The Importance Of Activism In Cowhey's Activist

Citizens Participation- becoming informed, debating issues, and voting in elections. Document

Politicians should be engaging youth in upcoming elections through face-to-face interaction and the use of technology. Young voters don’t have enough awareness and knowledge about politics. By conducting outreach programs or visiting high schools and college/university campuses, would help young voters understand political platforms and will give the political leaders an opportunity to hear the concerns of young voters. For example, as post secondary students it would be encouraging to have the chance to engage with political leaders, and have a better understanding of what they represent and who we feel best represents us as Canadian citizens.

The Famous Five was a group of five Alberta women who fought for the right of all women to be allowed to vote. In this call to action, I am informing the youth to fight for their right to vote just as those five women fought for their rights to vote. It can allow the reader to relate the issue to the Five women. If the reader already has a good amount of background knowledge about them, then they can realize that it was a very hard time for women as they could not vote and bring about change. It allows them to understand the situation with the youth much better and persuades them that action should be taken. Also, it helps the audience picture the struggles of the youth as they fight for their right vote just like the women did many years

Growing up in an immigrant community exposed me to the issues and mindsets of people I will be tasked with engaging. I know firsthand how sunny day flooding affects a mother’s commute from work to her child’s school, the determination of young activists who want to tackle economic and environmental issues simultaneously, and the excitement of engaged voters discovering new ways get involved. My experiences alongside these communities will help me find the most relevant issues and craft the right campaigns to elevate Chispa, LCV, and activists who have yet to find an amplifier for their voice.

Paul Loeb is the author of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in Challenging Times. In 2008 Loeb founded the Campus Election Engagement Project, a national nonpartisan student engagement effort that helped 500 colleges and universities engage their students in the election. Paul Rogat Loeb has spent thirty-five years researching and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment. This book, more so a handbook, enables anyone who desires to make a change in the environment around them, leading them to get involved in larger communities. The book acknowledges that “it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and to become

I decided to release some stress, and go meet new people from other schools. Throughout this process I learned a lot about what other states were dealing with and what students wanted out of their education systems. I had knowledge about what the North Carolina education system was going though, but I had no clue as to the depth of problems that other states were dealing with. At this point, I decided to stand up for all the students in all states and address ten thousand people during my national beta club campaign speech for secretary. As Nobel Peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai said, “I raise up my voice-not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard”. I wanted to advocate for opportunities that all students in this country should have access to. I used my national campaign speech to talk about the issues, concerns, and dreams of other students throughout the United States and wanted to project all of the voices that I had listed to throughout this journey. I used my voice to advocate for others who did not have the opportunity and I am now National Beta Club Secretary. In my role as National Secretary, I will plan, operate, and preside at not only there North Carolina Conventions, but also at the

In history, there have been many social changes that have occurred like the industrial revolution, the abolition of slavery and the Civil Right Movement. The less powerful not having enough voices to overcome the obstacles being erected by the powerful and many more examples. These voices play a major role when it comes to making big political and social changes. In “Return to Hayneville,” Gregory Orr recounts his experience and involvement in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. He argues that vocal campaigns and movements in public discourse and deep connections within people, help bring about change in today’s society. Whereas, In Vivian Yee, Alan Blinder and Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Parkland Students Start a Social Movement” they bring

Verba and his co-authors examine the import of participation, both voting and non-voting, in our American society. According to their argument, the typical citizen activist “tend[s] to be drawn disproportionately from more advantaged groups–to be well-educated and well-heeled and to be White and male” (Verba et al., 1995: 231). Indeed, Verba et al. explore participation along both gender and racial lines and concludes that both women and minorities are comparatively less active than men, especially white men, who stand peerless both in terms of affiliation with a political organization, contributing to a campaign, contacting their Representatives, and more direct forms of participation like voting.

This article provides a brief overview of the history of student activism up to-and including-the 1970s. It emphasized how fervent and militant the movements were during different time periods. The focus of the article was on the militant 1960s and the passive 1970s. Altbach found that the lack of student activism in the 1970s was caused by the increase of religious organizations, the decreased population of college-age students, the presence of an economic recession, and the lack of political issues that lend themselves to activism. He also noted that there were no active conservative

The newest generation, also known as the Millennials, has sparked one of the latest topics of debate and that is voting. Recent examples of young voters excelling political candidates have occurred with Bernie Sanders and even helped bring Barrack Obama into the presidency. These articles by The New York Times delve into the underlying cause of the low turnout rates. Most of these articles place the blame for low voter turnouts on colleges. Colleges are not to blame for these turnouts as they don’t discourage political thinking.

Political inactivity on the part of young Americans stems from one fundamental source -- a general cynicism of the American political process. This disdain for politics is further perpetuated by a lack of voter education and a needlessly archaic voting procedure that creates barriers to voting where they need not exist. While many of these existing problems can be rectified with relative ease through the implementation of programs such as Internet voting and better voter education, such programs create only a partial solution.

Instead of simply adding more avenues of information for students, it makes more theoretical sense to make these classes active. Social Learning Theory (Bandura, 1977) would argue that in order to gain benefits of habitual voting, they would need to rehearse the practice of voting. Given that many High-school students cannot vote, it would be up to the civics classes to simulate the experience of voting in a tangible way for the students to receive benefits.

Is voting important to you? As a member of the most influential democracy in the world it should be. Voting in the United States matters enough to some citizens that they have thrown their lives into making it to the ballot box. One of those people is Congressman John Lewis. As a young man Lewis was a leader of the 1960’s fight for African American voting rights. In the third volume of his graphic novel March, Lewis, with coauthor Andrew Aydin and illustrator Nate Powell, documents that fight and the subsequent signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Act, which instituted Federal oversight of elections in areas notorious for voter discrimination, was repeatedly renewed until 2013, when key parts were struck down by the Supreme Court. Because it limited the ability of a number of states to enact their own voting laws, removal of the Act has led to the institution of new laws requiring certain forms of identification at the polls. Although there are dissenting voices that vehemently protest voter ID laws as discriminatory, they are in reality a reasonable and efficient measure which serves to protect the integrity of the American vote.

As the birthrate increased during the post-World War II era, a new generation known as the baby boomers would grow up to morph the traditional values of America into a massive counter-cultural movement shaped upon democracy, self-indulgence, and world peace. By the late 1960s, the majority of the baby boomers, who were college students, fully fledged a cultural rebellion because they were unhappy with their current political and cultural standards. Therefore, many students formed radical student organizations to move them from resistance to liberation in order to increase the political prominence in America’s society. For this reason, a student activist organization called the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was established to protest the to demonstrate their vigorous protest against racial discrimination, economic inequality, big businesses, trade unions, political parties, and the power elite in America.

I. Open with Impact: College students believe they don’t need to vote and find it a waste of time since our “votes” don’t matter or don’t change anything.