Youth to Power
Youth to Power
Author : Jamie Margolin
Publisher : Hachette Book Group USA
"Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity Jamie is pushing...
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"Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop ambitious plans to confront this existential threat to humanity. Youth To Power is an essential how-to for anyone of any age who feels called to act to protect our planet for future generations."
--- Former Vice President Al Gore
--- Former Vice President Al Gore
Climate change activist and Zero Hour cofounder Jamie Margolin offers the essential guide to changemaking for young people.
The 1963 Children's March. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our Lives and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social justice movements have in common?
They were led by passionate informed engaged young people.
Jamie Margolin has been organizing and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co-leader of a global climate action movement she knows better than most how powerful a young person can be. You don't have to be able to vote or hold positions of power to change the world.
In Youth to Power Jamie presents the essential guide to changemaking with advice on writing and pitching op-eds organizing successful events and peaceful protests time management as a student activist utilizing social and traditional media to spread a message and sustaining long-term action. She features interviews with prominent young activists including Tokata Iron Eyes of the #NoDAPL movement and Nupol Kiazolu of the #BlackLivesMatter movement who give guidance on handling backlash keeping your mental health a priority and how to avoid getting taken advantage of.
Jamie walks readers through every step of what effective healthy intersectional activism looks like. Young people have a lot to say and Youth to Power will give you the tools to raise your voice.