This is part of the Youth Rights 101 series. Please check out Youth Rights 101: Introduction for the rest of the series and more information. Does youth rights mean thinking children and adults are the same? No. Obviously there are physical, developmental, and other differences between children and adults. There are also plenty of such…
This is part of the Youth Rights 101 series. Please check out Youth Rights 101: Introduction for the rest of the series and more information. What IS Youth Rights anyway? Youth rights is a very broad term referring to the civil rights and freedoms of young people. This may include specific rights and liberties such…
Welcome to Youth Rights 101! The words “youth rights” mean a lot of different things to different people. New people to our cause who may have only talked to a few people or seen some articles may not quite see the underlying philosophy that holds it all together. So here is a collection of quick…
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…
JOINT STATEMENT IN OPPOSITION TO BOOK CENSORSHIP IN THE TUCSON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT January 30, 2012 The undersigned organizations are committed to protecting free speech and intellectual freedom. We write to express our deep concern about the removal of books used in the Mexican-American Studies Program in the Tucson Unified School District. This occurred in…
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…
First #16tovote on the 16th of the year and it lands on MLK Day! How nice. Just when everyone’s minds are on Dr. King’s legacy, here we are promoting expansion of voting rights to youth! It also happened the same day as the Republican presidential candidate debate in South Carolina, which provided some nice evening…
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…
Years before I even was one, I had only ever heard the word “teenager” in a negative context. I got the clear impression that once I turned 13 I’d become mean and rude. Then I actually turned 13 and passed through my teen years, realizing I was not particularly mean or rude, but simply myself….
Just completed the final #16tovote on the 16th of 2011! Had some easy material this time around, such as the recent decision to not allow under-18 girls access to emergency contraception without a prescription despite the FDA giving the greenlight, as well as the, uh, quirks of some of the Republican presidential candidates! The health…
