-Introducing Znet Youth Watch

http://www.zmag.org/youthwatch.htm

Lots of resources. For example, here is what is on the page right now:

Youth are the recipients of more abuse, pain, hunger and neglect than any other group of people. In addition to all this children face an extraordinary amount of scapegoating and blame for problems that simply are not their fault. Now more than ever it is important to challenge the discrimination, exploitation and abuse that young people face every day of their lives, and make Youth Empowerment and liberation a central goal of movements for change.

http://www.zmag.org/youthwatch.htm

Silverstein: Anarchism And Youth Liberation May 26, 2002
Children in today?fs society are uniquely oppressed, but for the most part their oppression goes un-noticed even by people who consider themselves progressives or radicals.

Gluckman: Scapegoating Youth March 19, 2002
An Excellent look at the Scapegoating of America’s Youth.

Harden: Youth Activism At The Cross Roads

About youth activism, however, one thing is for certain: the anti-capitalist mood inside today’s anti-globalization movement has provoked a shift away from the single-issue campaigning and parochialism that marked youth politics during much of the seventies, eighties and nineties. In the West, as the reach of today’s insatiable markets has spread extensively on campus, an ideological war is being waged by a growing minority of youth who name capitalism as the source of their problems. Elsewhere, youth are gaining the confidence to take on dictatorial regimes that rightly fear the agitational role young radicals are playing. These are the battles we look at in detail here.

E. Wayne Ross: Resisting The Tyranny Of Tests

The Fight against Standardized testing and the many groups that comprise it.

Socalar: Edison Takes On Philly…

Rethinking Schools piece on the takeover of Philadelphia’s public schools by Edison and the resistance to it.

Michael Bronski: Queer As Your Folks

So what?fs the problem? What parents wouldn?ft want their children to be tolerant? Their girls to be ambitious and assertive? Their boys to be communicative and emotional? Who wouldn?ft be happy to raise young women who are sexually assured and young men who exhibit a little less eagerness in their sexual adventures?

Youth Organizing In Time of War from Wiretap

Earlier this month the Listen, Inc. meeting brought together youth from around the country to share battle stories about youth organizing since September 11th.

Adultarchy And Youth Liberation: An Interview With Brian Dominick
Recently I conducted a series of interviews via e-mail with a number of youth activists. In this one I talked to Brian Dominick about ageism’s roots in society and how to combat it.

Parenting For Youth Liberation
an interview with Cynthia Peters

In this interview I talked with Cynthia Peters about issues concerning parenting.

Challenging Lies about Youth
an interview with Mike Males

In this interview I spoke with Mike Males author of Framing Youth, Scapegoat Generation and most recently “Kids and Guns”. We spoke about discrimination and the demonization of youth.

Stan Karp: Fox TV Goes To High School

Excellent Rethinking Schools article on the Fox TV Show “Boston Public”

Elizabeth Greenberg: Slut, Ho! Girls speak out on slut bashing at school
Excellent article on the name calling that young girls routinely suffer

Nell Geiser: Making Trouble: Youth Storm the Media
Whether it’s the New York Times, CBS or Seventeen magazine, teenagers are often criminalized, consumerized or erased in the media. But through activism in social justice movements and by claiming space for their own voices, young people across the country today are demanding a different kind of attention.

Mary Riddell: Save the Children
“As many as seven million Afghan citizens may perish in the months to come unless food convoys resume immediately. Even if the UN’s pleas for a ceasefire are heeded, it will be too late for many. Last year, one in four Afghan children died before the age of five. This year, they will not be so lucky.”

Brian Dominick: Refusing Adulthood

Naive as I was in the mid-1990s, for a spell I actually thought there was a good chance that, by the turn of the century, the terms “ageism” and “youth liberation” would be ubiquitous in the Left’s vocabulary. Toward that goal, I spent most of the decade writing and speaking on youth oppression and liberation.

Mike Males: The Harpers Index Of Teenage Myths
Welcome to the ?gHarper?fs Index?h of teenage myths! (Deemed unsuitable for reprinting in publications Left to Right)

1. WHO ARE THE REAL DRUGGIES?

Number of US deaths involving abuse of heroin in 1999: 4,801.

Number which were teenagers: 33.

Number over age 35: 3,389

Angela Valenzuela: Subtractive Schooling

What happens when schools disrespect students? What happens when schools disrespect students cultural identity? Excellent article by Angela Valenzuela on the experience of Mexican Youth in American Schools.

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Links

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Free Child
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Kid Lib
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Child Liberation
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Anarchist parenting
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Mike Males Homepage
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Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
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Wiretap
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Youth Speak
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Media Watch
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Oblivion net
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K.I.D.S
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Stupid News
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Youth Power
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Activism 2000 Project,
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Rethinking Schools
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Youth Education Life Line (YELL)
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Sillicon Valley De-bug
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Students against Tests
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Alfie Kohn’s homepage
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Aspen Youth Services
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AFSC
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UNICEF
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Building Blocks For Youth,
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The Children’s Defense Fund,
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Children’s Legal Protection Center
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Children and Family Justice Center,
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Children Now,
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Fight Crime, Invest in Kids,
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Georgia Alliance For Children,
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Idaho Youth Ranch
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Juvenile Justice Information Center,
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Juvenile Law Center,
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National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges,
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Peacefire,
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The Safe and Responsive Schools Project
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Schools Not Jails,
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Teenage CURFEW in Hillsborough N.J.,
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Teens, Crime, and the Community,
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The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company
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The Youth Law Center
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Go Teen Go a
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Youth on Trial: A Developmental Perspective on Juvenile Justice,

ZNet Articles and ZNet Commentaries on Youth

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Giroux: Zero Tolerance 1
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Giroux: Zero Tolerance 2
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Giroux: The Politics of Schooling
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Peters: It Takes Whole Baby Product And Toy Industry To Raise A Child
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Peters: Progressive Parenting
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Peters: Children Their Deficiencies

Past Youth Watch Articles

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Elizabeth Martinez: The New Youth Movement In California
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Dominick: Young People And Activism
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Peters: Teen Girls Sexism and Marketing
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Street Children Have Rights too

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