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Max Lubin Won’t Stop Until Students Have Voting Access and Free Tuition

By Emma Sarran Webster The current state of student cash advance debt In America is bleak. Even worse: While tuitions rise, budgets for public schools are getting slashed. It’s a scary blend and was enough to inspire the former University of California, Berkeley student Max Lubin, 29, to take action. Two years back, he — and also Emelia Martinez, a student at the University of..

Disappointment Won't Keep Benjamin Kremer Down — He's Too Busy Helping Young People Vote

By Lauren Rearick Benjamin Kremer isn’t afraid to demand more of his elected officials. As an organizer with the New Hampshire Youth Movement (NHYM), Kremer made headlines in December 2017 any time while he confronted New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu and asked him not to sign HB 1264 — legislation that makes voting in New Hampshire considerably more restrictive. Under the bil..

Young People Aren't Letting Texas's Restrictive Voting Laws Stop Them From Being Heard

By Lauren Rearick Registering to vote can be tough, and the hurdles are just as big in Texas. Studies, data, and headlines routinely prove that Texas is among the top five most hard states for voter registration, which is due in part to the state’s choice to not let online voter registration, as well as a registration deadline that requires someone to register 28 days back to an el..

Meet The Florida Activists Making Sure Serving Time In Prison Won't Stop Folks From Voting

Rodnika Cockroft is sick of working within a system that led to one in four people she is aware unable to vote — so she’s changing it. Four years prior, as soon as the 25-year-old Miami, Florida, local was in college, she started working with Dream Defenders, a black and brown youth-led agency serious about making a multiracial voting block and, as Cockroft put it, “putting the..

Meet The College Student Helping Ensure Her Classmates Go To The Polls

By De Elizabeth In the months leading up to the 2016 Presidential Election, Maya Patel discovered she was really, really good at getting people excited about voting. Shortly right after kicking off her freshman year at the University of Texas at Austin that fall, she enlisted as a Volunteer Deputy Registrar (VDR), which allowed her to register fellow classmates to vote in the upcomi..

Anthony Pacheco Wants to Make it Easier For Immigrant Communities to Participate in Democracy

By Emma Sarran Webster Anthony Pacheco didn’t habitually aspire to pursue a career in politics or social justice — up until a woman named Brenda Lopez knocked on his door. He was a student at Georgia State University at the time, and Lopez was running for a seat in the Georgia General Assembly. She wanted Pacheco’s vote and support as a volunteer. “[She] was a woman, she was..

These Chicago Activists Helped Launch the First In-Jail Polling Location in the U.S.

By Emma Sarran Webster On August 21, Illinois Governor Jay Pritzker signed two expenses into law that will vastly expand voting rights for inmates in the state’s prisons. SB 2090 requires county jails to let detainees awaiting trial to cast ballots throughout elections, and to allocate those detainees with voter registration forms and voting rights intelligence, while HB 2541 (or R..

Merriam-Webster Added The Singular They Pronoun To The Dictionary

By Lauren Rearick On Tuesday (September 17) Merriam-Webster announced it could be adding the definitions for 533 new words to its dictionary, and among the additions are dad joke, Bechdel test, and the singular they, a gender-neutral/gender-inclusive pronoun. That affirmation was a long time coming — and yes it can forever impact the lives of LGBTQ+ people, Sam Brinton, Head of Adv..

Inside The Youth-Led Plan To Pull Off The Biggest Climate Strike So Far

By Rachel Janfaza In the past, students have jumped at the idea of a snow day, going as far as putting spoons under pillows or wearing pajamas indoor out in hopes of a school cancelation. Although right now, with the impending doom of climate change, students are worried that in back of the occasional Nor’easter, climate disasters could grow in size, frequency, and scale. They’ve..

Watch Greta Thunberg And 3 Other Gen Z Climate Activists Take On Congress

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist whose work has taken the globe by storm, has never been one to beat around the bush; her eight-sentence testimony before the Home Committee on Foreign Affairs on Wednesday, September 18 proved to be no exception. “My name is Greta Thunberg. I have not come to issue prepared remarks at this hearing. I am as an alternative atta..

Streetwear Clothing Brand B.Stroy Is Facing Backlash For Its School Shooting Sweatshirts

By Lauren Rearick Streetwear label B.Stroy unveiled its Samsara collection in New York on Sunday (September 15), although rather than inspiring lines around the block for their latest drop, the brand for the “post-apocalypse generation” is facing some major backlash, Fashionista reported. The spring/summer 2020 presentation featured sweatshirts emblazoned with the names of school..

Lush And Ben & Jerry's Are Closing Their Doors To Fight The Climate Crisis

By Lauren Rearick There’s no denying that global warming has already played a factor in some harm to our planet, including powerful hurricanes, ravaged ecosystems in Australia, and extreme weather events like the recent European heatwave. Experts warned that “a revolution” is needed to prevent further irreversible environmental harm — and young folks are taking up the fight...

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