Generation Vote, a national coalition of different youth and student organizations, has created a Youth Agenda for the 2008 elections. Read it, endorse it, download it and distributed it today!
The YCL can be proud that all over the country our comrades gave their all, dedicating time and energy to organizing, educating and mobilizing young voters in our communities and on our campuses. Our midwest project sent dozens of young people to work in the battleground states and get a real hands on education about electoral politics and geting out the vote. We helped elect several local candidates, registered hundreds of young voters and built important relationships with other young people and youth organizations fighting to defeat Bush. This was no small accomplishment!
We will be working with our allies in the youth and student movement in a unified effort to show how this election is key to all the struggles young people are facing from peace to education to police accountability to gay rights. Key to this is convincing people that the defeat of Bush would put the entire youth movement on a decisively better footing to start winning.
If you turned on the TV on November 3rd CNN mentioned to you that young people showed up at the polls but it was nothing too impressive. They told you that while the numbers went up, so did all voter-turnout numbers and there was no significant shift or big change in how many young folks showed up as compared to the rest of the population. Some of them even went so far as to blame the youth for not turning out enough to impact the elections favorably for Kerry. But the numbers tell another story.
The world\'s people agree: Bush and his cronies are the greatest single danger to peace, human rights, and democracy. No question about it - Bush has got to go in November.
Our country is being devastated by the Bush administration. Like the miners in Pennsylvania who survived because they stuck together, we the people can pull ourselves out of danger with our vote in the 2002 elections.
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