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Encyclopedia > Youth movement

A youth movement is any attempt to organize individual young people into a unified identity. According to The Freechild Project, "A growing number of organizations and individuals are calling for a worldwide youth movement, built around information technology, political and social action, and other platforms." There are a seemingly infinite number of youth movements, both historical and contemporary in nature. The Freechild Project logo The Freechild Project or Freechild is an international non-profit program connecting young people and social change around the world through a large online web portal for youth and adults. ... Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA)is: the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware. ...

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Movements

Contemporary youth movements

The childrens rights movement was born in the 1800s with the orphan train. ... This article belongs in one or more categories. ... // Student Voice is a neologism describing the distinct perspectives and actions of young people throughout education focused on education. ... Youth service is tantamount to any volunteer community service activity conducted by any person under the age of 25. ... Manifestations Slavery · Racial profiling · Lynching Hate speech · Hate crime · Hate groups Genocide · Holocaust · Pogrom Ethnocide · Ethnic cleansing · Race war Religious persecution · Gay bashing Pedophobia · Ephebiphobia Movements Discriminatory Aryanism · Neo-Nazism · Supremacism Kahanism Anti-discriminatory Abolitionism · Civil rights · Gay rights Womens/Universal suffrage · Mens rights Childrens rights · Youth... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Youth voice is a fairly common neologism to refers to the distinct ideas, opinions, attitudes, knowledge, and actions of young people as a collective body. ... A Zionist youth movement is an organization formed for Jewish children and adolescents for educational, social and ideological development, including a belief in Jewish nationalism as represented in the State of Israel. ...

Historical youth movements

Hippies (singular hippie or sometimes hippy) were members of the 1960s counterculture movement who adopted a communal or nomadic lifestyle, renounced corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and/or Native American religious culture, and were otherwise at odds with traditional middle class Western values. ... The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (or SNCC, pronounced snick) was one of the primary institutions of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. ... SDS Button Logo The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was, historically, a student activist movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the countrys New Left. ... The Hitler Youth (German: Hitler-Jugend, abbreviated HJ) was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party that existed from 1922 to 1945. ... American Youth Congress (AYC) was an early youth voice organization composed of youth from all across the country to discuss the problems facing youth as a whole in the 1930s. ... There are many youth movements of the Communist Party in different parts of the world. ...

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Global Youth Service Day, or National Youth Service Day in the United States, is a coordinated annual event which gathers young people around the world in conducting community service, service learning, and youth voice activities that benefit their communities, their countries, and the world. ... The National Service Learning Conference®, first held in 1988 to serve as the largest gathering of youths and practitioners from the service-learning movement. ...

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For example MTV while being seen as a big part of youth culture (at the present time) is controlled by adults.
However, youth culture is beginning to expend its influence in increasingly younger age groups.
Various youth movements, frequently associated with a musical style, have existed as part of teenage culture.
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The sixties youth movement had two intertwined strands: one was youth participation in the broader social movements of the decade, and the other was youth activism on behalf of specifically youth-related causes.
Youth were key participants in the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, the emerging feminist and gay movements, the underground press, and the various new left groups, where they fought for social change alongside adults.
Youth, and especially teenagers, were also involved in struggles more closely connected to their own issues as young people, such as those for school change and student rights, the creation of alternative youth programs, the right to vote, access to birth control, expanded legal rights for minors, and draft resistance.
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