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Activism (27 found)
This teen-friendly guide to the Occupy Wall Street movement—with accompanying videos—explains the financial inequality that activists are protesting. (full text)
This teen-friendly guide to the Occupy Wall Street movement—with accompanying videos—explains the financial inequality that activists are protesting. (full text)
This teen-friendly guide to the Occupy Wall Street movement—with accompanying videos—explains the financial inequality that activists are protesting. (full text)
Teen activist Hannah Gross explains why she's committed to eliminating the use of harmful chemicals in everyday products—and gives us tips on what we can do to help.
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Youth Power! is a peer advocacy group for youth in the foster care, mental health, juvenile justice, and other systems that make people feel stigmatized. (full text)
Nesshell admires the Anti-Defamation League's message of tolerance. But in attempting to spread this message, she learns that she won't always meet with like-minded people.
YCteen interviews three experts on race: Rinku Sen, a racial justice activist; Lasana Harris, a neuroscientist who studies how our brains process race; and Dalton Conley, a sociologist and author of the memoir "Honky."
Olivia issues a call for New York State to reform its juvenile justice system, by fixing underlying problems in impoverished high-crime neighborhoods, and by providing alternatives to incarceration that address the deeper issues, usually untreated in prison, that drive youth to commit crime.
According to police records, the NYPD stopped 508,540 pedestrians in 2006 for questioning or frisking. The vast majority of those stopped were black or Latino, and 90% weren’t found to be doing anything wrong. Sidebar to previous article.
Getting stopped by the police is common in minority neighborhoods, but when 50 kids get arrested in Bushwick, Brooklyn just for walking down the street, they decide to take action. Helped by an activist curriculum at their alternative school, they successfully sue the police.
Outraged by the unfairness of the juvenile justice system, Olivia embarks on a campaign to educate people.
Marsha joins THEO (Teens Helping Each Other), a peer education project on HIV and STDs.
UPROSE (United Puerto Rican Organization of Sunset Park) organizes youth to fight for social and environmental justice. Youth are trying to prevent construction of a polluting power plant and are pushing for a new park where there's now a garbage-strewn lot.
Open Road of New York, a nonprofit group, organizes young people to work on environmental improvement projects in the city, such as creating new parks and improving existing ones.
When she visits her native Pakistan, Maria is appalled by the poverty she sees and decides to become involved in fighting it.
Teens go undercover to expose store owners who sell cigarettes to minors.
The youth group Make the Road by Walking has lobbied city council representatives to fund a program for homeless teens and a performing arts center for young people.
At the activist organization Fresh Youth Initiatives (FYI) in the Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, young people help improve conditions by cleaning parks, painting murals, tutoring younger kids, working in a food bank, and doing other community service projects.
Natalie attends a Haitian rally protesting the torture of Abner Louima and feels a new sense of pride in her culture.
Renu interviews four teens who have become environmental activists, fighting litter, air pollution, lead poisoning, and other problems in their neighborhoods.
The Young Lords, an activist Latino group from the ’60s, made people proud to be Puerto Rican.
A short profile of Harvey Milk, the country’s first openly gay elected official.
At her karate school, Suzy learns more than self-defense. Her experiences there convince her that women need to stand up for themselves and each other. (full text)
Like millions of her peers, Julijana was horrified by "Kony 2012," the viral video about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony. She wonders why many adults weren't similarly moved, and digs deeper into the story behind the video. (full text)
Kelly grows up knowing several gay or bisexual people, and joins her high school's Gay-Straight Alliance. Despite unpleasant reactions from less open-minded peers, she participates in annual awareness-raising events. (full text)
Julieta's passionate Spanish teacher inspires her to learn about Latin America, get involved in politics, and stand up for any injustice she sees in the world.
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Julijana is horrified by "Kony 2012," a video about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, and immediately shares the link on Facebook. However, after learning more about the viral video, she wonders if social media is an effective tool for activism. (full text)
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