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		<title>My Keynote Address to the Hewlett Model Congress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave the keynote address at the Hewlett Model Congress in Long Island, NY on April 14, 2000.  It was my first major speech, so I wanted to practice it first.  I did a practice run at AU with NYRA-AU and my friends in the audience.  One of my friends was from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2009/07/04/my-keynote-address-to-the-hewlett-model-congress/</link>
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		<title>Savana Redding Wins Strip Search Case!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday NYRA-SEFL filed their lawsuit against West Palm Beach&#8217;s curfew law, and today the Supreme Court rules declares Savana Redding&#8217;s strip search to be illegal!!  Youth Rights is on the march!  
Download the full Safford v. Redding decision here.
Download the Safford v. Redding amicus curiae brief NYRA signed onto.
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		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2009/06/25/savana-redding-wins-strip-search-case/</link>
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		<title>Lots of Updates from NYRA-SEFL&#8217;s Curfew Lawsuit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Video:
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Video from the chapter and their lawyer outside the courthouse.

Video of a segment from the local CBS channel 12.
News coverage:
WPBF ABC 20
WPTV NBC 5
Palm Beach Post
Vote in this poll:
http://www.wpbf.com/news/19842223/detail.html
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		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2009/06/24/lots-of-updates-from-nyra-sefls-curfew-lawsuit/</link>
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		<title>NYRA v. West Palm Beach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At 4 o’clock this afternoon, NYRA-Southeast Florida filed their lawsuit against the city of West Palm Beach, Florida.  After months of attempting to negotiate with the city council to repeal their unconstitutional curfew law, the chapter has now taken their battle to federal court.  
NYRA is making history!
This is the first time a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2009/06/23/nyra-v-west-palm-beach/</link>
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		<title>DSM Targets Young People in Upcoming Edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the attempts at modifying the behavior of young people, the youth get a chance to get back at the APA with a taste of their own medication. ]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2009/06/13/dsm-targets-young-people/</link>
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		<title>Teaching Hate and Only Hate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our country is shaken up today and trying to find answers, one day after the horrifying shooting at the United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC by a racist, anti-semitic extremist, killing an innocent security guard named Stephen Johns, and it happened not two weeks after another crazy extremist gunned down Kansas abortion provider George [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2009/06/11/hate/</link>
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		<title>Drinking Age Silences Victims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One major issue with the high drinking age, paired with the high penalties of underage drinking, is that an underage drinker may be left in fear of seeking help in an emergency if he or she has had something to drink. This blog entry I read today highlights get another terrifying problem: sexual assault victims [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2009/06/07/victims/</link>
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		<title>Banning Books Hurts Youth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of news stories have come out lately about concerned groups seeking to ban books they find objectionable or inappropriate for kids, for a variety of reasons. One group in Wisconsin successfully got several teen books banned for depicting homosexuality. In Tennessee, some parents are trying to get books removed from library shelves for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2009/06/01/banning-books/</link>
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		<title>Two Youth Rights Views on Sonia Sotomayor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m more inclined to agree with the first post here, but StudentActivism.net makes a good point that this case was about an injunction, not about the merits of the speech itself.  Still, I can&#8217;t see how anyone could side with the high school on any issue related to this case.
Sotomayor&#8217;s Bad 1st Amendment Decision [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2009/05/27/242/</link>
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		<title>NYRA-Nanuet Campaigns to Lower the Voting Age on RNN!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch it, promote it:

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		<link>http://blog.youthrights.org/2009/05/11/nyra-nanuet-campaigns-to-lower-the-voting-age-on-rnn/</link>
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