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Youth to Power
Book

Youth to Power

Your Voice and How to Use It

Hachette Book Group USA, 2020 подробнее...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Applicable
  • For Beginners
  • Engaging

Recommendation

In her bold, inspiring guidebook, youth activist Jamie Margolin provides practical advice on how to be an agent of change. She explains the difficulties of being heard, the importance of knowing how to frame an issue to get results,the need to keep your ego out of the way and the value of – in the late Rep. John Lewis’s words – getting into “good trouble.” If you decide to advocate for a cause, Margolin can help you make it happen. Greta Thunberg’s foreword adds to her argument for young people to step forward. 

 

Take-Aways

  • Finding your why is the first and most important step in becoming an activist.
  • Start simple – get out and meet people, and learn about your cause.
  • Writing is a great way to communicate with those in power and with a larger audience.

About the Author

Zero Hour co-founder Jamie Margolin, 19, is a Colombian-American community organizer, activist, author and public speaker. In 2018, she led the “Youth Climate Marches” in Washington, DC and more than 25 other cities globally. She is now in her first year of university studying film and television. Greta Thunberg, who wrote the foreword, says Margolin's Zero Hour marches inspired her and her School Strike for Climate/Fridays for Future movement. 


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