What an awesome speech, Erica is a rock star. The following speech was delivered by top of the class student Erica Goldson during the graduation ceremony at Coxsackie-Athens High School on June 25, 2010 Here I stand There is a story of a young, but earnest Zen student who approached his teacher, and asked the…
#16tovote on the 16th is a monthly 24-hour event on Twitter to raise awareness of lowering the voting age. It begins at midnight Eastern time on the 16th of the month and continues until the following midnight. During this time, participants tweet facts, reasons, anecdotes, and links to blogs, videos, articles, and other stuff about…
Arnold is trying to take away your games. Don’t let him. California passed a law that would ban the sale of all “violent” video games to individuals under 18. The case of whether or not this law is Constitutional is going before the US Supreme Court. Their ruling could have far reaching implications for how…
Today is the last day for me as an intern at NYRA’s office. But the battle for youth rights should never stop. Before involved with NYRA, I didn’t even notice that there are so many discriminations against the youth in the society. Everyone has been young. But as we grow up, we forgot how it…
Dozens of NYRA members from all over the country came to DC this weekend for the biggest and most exciting NYRA Annual Meeting yet! We have about 100 pictures of the event up on the NYRA Facebook page. Here is just a sample. Click them to see the whole album. Be sure to “like” the…
Great to see more progress over in Europe on lowering the voting age! The Finnish Justice Minister, Tuija Brax (Greens) recently proposed lowering the minimum voting age in Finland to 16 for future municipal elections. Brax believes that municipal elections are the perfect learning grounds for younger voters. The aim of lowering the voting age…
Ugh, yet another mall banning teens. Where do they expect teens to go? This is ageist segregation, nothing more. It was once a rite of passage for many teens, hanging out at the mall, but that may soon become a thing of the past.Tri-County Mall is the latest to restrict teens’ access during certain hours….
NYRA has been involved in an anti-discrimination campaign against Joe Duff of Crazy Ray’s Junkyard in Maryland. Crazy Ray’s has a policy, stated clearly on their website and at their store locations that they do not allow anyone under 18 to enter. In fact, at the Crazy Ray’s website “You must be over 18 to…
H.R. 911, known as the Stop Child Abuse in Residential Treatment Programs act, is a bill that could potentially protect thousands of abused kids, ensure that the abusers are punished… and is currently stalled in the Senate. First introduced on February 9, 2009, the bill is designed to revise the current system of behavior modification…
This year we have 14 candidates running for NYRA’s 2010 Board of Directors, including seven incumbents. Our seven incumbents include Jackie Ferro, Alex Koroknay-Palicz, Hal Levy, Keith Mandell, Katrina Moncure, Stefan Muller, and Jeffrey Nadel. Challengers vying for a spot on the board include Lindsay Coley, Julian Gutierrez, Chris Hardy, Jenny Harkin, Max Harmony, Nigel…
