We Can Change The World. Here's how... dited by John W. Bartlett, The Future Is Ours: A Handbook for Student Activists in the 21st Century brings together a dozen young activists to offer their experience and advice to young people who want to change the world. Their message "We can change the world. Here's how." Realistic and hopeful, the authors speak with wisdom born of their own experience, offering nuts-and-bolts advice and resources to young organizers. Their eleven chapters dedicated to such diverse fields as environmental justice, women's issues, human rights, peer counseling and anti-prejustice activism. Bartlett's overview of effective organizing strategies, combined with the Success Stories and Words of Wisdom featured alongside each chapter, offers an empowering and enabling "how-to" of getting things done. With a comprehensive directory of resources and organizations, tons of information about Internet activism, sample press releases, meeting agenda charts, and more, this is the book to get you started mobilizing! Published by Henry Holt and Company Available in bookstores nationwide and in Canada, or ORDER The Future Is Ours on-line through amazon.com. The Future Is Ours is also available at bulk rates for resale as a fund-raiser. For more information e-mail me.

	Praise for The Future Is Ours: "A wonderfully and sensibly useful book, full of information for all those hungry, thirsty idealists who search for help in figuring out how to move from thought to action." --Robert Coles "John Bartlett has created a guidebook essential to any young activist planning to make ripples in the world. Whether she is volunteering for the first time with a human rights group, starting her own recycling initiative, founding an AIDS awareness campaign, or running for public office in her hometown, the committed idealist will need this book in her back pocket." -Chloe Breyer, cofounder, Who Cares "Inspirational, empowering, and eminently practical. Our generation faces some big problems, but tools like this book are tremendous allies for anyone who wants to work for positive change." -Ocean Robbins (age Twenty-Two), founder, Youth for Environmental Sanity
	About the authors: In The Future Is Ours, a dozen talented young activists reflect on their experiences "in the trenches" and offer advice to others with the passion and commitment to make a difference:   "Activism and the Internet: A Beginner's Guide" by Josh Knauer and Gwen Garrison of the Envirolink Network offer tips for navigating this vital source for information and connections.   In "Communities Rising Up for Environmental Justice," Abdi Soltani of the Center for Third World Organizing looks at the on-going battle against racist environmental policy from big business to the EPA.   Stephanie Creaturo, the former program director of NARAL in New York, offers "A Broader View for the Feminist Movement" and a straightforward look at the new obstacles to women's equality and reproductive choice.   Former Sierra Student Coalition director Mark Fraioli tackles an issue that makes us all queasy sometimes - "Dealing with Power Issues in Activism."   Adam Werbach, who made history at age 23 by becoming the youngest president in the 104-year history of the Sierra Club, tells you who our friends are and why we sometimes can't wait around for them in "Act First, Apologize Later."   Where can we be the most effective? In our own communities - if we know how. Activist and Boone, North Carolina, city council member Hunter Schofield draws us a map in "The Ins and Outs of Local Government."   Daniel L. Shapiro, peer educator for The Health Connection, a Soros Foundation project, tells us how to create an effecitve place of comfort for our classmates in "Creating a School-based Peer Counseling Program."   Canadian anti-prejudice activist Nahid Islam, who has worked with the Ontario provincial government to design educational materials on racism, pulls no punches in telling us how to "Fight Bias Where It Lives."   The CityKids Foundation co-founder and star of FOX-TV's New York Undercover,Malik Yoba offers his prescription for "Building Coalitions in Diverse Communities."   Virginia Robbins of the Santa Barbara-Yalta committee of Sister Cities International committee goes to the ends of the earth to show us how we can learn about others on the planet by creating effective international exchange programs in "Bringing The World Inside."   "The Good Fight," says 25-year-old Amnesty International board member Jennie Burnet, is demanding justice for prisoners of conscience and an end to human rights abuses around the world.
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