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Henry A. Giroux | Hardened Cultures and the War on Youth
This interview was conducted at the McMaster Centre for Scholarship in the Public Interest's 2013 “War on Youth” Summer Institute, Summer 2013.
Undocumented and Undaunted: DREAMer Artists Speak Out
The struggles of undocumented youth in the US often fly under the radar of the mainstream media but a new generation of young immigrants are making sure their voices …
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The Police State Mindset in Our Public Schools
Instead of making schools safer, we've simply managed to make them more authoritarian.
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Henry A. Giroux | The Violence of Organized Forgetting
Henry Giroux: A war-like mentality makes it difficult to reclaim the language of social responsibility and civic engagement.
Michelle Alexander: “Zimmerman Mindset” Endangers Young Black Lives with Poverty, Prison and Murder
Alexander says the biases that led to Martinu2019s death and let his killer go free are deeply embedded in U.S. society and in the criminal justice system itself.
Growing Concern Cuts to Toronto Youth Programs Will Bring “Summer of War”
Community leaders fear rise in gun violence will result from cuts to summer youth programs in Toronto's poor and under-serviced neighborhoods
History Teaches That We Have the Power to Transform the Nation
Modern mass movements in the last 100 years have proven that collective nonviolent resistance across many segments of society is the most effective means for change. The rule of …
Spotlight on Hidden Immigrant Struggles
In a storytelling performance, youth described a different path to the United States and in doing so reflected a sense of justice that defies borders.
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An Excerpt From Lightweb Darkweb: Three Reasons to Reform Social Media Before It Re-Forms Us
In this preface to his new book, ecology and children's champion Raffi Cavoukian considers some of the downsides of social media for youth.
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Rangel’s Folly: Reinstating the Draft
Bica argues that Rangel and others who advocate compulsory national service to promote anti-war objectives are choosing the absolutely wrong tool.