"Here's a small suggestion from the two authors of this piece (us): Don't be young in Donald Trump's America if you can help it. Being young in America right now means you'll have to contend with stalling job markets, rampant inflation, deep political and economic instability, and impending climate disaster. If you point these things out, you're labeled a dangerous (and misguided) radical. If you're too busy trying to make ends meet for you and your family, you get labeled as lazy, apathetic, and defeatist."
"This is not to say that older generations are doing OK. They're not. But at least they'll get to receive (and not just pay into) social security, which has to make the fascism go down easier. Before we explain or suggest what the young can do about all that, let us start by introducing ourselves, since one of us is indeed still Gen Z."
"Gathering in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains on a 157-acre farm owned and run by the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), The Young Organizers Survival Corps kicked off a six-month leadership development program to help prepare the next generation of leaders to resist authoritarianism-something all too crucial in Donald Trump's America. A hundred young people converged from more than 22 states, representing dozens of campuses and grassroots organizations."
Young people in America face stalling job markets, rampant inflation, deep political and economic instability, and impending climate disaster. Pointing out these crises invites characterization as dangerous radicals, while economic struggle draws labels of laziness or apathy. Older generations will still receive social security benefits, easing their precarity relative to younger cohorts. Leadership development programs like the Young Organizers Survival Corps convene young activists to prepare six-month training for resisting authoritarianism. Participants represent diverse campuses and grassroots groups and engage around tenants' rights, peace and militarism, immigrant rights, abortion rights, mass incarceration, and homelessness.
Read at The Nation
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