Below is a list of a number of youth civic organizations/sites that have active pages on Facebook. If you know of other organizations that should be listed please let us know in the comments. Future Majority http://www.facebook.com/FutureMajoritydotcom KevinBondelli.com http://www.facebook.com/youthvote Young Democrats of America http://www.facebook.com/youngdems College Democrats of America http://www.facebook.com/collegedems Rock the Vote http://www.facebook.com/rockthevote Roosevelt Institute [...]

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Yesterday Craig wrote about the “Youth Disengagement Meme” and closed with the following paragraph: Unfortunately, given the lack of funding for many progressive youth organizations, the communications efforts aren’t there. By no means am I an expert in progressive youth infrastructure, but I do want to raise awareness of this. Because I have a feeling [...]

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Angus Johnston of studentactivism.net has posted some questions in response to the first two articles in my Lessons Learned from Sociopolitical Movements series. These are some great questions, so I am going to take a crack at answering them here. Why “Movement” rather than “Movements”? It’s not obvious to me that all of the groups [...]

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Before we can properly apply the lessons of the past to the Progressive Youth Movement we need to take a look at the different types of organizations that make up today’s movement. It is important to note that many organizations fall under multiple categories. This analysis excludes conservative and Republican organizations, though includes non-partisan organizations [...]

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