When we discuss youth rights we tend to do it from the default perspective of someone in an urban or suburban community. For those who spent their youth in such communities, this bias is understandable if nonetheless problematic. However, even for those of us raised in rural communities, it can be easy to forget (especially…
#16tovote on the 16th is now a year and a half old! We’ve completed the 19th run, just like the others tweeting and retweeting about lowering the voting age using the hashtag #16tovote. The main themes to this one have been “check out our awesome new website” and “Vote17Lowell rocks!” Our friends at UTEC Lowell…
NYRA Berkeley (2004 – 2007)NYRA Vermont (2004 – 2007)NYRA Bergen County (2007 – 2011)NYRA Southeast Florida (2008 – 2011)NYRA Zionsville Student Rights Union (2008 – 2010) NYRA Berkeley (2004 – 2007) NYRA’s Berkeley Chapter carried out our most successful push to lower the voting age in California. Letter Writing Campaign. The chapter began in 2005…
Welcome to the new National Youth Rights Association website! After more than a year of planning, designing, coding, porting, and a lot of other things we just want to forget, NYRA and WireShout are pleased to present the new NYRA website! The current site has implemented many new features such as: Chatrooms for Chapters and…
NYRA Freedom Volume 11, Issue 5 June 16, 2011 Contents – NYRA Forms Coalition Requesting Apology from Rockefeller and Gingrich – Election Two Weeks Away, Annual Meeting Next Month – Effort Renewed to Put Youth on NYC Community Boards – Koroknay-Palicz Defends Youth Privacy at Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference – Bill to Curtail Corporal…
NYRA Freedom ISSN 1933-5229 Volume 11, Issue 3 March 31, 2011 Editors: Jackie Ferro, Katrina Moncure, Sidnei Banks, Alex Koroknay-Palicz Publisher: David Moss Contents – Introduction – NYRA Partners With Broad Coalition to End Corporal Punishment – Victory Against San Juan Capistrano Curfew Bill! – NYRA-DC Defeats a Giant – Action Through Collaboration at University…
NYRA Freedom 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…
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 – NYRA Freedom Is Looking…
The brief but controversial life of the proposed SonicScreen in Hastings, MN has ended. The SonicScreen is how the Mosquito device that NYRA defeated last fall in Washington, DC is currently being marketed to real estate developers, park commissions, shop owners, school boards and other decision makers around the country. The Park Commission of Hastings,…
Do you honestly think that a youth engagement event was the cause of the current bedlam in London? Forgive the pun – but do you have any “proof” of that?
