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Young Voters Demand More From President Biden

Julia Conley / Common Dreams Feb 7, 2023 Ahead of the State of The Union, Youth Groups Say Lack of Bold Action Puts Biden Reelection at Risk. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The People Are Rising Up, at Long Last

Jim Hightower / OtherWords Sep 26, 2019 Politicians think the climate problem will go away if they can make the protesters go away. They’re wrong—and they can’t. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

$30 Million Poured Into Effort to Energize Young Voters for Midterms

SCOTT BAUER / The Associated Press Sep 3, 2018 NextGen America, believed to be the largest voter engagement effort of its kind, hopes to be a game changer for Democrats in its push to register and get pledges from college students. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Advice to College Graduates in the Trump Era

Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch Jun 3, 2018 We need you, class of 2018—not under some desk in an active-shooter drill, but out there ready to change our world for the better. Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

In New Walkouts, Students Turn Outrage to Action

COLLIN BINKLEY / The Associated Press Apr 20, 2018 Those joining demonstrations across the country are pressing for tougher gun laws and politicians who will enact them. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The Doors’ John Densmore on Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Oliver Stone and the New Protest Generation (Audio and Transcript)

Staff / Truthdig Apr 20, 2018 Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer and musician Densmore discuss how young gun control advocates are continuing the legacy of the Vietnam protests, the activism behind The Doors' music, and more. Dig deeper ( 20 Min. Read )

Role of Youths in the Coming Transformation

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers / Popular Resistance Apr 3, 2018 Popular Resistance is launching a free, eight-week social movement theory course for activists. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Fascism’s Return and Trump’s War on Youth

Henry Giroux / The Conversation Dec 14, 2017 Donald Trump’s corporate brand of neoliberal fascism is more than willing to sacrifice the future of young people for short-term political and economic gains, if not democracy itself. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Climate Change May Bring More Rain to California

By Tim Radford / Climate News Network Jul 23, 2017 Contrary to most predictions, a new study suggests that the Golden State could be 12 percent wetter by the end of the century. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The United States’ War on Youth: From Schools to Debtors’ Prisons

By Henry A. Giroux / Truthout Oct 21, 2016 The U.S. views children not as social investments but as suspects as the country models its schools after prisons and subjects its young to a criminal legal system marked by severe class and racial inequities. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Millennials Are Paying for ‘the Western World’s Most Stunning Accounting Disaster to Date’

Natasha Hakimi Zapata / Truthdig Mar 7, 2016 A staggering Guardian investigation reveals how, far from being “the most indulged young people in the history of the world," Westerners born in the 1980s and mid-1990s have been betrayed by previous generations that have left them in debt, jobless and locked out of property markets. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Why We Need Democratic Socialism to Fix Our Educational System

By Paul Buchheit / Common Dreams Feb 23, 2016 Children aren't products to be bought and sold. The profit motive should end at the front door of the public school. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )