Generation
		The majority of youth who volunteer do so because they have been personally touched by an issue or their parents encouraged them.
		I think the problem with activism today is that we're applying a 30 year old definition of activism to the Millenials.
		If youth-serving organizations want to effectively engage young people in community organizing and activism they are going to have to reconceptualize their approaches and identity in order to align with what young people are seeking, instead of expecting the opposite.
	ypulse.com /archives/2006/05/activating_teen.php (754 words)

	The Youthhood - Being Active in Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Youth show leadership as they meet with elected officials and perhaps help people they trust to get elected or re-elected.
		Youth also may write letters, provide testimony, or lobby on behalf of others with disabilities at their state capitol or in Washington, D.C. Check out this story:
		He is thinking about applying to attend the National Youth Leadership Forum for students with disabilities to learn more about what is happening in Washington, D.C. for students with ADHD, and he has decided that he would like to be a lawyer someday.
	www.youthhood.org /community/le_policy.asp (267 words)

	Youth Activism - Recruiting Adults (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In order to establish or expand an effective advocacy campaign involving youth, a critical success factor is the involvement of one or more adults.
		Adults need to be taught to listen to youth and make efforts to understand their concerns.
		Nor is it using a young person on your board as "window dressing" to demonstrate your commitment to "youth voice." No, involving young people in decision-making is a middle ground.
	www.youthactivism.com /content.php?ID=18 (1019 words)

	WireTap Magazine - Guatemalan Youth Rewrite History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		HIJOS -- largely comprised of youth whose family members were killed or disappeared during La Violencia -- first surged to the public light a mere 30 months after the Guatemalan state, under mounting international pressure, inked a finalizing ceasefire agreement with an organization of surviving guerrillas.
		Based in the idea that it is necessary to recognize, or have access to, the truth as to what happened during the war, no? The crimes against humanity, the genocide, the massacres, the forced disappearances of our family members and, subsequently, how to access justice to overcome the structural situations of the war.
		We say that we express ourselves in the "not official" history because nearly 10 years have passed since the signing of the Peace Accords, but the real history is still unknown.
	www.alternet.org /wiretap/39485 (1459 words)

	The Innovation Center: Youth Development (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Youth in Decision-Making: A Study on the Impact of Youth on Adults and Organizations
		Empowered by their partnerships with and support from adults, the youth found a location for it, raised money, and convinced the city to cover the remaining cost to build it.
		This group of highly skilled international youth workers and trainers is improving youth development practices and capacity throughout U.S. cities, Native American communities, and in India, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, and Palestinian territories.
	www.theinnovationcenter.org /i_youth_dev.shtml (1119 words)

	Oneworld Multimedia :: Activism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		At a meeting yesterday, the issue of Diasporan involvement in Armenia was raised, and especially with regards to nurtering dialogue and cooperation between youth in Armenia and those living abroad.
		In particular, the possibility for Diasporan youth to intern at NGOs in Armenia was mentioned, as was the side issue of Diasporan youth not really being aware of some of the many NGOs working here.
		I also suspect that the process of engaging youth, as well as society in general, will start from 27 November when the amendments to the constitution are put to the public in a referendum.
	oneworld.blogsome.com /category/activism (3192 words)

	Youth Activism
		The previous issue of the Youth Activism Web Forum highlighted transnational activism -- young people’s involvement in global justice movements that seek to influence and change the policies and practices of powerful institutions on a global level.
		This issue’s focus on African American youth activism calls attention to young people directly facing the kinds of inequalities that global justice activism addresses – only they address them locally, in their own schools and communities.
		In her essay, Cathy Cohen outlines four current research problem areas in the realm of African American youth activism and politics and urges social scientists to reconceptualize and recommit to understanding the politics of African American youth as a complex and multifaceted phenomenon.
	ya.ssrc.org /african (273 words)

	Youthwork Links and Ideas: Issues Youth Rights
		Youth Activism Project More adults recognize that the long tradition of making decisions for youth without youth has failed.Getting the powers-that-be to take seriously the ideas and solutions offered by the next generation is not as difficult as you might expect
		National Youth Rights Association NYRA is a non-profit organization that promotes the rights of young people in the United States.
		Student and Youth Rights Teachers and administrators have a responsibility to provide a safe environment for the students that is conducive to learning.
	www.youthwork.com /issuesrights.html (872 words)

	VENEZUELA: World Youth Fest - Activism and Celebration
		The first world youth festival was held in Prague in 1947, and most subsequent editions also took place in former east European socialist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, or in other socialist nations such as Cuba and North Korea.
		The WFDY, which was founded at the 1945 World Youth Conference in London, decided to organise the next global gathering of young people in 2007 in Caracas as well, to commemorate half a century of world youth festivals.
		The choice of Venezuela as host country for this year's festival was prompted by the fact that ”the social changes made to benefit the majority of the population are clearly evident, and the empire's aggression towards it is evident as well,” Madeira commented to IPS last week.
	www.ipsnews.net /news.asp?idnews=29917 (1045 words)

	Sepetember 2003 Youth Vote Coalition Member Newsletter
		Some reports based on Census numbers of youth voter turnout suggest that voter turnout rates are lower than they actually are; however the gap between adult turnout and youth voter turnout is about 20 percentage points.
		HSAN is a non-profit, non-partisan national coalition of Hip-Hop artists, entertainment industry leaders, education advocates, civil rights proponents, and youth leaders dedicated to harnessing the cultural relevance of Hip-Hop music to serve as a catalyst for education advocacy and other societal concerns to the well-being of youth throughout the United States.
		Youth VIP is an issues magazine for 18-30 year olds that allows youth to address their candidates with issues that are important to them.
	www.youthvote.org /members/newsletters/september2003.htm (2299 words)

	Youth Activism Project (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Youth no longer have to be shut out.
		More adults recognize that the long tradition of making decisions for youth without youth has failed.Getting the powers-that-be to take seriously the ideas and solutions offered by the next generation is not as difficult as you might expect.
		The Youth Activism Project is your youth advocate resource center.
	www.youthactivismworld.org.cob-web.org:8888 (108 words)

	SIT Youth Peacebuilding and Leadership Programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Participants have included Greek- and Turkish Cypriots, Israeli Jewish and Arab youth; Catholic and Protestant high school students from Northern Ireland; White and Pakistani-Muslim heritage youth from Oldham, England, and high school students from Vermont at the Governor's Institute on Current Issues and Youth Activism.
		Faculty and staff run short workshops in which the participants are challenged to heighten their skills of observation, reflection, critical analysis and problem-solving as they relate to intercultural situations.
		The Youth Peacebuilding Camps include a balanced representation of young people from different sides of a conflict, such as Greek and Turkish Cypriots, Israelis and Palestinians, and representatives from other groups in conflict.
	www.sit.edu /youth (411 words)

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