{"id":4961,"date":"2006-05-03T15:17:16","date_gmt":"2006-05-03T15:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4961"},"modified":"2006-05-03T15:17:16","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T15:17:16","slug":"sites-for-youth-discussion-and-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4961","title":{"rendered":"sites for youth discussion and debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several ambitious websites try to give young Americans a voice in politics and policy:<\/p>\n

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  • The Youth Policy Action Center<\/a> is an elaborate site that supports discussion of issues, provides links to opportunities for voting and volunteering, puts people in touch with like-minded peers, and shows off youth-produced videos and other media. It’s a product of about 80 leading youth-oriented organizations.\n
  • The Association of Young Americans<\/a> is an “AARP for youth<\/a>,” an idea that I floated in an earlier post. The AYP website provides issue briefs, mostly on economic matters of special relevance to the younger generations of Americans, and forums for discussion.\n
  • The Constitutional Rights Foundation–a group that I work with fairly often–has launched CRF Forum: For Youth, by Youth<\/a>. Again, there is a discussion forum, a set of issue briefs, and opportunities to become involved. CRF is also running a photo contest. It’s great to organize contests for young media-creators, because their lack of audience is a big problem<\/a>.\n
  • WireTap <\/a>is part of the AlterNet network, and it dates back to 1998. Its large audience consists of young (18-25) progressives. Its website provides blogs, news stories, and columns–often on economic issues like the prices of textbooks.<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Several ambitious websites try to give young Americans a voice in politics and policy: The Youth Policy Action Center is an elaborate site that supports discussion of issues, provides links to opportunities for voting and volunteering, puts people in touch with like-minded peers, and shows off youth-produced videos and other media. It’s a product of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deliberation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}