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Title: NYC Local Jam
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Categories: Child & Youth Rights
Human Rights
Status:
Completed
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
The Local Jam is a 6 month process that culminates in a one-week informal gathering, a Jam, dedicated to celebrating the diversity of New York and de-fragmenting youth movements through collaborative projects. It will take place in July or August, 2005. All young organizers between 15 and 35-years-old are invited to apply.
Our email discussion list is available HERE
Objectives:
(1) To raise awareness and connect diverse, young social leaders of New York by sharing experiences and visions of the youth movement locally and globally;
(2) To launch a self-sustaining youth network in New York that integrates the diversity if the city and is active both face to face and virtually through the Internet;
(3) To develop new partnerships and collaborative projects, help them gain visibility and attract funding;
(4) To strengthen youth participation in local government structures
Needs:
We need people to apply. There will be 35 activist youth, mostly from New York City, between the ages of 15 and 35 that identify with one of the following topics:
- Develop action locally in diverse social areas (education, culture, health, civil/human rights, gay rights, the environment, farmer’s rights etc.)
- Participate in the debate and articulation of socio-political and socio-economic issues nationally as well as internationally.
- Participate in the creation and implementation of public policies with emphasis on youth and a desire to create a just and equal world
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