Perspective: Why Diane Feinstein was wrong to dismiss child activists as political pawns
In this image from video provided by Morissa Zuckerman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein speaks with a group of students who wanted to discuss the Green New Deal, an ambitious Democrat plan to shift the U.S. economy from fossil fuels and to renewable sources such as wind and solar power, at her office in San Francisco. The students are members of Sunrise Movement, an activist group that encourages children to combat climate change. By Paul M. Renfro Paul M.
For more than a century, these realities have created two forms of child-based activism: adults have long wielded children as political objects to advance their favorite causes, while at the same time, children themselves have agitated for change on policies that impact their lives. To simply dismiss all childhood activism as part of this first tradition mistakenly ignores this second, equally rich history.
Before and during World War II, adults in the United States and beyond also used the “emotionally priceless” child “as a means to rally populations to war.” Child-centered propaganda helped propel the United States into the Great War, the Nazis into the Sudetenland and the Soviets into Poland in World War II.
But children have been far more than just pawns in American political history. During the civil rights movement, their political activism ranged from Ruby Bridges’s courageous entrance into a segregated school to the young participants in the Southern Christian Leadership Council’s Birmingham campaign.
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