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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Aug 5, 2007
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There was a period of time, about ten years ago, when any discussion of "youth rights" automatically got me fired up. In 1997 I was working as an "adult living skills" instructor in a program for foster and homeless youth in Lincoln, Nebraska. That year I re-read Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jun 1, 2007
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One of the premises behind CommonAction is that young people and adults need to equitable relationships. In my analysis, one of the "misses" of the early youth involvement movement is that those leaders sought equality between youth and adults. The difference here is that equality would mean...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jun 22, 2007
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Marketing is a disgusting beast of an animal that sucks the souls of humans to feed the beast of greed. Marketers created "youth", inclusive of the developmental stage of life and the social notion of a certain way of being. Now that it exists, they relentlessly sell it: shoes, music, clothes,...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jun 11, 2007
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It almost sounds like the name of an organization - Adults Advocating for Youth Voice, or AAYV. As a 32-year-old who has been involved in both "sides" of advocating for youth voice - both as a youth and as an adult - I am particularly aware of the tension involved therein. I've written in this...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jun 1, 2007
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"We don't just want a seat at the counter - we want to own the counter" - Malcolm X With this quote, Malcolm X was laying down the opening salvo in a much larger battle than the battle for equality. In a simplistic reading, he was saying that instead of simply being given the chance to be...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: May 16, 2007
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I've been absent this last month. Somewhere between the middle of April and today I've traveled just about 15,000 miles, with flights to New York, Chicago and Denver and what seems like dozens of hour-long trips to and from Olympia to Seattle. CommonAction has put on workshops for just over 500...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Apr 13, 2007
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CommonAction is excited to announce our brand-new project! Working with the National Youth Rights Association, we are now sponsors of the YOUTH RIGHTS NETWORK, or YRN. This exciting online tool is a Wiki for youth rights! Operating just like the famous Wikipedia, the YRN is an interactive...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jan 20, 2007
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In the ongoing battle against ingnorance in psuedo-liberal journalism, yet another 20-something is smashing her generation by proudly proclaiming her new-found understanding that, "...my generation missed political action class. Perhaps it fell through the public school cracks somewhere... and...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jan 29, 2007
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I was presenting at a conference in Arkansas a few weeks ago when a guy came up to me and introduced himself. After telling me that he subscribe to Freechild and had downloaded all of my publications and being very appreciative, he very sincerely said, "You are the best youth speaker in the...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Feb 2, 2007
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Bring CommonAction to your organization or community! In 2007 we are offering promotional workshops for our new publication, the Washington Youth Voice Handbook . I am interested in presenting conference sessions and keynotes, organizational and program training workshops,...... [view]
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