The Hell With Status Quo! Youth Organizing Guidebook

Table of Contents

 

 

 

Page

Youth Organizing: A Definition

 

4

Why Young People Organized

 

5

How to Do Youth Organizing

 

Process Reviewed

6

Characteristics of the Youth Organizer

8

Roles of the Youth Organizer

8

Recruiting and Bringing Young People Together

9

The Steps

 

10

Benefits of Youth Organizing

 

15

Obstacles to Youth Organizing

 

16

Examples in Action: Case Studies

YWPC Resident Patrol

YOU Victory Over Jerry

SWOP Youth Education Reform Campaign

 

 

17

18

33

50

Tools for Getting Started

63

Training modules:

Understanding youth organizing

Recruitment tactics

 

 

64

78

Summary

 

88

Bibliography

 

89

 

 

 

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