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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: Aug 29, 2007
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We live in a time when being labeled a terrorist can lead a person to be indefinitely locked up in prison as a preventative measure designed to keep terrorists off the street. That's what Guantanamo is for, and that's what Mahar Arar suffered. Mother Jones magazine has followed the...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jul 27, 2007
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Children, as young as seven, sitting on city councils as full-voting members. Teenage youth teaching regular classes throughout schools, from kindergarten through high school and into college. 12-year-olds driving on the streets, seven-year-olds voting for president or children sitting behind the...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jun 13, 2007
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I just read an article about Wilton High School in Connecticut. Students there worked with a teacher to write a play about the Iraq War, which got squashed by school administration before it was put on. Most of the response to this travesty has been about free speech and anti-war rhetoric,...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jun 4, 2007
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On Saturday I was on a panel at OneWorldNow's "Get Global" Conference in Seattle. I shared the table with three excellent folks: Harriett Poni Dumba of the Southern Sudanese Women's Association of Washington, Anthony Jewett of Bardoli Global in Houston, and Chris Fontana...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jan 2, 2007
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I wrote the following article for Wikipedia , and for a while it was being threatened with deletion as some of the editors there didn't feel it worthy of inclusion. The consensus was to keep it, but for the sake of sharing I thought I would include it here. I have expanded on it a bit, and added...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Jan 17, 2007
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The latest edition of Harpers magazine, Donovan Hohn shares an essay called "Moby-Duck, or, the Synthetic Wilderness of Childhood". While telling the story of a load of rubber ducks that float across the oceans and around the world, Hohn explores society's perceptions of childhood...... [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 24, 2007
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Society is usually schizophrenic in the ways it treats youth. But once in a while, it goes from being schizophrenic to actually telling the truth. That truth is hidden though, and today I want to expose it. I usually try to leave these complicating exposures to the individuals and...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Feb 2, 2007
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As youth action becomes more sophisticated, a entirely new crop of words are coming into popular use. You may have found some of them scattered throughout www.YoungerWorld.org, but I'm not the first one to use them. Following is some of the language, old and new, that is useful to describe...... [view]
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Posted By: freechild
Posted On: Feb 3, 2007
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Libraries Get a Read on Kids
A great article on innovations in libraries around youth voice
Students Are Concerned by U.S. Plan to Sell Their Trees - Free Preview - The New York Times
'What is the deal with cutting down the Croatan National Forest?'' the letter began. ''How would...... [view]
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