Contents NYRA Chooses New Executive Director NYRA-Philly Hosts Know Your Rights Night This Month’s Mission Calendar Blog News NYRA in the News Other News NYRA Chooses New Executive Director The metaphorical white smoke has risen from the conclave, and the Directors of NYRA have made their selection. “It’s official,” announced NYRA Secretary Katrina Moncure….
Matt Smith, principal at Garrett High School in Indiana, recently expelled a student for Tweeting a swear word on his own time. In response, NYRA’s new Executive Director sent Smith the following message: Dear Mr. Smith, I was disappointed to hear reports that your school chose to expel a student for a Tweet he wrote…
Contents Alex Koroknay-Palicz Stepping Down This Month’s Mission Confronting Book-Banning and Birth Control Exclusion A Different Kind of NYRA Donor #16toVote Hits the Big Oh Two 250 New Recruits in Two Days Calendar Blog News NYRA in the News Other News Alex Koroknay-Palicz Stepping Down At the end of this month, NYRA’s Executive Director, Alex…
Two months ago, NYRA petitioned against Obama’s Health and Human Services Agency discriminating against teenagers trying to get emergency contraceptives. It’s great to see the administration now taking a position for college students, at least, enjoying equal access to birth control. Beginning in 2013, most health plans will be required to cover contraceptives, including the…
Contents NYRA Action Teams Rebooted McIntosh Returns Lowering Hawaii’s Voting Age California’s New NYRA Chapter Last Month’s Mission – Successful! This Month’s Mission: Stop the Gulags Get Lerner’s Book On Us DoSomething.org Wants to Fund YOU! Calendar Blog News NYRA in the News Other News NYRA Action Teams Rebooted For some time, NYRA’s website has…
Every year around this time, we hear the same soundbites from Martin Luther King’s poetic but relatively innocuous “I Have a Dream” speech. In some schools, textbooks include King’s more thought-provoking essay “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” but they usually censor the thought-provoking parts. What those in power are most eager to hide from young audiences…
Contents Montgomery Curfew Law Called Off Taking Action on Plan B Lerner Launches New Book on Ageism Testimony on Student Parking in D.C. Time Magazine Names NYRA Pres. as Person of the Year Your Mission – Build NYRA’s War Chest Calendar News NYRA in the News Other News Montgomery Curfew Law Called Off Last month,…
Sky high unemployment. Astronomical government debt. A fragile environment. Rapidly rising college tuition. Our country, and our world, face massive problems, massive problems that according to venture capitalist Andrew Lerner are caused principally by the older generation. The first step to fixing this problem is understanding the severe discrimination young people face. Andrew Lerner’s new…
The Montgomery County Council voted 6-3 to table a proposed curfew law that would have allowed police to arrest anyone younger than 18 for being in public after 11PM. This vote to table the proposal effectively kills it, though it leaves open the possibility that the Council could consider it once again in the future….
