TAKING ACTION

Become a Civil Rights Activist in your Community Today!

YO! Youth Outlook
http://www.youthoutlook.org/mainframe.php3
YO! Youth Outlook is an award-winning literary monthly journal representing young voices.
Featuring in-depth reporting pieces and first-person essays, comic strips and poetry pages,
YO! is the communication outlet for youth who feel their voice and visions need to be seen and heard.

SOUL 
http://www.youthec.org/soul/index.htm
SOUL's mission is to serve as a training center to develop a new multi-racial generation of
young organizers - especially young women, young people of color, and low-income youth.
SOUL strives to support the growing youth movement - designing political education,
organizing skills trainings and technical assistance programs to meet the special needs of our generation.

Youth Speaks
http://www.youthspeaks.org/~youthspeaks/FlashSite/open.html
Building the next generation of leaders through the written and spoken word.  The innovative programs nurture develop the youth voice and promote positive social dialogue across
boundaries of age, race, class, gender, culture, and sexual orientation.  Throughout each
facet of the organization, Youth Speak encourages active literacy, honest writing, and critical thought.

What Kids Can Do
http://www.whatkidscando.org/
What Kids Can Do is a national nonprofit organization that documents the incredible actions
students are taking to support justice and equity.  Click on the Featured Stories to read about powerful speeches by young women and men.

Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org
Join the Urgent Action network! Amnesty International works to improve human rights
through the actions of ordinary people around the world. Every day AI receives information
about prisoners and other individuals in danger around the world. If an immediate international response is needed the Urgent Action network is set in motion.




Get involved in politics and your upcoming elections!

Youth Vote
http://www.youthvote.org/
Youth Vote is the nation's largest non-partisan coalition working to increase the political
involvement of 50 million Americans, 18-30 years old. The Youth Vote coalition consists of
over ninety diverse national organizations representing hundreds of organizations and millions
of young people.

Rock the Vote
http://www.rockthevote.org
Rock the Vote is dedicated to protecting the freedom of expression and empowering young
people to change their world. Volunteer to help others register to vote.

Volunteer for local politicians to get the vote out!!!

            Democratic Party – http://www.democrats.org

            Green Party – http://www.greenparty.org

            Republican Party – http://www.rnc.org

            Libertarian Party – http://www.lp.org

Honor Vernon Dahmer Sr. — Register to vote today!!!
https://ssl.capwiz.com/congressorg/e4/nvra/