Youth Organizing in Seattle
One area we try to take seriously in organizing is working with youth. So it’s always great to see examples of youth stepping up, like this example from Seattle in protests around the acquittal of George Zimmerman, Trayvon Martin’s killer. Read the full article here: http://creativitynotcontrol.wordpress.com/2013/08/02/high-school-students-self-organize/.
Some of the organizing we do is reading and studying with youth, helping them write a youth newsletter, and going to actions together and collectively analyzing them and the different participants. We would love to do more–this is work we’ve started relatively recently–and hope to get involved in more campaign work soon. In the meantime, though, we’re trying to strategize around how to do sustainable and radical youth organizing. What ideas do yall have?
