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24 September, 2001 Town Hall Meeting Brings International Youth Together to Discuss September 11th Terrorist Attack New York (24 September, 2001) -- Young PRESS, a consortium of youth organizations, today is launching the first of a series of international town hall meetings via videoconference between high school students and youth journalists to discuss the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States. The First conference will begin at 10 a.m. EST and will unite youth from New York (Stuyvesant High School), Dallas, Chicago, Pakistan, India, and Sri Lanka. The conference will last approximately 2 hours and will be replicated on Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th September. New York participants will be accessing the meeting at 300 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY. The objectives of the town hall meetings are the following: ·To discuss how the terrorist attacks of 11 September have affected the lives of young people around the world. ·To discuss how the global landscape has changed and to what extent discrimination has intensified in communities around the world. ·To explore how individuals and communities are coping in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. Young people not participating in the town hall meetings can submit and publish their videos and articles relating to the tragedy by logging on to Young PRESS' website, http://www.youngpress.org. About Young PRESS Young PRESS is an unprecedented collaboration among more than twenty-two youth and adult organizations in media, technology and education. Young PRESS is designed to provide a collaborative framework for strengthening youth media and facilitating the development of a global youth reporting network through the use of traditional and new technologies. An ongoing project scheduled for launch at the United Nations Special Session on Children, 19-21 September 2001, Young PRESS' (Young People Reporting Everything at the Special Session) mission was to channel young people's concerns to world leaders, the public and their peers through youth-created multi-media. In the aftermath of the 11 September terrorist attacks, Young PRESS cancelled its launch and focused its efforts around providing an emergency response. Young PRESS realized that the collaborative effort it fostered around the UN Special Session on Children could be mobilized to respond to the crisis. |
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