Unite the Youth

It's that time of year - Demand the Impossible 2015 is nearly upon us! It'll be bigger, better etc than ever before. If you're 15-22, please apply; if you're older, please spread the word however you can.

You can apply if you've already done the course - we'll be in need of a few "veterans" to help out.

https://demandimpossible.wordpress.com/2015/03/25/applications-open-for-demand-the-impossible-2015/

Applications open for Demand the Impossible 2015 Demand the Impossible 2015 is here! This year's course will be held at the University of East London in Stratford from 27th-31st July. All totally FREE, including transport and lunch. Here's the fl...

Thanks to Deborah Hermanns from the National demo: Free education - No Fees, No cuts, No debt who joined us at our recent - Unite the Youth is here for a as well as to free education!

In October Unite the Youth joined the Europe-wide rally in Parliament Square, because TTIP (Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership), has been practically censored by mainstream media, and will have a particular affect on young people’s lives:

-Education will become increasingly commodifed, disadvantaging students more so than they already are with raised university fees, among many other issues.
-If TTIP destroys what little remains of security in the workplace like the minimum wage and the right to organise in trade unions, young people starting work will find themselves, again, in an even more uncertain position than they currently are put in!
-The heavy privatisation of the NHS will make unnecessarily difficult the lives of millions of young people and their families who rely on the system, whether it be with regards to regular medication, surgery, emergencies. Needless complications and tragedies that take lives yet to be fully lived are bound to rise if more of us find it harder to access healthcare.

It is ethically imperative for us to stand up against proposals that quietly threaten the most vulnerable. But we are concerned about how little awareness there is among our peers of what this proposed trade deal is about and how it will impact us. So we would like to ask everyone here that we try to engage more young people and their families, working class, ethnic minorities, and other groups that are denied certain privileges, with this issue. The more we all know, the stronger we are against the struggle.

More on what TTIP is, from us:
http://unitetheyouthblog.wordpress.com/2014/09/12/youth-against-ttip/

And from :
http://nottip.org.uk/

The TPP, another similar proposed deal, will allow media conglomerates to arbitrarily remove web content, and force Internet providers to monitor and store our online activities. Take action against this via this link!
http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KJpateVK%2Bt%2FsnkhpLPndMxMAtgWPUSEs

UTY and SOAS Spoken Word Society present An Open Classroom

UTY and SOAS Spoken Word Society present An Open Classroom Unite the Youth is collaborating with SOAS Spoken Word Society to bring you an open and critical discussion on education and think about reimagining the classroom! Let’s think, how does learning under certain structures, such as school systems, shape us as real people with different ways of seeing the world? Is/should the classroom be a space for creativity and self-empowerment, or somewhere we become semi-literate and obedient to power? [ 100 more words. ]

Unite the Youth Against TTIP | Parliament Square | #noTTIP *Saving our future: young people need to fight TTIP* If you care about democracy, your privacy on the internet, whether the chicken you eat is washed with chlorine, and if education and the NHS will be further privatised then there's something you need to know: *TTIP is a threat to what you care about.* TTIP (Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership) is… [ 133 more words. ]

Youth Against TTIP

Youth Against TTIP TTIP: Why Youth Need to Make a Stand By Samia Aziz and Tito Mogaji-Williams The movement against TTIP is growing, but for it to succeed all the groups in society who are threatened by this corporate power grab need to be mobilised. Unite the Youth fights for the interests of marginalised, misrepresented and disenfranchised youth – a group who should be at the centre of the struggle against TTIP. [ 277 more words. ]

Demand the Impossible 2014 http://wp.me/p3Ve8Y-6F

Demand the Impossible 2014 Along with the Critical Education Project, Unite the Youth helped organise and run Demand the Impossible 2014, a summer course on political activism. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank everybody who helped make it happen, including the… [ 110 more words. ]

Applications are open for Edge Fund - the deadline is Monday 8th September! http://edgefund.org.uk/2014/06/26/open-for-applications/

Demand the Impossible 2014 was a success! Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen, including speakers, organisers and participants. Watch this space!

Interesting article about sexism in the workplace - perhaps what's more shocking is that this kind of stuff happens all the time and not just in the workplace. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2014/jul/30/10-sexist-scenarios-women-deal-work-ignored-maternity-risk-everyday-sexism?CMP=fb_gu

10 sexist scenarios that women face at work – and men don't Laura Bates: these common scenarios reported to the Everyday Sexism project are painfully familiar to working women