Earth Day is a reminder that Mother Earth pleads with us to care for her. The youth are listening, holding a global climate strike April 19. Although we are still far from reaching net zero emissions by 2050, it's time to be assertive with our world leaders for change will give our grandchildren a healthy Mother Earth and create a world of peace.
Israeli forces have killed over 10,000 children in roughly 100 days of Israel's assault into Gaza, as Save the Children reported, or about 100 children per day.
Al Jazeera’s update to its "Know Their Names" project identifies some of the thousands of Palestinian children killed so far in Israeli attacks on Gaza. It lists children from infants to 17-year-olds and the children are sorted by age.
Luz Melissa Cortes Nieto had the opportunity to attend a study abroad program dedicated to DREAMERS across the U.S., like herself. She interviews Dreamers she met during her travels.
Chrystul Kizer, a sex trafficking victim who at the age of 17, killed the man abusing and selling her for sex. She is now 23. In July, 2023, a new ruling from the Wisconsin Supreme Court offers hope for her acquittal.
Cameron Samuels (Center) started a movement against censorship in Katy,Texas and students are standing strong. They honored them for Banned Books Week as Youth Honorary Chair for distributing banned books and packing school board meetings. Young people call on the nation to not be silent and defend their rights because they feel no others will.
Montana will not take $10 million in funding for summer food programs that would have helped feed hungry children across the state, all because the paperwork was just too much for the state.
Texas has filed more anti-trans legislation than any state. Legislators from both parties are destroying the childhoods of trans kids by denying them the gender-affirming health care they rely on to feel whole and genuine.
Forest defenders refuse to let this murder of one of their own stop them from protesting building of largest militarized police training center for urban warfare in the country.
People mourned, cried, and supported each other at one of many remembrances of Tortugita, the forest defender killed by police, reaffirming a commitment to public safety free of police and to "Stop Cop City."
Tens of thousands of workers walked off the job in the largest strike of academic workers in U.S. history. A major demand of graduate workers and 61 percent of postdocs is being rent-burdened. Some pay 30% and others more than 50% of their gross income on housing costs.
A group of half a dozen families from Parker Elementary in Oakland, CA have occupied the school until OUSD reverses its decision to close it. Jasionna spoke eloquently at the school board meeting where students demanded the school board reopen the school.
The system proclaims: “Everybody back to school. Do not let your child fall behind. The schools are safe.”
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Tamir Rice, 12 years old, was shot and killed by police within seconds after police arrived at a park in Cleveland, Ohio. Deven Guilford, 17, was shot seven ...
