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Youth Activism is a tool for young people who want to create change in their schools and communities. For information on specific policies in your school refer to your student handbook. For information on permit requirements and procedures when organizing commu- nity events, check with the office of your mayor, county clerk, or police department. This guide is designed to serve as a reference and is not meant to provide legal advice. is making Tennessee more open and forward-looking. We are a watchdog against government abuse of rights, fighting for fairness in our laws and their enforcement. We work daily in the courts, in the state legislature, in Congress, and in communities across the country to protect and promote the individual freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the Tennessee Constitution: • - freedom of speech, association and assembly; freedom of the press, and freedom of religion. • - equal treatment regardless of race, sex, religion or national origin. • - fair treatment by the government whenever the loss of your liberty or property is at stake. • - freedom from unwarranted government intrusion into your personal and private affairs. The ACLU-TN, organized in 1968, is an affiliate of the National ACLU, which has been the country’s pre- eminent leader in moving freedom forward since 1920. ACLU-TN partners with the National ACLU and the ACLU affiliates in the fifty states and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, translating the guarantees of the Bill of Rights into reality for citizens and non-citizens residing in this country alike. Special thanks to the many dedicated civil libertarians who contributed to this publication, in- cluding the ACLU of Northern California, the ACLU of Washington, Yousuf Ahmad, Laura Atack, Eric Austin, Taylor Bates, Adria Brooks, Kemario Davis, Maryam Fakhruddin, Evie Farnsworth, Sam Finder, Claire Gardner, Allison Griffin, Lindsay Kee, Alex King, Andrew Lawless, Andy Lewis, Carmen Linero-Lopez, Jasmine Ma, Natalie Pate, Leah Puttkammer, Jazmin Ramirez, Madeline Robin, Chris- tine Sun, Mira Wasserman, Hedy Weinberg, Sarah Beth Weintraub, and numerous ACLU interns. This project was made possible by a generous grant from The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. Copyright © 2015 by the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee. All rights reserved. “I wasn’t really raised to break the rules... I was a preacher’s kid and I knew I probably would get in trouble, but I also knew that certain laws and rules had been changed through history by people confronting them... So I had some examples also of people standing up and speaking up to change things and I did believe that we had rights from the Constitution. If you just use the little bit of courage you have, to speak up for something you believe in, you’ll be amazed at what a difference you can make. You don’t have to be some great hero, some really great courageous person. Of course you’re going to be scared; you’re going to be nervous at times but just use the little bit of determination that you have. And that’s what happened with us.” - Mary Beth Tinker, the 13-year-old plaintiff who fought for students’ right to free speech in the 1969 Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines Table of Contents Introduction ________________________________________________ 6 Where do you start? ________________________________________ 7 What bothers you?_____________________________________________ 7 _____________________________________________ Building the inner circle ___________________________________________ 8 Delegating offices and responsibilities ________________________________ 8 Recruiting other members for your group ______________________________ 9 Recruiting adult or organizational help _______________________________ 9 Holding a meeting _______________________________________________ 10 Do Not Skip this Chapter: Researching Your Issue __________ 12 ____________________________________________ Sources ____________________________________________________ 13 ______________ Making a survey ________________________________________________ 14 _______________________ _______________ Developing Your Campaign _________________________________ 17 _________________________________________ Setting Your Goal ____________________________________________ 17 Making an Action Plan ___________________________________________ 17 Thinking strategically __________________________________________ 17 Assess Your Strengths & Weaknesses _______________________________ 18 ____________ Allies ________________________________________________________ 19 Opponents ____________________________________________________ 19 Decision-makers _______________________________________________ 19 Research the individual ___________________________________________ 19 _________________________________________________ ___________ ________________________________________ It’s all in the name _____________________________________________ 22 Catching Eyes: Logos and Slogans ________________________________ 22 Rolling Up Your Sleeves _______________________________ ____ 23 ________________________________________ Identifying Potential Coalition Members _______________________________ 24 What if no one wants to join the coalition? ___________________________ 25 __________________________ _________________________________________ Types of Media ________________________________________________ 26 School media _________________________________________________ 26 The Mainstream Media ___________________________________________ 27 Getting the Media Involved ________________________________________ 27 Should I contact the media? ______________________________________ 27 When should I contact the media? __________________________________ 28 How should I go about contacting the media? ________________________ 28 Press Releases _________________________________________________ 28 Op-Eds and Letters to the Editor ___________________________________ 29 ______ Facebook __________________________________ _________________ 31 Twitter _____________________________________________________ 31 Blogs, Tumblr _________________________________________________ 31 Memes, Images and Videos ________________________________________ 32 ____________________________________________________ Dealing with the Results ___________________________________ 33 ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ____ Wrapping Things Up _______________________________________ 34 Introduction As a student, you’re a member of a group with a long, rich legacy of creating real, substantial change. In fact, some of the most influential people to make a difference within their communities did so as teenagers and students. Mary Beth Tinker was only thirteen-years-old when she and several peers stood up for their First Amendment rights. After being suspended for wearing black arm bands to school to protest the Vietnam War, Mary Beth and her classmates kept fighting, eventually winning the Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines in 1969, a landmark victory for student speech rights. Not all student leaders accomplish their goals by winning a lawsuit at the Supreme Court. You and your friends are already active members of your school and neighborhood, and you both impact and are impacted by the things that go on in your communities. It is within your reach, and it is your right, to stand up and speak up about what happens there. There are many different ways to be a teen activist, and this manual will explore the experiences of high school students from across Tennessee who used a variety of strategies to mobilize, educate, and empower their communities. The purpose of this guide is to help you understand how to best use your voice to make change. You will find out, step-by-step, how you and your peers can create and mobilize a student-led movement, and you can also learn from the stories of real students just like you who have already taken the plunge into youth activism. They made their communities better through hard work, creativity and coordination, and you can too. Every effort to create change will be unique depending on the issue, what aspect of it you want to ad- dress, your collaborators, and what else is going on in your community at the time. There is no set formula for how to successfully pursue change. It will be up to you to determine which of the elements described in this handbook works best for what you want to accomplish, and the order in which you want to take these steps. Most importantly, remember, you don’t have to wait for the world to change. You can change it yourself. Starting now. 6 Where do you start? Often, student-led campaigns begin the moment that a young person observes something in his or her community or school that is unfair or disturbing and has a strong, visceral reaction to it. They know that they want to do something about it, becoming deeply passionate about challenging the injustice they see or experience. When watched the film Prayers for Bobby, about a young man who commits suicide after being rejected by a homophobic family and community, he had a strong feel- ing of hopelessness as he realized that for some young people, the only way to deal with being gay is to end their lives. He went on to create an LGBT support group for students at Portland High School and became a voice for anti-bullying initiatives for youth in Tennessee and nationally. felt overwhelmed by seeing so many of her peers becoming pregnant and giving up future plans in order to care
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