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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Oct 14, 2008
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Mike Males is a sociologist and author whose writing has deeply influenced a lot of radical, committed youth workers, myself included. As my own analysis has opened up I've continued reading Males, primarily because he keeps digging further into the psyche of adultism in America today. His...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Oct 1, 2008
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There are murmurs out there about the lack of Youth Rights theory * * . I want to address that directly. I believe there is a misconception about what theory actually is, what it does, and who makes it. Let me begin with an explanation of what Youth Rights theory needs to be: Youth Rights...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Sep 28, 2008
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"Our ultimate aim is not desegregation from a legal aspect. We seek the kind of integration where men come together willingly, not because there is a law." Dr. King spoke this idea in June 1958 in the midst of the early Civil Rights Movement and not long after the court-ordered...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Sep 21, 2008
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Empowering young people to create social change happens best in intensely personal, intensely local, intensely focused opportunities that engage children and youth in deliberate, meaningful action and learning. None of these things can happen independently of each other. One of the best...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Aug 14, 2008
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What does staying home alone have to do with young people changing the world? In today's New York Times there is an article that proposes that anywhere between 11 and 14 is okay. The author acknowledges that 7, 8 and 9 year-olds stay home alone in working class homes, but doesn't hesitate to...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jul 6, 2008
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I'm beginning to bring together the vast amounts of reading I've done over the last 10 years, combine them with my experience, and make some sense of it all. I'm excited! Some poor soul on Wikipedia just wrote to me to ask why the histories of children's rights in the United States and the...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jun 29, 2008
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"Our schools look like shopping malls." "My school looks like a prison." "People at shopping malls follow me around like I'm stealing things." "The army wants me to join them and then go to college." "The army wants to send you to die in Iraq." "For 100 years!" "The curfew in my town is 10pm...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: May 5, 2008
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I have recently made the acquaintance of an executive director for a nonprofit in Pennsylvania. We have carried on a dialog over the last several weeks that has been really neat, and I want to share with you another thought I just wrote to her. The other day she asked, "How do you show folks...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Dec 10, 2007
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Last month I received a copy of a new report out from the National 4-H Council called 4-H YIG National Report: Youth-Adult Partnerships in Community Decision Making: What Does it Take to Engage Adults in the Practice? In this summary of stellar new research from Shep Zeldin and Julie Petrokubi...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Nov 28, 2007
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Its difficult to build a movement, and even harder when you are young. Last month after 7 years of aspiring to build a nonprofit and struggling once my board of directors received 501c3 status from the IRS, I folded CommonAction. I earned a few grants, got a few contracts, but there simply was...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Sep 12, 2007
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Sharing Student Voice: Students Presenting at Conferences
Sylvia Martinez for Generation YES.
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