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Last week, Ryan Dunn of Jackass, the television stunt show where cast members put themselves in dangerous situations for laughs, died in a fiery Pennsylvania car crash.

LOS ANGELES - A group of public education advocates have begun a movement to tax oil extraction here and throughout the state of California. The revenue will be put into funds for public education, a service that has seen scaled-back funding and rising costs for college students.

According to a recent Stanford University Medical School study, described in Science Daily, the big tobacco companies are trying to lure minority youth into smoking menthol cigarettes.

NORWAY, Maine - People in this central Maine town will be giving a July 1 send-off to three Mainers heading off to Cuba next week. Under the auspices of the Maine group Let Cuba Live and Pastors for Peace, they are taking humanitarian supplies donated from Maine and Quebec.

MINNEAPOLIS - Online activists, trade unionists and supporters nationwide convened here last week during the Netroots Nation annual conference.

ORLANDO, Fla. - As city police officers here arrested four people for distributing food to the homeless, June 8, a crowd of mostly young activists chanted, "Food is a right, not a privilege!" In two weeks of civil disobedience, 15 people involved with Food Not Bombs have been arrested so far in the city. Hundreds more supporters, many of them students, have come to rally behind the homeless and people who are feeding them.

Republican operatives seem to have found a new organizing tool: dancing in the dark at the Jefferson Memorial.

At a recent town hall meeting in Marshalltown, Iowa, Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich told assembled voters that young people should be required to take a poll test before being allowed to vote.

CHICAGO - Young people from all over the rust belt converged on the spot of the Haymarket Massacre when the "Red School Bus" tour stopped here for the Midwest School for Young Activists.

The right wing's widespread attack on workers has a new target: the nation's youth. Currently the number of youth who are unemployed, especially youth of color, has risen to a level not seen in the last 60 years. It is estimated that only one in four youth who are looking for summer jobs this year will find one.

In England when Parliament attempted to nearly triple the cost of tuition for university students last year, thousands took to the streets in mass protest.

Cornell Hood II, a 35-year-old from New Orleans was handed a life sentence under Louisiana's repeat offender law. His crime? Possession of and intent to distribute marijuana. Hood had previously pleaded guilty to this crime three times before and had received a five-year suspended sentence for each charge as well as probation.

SEATTLE- At least 25 students were arrested after occupying a campus administrative building in protest of the University of Washington's contract with Sodexho, a giant food service provider.

The Texas Senate approved, in a 19 to 12 vote, a bill to allow the carrying of concealed handguns on public college campuses. The bill's backers say the move is a necessary reaction to an incident that took place seven months ago when a University of Texas student carrying a gun opened fire while on campus.

With today's climate of international terrorism the U.S. justice system still continues to deny freedom to five Cuban patriots who were arrested for monitoring extremist terrorist groups in Miami. The YCL says ENOUGH!

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - On April 27, nine students launched a "study-in" at the office of Rutgers University president Richard L. McCormick. The students soon found themselves in a kind of "lock in" as they were not allowed to retrieve their back packs or get food from supporters outside.

Recently House Resolution 1 (H.R.1) passed in congress cutting $60 billion from the federal budget. One of the programs hit hardest is the Pell Grant program which was stripped of $5.7 billion. Pell Grants provide financial assistance to working class youth who are attempting to get a degree and better themselves, at the same time bettering the economy and society.

"young people from all over the region are preparing for the next stop on the Young Communist League, USA's Red School-Bus Tour in Chicago Illinois!"

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - As Michigan public schools struggle under Republican Party budget cuts, a new study released earlier this month revealed that most of the state's public school students are exposed to high levels of pollution.

Students graduating this year face the worst labor market ever encountered by a graduating class.