Rights. Respect. Responsability.
Keywords: Organizing, youth empowerment, education, accessibility, class, collective power, strategy, self-care, recruitment
Youth Activism Toolkit discusses kids getting more and more involved with social issues, especially as they pertain to online community and education. It provides online resources for kids to get involved in movements like reproductive justice, anti-gun violence, climate change, racial inequality, and conflict resolution in age-appropriate ways.
Authors: advocatedforyouth.org, Washington, D.C., 2019
The authors write that they want to “inspire [kids] to feel their power and use it to create a more just and equitable world for young people.” They position themselves as educators and advocates for young activists as people who have lived experience in these fields themselves.
The guidebook discusses the issues of access to information and of who holds power. They indicate that kids experience a lot more social injustice than meets the eye, but they are perceived as ignorant by their surroundings. They write that organizing is a mode of power that needs to be addressed as a challenge kids face, with relation to their access to information, either in person or online.