Calling all Youth/Youth Media Bloggers
Participate in the Third Youth Media Blog-a-Thon
Topic: Money

Building on the success of our first two virtual events, YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia and WireTap are proud to announce our third week-long Youth Media Blog-a-Thon to kick off on Wednesday April 23rd.

We are calling all young bloggers (between the ages of 14-26) – along with any bloggers dedicated to writing about youth issues and youth media – to blog from April 23rd to April 30th about: Money and how to deal with the shortage of it.

Here are some ideas to address in your blog posts:
• What do you and people you know do to make money, i.e., sell things on eBay, braid hair, babysit, DJ, sell drugs, etc.?
• Do you feel the effects of the national “recession” in your community? What does it look like? What has changed? How are people dealing with it?
• What are your strategies to save money during hard time? What does your family do to cut corners? How do you save money?
• California is cutting $5 billion from the school budget next year, what will this mean for your education system? How does the lack of money affect your school?
• The price of gas is $4 a gallon in some states, how does this affect your life?
• The “recession” is due to the sub-prime mortgage disaster which caused many people to lose their homes, do you know anyone this happened to? Tell us about that.
• Do you know how to go out and have a good time without spending a dime? Write a post advising others how to have fun on the cheap in your city or town.

If you are interested in being a part of the Youth Media Blog-a-Thon, please email Neelanjana Banerjee at nbanerjee@newamericamedia.org.

About: This is the third of a series of monthly Youth Media Blog-a-Thons that aims to virtually connect the youth media community by asking them to respond to one topic and to engage with each other. We hope that these monthly events will foster more dialogue between youth media leading to connectivity as media makers and as activists.
Our first Youth Media Blog-a-Thon, held from February 20th to February 23rd, was a huge success! Over 15 bloggers discussed the upcoming presidential elections, the youth vote, who they were voting for and why, the idiosyncrasies of the super delegate system and whether making voting mandatory would help fix the system.

Check out most of the posts starting here:
http://www.youthoutlook.org/news/view_category.html?page=6&first=50&last=59&category_id=348

Our second Youth Media Blog-a-Thon, held from March 19th to the 26th, brought together powerful testimonials from young people about violence that had touched their lives both personally and globally.

Check out most of the posts starting here:
http://www.youthoutlook.org/news/view_category.html?page=2&first=10&last=19&category_id=348

Bloggers who participated the Youth Media Blog-a-Thons:
YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia (http://www.youthoutlook.org)
WireTap Mag (http://www.wiretapmag.org)
The Playground (http://jaysplayground.blogspot.com/)
Ill-literacy (http://www.ill-literacy.com/blog/
The Cheddar Box (http://thecheddarbox.wordpress.com/)
Vanessa Van Petten (http://vanessavanpetten.com/)
Oh Dang! (http://www.ohdangmag.com/)
Boston Public Radio (http://www.bprlive.org)
Youth Radio (http://youthradioflows.wordpress.com/)
Respect RX (http://www.respectrx.com)
Girls for Change (http://www.girlsforachange.org)
Edin08 (http://www.edin08.org)
Sex Etc. (http://www.sexetc.org/)

Sponsoring Organizations:
For over 15 years, YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia has been a leader in youth-produced content in the Bay Area. Through our active website (http://www.youthoutlook.org), YO!TV – a weekly 30-minute television show on local KBCW, and our weekly YO!Radio segments aired on KALW 91.7 Information Radio and 106.1 KMEL, YO! gives young people a voice on the issues they most care about. YO! content is also regularly syndicated in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Oakland Tribune and more. The YO! blog has been active for over a year.

WireTap is a national news and culture magazine by and for socially conscious youth. Our online community promotes social justice, inspires action and gives young people a voice in the media. Wiretap provides free, daily content to over 60,000 monthly visitors and 14,000 weekly newsletter subscribers. Our award-winning journalism and youth commentary is syndicated every week on the Nation.com, AlterNet.org and Chicago Sun Times, college papers, and hundreds of our stories get linked to in widely read blogs and websites from Mother Jones blog to Fear of a Brown Blogger to social networking site MyBloc.net.