At the beginning of the year, NYRA’s Board of Directors met in Washington, DC to decide what strategy the organization should focus on. We decided that one of our focal strategies should be riding the wave of youth activism that’s happening to bring youth rights to the center of the movement. To that end we…
Reposted from Sure, Why Not? with permission from the author. Suddenly, lowering the voting age to 16 is a mainstream issue. It got a lot of support in Congress, if not enough. The issue is being asked of presidential candidates. More and more places are proposing the change. Nancy Pelosi is even claiming she’d always…
Last month, NYRA’s Board of Directors met in Washington, DC to decide what strategy the organization should focus on. This is what we came up with: We decided to focus on growing in these four areas. With recent surges in both youth activism and oppressive legistlation, we believe that these strategies will respond to the…
I often see people in NYRA’s Facecbook group say they are surprised or disappointed that some political leader or group they like is ageist. There is nothing surprising about it. Everyone is ageist. They aren’t ageist because they are bad people or irrational or hate kids, they just don’t know that there is any other…
The following speech was given by Alex Koroknay-Palicz on July 28, 2007 to open the 2007 NYRA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. Who here has heard of John Holt? Or Mike Males? Or Robert Epstein? Or Grace Llewllyn? Or Richard Farson? These are the luminaries of our field. The great thinkers and prophets who have…
