Youth in Revolt: Five Powerful Movements Fueled by Young Activists (National Geographic, March 23, 2018)
Author: Erin Blakemore
Blakemore, Erin. “Youth in Revolt: Five Powerful Movements Fueled by Young Activists.” National Geographic, 23 Mar. 2018, www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/03/youth-activism-young-protesters-historic-movements/.
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From Parkland students to the Arab Spring, teenagers and young adults have a history of pushing social change forward.
Here we can see that no only adults can make changes all of us should have the same chances to cause differences or improve our society.
Look at passionate young people from any era and you’ll find impressive catalysts for change.
The leaders of [the March 24, 2018] March for Our Lives are no different. Students from Parkland, Florida—who faced a tragic shooting at their high school in February 2018—organized the event to demand gun-control legislation and an end to school shootings.
This crisis have being not that far ago and still we don’t have a solution for this problem.
causing more damages. The only thing we can do is take action stop selling guns
Though the teenagers have drawn criticism from some, they’ve been commended by others for their spirit, focus, and savvy. They’ve maintained a clear message, mobilized a nation, and rallied support from celebrities and politicians—even former president Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama.
But they aren’t an anomaly. These students are the newest link in a decades-long chain of youth activists at the forefront of social change across the globe.
Here are five other movements similarly driven forward by young protesters.
Civil Rights Movement
I think people are protesting for their rights. They would like to receive more equality and protest against discrimination of race between them and white people.
This image of the flag is a really huge major in this image because, these kids are marching and protesting on behalf of themselves, their nation and the following generations.
If we check in the picture they are some white people also protesting for the Civil Rights Movement.
They will give other people to demonstrate that we are all humans and that we are all the same. even though we have different color and races.
Since many people of color were going to receive the right to vote, probably after that march, what were they thinking about in Alabama state? by which president were they going to vote that was not going to adjudicate them?.
the people who are ruling the country at the moment
Civil rights activists, including young protesters, participate in one of three Alabama marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. The demonstrations were pivotal in the eventual passage of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discriminatory voting practices based on race. PHOTOGRAPH BY BUYENLARGE/GETTY IMAGES
Lunch counters. The March on Washington. Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.
Youth were instrumental in the civil rights movement’s most memorable moments—and they were just as engaged behind the scenes. Together, these young adults desegregated schools in the Jim Crow South, challenged racism during Freedom Rides, and pushed forward voter rights and civil rights legislation.
The youth are power powerful when it comes to advocate for change. These youth who seeking for changes have had of the description and racism
they are not waiting for adults to push them. They are taking their own knowledge and courage to fight for what best of the society and anything else around it.
I like their ideas was the only way to change the situation challenged the Jim Crown without that goal we would not having the option to choose our president.
Among the most influential cadre of student organizers was the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a group that embraced nonviolent protest and helped train many of the movement’s foot soldiers. Fiercely independent, the group maintained organized efforts on countless fronts of change, enduring physical violence and state repression along the way. Fueled by young people’s rejection of white supremacy, SNCC was once the nation’s largest and most well-organized civil rights group.
I agree with this idea of non violent was one of the best strategy to defend our human rights.
part of their community.
Therefore this take this opportunity to defend their race and protest for their right and freedom. they pacific and clever at the same time.
Youth who participated in the civil rights movement embraced what one-time SNCC chairman Representative John Lewis called “good trouble”—fearless agitation designed to provoke, challenge, and move progress forward.
They cared more about making the change than caring about what white people thought about them/ They know that they were supposed to be the change and that if they were not going to defend their race, who was going to do it for them.
Vietnam War Protests
Youth people showing their ideas about the war.
Many students opt for not war to other students. They want the peace for them. They think about other people.
I might sound bias but United states is a country that is a bit too authoritarian. whether it’s internationally or on their citizens. I agree with the fact that citizens should be drafted for the military but I think the choice come to them. Because it is easy to just declare war to another country in other to steal their resources and come back and oblige the people to go and fight a meaningless battle.
Students protest the Vietnam War in front of the American Embassy in London. PHOTOGRAPH BY MIRRORPIX/GETTY IMAGES
Over two million young men were drafted into the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. No wonder, then, that young people were at the vanguard of protests against the conflict. The student movement that helped turn the American public against the war began the early 1960s with young activists inspired by both the civil rights movement and left-wing resistance to the Cold War.
I like the way how they start the paragraph, by showing a true fact about the war, the government forces youth people to participate in the war without their opinion.
Youth people were not only support the fact that they were used for the Vietnam war, they also protested for the Civil Right Movement.
Across the United States, students marched, conducted sit-ins, and agitated against the war. The protests electrified and divided the American public, who debated whether students should be allowed to protest or stopped. At demonstrations like the one at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, unarmed students were killed; others were tear gassed and hassled by police. Members of groups like Students for a Democratic Society, one of the main drivers of the anti-war movement, were targeted by the FBI.
The second strategy was go to the street to marched and let the government know what they disagree with.
They decide to protest without using violence but look what the government did kill Innocent people they lose their live by trying to defend people human rights.
“We were right about the war,” said Michael S. Ansara, who led Harvard University’s chapter of SDS. “We understood that we would provoke a reaction and that it would give us a chance for discussion and debate,” Ansara told The Crimson’s Laszlo B. Herwitz. “You’re not going to get a debate by being polite.”
Tiananmen Square
The union made the different in this group. Because one person would not be able to do everything by himself.
I don’t see any women in this picture is so peculiar. c
Although the United States of America have a very good system that protect human right in general, There are still imperfection, injustice and segregation across they whole country when it comes to schools. Even if their are laws it seam like this laws their created in favor of rich neighborhoods.
A group of Chinese students ride bikes around Beijing, waving banners and working to rally support for their pro-democracy movement. PHOTOGRAPH BY PETER TURNLEY, GETTY IMAGES
I believe that freedom should be anywhere. But unfortunately not everyone enjoy the benefits without fight.
They were brave demanding better humans right in their country too.
The movement made globally famous by the violence in Tiananmen Square didn’t just take place in the plaza. It swept through China as youth demanded democratic reforms and economic liberalization in the face of cronyism and economic decline. Hundreds of thousands of activists, many of them university students, took to the streets with banners, speeches and songs.
They also incorporate their culture into the protesting time to show their feeling and opinions.
On June 3 and 4, 1989, the emotionally charged protests took a terrifying turn when thousands of soldiers descended on Tiananmen Square, opened fire on unarmed students, and crushed the movement with tanks and rifles. The extent of the casualties is still unknown.
Is a sadist government decision to kill so many youth people who only want to have a better live.
who are only demanding for education
people who are not harming other people, they just want to be hear like a normal person, kill them were not necessary.
this is not fair at all :( . thousand of innocent lost their life for wanting their right. this people use their power to destroy the next generation. and they want to make scare future young generation so they will not speak up for their right. and make change for good.
China has never officially recognized the massacre and continues to censor information and conversation about the movement. Three decades after the crackdown, says He, “we still cannot bring justice to the hundreds of young lives destroyed by guns and tanks.” He and other colleagues researching the Tiananmen movement still fear reprisals from the Chinese Communist Party.
Arab Spring
Behind her there are also some women who cries too and men holding candles.
A young woman cries in Tahrir Square after the announcement that Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak would be stepping down from his position. The news came after 18 days of massive protests in the region. PHOTOGRAPH BY CHRIS HONDROS, GETTY IMAGES
For some, Twitter and Facebook embody the stereotype of a disconnected, smartphone-toting young person. But during 2010’s Arab Spring, social media helped youth organize an unprecedented revolution that started in Tunisia and spread to Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, and other Middle Eastern countries.
That’s a great idea tried to organize a group of people by using technology.
All the information details in just one resource for so many people.
Frustrated by police corruption, economic woes, human rights violations, and oppressive regimes, youth took part in a wave of pro-democracy protests that turned public plazas like Cairo’s Tahrir Square into sites of struggle. The demonstrations were sparked by the death of a young Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire after a police officer confiscated his cart.
Young activists weren’t the only people who participated in the demonstrations, which roiled the Arab world for over a year, fed into ongoing conflicts like the Syrian civil war, and resulted in the ouster of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, among others.
However, analysts like M. Chloe Mulderig of Boston University believe the Arab Spring “could not have occurred without the ideological and numerical push of a huge mass of angry youth.”
We see how youth people are essential to bring changes.
Indigenous Water Rights
Two young water-rights activists stand in front of the burned remains of a hogan, a traditional Navajo dwelling, in Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Protesters occupied the Standing Rock reservation for months in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, and—when forced to leave in February 2017—some of the group set fire to portions of the site. PHOTOGRAPH BY STEPHEN YANG, GETTY IMAGES
“Youth are tired of thinking that they don’t have a future,” says Micaela Iron Shell-Dominguez. “It’s one thing that you take away our land—now you’re going to come on our land, build a pipeline, and destroy our water.”
we should not care what other people think our future or destination is we have the courage to change any circumstances because being together is the key to overcome issues.
They took their property and still they want to destroy the nature.
Where all these Indigenes effort to build their land or home will be end?
She’s talking about a series of controversial pipelines designed to deliver oil through the United States, often running through or near Native American land and waterways. These pipelines have been opposed strenuously by youth organizers like Shell-Dominguez.
One of them, the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), galvanized indigenous youth. The pipeline passes near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, and in 2016, its approval sparked outrage that drew thousands of demonstrators to an encampment that soon became the site of protests and arrests. The International Indigenous Youth Council, which works to inspire, organize, and empower young leaders on behalf of the environment, grew out of the Standing Rock protests. Today, Iron Shell-Dominguez is a mentor and project coordinator for the group.
“Each individual in our community should have access to clean water and clean air,” she says. Construction on DAPL went forward despite the protests, but the IIYC and other youth organizations continue to fight other projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, that endanger indigenous water rights.
“We believe that we don’t own this earth—we’re actually belonging to this earth,” she says. “We should be giving back to Mother Earth.”
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