Margolin Jamie

Youth To Power Your Voice And How To Use It

Youth To Power Your Voice And How To Use It

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Description: ** Winner of the 2020 Nautilus GOLD Award for Y a Nonfiction** " Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop ambitious plans to confront this existential threat to humanity. Youth To Power is an essential how - to for anyone of any age who feels called to act to protect our planet for future generations." - - - Former Vice President Al Gore Climate change activist and Zero Hour cofounder Jamie Margolin offers the essential guide to changemaking for young people. The 1963 Children's March. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common? They were led by passionate informed engaged young people. Jamie Margolin has been organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co - leader of a global climate action movement she knows better than most how powerful a young person can be. You don't have to be able to vote or hold positions of power to change the world. In Youth to Power Jamie presents the essential guide to changemaking with advice on writing and pitching op - eds organizing successful events and peaceful protests time management as a student activist utilizing social and traditional media to spread a message and sustaining long - term action. She features interviews with prominent young activists including Tokata Iron Eyes of the # No DAPL movement and Nupol Kiazolu of the # Black Lives Matter movement who give guidance on handling backlash keeping your mental health a priority and how to avoid getting taken advantage of. Jamie walks readers through every step of what effective healthy intersectional activism looks like. Young people have a lot to say and Youth to Power will give you the tools to raise your voice.
Title: Youth To Power Your Voice And How To Use It
Author(s): Margolin Jamie
Publisher: Hachette Books
Barcode: 9780738246666
Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Date: 6/2/2020
Category: Green Lifestyle & Self-Sufficiency
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