Last Saturday the 17th the Youth had a strategy session. The main focus of the strategy session was to create a new campaign dealing with education. We had eight people show up. It was Lillian and Samantha's first time facilitating a session. Later on we went to Tiguex Park where Lillian and Samantha gave an inspiring speech on budget cuts to education and health care. It was successful because everyone at the legislature rally was pumped and excited to hear the youth voices. Afterward everyone headed out to lunch where we had delightful sandwiches from Subway. Everyone had fun; they bonded and came to an agreement to scare Tracy. Very hilarious.
The goals we came with as a community organizing group were to redevelop year-long campaign work that connects to the vision we developed in our last strategy session: to find more ways to engage other youth in campaign work, and to brainstorm new creative ways to carry out the campaigns that youth identify with. Just to give a little taste of our inspiring speech here are two quotes from Samantha and Lillian:
"We the youth shake our heads at the thought... are they serious??"
"Cutting our Medicaid and educations SHOULDN'T even be an OPTION."
Lillian and Samantha at a rally in Santa Fe to protest budget cuts to education earlier this month.
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