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Real Change Happens Off-Line
Young people must translate on-line action to off-line community organizing to truly effect change in our world.
Today's American young people feel a deep connection to people in Tibet
and Darfur, want to hold corporations accountable to environmental
standards and worker justice, and value the role of government in
meeting our shared needs. Yet the Internet tools that help Millennials
appreciate our interconnectedness may actually erode the community
values they seek.
The Millennials, or the cluster of young
folks born roughly between 1980 and 1995, were raised between two
conflicting phenomena. On the one hand, they have grown up with new
technologies that have helped the world connect more easily; on the
other hand, they have been raised alongside the rise of
hyperindividualism in American culture that has isolated us from each
other and the world around us.
