Posts from — November 2007

One of the three editors of Letters from Young Activists, Kenyon Farrow talks with The Fight! Project about youth activists and the future of activism.

What do you say makes someone an activist?
I’d say it’s anyone who is doing things to hopefully leave this earth better than they found it. Sometimes we think only people who are a part of organizations, go to demonstrations or are Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson types can be activists. But I think the woman who hides another woman in her home from an abusive spouse is an activist. The person who takes clothes to the kids next door who don’t have anything new is an activist. [Read more →]