View: Links | Member Biographies
Share this Profile
Invite Others to Join this Organization
Quote: from 'To Be Of Use', by Marge Piercy: "I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who stand in the line and haul in their places, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real." (thanks for the reference, manju!)
Goals:
- to be a reliable and up-to-date source of information for the progressive youth movement
- to serve as a tool to make the work of youth organizers and activists more efficient so more time can be spent on the real face-to-face work
- to someday contain 5,000 progressive youth organizations in our directory/network
- to help good folks and organizations connect with each other in strategic ways in order to impact more change
- to be a model of alliance building and collaborative work, holding fast to core values of love, truth, integrity, growth and positive change
- to be adaptable to the needs of our users, to be a reflection of the needs of the youth movement
- to use networks, information, and technology towards the use of a more powerful and connected progressive youth movement
Heroes: Future 500, CampusActivism.org, BLOC network, and the many, many beautiful networks that came way before all this
Activities: Coalition and Alliance Building
Geographic Scope: National
Future 5000 has 9 allies | See All Allies





