Wednesday, January 28th, 2009...7:59 am
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Kevin “LD” Bondelli has a post over at Future Majority about his frustrations about youth inaugural activities being focused on young staffers rather than youth organizers and activists. There is an online colloquy between him and fellow Arizonan Stan Williams. It is worth reading.
Another symptom of the same problem was the silliness that happened at the DNC two years ago when the Young Democrats of America tried to assert themselves. It also is part of the broader problem of the relationships between paid staff and activists.
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January 29th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Actually Ted, as they clarified later the point they were trying to make wasn’t young staffers getting better treatment. It was more about a lack of respect of young people as activists and voters. It was a lack of understanding on my part.
His overall point is true, there aren’t enough resources from the party that go directly to youth organizing or better yet working with YDAz to make our efforts more successful.