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Alliance for Justice
Alliance for Justice offers training for young adults (age 15-25) in advocacy and direct action organizing to stop gun violence. Technical assistance for young people engaged in advocacy campaigns to end gun violence. Matching Challenge Grant up to $10,000 to support youth-led organizing. Includes a 250 page stand-alone resource guide to aid youth-led social change.

Bamboo Girl
Bamboo Girl Zine began in 1995, and is a twice-yearly independent zine (small publication, rhymes with 'Äúscene'Äù) exploring issues relevant to Filipinos, Asian & Pacific Islanders, and people of mixed Asian descent. It includes voices from various cultural/community activist levels, and people of color, feminist, and queer (lesbian/bisexual/gay/transgender) perspectives.

Camp Ten Trees
A non-profit Pacific Northwest summer camp for LGBT/questioning youth and children of the LGBT community.

The Campus Greens
We are students, faculty, and staff of America's colleges, universities, and high schools, and we act in solidarity with the Ten Key Values of the Green Party. Though we were born into a culture designed to lower political expectations, and have grown to see our society poisoned by complacency and fatalism, we are determined to build a radical democratic movement that empowers Americans to overcome the grave social, racial, economic, and environmental problems faced by our nation and world.

Curfew.org
Curfew.Org is a website dedicated to fighting youth curfews across the country. It is aimed towards youths & adults interested in taking up the battle against curfew laws in their own town, and looking for a place to start or a little ammunition. It's so very, very easy to get around curfew laws. We'll help.

Earth Force
Through Earth Force, youth discover and implement lasting solutions to environmental issues in their community. In the process they develop life-long habits of active citizenship and environmental stewardship. Educators turn to Earth Force for innovative tools to engage young people in community problem solving. Earth Force is youth-driven with a national Youth Advisory Board (YAB) made up of 15 members, ages 12-17. The YAB helps develop and implement Earth Force programs.

Faces of Tomorrow
Faces of tomorrow is a web-based project which invites youth to submit self images in the form of photos, digital images, drawings, and combinations of media. This is a fun interactive site!

Free the Planet
Free The Planet!'s mission is to build support for strong environmental protection, to empower the next generation of environmental leaders, and to revitalize the political core of the environmental movement.

Gay Lesbian Straight Network
GLSN is the leading national organization fighting to end anti-gay bias in K-12 schools. GLSN combats harassment and discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and tansgender youth through local and school-related work, public pilicy efforts and anti hate-violence campaigns. Their web site has a useful feature which allows youth to access local and State resources.

The Gay-Straight Alliance
The Gay-Straight Alliance is a youth-led organization that works to empower youth activists fighting homophobia in schools. We are dedicated to helping youth all over California start GSAs, keep them going, and become active in the fight to end homophobia.

Generation Net
More than just a website, Generation Net organizes grassroots campaigns, raises public awareness, and involves youth in the political process. The direction of Generation Net's efforts are entirely based on an agenda decided by the votes of its members. Recently, Generation Net pushed for campaign finance reform during the 2000 elections, getting over 40 cantidates to sign pledges supporting reform.

Girls in the Hall
The Girls in the Hall Project is a public art collaboration, which is part of the Solutions Project, created to educate the community about young women's involvement with the juvenile justice system. In addition to displaying artwork and writing of their website, Girls in the Hall will also be putting together an exhibit that will feature writing as audio pieces, photography, visual art, murals and an installation of a detainment cell. Grassroots.com
Grassroots provides political news including columnists and tools for citizens to get involved in different causes. Their youth page provides daily news related to young people.

Just Think Foundation
The Just Think Foundation exists to stimulate critical thinking about popular media. Just Think strives to equip young people with the media ltiteracy tools critical for their future. These tools include the ability to comprehend the content of media and master the technical skills to produce media messages in various forms, from broadcast public service announcements to websites.

K.I.D.S.
K.I.D.S. is a youth liberation activist group based in Portland, OR. They are an organization acting in defense of youth and against ageism. K.I.D.S. is a collectively run non-hierarchical group who feel is very important to us that activism is fun and creative.

Latin American Youth Center
Latin American Youth Center programs help youth develop critical thinking and leadership skills and, through the visual and performing arts specially, address cultural differences and difficult social issues. The LAYC supports youth and families in their determination to live with dignity, hope and joy, exphasizing Respect, Synergy, & Trust.

Listen, Inc.
Listen Inc. is dedicated to convening urban youth of color and connecting them with opportunities, fellowships, and leadership training.

MyRoad.com
MyRoad.com uses personalization technology to provide youth with resources to help plan education and career paths. MyRoad.com says, "we believe you will find this site unmatched in quality, depth, and relevance to your planning needs. We hope you enjoy this unique experience and wish you the best as you explore your destiny."

The National Youth Connection
"The National Youth Connection is a direct-action, social justice and advocacy organization created to actively address the contemporary issues that face youths and young adults, particularly minorities. The NYC is the premier youth-led civil and human rights organization in America today..."

Paper Tiger
Paper Tiger TV is a non-profit, volunteer video collective that analyzes and critiques issues involving media, culture, and politics. PTTV produces and distributes the Paper Tiger public access television series, conducts media literacy and hands-on video production workshops and actively organizes around politial issues.

PEACEFIRE
Young perspectives on censorship in media and the Internet. Links to stories from other news sources.

POOR Magazine
POOR Magazine is a literary magazine dedicated to reframing the news, issues and solutions from low and no income communities, as well as providing society with a perspective usually not heard or seen within the mainstream media.

Portland Freeskool
Welcome to the education revolution! No teachers! No students! Portland Freeskool is a non-compulsory, all volunteer school where people get together and share their knowledge and skills with other people. Teach a class on home brewing, bike repair or whatever you want. This is the future of democracy and education.

Power to the Youth
Website for Power to the Youth, an organization of youth from around the nation who are taking charge of their schools, lives and world. Lots of school, and unschooling-related sites. Power to the Youth, 615 Little Silver Point Road, Little Silver, NJ 07739.

Rosenberg Fund for Children
The Rosenberg Fund for Children was originally created to support children whose parents have been targeted (harassed, injured, fired, arrested, killed, etc.) because of their progressive activities. Today it has expanded to also help young activists who themselves are targeted because of their own progressive actions. Financial assistance is available to help provide for educational and emotional needs, including tuition, textbooks, art lessons, camp, therapy, travel, etc.

Stay Free!
A print magazine focused on issues surrounding commercialism and American culture. It is published about every ten months... some people seem to think that's funny. Whatever, just send us your money. This site has tons of interesting stories and links.

Seeds of Peace Summer Camp
Seeds of Peace is a non-profit, non-political organization that helps teenagers from regions of conflict learn the skills of making peace. Set at our own camp in the woods of Maine, a safe and supportive environment is created where the youngsters can air their views and learnlistening, communication and other conflict resolution techniques that allow them to develop empathy for one another. Seeds of Peace equips the next generation withthe leadership capabilities required to end the cycles of violence.

The Student Alliance to Reform Corporations
The Student Alliance to Reform Corporations is a network of people from various causes motivated and linked by a common concern: the lack of democratic accountability by corporations. They believe that corporate influence within our government, our media, and our universities has shifted power away from the people. This is a useful site for those looking to be involved in the process of challenging corporate power and create structural change.

Student Peace Action Network
SPAN was created to facilitate this communication to forge a more popular and diverse student peace movement. What has since emerged ties the historic struggles of the peace movement with critical issues of justice that speak to the experiences of young people today. SPAN is supported by Peace Action Education Fund, the nation's largest grassroots peace and justice organization. SPAN is a tool for diverse student groups to obtain current information on the peace movement and a space for students to forge their own strategic campaigns and visions to challenge the injustice of our current national agenda.

Teen Relationship Website
A thorough look at teen relationships and relationship violence prevention, this site includes youth perspectives, live chats about relationships, and a check list of factors that make healthy relationships.

UrbanYouth.org
UrbanYouth.org is dedicated to the education and empowerment of urban youth by providing training and workshops to young people as well as the professionals who work with them and organizations that provide programs and activities for them.

The Usual Suspects
The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company exits to bring theatre arts to at-risk teens. Through Improvisation and writing exercises, professionals in the arts work to help young people create orginal theatre and to foster pride, self confidence and racial tolerance.

We Interrupt This Message
We Interrupt This Message is a national non-profit media strategy and training center dedicated to building capacity in grassroots and public interest organizations to conduct traditional media work as well as to reframe public debate and interrupt media stereotypes.

Youth Advocacy Coalition
Youth Advocacy Coalition advocates for and with young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender in an effort to end discrimination against these youth and to ensure their physical and emotional well being. The Coalition works at the National as well as the local community level to incite change. NYAC's many programs include a National Youth Summit in Washington DC to bring youth and adults together for advocacy.

Youth Making a Change (Y-MAC)
Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth is an independent, non-profit child advocacy organization working to improve the life of San Francisco's children, youth and their families. Founded in 1975 as a citizen action group, the organization is committed to community empowerment, culturally sensitive services, program models that focus on the strengths of families, and policies that reduce child poverty and ensure that all children have their basic needs met. Y-MAC is Coleman's YOUTH-LED TRAINING AND ACTION GROUP.

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