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This week WBEZ's Eight-Forty-Eight played an interview with Billy Wimsatt an author, youth activist, and former graffitti artist. The guy has tons of energy and while he is a tad partisan, the bigger message is youth activisim. Listen to the interview
here . He has many big ideas; how vital youth involvement in politics is, how his generation (he is 37) needs to lead, how local communities can make a difference. Right now he is leading a nation-wide movement to have local communities make their own voter guides. Check out the website
www.theballot.org to see how you, yes YOU, can make a guide. He is currently on a book tour promoting his book "Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs" (we like the title of this book more than his first one, "Bomb the Suburbs"). The book outlines his vision for a new youth movement and continued political involvement. You can order it through Amazon or BN or give an independent bookstore a
chance. Now go make a voter's guide!
I definitely agree that the youth should get more involved. If they don't get involved while they are young the issues and candidates are not recognizable to them once they become older and more politically active! The younger adults who are above voting age are a clear vision of what they our future government will look like, and what issues will be important.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that the youth are the future of our country, and that soon they will make decisions on how the government will be run. I agree with his idea that his generation must lead politics; many people including the youth want to pass the job of participating in politics off to other generations, but every one must be involved. Helping increase youth involvement will be very helpful for when it is their turn to lead.
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