Youth, Students and Water “A Salvadoran labor organizer told a
group of American youth activists that their budding movement
was like a body with a huge heart but no bones to move it
forward. Through their infrastructure, experience and resources,
adult-led organizations can help build these bones. Young
people, in return, can give some of their moral passion and
their creative intelligence. [The goal is] to forge a cross-
generational strategic collaboration that expands the scope,
reach and sustainability of a social movement for global
fairness.” Youth Activism and Global Engagement: Part I;
OneWorld US Special Report Youth leadership has played a central
role in nearly every social movement this century has seen.
WILPF recognizes and celebrates this fact, and thus an important
goal of the Save the Water Campaign will be to engage college
students, high school students, and non-student youth in the
struggle to take back our water. WILPF sees collaboration with
student networks such as the Student Environmen