here come the kids! . . .

[OneBlueSky]

PunkVoter.com

seeking to register 500,000 youth to speak as one voice in the November elections . . .

http://www.punkvoter.com/

Punk bands, musicians, and record labels have built a coalition to educate, register and mobilize progressive voters.

Something needs to be done to unite the youth vote and bring real activism back into our society. Punk rock has always been on the edge and in the forefront of politics. It is time to energize the majority of today’s disenfranchised youth movement and punk rockers to make change a reality.

Punkvoter is about organizing the many diverse and regional movements into one voice of political change. Punkvoter is our way to educate today’s youth about what is really going on in Washington, DC and how we can collectively force change. This is our chance to be a strong voice against the serious flaws in the current political system. This is our way to talk about new laws and scenarios that could change our quality of life for years to come. Punkvoter is your organization. It will be run with the same energy and spirit of all punk efforts. With your help we will be a credible force to truly shape the future of our nation.

These are drastic times and today’s youth are not voting.

- The US is waging wars on false pretenses.

- Kids under our country's legal drinking age are fighting overseas and dying.

- Unemployment has reached nine-year highs.

- Every state has budget deficits and is actively passing these burdens on to future generations - that means you.

- An estimated 60% of the 2003 graduates will have to move back in
with their parents because of the lack of jobs.

- The 18 to 24-year-old voter demographic dropped
to an all time low of only 38% in 2000.

We have to do something. Punkvoter plans to organize, educate and invigorate today’s youth to again think politically and become involved in changing their society.

- much more . . .

http://www.punkvoter.com/

[DeepModem Mom]

1. I have high hopes for Gen Y --

[sandnsea]

2. They're really good kids

I have an 18 year old and 20 year old and I've been way more impressed with their friends than those of my oldest who is 27. That generation just seems sort of lost; the younger ones seem focused, caring and balanced. I think they're going to do great things. If Bush doesn't destroy everything before they get a chance.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. I have exactly the same -- a Gen X-er, and a Gen Y-er --

and your observations are the same as my own. Thankfully, both agree with me politically!