Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 3, Week 50 (188 total reports)
06.12.2023-12.12.2023
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Advocating for young people in the face of global, dehumanizing, political tirades.
https://www.communitiesoftrust-jerrygoebel.com/youthadvocacy
Best Links of The Week
19.12.2023
This Is Still Fascism—Only Worse
https://newrepublic.com/article/177649/trump-immigrants-speech-fascism
For people who hate pronouns and like to declare they are against being “woke,” the GOP really loves two pronouns: Them and Us. In order to reject an entire class of people, you must first separate them and then demean them. Once you dehumanize people, you can then attack them and begin to justify beliefs such as fascism. The language IS really important, no matter what many conservatives, like Lindsay Graham, are trying to say. When Trump quotes Hitler, multiple times, he is indicating that he is willing to do to “them” what Hitler did to “them” (Jewish people at the time). Already, Trump is talking about sending troops to the US border to create “detention camps” for immigrants. We should take him at his word and not try to diminish or minimize the language he is using. Dehumanization is at the root of fascism and racism.
18.12.2023
The Right Is Passing Bills That Ban the Teaching of Empathy and Care in Schools
The very skills that education specialists tell us our children will need in an AI-Guided world where anything that CAN be done by a robot WILL be done by a robot are the skills that The Right is attacking. EQ is the skill that separates leaders from the flock and will only become MORE essential in competing on a global scale. It’s apparent that The Right doesn’t want thinking adults, it wants robots that will vote for whatever they say.
17.12.2023
It’s Not Just the Killing. Why Must Israel Dehumanize Palestinians?
https://newrepublic.com/article/177526/israel-defense-forces-dehumanize-palestinians
It’s not just the GOP that is attempting to dehumanize people in order to justify injustice, Putin has been doing the same thing with Ukrainians and used his dehumanizing tactics to kidnap children. Colonialists have used this language all over the world, throughout history, to justify genocide. Language is important and it is crucial we raise a generation that recognizes the terminology of dehumanization, racism, and fascism when they hear it.
16.12.2023
The Teaching Profession in 2023 (in Charts)
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/the-teaching-profession-in-2023-in-charts/2023/12
Teaching was going through difficult times pre-COVID, post-COVID has shown us that this honorable profession is experiencing a major crisis. These charts are a good start to help us examine where the gaps are in hiring and retaining excellent educators for our children.
15.12.2023
Conservatives have built a vast network of junk science organizations to oppose trans equality
Rather than concentrate on leadership and the needs of the country, Conservatives have been focusing on fake news and conspiracies, developing an extensive network of fake (junk) science to support their gibberish. Don’t be fooled, dig deeper into their numbers—especially regarding issues related to voting, diversity, immigration, and the LGBTQ+ community. A false, narrative is leading to ruinous policies, an eroding judicial system, and fear-mongering that welcomes an influx of authoritarian men and women in all branches of government; local, state, and federal.
14.12.2023
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
https://www.thecollector.com/critical-pedagogy-movement/
This article looks at the history of the rational and science-based pedagogy which could form the structure of an educational system in which children could thrive in a rapidly developing and sometimes chaotic world. As you examine this history of these pedagogies, you are not going to find names like Moms for Liberty or Liberty University. Read this article, if only to tap into the giants of education that have left their mark among healthy education systems worldwide. We desperately need their guidance to compare to the undermining, pseudo-educational policies being fronted by such pretentious imposters as Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis.
13.12.2023
A Blueprint for a Better Future Based on Cultural Evolution
Michael Muthukrishna, brings us a thought-provoking book that opens new pathways into a future that is inclusive and filled with exciting possibilities. It was definitely a review I needed to read at this time, and I think you will appreciate it as well. His “Theory of Everyone” is just the kind of practical optimism that provides a basis for confronting the Us/Them diatribes of the Far Right. If you want to feel hopeful at the end of a read, scroll through this article and seek out the book.
This Week’s Links
19.12.2023
This Is Still Fascism—Only Worse
https://newrepublic.com/article/177649/trump-immigrants-speech-fascism
Liz Cheney Tells Fox News Viewers Why They Should Not Vote For Donald Trump: “This Isn’t About Policy … It’s About The Republic. It’s About The Constitution”
https://deadline.com/2023/12/liz-cheney-donald-trump-fox-news-1235672046/
Abby Phillip Stunned By GOP Lawmaker's Defense Of Trump's Vile Claim
New study finds Christian nationalists to be more complex than media portrayals
https://religionnews.com/2023/12/18/new-study-paints-complicated-picture-of-christian-nationalists/
Book Bans Are Harming LGBTQ People, Advocates Say. This Online Library Is Fighting Back.
https://www.advocate.com/books/queer-liberation-library
Education and Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Path to Transformation - EdSurge News
Disadvantaged children's struggles at school have 'little to do' with character, attitude or a lack of 'growth mindset'
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-disadvantaged-children-struggles-school-character.html
The Mind's Four Doors of Perception
18.12.2023
The Right Is Passing Bills That Ban the Teaching of Empathy and Care in Schools
This Machine Kills Fascists: 10 times music fought the regime
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/10-times-music-fought-the-regime/
21 People With Difficult Childhoods Share Something They Do Now That Is A Direct Result Of Their Trauma
https://www.yourtango.com/self/people-share-adult-behaviors-direct-result-childhood-trauma
The Healing Power of Storytelling
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/un-numb/202312/the-healing-power-of-storytelling
Conservatives move to keep abortion off the 2024 ballot
Texas Becomes an Abortion Dystopia
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/kate-cox-abortion-texas-dobbs/676373/
17.12.2023
It’s Not Just the Killing. Why Must Israel Dehumanize Palestinians?
https://newrepublic.com/article/177526/israel-defense-forces-dehumanize-palestinians
Bored
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/12/poem-margaret-atwood-bored/676387/
Texas Companies Say Republicans Are Ruining Their Business
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-companies-abortion-law-republicans-bumble-1853051
US Woman Criminally Charged After Miscarriage
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-woman-criminally-charged-after-miscarriage-/7401364.html
The Youth Who Won Climate Lawsuit in Montana are Setting a Precedent
Billionaire Megayachts are Now Emitting More CO2 Than Some Small Countries
"Smishing" Is The Latest Way Scammers Are Trying To Get Your Info. Here's How To Protect Yourself
https://www.buzzfeed.com/monicatorres2/smishing-phone-scam
16.12.2023
The Teaching Profession in 2023 (in Charts)
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/the-teaching-profession-in-2023-in-charts/2023/12
Homelessness in the U.S. hit a record high last year as pandemic aid ran out
https://www.npr.org/homelessness-affordable-housing-crisis-rent-assistance
Pete Buttigieg: Mike Johnson Should Focus on His Job and Less on Taking Away LGBTQ+ Rights
https://www.advocate.com/news/pete-buttigieg-university-of-richmond
Gen Z Is the Most-Queer Generation. They Also Want to Be Labeled the Least
https://www.advocate.com/news/gen-z-identity-labels-queer
15.12.2023
Conservatives have built a vast network of junk science organizations to oppose trans equality
Pregnant Texans Continue to Be Pulled Over in Carpool Lane After Abortion Ruling: ‘I Have Two Heartbeats in the Car’
https://themessenger.com/news/pregnant-texans-pulled-over-carpool-lane-abortion-ruling
Reality of women and pregnancy complications leaves GOP flummoxed
Why Trump Won’t Win
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/trump-2024-win-why-unlikely/676354/
Making fossil fuel companies accountable for their products’ emissions would support the clean energy transition
Students and Educators in Idaho Show Us What It’s Like When a State Fails to Fund School Repairs
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-students-educators-show-us-effects-of-underfunded-schools
14.12.2023
What Is The Critical Pedagogy Movement?
https://www.thecollector.com/critical-pedagogy-movement/
Middle school students call out Moms for Liberty for their homophobia with amazing letters
The Lifelong Journey of Personal Development
Knoxville’s Juvenile Detention Center Says Hundreds of Seclusions Were “Voluntary.” Some Kids Don’t See It That Way.
13.12.2023
A Blueprint for a Better Future Based on Cultural Evolution
How Republicans convinced themselves America was meant to be a "Christian nation"
Texas Republicans drove Kate Cox out of her own state. What her abortion story means for America
Her mother doesn't get why she's depressed. So she explains the best way she knows how.
What to Say (and What Not to Say) to a Grieving Person
Idaho Keeps Some Psychiatric Patients in Prison, Ignoring Decades of Warnings About the Practice
How do you end a conversation with someone who won't stop talking? 19 people share their tricks.
https://www.upworthy.com/how-do-you-stop-a-conversation-with-someone-who-wont-stop-talking-rp6
28-year-old in Norway who gets 5 weeks of vacation: Here, 'your wellbeing is more important than work'