{"id":5727,"date":"2009-01-28T11:16:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T18:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2009-01-28T11:26:38","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T18:26:38","slug":"youth-activism-and-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/01\/28\/youth-activism-and-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Activism and Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest012809\/2009_01_28_youth.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest012809\/2009_01_28_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=60% src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2368\/1602244439_1625ac9ec4.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A key component to Barack Obama\u2019s ascendancy to the Presidency last week, was the decisive electoral backing he received from young voters. According to a post-election analysis conducted by Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, a record number of twenty-three million young people under the age of thirty voted in last November\u2019s election. With an internet savvy campaign, Barack Obama was able to secure a lopsided advantage over his opponent John McCain and change the dynamics in several key states by taking 66% of the national youth vote. Cognizant of his important base, Obama addressed the \u201cBe the Change: Youth Ball,\u201d last week on inauguration day that featured performers like Kanye West. The new President told the audience, \u201cThe future will be in your hands if you are able to sustain the kind of energy and focus you showed in this campaign.\u201d With the election over, questions remain on how what direction youth will take in shaping our tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>GUESTS: Sonia Mehta, third year student at UCLA studying International Development and Political Science. She campaigned for Barack Obama and is deeply involved in local education issues. Jonathan Perez, activist with Inner City Struggle and SoCal for Youth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program A key component to Barack Obama\u2019s ascendancy to the Presidency last week, was the decisive electoral backing he received from young voters. According to a post-election analysis conducted by Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, a record number of twenty-three million young people under the age of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}