"¿Cuál es FACEBOOK? ¿Hará que mis pies paran el lastimar?"
Posted on 11/26/2008 6:01:38 PM PST by BGHater
The US State Department announced plans on Monday to promote online youth groups as a new and powerful way to fight crime, political oppression and terrorism.
Drawing inspiration from a movement against FARC rebels in Colombia, the State Department is joining forces with Facebook, Google, MTV, Howcast and others in New York City next week to get the "ball rolling."
It said 17 groups from South Africa, Britain and the Middle East which have an online presence like the "Million Voices Against the FARC" will attend a conference at Columbia University Law School from December 3-5.
Observers from seven organizations that do not have an online presence -- such as groups from Iraq and Afghanistan -- will attend. There will also be remote participants from Cuba.
They will forge an "Alliance of Youth Movement," said James Glassman, under secretary of state for public diplomacy.
"The idea is put all these people together, share best practices, produce a manual that will be accessible online and in print to any group that wants to build a youth empowerment organization to push back against violence and oppression around the world," he told reporters.
The conference will be streamed by MTV and Howcast, he said.
The list of organizations due to attend include the Burma Global Action Network, a human rights movement spurred into action by the ruling junta's crackdown on monks and other pro-democracy protestors last year.
There is also Shabab 6 of April, which has emerged as Egypt's largest pro-democracy youth group, and Invisible Children, which spotlights atrocities committed by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, Glassman said.
Others include Fight Back, which fights domestic violence in India, the Save Darfur Coalition, as well as One Million Voices Against Crime in South Africa, said Jared Cohen, from the secretary's policy planning staff.
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"¿Cuál es FACEBOOK? ¿Hará que mis pies paran el lastimar?"
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you ....
Well, at least one good thing about it- we won’t have to say “pull up your pants or stop wearing you hat sideways” anymore...........
LOL
And “Get Off My Lawn” ....
LOL
Why not suggest the youth help build homes for homeless people, feed them, go to nursing homes? Oh yea now I remember, hitler youths can spy and rat out there parents when they don’t get there way and the state can confiscate monies through fines and the like.
Strange the Boy Scouts and Explorers and Guardian Angels are not included.
And where are the Church Youth Groups?
Who tells on who?
The Boy Scouts may go underground and do what they do best which is THRIVE.
—former Scoutmaster
SNIPPET:
http://www.state.gov/r/us/2008/112310.htm
Special Briefing To Announce the Alliance of Youth Movement
James K. Glassman, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
Jared Cohen, Policy Planning Staff
Washington, DC
November 24, 2008
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Video:
http://www.state.gov/video/?videoid=3136832001
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http://www.america.gov/st/texttrans-english/2008/November/20081124173327eaifas0.8017237.html
24 November 2008
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