Ideas for youth activism

As the school year comes to an end, it's time to tie together some loose ends. Think what you have accomplished this year! You've use a plethora of literacy skills to expand your thinking and your knowledge of your cultural worlds. You've tapped into a depth of abilities within you to explore other people's viewpoints and to extend the 'you' who is a student, citizen, and learner.

Now it's time to look ahead as well. As you leave your classmates to embark on new experiences and opportunities to learn, you also have the potential to leave a lasting impression on others. You have the ability to make an impact --- to leave an imprint --- to change the world.

How will you do it? What will you do to make a difference?

I invite you to peruse the links below. They are a small potion of the variety of inspirational websites that offer ideas about "Youth Activism." When you engage in youth activism, you join with others of your same age group who also want to create a better tomorrow for all the world's citizens. Explore these links, make connections with your own areas of interest, and declare a means for your own life as a U.S. youth to have meaning beyond your peer group.

You can make a difference!

http://www.blogcatalog.com/topic/youth+activism/

http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=2269

http://www.empowerchange.org/

http://www.dosomething.org/

http://www.peaceactionme.org/tenth-annual-youth-activism-gathering

http://www.freechild.org/youth_activism_2.htm

http://gcyp.wikispaces.com/Methods+of+Youth+Activism