Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It

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Overview

**Winner of the 2020 Nautilus GOLD Award for YA Nonfiction**

"Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity, Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop ambitious plans to confront this existential threat to humanity. Youth To Power is an essential how-to for anyone of any age who feels called to act to protect our planet for future generations."
— Former Vice President Al Gore

 
Climate change activist and Zero Hour cofounder Jamie Margolin offers the essential guide to changemaking for young people.
 

The 1963 Children's March. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common?
They were led by passionate, informed, engaged young people.
 
Jamie Margolin has been organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co-leader of a global climate action movement, she knows better than most how powerful a young person can be. You don't have to be able to vote or hold positions of power to change the world.
 
In Youth to Power, Jamie presents the essential guide to changemaking, with advice on writing and pitching op-eds, organizing successful events and peaceful protests, time management as a student activist, utilizing social and traditional media to spread a message, and sustaining long-term action. She features interviews with prominent young activists including Tokata Iron Eyes of the #NoDAPL movement and Nupol Kiazolu of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, who give guidance on handling backlash, keeping your mental health a priority, and how to avoid getting taken advantage of.
 
Jamie walks readers through every step of what effective, healthy, intersectional activism looks like. Young people have a lot to say, and Youth to Power will give you the tools to raise your voice.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738246666
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 06/02/2020
Pages: 272
Sales rank: 530,435
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 13 - 17 Years

About the Author

Jamie Margolin is the cofounder of Zero Hour, an organization dedicated to fighting climate change. She lives in Seattle, WA.

Table of Contents

Foreword: This Book is Your Toolbox by Greta Thunberg xi

Introduction: The World Needs to Hear Your Voice xiii

Jamie Margolin-My Story xix

1 Finding Your Why 1

Interview Juan David Giraldo Mendoza Alejandro Lotero Cedeño 6

2 Your First Steps 8

Interview Pidgeon Pagonis 21

3 Political Writing and Publishing to Get a Message Across 23

Interview Devin Halbal 43

4 Heading Up Your Own Movement 45

Interview Pranjal Jain 68

5 Get Creative-Using Art for a Cause 70

Interview Sofya Wang 77

6 The Ultimate Guide to Event and Action Organizing 79

Interview Sara Jado 86

7 Being a Young Activist-What's the Scoop? 88

Interview Zeena Abdulkarim 94

8 Peaceful Direct Action 96

Interview Malia Hulleman 105

9 Politicians, Congress, and Lobbying, Oh My! 108

Interview Hadiya Afzal 119

10 Don't Like the News? Become the News. 121

Interview Andrea Alejandra Gonzales 136

11 Making Your Activism Go Viral 138

Interview Ezra Greyson Wheeler 149

12 Activism and Your Crazy Life 151

Interview Navraj Singh 162

13 A Day in the Life of a Teen Activist 164

Interview Daphne Frias 170

14 Mental Health as an Activist 172

Interview Greisy Hernandez 181

15 Business, Money, and Companies 183

Interview Nupol Kiazolu 192

16 Jealousy, Competition, and Ego 194

Interview Tokata Iron Eyes 202

17 Building a Community to Change the World 204

Interview Iris Fen Gillingham 219

18 Standing on the Shoulders of Giants and Moving Forward 221

Acknowledgments 225

Bibliography 231

Index 233

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