The+Port+Huron+Statement

2007-2008 Here is the assignment [|Here are photos] from the Manifesto For a New Generation signing 2008:

We sent this invitation to the school by email to come and see the work that our students did:

 "We are the people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.... The search for truly democratic alternatives to the present, and a commitment to social experimentation with them, is a worthy and fulfilling human enterprise, one which moves us and, we hope, others today." -- Tom Hayden ˆ the Port Huron Statement (1963)

In Community Connections, the students’ final writing exercise of the year was to draw inspiration from The Port Huron Statement to create the manifesto of their group, speaking for their generation.
 * Updating The Port Huron Statement**

Focusing on the work they had done in their community work this year, students examined the problems of the world that they have inherited and explored the visions of the changes they will make to solve those problems and to invite fuller democratic participation. Excerpts from their work are published in broadside form around west wing of the fourth floor. Thursday, May 22 was “Make a Statement Day.” We wrote our own statements of our vision for a better future on T-shirts and wore them throughout the day. We also read each other’s manifesto excerpts and added our initials and signatures where we were in agreement.

We invite you to come on up/over and read the excerpts from their Manifesto for a New Generation and join us by adding your signatures to ours in support of this vision for our futures.

And check out the photostream on flickr of the Manifesto signing during graderoom last Thursday.

Andy B, Andy K, Gary, Jeanne, Karen, Kate, Lisa, Mike, Shanti, Theresa ~ the Junior Community Connections Team "

2006-2007 [|Here are some photos] from the Manifesto For a New Generation signing 2007