A couple months ago, I was explaining the Mosquito device to someone, about how we had the Gallery Place one taken down and why. But he didn’t seem sold on the idea of, you know, allowing teens to assemble freely in public, citing the recent case where a group of teens created a rowdy flash…
ISSN 1933-5229 Volume 11, Issue 2 February 17, 2011 Editors: Jackie Ferro, Katrina Moncure, Sidnei Banks, Alex Koroknay-Palicz Publisher: David Moss Contents – Introduction – NYRA President is Becoming a Regular on the National Stage – Real Progress on Lowering the Voting Age in Washington State led by NYRA-Seattle – Chapter Meeting a Huge Success…
We’ve completed the 13th run of #16tovote on the 16th, and we’ve now been doing it a full year! As I said yesterday, again, thanks so much to all of you for helping to make this event great! Along with the usual tweeting about lowering the voting age, there was an air of joy, that…
The very first run of #16tovote on the 16th was a year ago today! On that day, this event began as a sort of experiment to promote the cause to lower the voting age on Twitter. For a first run, it already showed promise, with our veteran members as well as interested new people jumping…
We’ve completed the first #16tovote on the 16th of 2011! It was the second time the event landed on a Sunday, the third time on a weekend. Like always, youth rights supporters descended upon Twitter and tweeted a lot about why the voting age must be lowered, using the #16tovote hashtag. This twelfth run of…
== NYRA Freedom == ISSN 1933-5229 Volume 11, Issue 1 January 13, 2011 Editors: Julian Gutierrez, Jackie Ferro, Emily Sanders, Lauran Potter Publisher: David Moss == Contents == – Introduction – National Youth Rights Day – NYRA’s 2011 Annual Meeting – The Program Documentary – NYRA-LA Weighs In On Daytime Curfew – Get Connected –…
One of our bigger campaigns here at NYRA is lowering the drinking age, the issue about which we’ve probably gotten the most press, as well as the most vocal opposition, whether angry opinion articles or pro-21 forum trolls or that time Alex Koroknay-Palicz was tabling and someone came up and screamed at him after merely…
Happy New Year! Sorry for the infrequent posting lately! In 2010, we saw a lot of youth rights happenings. We took on the oppressive Kyleigh’s Law in New Jersey. We held an awesome RALLY in support of free speech at the Supreme Court, after generating a spectacular amicus brief! We successfully got the oppressive Mosquito…
Happy Holidays, everyone! It’s a time of putting up pretty lights, eating cookies, wrapping and giving presents, visiting loved ones, sending holiday cards (I’m in charge of NYRA’s every year!), being merry… and even so, it’s still the 16th of the month and time for 2010’s final #16tovote on the 16th! As usual, we all…
The tenth run of #16tovote on the 16th is complete! Just like every 16th of the month, youth rights supporters on Twitter came together to tweet a lot about why the voting age should be lowered, using the hashtag #16tovote. Being the first one after this past election, it allowed us to wonder how it…
