The US and Canada are something else, let me tell you. We get so wound up in ourselves, and our 'struggles,' that we tend to forget that there are so many others out there.

When I think about the "youth rights" movement in the US, I almost blush. While these folks are pressing for minor, hypothetical solutions to increase "liberties" for young people, there is so much more going on. In the US alone, juvenile injustice, racism in education, and the destruction of community as we know it.

Around the world there are so many more challenges that are so much more pressing than what some of us are fighting for. Child labor is a VERY REAL problem in many places; young people in Chernobyl are still dying; children are living homeless around the world; and in the USA, many middle-class white kids are fighting for themselves, and no one else.

This must stop. I know why, but I don't know how. There are examples, and I'm trying to share them with others. But I'm not sure what to do. Any ideas out there?