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Submitted by SNYWC_Sylvia on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 21:20.
Nevada has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the country as well as the highest high school drop-out rate in the country. Given the anything-goes tourist culture in Las Vegas as well as the lack of comprehensive sexuality education in southern Nevada schools, this doesn't seem to be a coincidence. Young women in southern Nevada are given neither the information nor the opportunities they need to protect themselves and their futures.
Submitted by marisahurlbert on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 22:33.
Students of the Mississippi-Vermont Community Comection class at Twinfield Union School in Marshfield, Vermont have been learning from a “Rights in Action” curriculum. It is a model that enables students to reflect, create and fulfill action plans while building a voice that empowers and is shaped by community. Imagine a new generation of citizen activists bridging our nation’s North and South divide, raising their voices on important public issues, and enlisting community leaders and educators as partners in the civic and political life of their communities.
Submitted by freeculturenyu on Wed, 10/10/2007 - 23:18.
Free culture at NYU is a chapter of a national student movement exploring the nature of innovation in the context of American Copyright law and media distribution. Free Culture is dedicated to the promotion of thoughtful and progressive discourse and debate, as well as relevant social activism. We stand behind the principles of a “common sense” approach to intellectual property rights as presented by Lawrence Lessig in his book “Free Culture”. We hope to serve those members of the NYU community with an intent in preserving an open exchange of creative issues.
Submitted by Sdiego92101 on Sun, 04/29/2007 - 15:41.
From San Diego California: More info at www.CarrizoCreekRange.Org
For those who are as passionate about their Second Amendment rights, environment, and preservation of multi-use public land as we are, this volunteer opportunity is FOR YOU!
If you have not noticed, open land to shoot on, our public land, is dwindling at an alarming rate.
Submitted by jo21389 on Wed, 03/28/2007 - 04:17.
We're struggling for our student group to meet in our high school. This group helps stop and show people how discrimination can harm people even when it's just joking around. Our current website is at www.ohsgsa.org. There are many of these groups nationwide but still its not nearly enough. We're going to be participating in a few activities this year and in the years to come along with other GSA's nationwide. We're helping to change our community's view of LGBT and straight ally youth, one student at a time.
Submitted by BRICK Winner on Thu, 08/31/2006 - 19:06.
In 2005, Katherine Chon won a BRICK Award for her advocacy work against sex trafficking. Partnering with a friend, Katherine established the Washington, D.C.-based Polaris Project to combat modern-day slavery. She has organized the Congressional Briefing on Sex Trafficking in the US, created a sex trafficking curriculum, and trained over 80 community leaders.
Submitted by BRICK Winner on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 22:40.
2000 BRICK Award winner Heather Barr worked as a Staff Attorney at the Urban Justice Center in New York City. A formerly homeless teen, Heather wrote a definitive report on the incarceration of people with mental illness, filed a successful lawsuit to compel New York City to provide discharge planning for 30,000 inmates with mental illness each year. She also co-founded the Nathaniel Project, the nation’s first alternative to incarceration program for felony offenders with serious mental illness.
Submitted by BRICK Winner on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 22:28.
In 2000, Angelica Salas won a BRICK Award for her work as the Executive Director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles, CA. A Mexican immigrant who came to the United States at age four with her teenage aunt and uncle to reunite with her parents, Angelica leads a multi-ethnic coalition that advocates for the human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees in Los Angeles, helping increase naturalization rates by 400%.
Submitted by BRICK Winner on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 22:27.
Lucas Benitez won a BRICK Award in 1999 for his work as Co-Director of The Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Immokalee, FL. By educating and organizing fellow migrant workers, Lucas helped secure the first wage increase for tomato pickers in 20 years, exposed and stopped two slavery rings and launched a labor action rights program that collected nearly $100,000 in back wages.
Submitted by BRICK Winner on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 22:05.
John Farnam won a 1998 BRICK Award for his work as the Director of the Northern Colorado AIDS Project (NCAP) in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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