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Tapping the Power of Youth

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Up to this point, a vast student movement opposed to the war, torture, lies, and Bush Regime has not existed. The antiwar movement particularly has primarily consisted of people from the antiwar movement during Vietnam leading the way. Many older people have been disheartened by the lack of student involvement in opposing the war and the Bush program. They fear that future generations will accept what they so greatly oppose. Therefore, whenever older people stumble upon young people who are engage in fighting the dangerous shifts in this country, they praise youth and students for his/her work.

When youth and students speak out especially through writing published in newspapers as letters to the editor or on alternative news media websites, older Americans respond with emails and phone calls extolling what has been said. I know from experience. These emails and phone calls are opportunities for fundraising and financing of travel to organization events.

I see a lot of young people and wonder about them. I sincerely believe that they are perceptive and want a better country but none of that perception or wanting seems to translate into action towards the establishment of a new world.

How do they use their time? My generation listens to music six times more than previous generation. Six times. There’s only 24 hours in a day. Text messaging. Cell phones. Where are you? Where are you a minute later? Where are you five nanoseconds later? Gossip. Silly talk. Trivial talk---while our future’s being torn from us.

Our twenties will be the most creative decade of our lives. We’ll be wiser and have better judgment and experience in our thirties, forties, fifties, sixties (hopefully), but it’s in our twenties when we need to be the pioneers---when we need to develop the vectors of what we want to do in life and what kind of impact we want to have in this world.

Youth and students must rise up. Our future is unwritten. Which one we and the world gets is up to us.

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A change in course is called for by Sherwin Steffin on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 3:56:31 PM
Well the first thing we could do to fix the problems we have by Kevin Gosztola on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 4:12:37 PM

 
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