Alliance of Youth Movements 2010 Interviews
Video 1: Levi Felix, VP of CauseCast.org
“Youth isn’t an age. Youth is a demographic that crosses generations. Someone can be a youth if they are 60. Someone can be a youth if they are 14. I think youth is a mindset.”
Video 2: Yoav Gross, Video Coordinator at B’Tselem
“Palestinians are never seen by Israelis in a context other than violent terrorism…[Our] idea is to humanize them – to bring faces and the small corners of the Gazan reality – which Israelis never see.”
Video 3: Aashika Damodar, Executive Director of Survivors Connect
“[Youth] bring a fresh lens to these issues and can think really creatively – and then use that creativity to engage with people who are in government and international institutions, and really start to engage in a serious dialogue about how our voices can be heard.”
Video 4: Brian Conley, head of the Afghan-based violence and election monitoring initiative, Alive in Afghanistan:
“There’s a certain group that’s old enough to carry a gun, but too young to have agency within society, whether that’s through the vote or through communal respect…it’s incredibly important that we engage them.”
Video 5: James Eberhard, founder of Mobile Accord, the organization behind the text messaging campaign in Haiti that raised record sums of money for disaster relief:
“The youth are out there figuring out what the next big thing is…Connecting with youth is the way the world is changing.”
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