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CityViews: NYC’s Youth March to Sound the Alarm on Climate Change
Ilana Cohen and Amy Torres |
‘We betray our values by neglecting the global and pervasive threat climate change poses to humanity.’
‘We betray our values by neglecting the global and pervasive threat climate change poses to humanity.’
‘If we are truly committed to building a future where all people, regardless of gender, are empowered to live with agency and free from violence, it starts with comprehensive sex education.’
A study finding that tackle football before age 12 creates life-long health risk doesn’t appear to be generating much soul-searching by private youth teams. And the public school system, whose players are only slightly older, won’t say whether it’s thinking of changes.
If you want to understand the likely impact of the president’s proposed cuts to federal programs, you need look no farther than a Brooklyn neighborhood where those initiatives make a daily difference.
Leagues from the northwest Bronx to Brooklyn and Staten Island report fielding 50 to 70 percent fewer players this year as other sports, longer school days, rising fees and other factors squeeze the game.
New York is once again set to count the youths who live on its streets. But this advocate believes the way the count is done, and the policy context in which it’s occurring, make it certain to be way off mark.
Hours before the polls closed and the world changed, BRIC-TV aired this discussion about young voters, political engagement and the democratic process.
Some 24,000 legally exempt daycare providers in New York City are enrolled to be paid through public assistance but are unlicensed and operate under very limited oversight.
One young man did time upstate for a crime he says he didn’t do. Another waited two years to have a case against him dismissed. Both got involved with a Harlem group that helps court-involved youth prepare for work or college. The program didn’t solve all their problems, they say, but it gave them tools to wage their own fights.
Two of the young athlete-advocates from the Bronx’s Mary Mitchell Center demonstrate how a simple park bench can be the key to your plan to get in shape—and talk about their broader work to make the Bronx a healthier place.