This morning, the Supreme Court released the opinion in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Assn. By a vote of 7-2, the court found that the law was unconstitutional. The opinion of the court drawing a sharp distinction between violence and obscenity, it states that protecting minors from displays of violence is not exempt from the first amendment, and finds that the law is unconstitutional.
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…
Dear Senator Rockefeller and Mr. Gingrich, As representatives of organizations representing the interests of young people we respectfully request that you apologize for your recent negative statements regarding young Americans. Senator Rockefeller: “It’s my general feeling that people who are 20, 21, 22 years old really don’t have any social values,” Mr. Gingrich: “it wouldn’t…
Throughout history dominant majorities have redirected public attention away from the majorities’ problems and onto an artificially created scapegoat. Many countries have used a variety of scapegoats throughout time; this practice leads to persecution and anger towards the selected minority. Today in North American society a new scapegoat is being fabricated, this scapegoat is our…
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…
Earlier in the week, I, NYRA board member Nigel Jones, tried to buy breakfast (the most important meal of the day, mind you) at our local grocery store, Giant Foods. As I was asking the baker for my morning muffin, one Giant employee, Stephen Schneider told me to get out the store. Schneider scoffed that…
When people hear the word “ageism”, they almost always think of the discrimination against older people. They must be blind to the way young people are treated. Prejudices against young people are always worse than prejudice against old people, and young people are frequently harassed and bullied for doing things that adults do on a…
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…
Mahwah, NJ Police Chief James Batelli is telling parents they need to steal their kid’s Facebook password. As he did the last time some terribly misinformed local politician got hysterical about invading youth privacy, NYRA President Jeffrey Nadel will be going on CNN’s Headline News to bring reason, common sense and actual facts into the debate. As is typically the case, those advocating infringing upon the rights of youth are lacking in all three.
A few days ago, I spoke to Fox News about the upcoming video game Bulletstorm and its connection to young people. Dubbed by this recent story to be “the worst video game in the world?”, two psychologists (who somehow survived handling Bulletstorm themselves) countered my argument with unsubstantiated views that it would make young gamers…
