Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 3, Week 34 (172 total reports)
16.08.2023-22.08.2023
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Advocating for young people and increasing their resilience in the face of disinformation.
Best Links of The Week
22.08.2023
On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
https://netbigideaclub.com/magazine/disinformation-fight-truth-protect-democracy-bookbite/44426/
In a link below, young people are asking for assistance in understanding disinformation, this book takes a big step into breaking down insidious attempts to undermine democracy with fiction and lies. Let’s make this book a bestseller, along with another of Dr. Lee McIntyre’s books, “How to talk to a Science Denier.”
21.08.2023
Gun deaths among children and teens in the U.S. reached a new record in 2021, study finds
It should come as no surprise that gun deaths have become the leading cause of death in children in the US. The bombshell lies in the continued “non-response” of politicians. If we say to “follow the money” we can clearly see that many politicians—especially those like Ted Cruz—have pockets deeply lined by gun advocates money. The question that needs to be asked is what kind of person chooses profiting from a lobbyist over the lives of children? There are significant ways to reduce gun usage (especially high-caliber, rapid-fire weapons) that don’t involve total bans on weapons; it is not an “own or no own” question. This is a Second Amendment, human rights, issue about the right to live, not the right to bear arms.
20.08.2023
Several Virginia School Districts Simply Said No to Implementing Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies
https://www.them.us/story/virginia-school-districts-reject-anti-trans-policies
Adolescents have a number of mental health issues to contend with, gender-diffuse adolescents have even more. The compassionate understanding needed during this questioning period of development can be life-saving. Adolescent suicide is highest among this group of young people (LGBTQ+ youth). Ostracizing them and using school and state policies to torment them is not just inhumane, it is criminal and increases the likelihood of suicide. Conservatives have longed used sexual diversity as a punching bag for their hatred. Putin is doubling-down no this tactic in his war on Ukraine, claiming to Russians in his official “news” that the Ukrainian Military is made of a new super-human race of gay warriors.
19.08.2023
Stop Talking About ‘Gaps’ in Education—Talk About Harm (Opinion)
This commentary by Columbia University Professor, Bettina Love, asks us to start accurately naming the “gaps” in education—especially among racial lines—for what they really are; racism and harm-producing. This harm is only being perpetuated by the Supreme Court and Conservatives in their “post-racial” beliefs as depicted in their policies and rulings. I would further suggest that the policies this current group of political hacks, like Ron DeSantis, is developing and especially by they embrace of pseudo-education organizations like PragerU, is causing irreparable damage to a generation of children who will raised to believe that slavery was beneficial to slaves and not the heinous crime against humanity it was.
18.08.2023
Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision
https://apple.news/A1fQMBt69SDaunNS63c8F3A
https://www.openculture.com/2023/08/wealth-and-poverty-a-free-online-course.html
Montana is one of a handful of states that has a constitutional amendment protecting the climate rights of future generations. Despite vitriolic attacks by conservative pro-fossil fuel groups in their state, these young people sued for the protection of that constitutional right—and won! This landmark ruling will provide a roadmap for other young people who want to protect their future. Hopefully, with more than climate rights, but also gun rights and rights to bodily autonomy. Kudos to these young people and other young people like David Hogg who are tired of the conservative response, “thoughts and prayers.” “Policy and Action” is their new maxim.
17.08.2023
Young People Tell Us They Need Help Identifying Misinformation
https://apple.news/AdEi56P06Su-rROoVclcG9g
The first step to fighting misinformation is recognizing our susceptibility to it. Then, it is to recognize how pervasive it is. Sadly, most adults who accept misinformation as truth, prefer their illusion because reality can be uncomfortable and involve change—especially a change of perspective and the admission of culpability in sharing falsehood.
16.08.2023
What we get wrong about self-esteem: It's built through actions, not words
Cognitive Dissonance or the belief that our perceptions are more likely to change to conform to our consistent action (habits) rather than what we tell ourselves (self-talk) is not new in psychology. I have longed believed that helping young people help others is much more important in teaching them values than telling them what they should value. The research in this article supports this approach. As we determine how best to shape the compassionate (indeed, WOKE) values of a new generation, we need to analyze how we move beyond the classroom and into helping young people act in their communities.
This Week’s Links
22.08.2023
On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/disinformation-fight-truth-protect-democracy-bookbite/44426/
4 Reasons for the Increase in Mental Health Conditions
https://apple.news/A0hgZIqonQiaum_I4PCihkA
Dismantling the myth that ancient slavery 'wasn't that bad'
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-dismantling-myth-ancient-slavery-wasnt.html
If You Think Drug Addiction isn't a Problem in Your Workplace, You're Wrong
https://apple.news/A-q6PlsrOSBet11Qngxbzmg
21.08.2023
Gun deaths among children and teens in the U.S. reached a new record in 2021, study finds
People forgot how to act in public
https://apple.news/AGu46il1NQF6U94QxF2NHqw
20.08.2023
Several Virginia School Districts Simply Said No to Implementing Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies
https://www.them.us/story/virginia-school-districts-reject-anti-trans-policies
How to stop catastrophising – a psychologist’s guide
https://apple.news/AkPRUF4diRk2wxfXh6aSs3w
Emotionally Intelligent People Use a Brilliant 2-Word Phrase to Speak Up and Get Results
19.08.2023
Stop Talking About ‘Gaps’ in Education—Talk About Harm (Opinion)
Several Virginia School Districts Simply Said No to Implementing Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies
https://www.them.us/story/virginia-school-districts-reject-anti-trans-policies
10 Free Educational Apps to Make Your Kids’ Phone Time Count
https://www.cubbyathome.com/free-educational-phone-apps-80031426
18.08.2023
Judge rules in favor of Montana youths in landmark climate decision
https://apple.news/A1fQMBt69SDaunNS63c8F3A
Robert Reich’s UC Berkeley Course on Wealth & Poverty Is Free Online
https://www.openculture.com/2023/08/wealth-and-poverty-a-free-online-course.html
Georgia teacher fired for having book about gender identity in classroom
https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2023/08/18/cobb-county-teacher-fired-gender-identity-book
An Anthropologist Was Taught The Emotional Lesson Of 'Ubuntu' From Kids In A South African Tribe — And It's Something American Kids Should Learn, Too
https://www.yourtango.com/entertainment/south-african-ubuntu-teach-american-kids-emotional-lesson
America’s richest 10% are responsible for 40% of its planet-heating pollution, new report finds
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/17/business/rich-americans-climate-footprint-emissions
7 Ways To Ground Yourself When Daily Chaos Makes You Lose It
https://www.yourtango.com/self/ways-ground-yourself-when-daily-chaos-makes-you-lose-it
Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/religion-in-human-evolution-from-the-paleolithic-to-the-axial-ag/
American Evangelicals are getting mad at Jesus for being too woke
Want to Sound Smarter? Keep Your Writing Simple and Jargon Free
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/writing-tips-sound-smarter-by-keeping-your-writing-simple.html
13 executives share how to adjust your leadership style to today’s toughest challenges
17.08.2023
Young People Tell Us They Need Help Identifying Misinformation
https://apple.news/AdEi56P06Su-rROoVclcG9g
“As a people-pleaser, I thought I was just a good person. My therapist called bullsh*t”
https://apple.news/ANVdU1KX6R1mJjdCuPpJcKg
If You Want To Be Truly Free And Happy, You Must Banish These 4 Thoughts
https://www.yourtango.com/self/want-be-truly-free-happy-banish-these-thoughts
What Separates Highly Creative People
https://nautil.us/what-separates-highly-creative-people-362925/
16.08.2023
What we get wrong about self-esteem: It's built through actions, not words
Yale Psychologist: To Reach Peak Performance, Talk to Yourself Like a Friend, Not a Drill Sergeant
Does your kid struggle with ADHD? Studies are revealing something that can help more than medication: A daily report card
https://fortune.com/well/2023/08/15/adhd-school-disruptions-medication-daily-report-card/