World Population Week Blog-a-thon: Young people Make Up Half The World's...
Crossposted on AmplifyDid you know…half of the world’s population-nearly 3 billion people-are under the age of 25? And Consider this:One out of every four people diagnosed with HIV is between ages 13...
View ArticleEquality - why is it still Girls not allowed?
AT THE 11,500-foot pass, five and a half hours after arising at 4 a.m. to climb 2,500 feet out of a canyon, our Scout crew of five girls and three boys faced a decision. Weary with full backpacks, we...
View Article1/10 0f 1% has 11% of income
The richest one-tenth of 1 percent, representing just 13,000 households, took in more than 11 percent of total income in 2007. Ponder that for a moment.I encountered that statement while reading Bob...
View ArticleChanging the Narrative: Obama's Ohio Rally
It’s become increasingly clear over the course of this election that the media is going to focus on the tea party and Republican insurgency, facts be damned. That’s why John and Jane Q. Public haven’t...
View ArticleIt's Saturday morning and I'm saddened
An analysis of official death certificates showed that, from 2005 through 2008, more than 1,000 California veterans under the age of 35 had died. That’s three times the number of service members from...
View ArticleThey want to take us here !
I had a diary up several weeks ago addressed to the Movers and Shakers, which would be the young people. As the weeks have flown by the election has gotten uglier and uglier and my worst fears are...
View ArticleElection Day (11/2) DC Rally at Supreme Court: Freedom of Speech and Youth...
After you've cast your vote on election day, why not come down to the United States Supreme Court and support some Americans who long to vote, but can't for one uncontrollable reason-- they're not yet...
View ArticleI Played By the Rules. Fight For Me. (Slam Poetry Diary)
I read on Bloomberg that President Obama is considering a visit to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to try and encourage "ourtreach to CEOs" and prove that he isn't "anti-business."For real? The U.S....
View ArticleWeekly Mulch: At Cancun, Incentives Point Toward Incremental Progress on...
by Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger
View ArticleLike ya know, I wanna know!
My friend and I were, like ya know, talking the other day. We were wondering what, like ya know, young people were thinking. We pretty much came to the conclusion that, like ya know, we didn't know....
View ArticleIn Oregon, Labor’s Next Generation Redefines "Union Member"
One week, Oregon’s young workers might be speaking out on the radio. Or they might be dishing up food at a Portland homeless shelter. They might be learning about labor history through the University...
View ArticleEgypt Found Her Voice, Please World: Find Yours
After 10,000 years of silence, Egypt has spoken. She spoke thus: I wish to rule me. I think, the young people of Egypt can live with the following: An acting president (assisted by a committee of...
View ArticleCarroll: A new world dawns digitally
All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. The words are by Yeats, from "Easter, 1916" - a poem written about his Ireland.And here is the powerful opening of James Carroll's piece on...
View Article"Freedom is a bless that deserves fighting for it."
CAIRO — The sea of people pulsated with energy, galvanized by the words of Wael Ghonim, the young Google executive who got the Mubarak treatment — 12-day disappearance, blindfolding, interrogation —...
View ArticleAnother GOP Agenda item to Put Students in their Place
Like those classic songs say, "Sometimes you just don't what you have -- until it's gone" ...Is there anything more fundamental to our democracy and country than the right to vote? Should we not...
View ArticleIntroducing Youth Kos 2.0
Today I'm incredibly excited to announce the start of Youth Kos 2.0! After JamieG from Md's wonderful diary about the first attempt at Youth Kos, I wanted to make sure this was up and running quick...
View ArticleMy First Diary Entry.
I've been reading DailyKos for about 6 months now - really ever since I got tired of the mainstream media and its real lack of quality reporting. It wasn't even until last week, after reading JamieG...
View Articlethoughts after watching Freedom Riders
I turned 15 in the middle of the Freedom Rides. Fifty years ago.I have just finished watching the documentary on PBS.Images that burned into my memory and my soul.Jim Zweig in his hospital bed,...
View ArticleSen. Rockefeller Has it Wrong on Millennial Values
(Cross-posted at Students for a New American Politics)There's a lot of things the Republican party does well organizationally, and one of them is pander to the base. In fact, they've been doing it so...
View ArticleUPDATED: Gateway Books for Students Who Do NOT Love to Read
Not taking away from the regularly scheduled book diaries, but I am teaching summer school this year to a number of students, most of whom do not read and lack a basic knowledge base that is rather...
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