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'By the Youth, for the Youth': A Manifesto for Tomorrow's Activists

By The International Congress of Youth Voice Delegates — 2018

Delegates from the inaugural International Congress of Youth Voices wrote a group manifesto. That manifesto is shared here, honoring ideals such as intersectionality, communal validation, empathy, love, ethos, ancestry and commitment to action.

Read on www.theguardian.com

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