Comments on: What the Press Didn’t Tell You About the Largest Youth Movement in Decades http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/03/09/what-the-press-didnt-tell-you-about-the-largest-youth-movement-in-decades/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jesse Jenkins http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/03/09/what-the-press-didnt-tell-you-about-the-largest-youth-movement-in-decades/#comment-71715 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:44:47 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/03/09/what-the-press-didnt-tell-you-about-the-largest-youth-movement-in-decades/#comment-71715 Well matt, the 12,000 in DC for Power Shift are clearly not the entirety of the youth climate movement. Nearly half a million participated in Power Vote and there are certainly tens of thousands of dedicated organizers working all across the country. Not to say the WTO protests aren’t huge, or youth-driven. But the youth climate movement is clearly a sustained effort of at least a similar scale. Peace,

Jesse

]]> By: matt http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/03/09/what-the-press-didnt-tell-you-about-the-largest-youth-movement-in-decades/#comment-71713 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:35:59 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/03/09/what-the-press-didnt-tell-you-about-the-largest-youth-movement-in-decades/#comment-71713 largest youth movement in decades? While we are no doubt a large and growing movement, lets not get ahead of ourselves. Two examples: 1999 Seattle WTO protests 50,000 people (largely youth driven) shut down the entire city of Seattle and successfully derailed the WTO meetings. A year later around 20,000 people (again predominantly youth) showed up in DC and shut the city down during the IMF/World Bank meetings under the banner of Mobilization for Global Justice. don’t forget your history.

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