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Posteado por: freechild
Publicado el: Oct 14, 2008
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I have been conscious of presidential elections since 1992, when Bill Clinton was making his first run for president and I was a junior in high school. That year was the first time I heard of Rock the Vote , a nonprofit hooked up closely to MTV, where I heard their message. Its not that my house...... [view]
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Posteado por: freechild
Publicado el: Mar 22, 2008
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The United States is a backwards democracy. Rather than distributing the power to all of its citizens, it throws it into the hands of the few. Instead of bringing opportunities to the under-resourced, it lavishes chances upon those who already have access. In this post, I am concerned most with...... [view]
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Posteado por: freechild
Publicado el: Jan 22, 2008
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Once a youth advocate understands the reality that segregating youth is an injustice unto its own, they have a responsibility to undo that damage. They have a responsibility to integrate youth. For too long that notion of integration has been limited to simplistic notions about youth...... [view]
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Posteado por: freechild
Publicado el: Jan 21, 2008
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The underlying assumption behind all youth involvement programs is that youth are segregated. American society has relied on the ongoing and consistent alienation, isolation and institutionalization of young people for more than 10 decades now, only to the detriment of families, communities, and...... [view]
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Posteado por: freechild
Publicado el: Dec 27, 2007
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Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline. - Kofi Anan Today I am reeling from an article written by Paula Reid , a member of The Students Commission in Canada. For more than 25 years the Commission and their magazine,...... [view]
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Posteado por: freechild
Publicado el: 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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Posteado por: freechild
Publicado el: 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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Posteado por: freechild
Publicado el: Sep 2, 2007
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Youth Involvement in Community Development: Implications and Possibilities for Extension
From the Journal of Extension, August 2007
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Posteado por: freechild
Publicado el: Sep 5, 2007
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Thanks to Tony Ward for putting me onto this story: Today Te Ururoa Flavell, a Maori Party Treaty spokesman in New Zealand, released a powerful analysis of a bill there. The Minimum Wage (Abolition of Age Discrimination) Amendment Bill took many deliberate measures designed to eliminate the...... [view]
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