Posted By:  freechild Posted On:  Oct 14, 2008	A World Without Youth Issues
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]

Posted By:  freechild Posted On:  Mar 22, 2008	No Country for Young People
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]

Posted By:  freechild Posted On:  Jan 22, 2008	Stop Youth Segregation with Integration
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]

Posted By:  freechild Posted On:  Jan 21, 2008	Youth Segregation
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]

Posted By:  freechild Posted On:  Dec 27, 2007	The U.S. and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
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]

Posted By:  freechild Posted On:  Dec 10, 2007	Rethinking Youth-Adult Partnerships
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]

Posted By:  freechild Posted On:  Nov 28, 2007	Youth Rights on the March
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]

Posted By:  freechild Posted On:  Sep 2, 2007	Links for 2007-09-01 [del.icio.us]
Youth Involvement in Community Development: Implications and Possibilities for Extension From the Journal of Extension, August 2007 ... [view]

Posted By:  freechild Posted On:  Sep 5, 2007	"New Entrants" in New Zealand
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]