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Critical Problem for 2010: When Younger Voters Get Angry, They Stay Home

August 22nd, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in elections, youth and students

Young 'Millennial' Voters,

Hot Issues and Progressive Politics

by DemFromCT

DailyKOS

Young Americans are the linchpin of a new progressive era in American politics. So why aren't Democrats paying more attention to them?

That was the lead to an essay by E.J. Dionne in February as part of a series of articles he wrote outlining a huge problem. The younger voters (millennials, aka Gen Y, Gen Next, echo boomers, etc) are more liberal, less white and more accepting than their elders, but there's a catch, as EJ outlines:

Pew poll on millennials

 

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Note to Obama: It’s Helps to Be Antiwar and pro-Green

July 19th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in elections, youth and students

Millennials, Issues and Politics

Why Dems Are Losing the Youth Votes

by DemFromCT

 

Pew poll on millennials

Young Americans are the linchpin of a new progressive era in American politics. So why aren't Democrats paying more attention to them?

That was the lead to an essay by E.J. Dionne in February, part of a series of articles he wrote outlining a huge problem. The younger voters (millennials, aka Gen Y, Gen Next, echo boomers, etc) are more liberal, less white and more accepting than their elders, but there's a catch, as EJ outlines:

For Democrats looking ahead to this fall's election, the Pew study has some disturbing news.

It's true that Millennials are the most Democratic age group in the electorate -- they voted for Barack Obama by 2 to 1. Their turnout rate relative to older voters was higher in 2008 than in any election since 1972, the first presidential contest in which 18-year-olds could vote.

But Pew notes that since 2008, the Millennials' "enthusiasms" have "cooled" -- "for Obama and his message of change, for the Democratic Party and, quite possibly, for politics itself."

look at the R2K polling found here: the 18-29 vote (graphics below the fold) consistently supports Obama and Congressional Democrats more than any other age demographic.

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From One Generation to the Next: Stopping Wars, Seeking Justice

July 1st, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in afghanistan, antiwar, israel and palestine, youth and students

Washington's Wars and Occupations:

Month in Review #62



By Max Elbaum

War Times/Tiempo de Guerras, 06/29/2010

PASSING THE TORCH

I’ve been the main author of War Times “Month in Review” column since its launch five-plus years ago. This will now change. Starting next month, a talented group of nearly a dozen younger writer/organizers will take over authorship, writing in rotation. They will also write, and War Times will publish, additional analytic and/or feature pieces each month. I will transition to the role of mentor-editor.

 
War Times has been laying the groundwork for this transition for some time. Over the last few months we’ve held a series of analysis-and-writing workshops bringing together long-time collective members with these new writers. All of us have learned from the sessions and they have already started to produce results. Last month’s column focusing on militarism in Afghanistan, Gaza, Arizona and beyond was decisively shaped by our expanded collective discussion. In preparation for the U.S. Social Forum, a member of this new team, Michael Reagan, wrote “Previewing Peace: The Antiwar Movement Heads for Detroit,” which War Times published two weeks ago.


We are excited about the potential this new arrangement can unleash. For starters, it will allow War Times to up our contribution to the antiwar movement. We will generate more articles and cover more dimensions of the multifaceted fight against war, empire-building, militarism, racism and all their inter-connections. The fresh voices of activists whose ongoing work is in many different organizations and struggles will bring new perspectives to an antiwar movement much in need of revitalization.

   
Along with others, War Times believes that a key to re-energizing the fight for peace is rooting anti-militarist perspectives more strongly within grassroots movements of workers, communities of color, immigrant communities and other specially impacted constituencies. Fights for jobs, housing, education, social programs, immigrant rights, to end oil dependence, and to protect the environment drive the most vibrant movements in those sectors today.

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G20 Toronto: Sticking the Public with the Bill for the Bankers’ Crisis

June 28th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in financial crisis, youth and students

By Naomi Klein

Toronto — From Monday's Globe and Mail Published on Sunday, Jun. 27, 2010

My city feels like a crime scene and the criminals are all melting into the night, fleeing the scene. No, I’m not talking about the kids in black who smashed windows and burned cop cars on Saturday.

I’m talking about the heads of state who, on Sunday night, smashed social safety nets and burned good jobs in the middle of a recession. Faced with the effects of a crisis created by the world’s wealthiest and most privileged strata, they decided to stick the poorest and most vulnerable people in their countries with the bill.

How else can we interpret the G20’s final communiqué, which includes not even a measly tax on banks or financial transactions, yet instructs governments to slash their deficits in half by 2013. This is a huge and shocking cut, and we should be very clear who will pay the price: students who will see their public educations further deteriorate as their fees go up; pensioners who will lose hard-earned benefits; public-sector workers whose jobs will be eliminated. And the list goes on. These types of cuts have already begun in many G20 countries including Canada, and they are about to get a lot worse.

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Green Energy: Puts People to Work, Helps Save Planet

February 28th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Green Energy, trade unions, youth and students

Oregon Tradeswomen’s pre-apprenticeship program will feed students into the Clean Energy Works Portland weatherization training.

Apollo Alliance Local Victories

Paving Way to Clean Energy,

Good Jobs Economy

February 19, 2010
By Apollo News Service 

The Apollo Alliance is a strong coalition of unlikely and diverse interests—including labor, business, environmental and community leaders—advancing a bold vision for the new American economy, centered on clean energy and good jobs.

Over the last six years, the Apollo Alliance has built coalitions in 17 states and cities across America—often partnering with local host organizations—that have advanced the nation’s transition to a clean energy economy through innovative policies and projects. In 2009, our state and local Apollo Alliances continued this legacy of success. Read on to learn about their achievements.  

Launching New Apollo Alliances Across America

In 2009, the Apollo Alliance added new affiliates in Western New York, Missouri and Indiana. We also added a new affiliate in Massachusetts, at the end of 2008, when the Green Justice Coalition, convened by Community Labor United in Boston, became the Massachusetts Apollo Alliance.

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