We are proud to announce our special guest and keynote speaker for the 2011 NYRA Annual Meeting: Dr. Robert Epstein. Dr. Epstein is a prominent author and psychologist and die hard supporter of youth rights. He co-founded National Youth Rights Day and has written the ground breaking book, Teen 2.0. Dr. Epstein will be delivering…
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…
On May 1-3 leaders from around the world gathered in Washington, DC to mark World Press Freedom Day, a United Nations organized event promoting freedom of the press. This is the first year the event has been held in the United States. As host, this was a great opportunity for our country to promote the…
NYRA-NYU experienced a great increase in activity over the past few months and has held three successful events as well as being approved as a full NYU club for the 2011-2012 academic year. For National Youth Rights Day, the chapter held an event on campus titled “Activism 101”, which taught a group of interested students…
Here we are! We’ve have completed the 16th run of #16tovote on the 16th! A few regular participants were absent, and there were a couple of dissenters (one nice, one obnoxious), but other than that, went about as well as usual, touching on a lot of the great points we have in the past, plus…
If the United States is to be the country our forefathers intended it is essential that our nation’s young people be given equal opportunity, respect and rights under law. Without that, many of them will be unable to reach their untold potential. Unfortunately, decision makers place more emphasis on feel-good solutions to exaggerated youth problems…
These speeches were delivered between April 3 and August 3, 2006, in an effort to add a student adviser to the Buncombe County Board of Education. Buncombe County Board of Education – April 3, 2006 Dear School Board Members: As a student, I believe that it is necessary for the Buncombe County Board of Education…
I like to assume that educators chose their line of work not because they enjoy wielding arbitrary power over children or because education is an easier major than theoretical physics, but because deep in their hearts they are idealists. And so I wonder how they feel when instead of teaching they find themselves running internment…
“I just don’t know how to go to the bathroom in the free world!” Ray Durem, who allowed his “negro child” to use a white restroom in Texas Bathrooms, Hygiene & Inequality a closer look at the problem of unclean restrooms at Lee A number of students and parents are outspokenly disturbed at the condition…
Our Generation Should Revolt We’ve failed to examine or challenge America’s most pervasive and destructive prejudice: adultism – the oppression of children. Like white supremacists and male chauvinists, adultist bigots discriminate against a group of people because they see us as stupid, dirty, violent, drug-abusing, suicidal, promiscuous, and inferior. However, as definitive psychological studies prove,…
