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                       Generation 2000

                       by Joshua Jones

       This document is a vision statement for the generation
currently coming of age. It does not describe a group of people,
it presents pieces of youth culture, tendencies, and megatrends -
things which link together millions of young people. Honestly,
the primary source for Generation 2000 is my own experience
growing up - backed by opinion surveys, census records,
demographic research and facts about the age group as a whole.
Enough intro - every time I write it, it gets bigger.

       My basic premise is this: Young America is on the brink. The
belief systems which we lived under - from Cold War mythology to
the American Dream - seems to be falling away from us. It's a
dangerous time to be young - and what's abundantly clear is that
we are on our own. Society, in the words of Ice Cube, "Either
don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's goin' down in
the Hood."

       Millions of kids live confused, random lives and are
becoming increasingly desperate - headlines I picked up this
morning are the arrest of two teens firing on cars on
interstates, and the conviction of a 14 year old who set off two
tear gas bombs in a shopping mall sending 160 people to the
hospital.

"Dear America-  do you know what's happening? Dear America - are
you awake? Dear America - what is this letter for? I think we are
losing the war." CityKids - all youth performance & dance team,
NYC

        Street kids suffer alienation from society (Boyz N' the
Hood, The River's Edge, Straight Out of Brooklyn), and suburban
kids suffer from loneliness and disillusionment (Pump Up the
Volume, Breakfast Club, Less than Zero).

"Did you ever get the feeling that everything in America is
completely fucked up? You know that feeling? It's like the whole
country is one inch away from saying That's it! Forget it." -
Happy Harry Hardon, from Pump Up The Volume

       The media is usually  unsympathetic towards kids they see as
an army of spoiled apathetic brats. Within the pages of one
paper, it's possible to read an editorial bashing young people
for low test scores and political noninvolvement, scare
advertisements advising parents on symptoms of drug abuse for
their kids, and crime reports of sexual abuse, arson and 12 year
old shooting 14-year olds. The press seems to regard youth
behavior as some kind of group decision.

       "Juvenile Delinquency is ALWAYS rooted in Adult Delinquency"
- Ministry

       The image we receive as young people is that society doesn't
want, or need us. We were born when having kids was unpopular -
when kids were portrayed in movies such as "Demonseed",
"Rosemary's Baby" and "The Omen I,II, and II". We were born during
the rise of birth control, when divorce rates doubled, when in the
aftermath of Roe vs. Wade abortions became increasingly common and
socially accepted.

"I want to walk right out of this cruel world, because
everybody's got a poison heart." - Ramones

        60% of high school students don't go to college, yet the
alternatives and assistance provided to them range from
negligible to nil - they are channelled into vocational schools,
classified as "learning disabled" (A label, as many LD kids will
tell you, that sticks with you for life)). For those that do go
to college, the situation is more promising, but not much. The
Average cost of a four year education has increased 23% in the
last two years - financial aid is covering less - and grants are
being replaced by loans.

"Everybody lies." - Morissey

       Numbers only tell part of the story - they have no faces
attached, no personal stories, no vision. But the numbers are
important, and sources are attributed to those which I know.

"Hey, kids, where are you?" - R.E.M.

NUMBERS

100,000 kids go to bed homeless every night. There are
approximately 250,000 - 400,000 suicide attempts among young
people aged 15-21. Our national dropout rate is around 30%. In a
CBS phone poll after Bush's State of the Union Speech, 44% of the
respondents (over 300,000 people called in) said their kids would
have less chance for success than they did.

       "You know where you are? You're in the Jungle, Baby. Welcome
to the Jungle." - Axl Rose

Percent of college freshman who think it is essential or very
important to get involved in environmental cleanup: 74%. Same
percentage 10 years ago: 55% (From UCLA Higher Ed Research
Institute)

"Stand Together! People come together now! It's about time! Stand
Together! We got to get together now!" - Beastie Boys

Chances that an American * under the age of 19 * participated in a
political demonstration last year: 2 in 5. Chances that an
American under the age of 19 in 1968 participated in a
demonstration that year: 1 in 6.(Harper's Index)
Annual prevalence of illicit drug use e has dropped to half the
levels of 1979.

HOPE
       Behind the facts, in the dark alleyways of modern music and
an occasional movie, lies a support system. I've found, through
transcribing lyrics of many groups, that as a generation we've
provided for ourselves outlets and a method of communication.
College, Hip-Hop, alternative and the menagerie of music styles
which defy classification (examples: Rise Robots Rise, Arrested
Development, Me Phi Me)

       Many of these songs demonstrate an acute social
consciousness. Rolling Stone, MTV, and Spin magazine highlight a
new kind of media - they claim most information comes through
sound, music and image rather than text. Whether this sis good or
bad is hard to say, but they all propose that something is
happening the young America that the mainstream is not yet
conscious of. These significant changes are, for the most part,
to complex and elusive to fit neatly into a sound byte for the
media. With a few notable exceptions, the national media has
neatly excised the tragic statistics of our young nation.

       Our music is mutating so rapidly, in so many directions
we're having a hard time keeping up. Our volunteerism is
skyrocketing. MTV offers some of the most controversial opinions
on the airwaves - and the latest rage in nightclubs is Modern
Rock - a blend of rap, ex-"alternative", and other recent rock
which continually voices social concern, confusion, anger, and a
sense of inevitability, imminence. The Beastie Boys latest
album, Check Your Head, ends with "Something's Got to Give"

       Unless trends reverse, youth will further polarize. They can
no longer be considered a charity cause. Many are hurt, desperate
and armed. Understanding the situation of young people in 90's
America is way important.

And these children,that you spit on
as they try to change their worlds
are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware of what they're going through....
       -David Bowie, Changes, 1983

We are the stupidest generation in American history, we 20-year
olds. You already know that we really do get lower SAT scores
than our parents. Our knowledge of geography is pathetic, as is
our ability with foreign languages and even basic math. We care
only about image. We love fads. Talk to college professors and
they'll tell you they don't get intelligent responses like they
used to, when you were in school. We're perfectly mush-headed.
The latch-key lifestyle you left us in the name of your own
"freedom" has made us a generation with missing parents and
broken homes. And what about the gays and blacks and Hispanics
and Asians and women, who you pretended to care so much about
and then forgot? It's not that I'm angry from you selling out to the
system, it's that there won't be a system for me to sell out to,
if I wanted to. For most of us, all we've been left with are the
erotic fantasies, aggressive tendencies and evanescent funds of
youth. Pretty soon we won't have youth or money, and that's when
we may get a little angry.
       - A 20- year old university senior, Newsweek, The Terrible
20's. July 1st 1991

       Come on people now, smile on your brother, everybody get
together try to love one another right now. GOTTA FIND A WAY A
BETTER WAY I'D BETTER WAIT GOTTA FIND A WAY A BETTER WAY I'D
BETTER WAIT GOTTA FIND A WAY A BETTER WAY I'D BETTER WAIT"
       - Nirvana, from "Nevermind" QUADRUPLE-platinum in 1992

Saturday, March 24, 1984. Shermer High School, Shermer Illinois,
60062

Dear Mr. vernon,

       We accept the fact that we have to sacrifice a whole
Saturday for whatever it was that we did wrong. What we did
* was * wrong, but we think you're crazy telling us to write an
essay telling you who we think we are.

       What do you care? You see us as you want to see us. In the
simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions - you see us
as a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a
criminal. Correct?

       That's the way we saw each other at 7:00 this morning. We
were brainwashed....but what we found out is that each one of us
is a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a
criminal.

       Does that answer your question?

                           Sincerely Yours,
                           The Breakfast Club

       "Declare war on the Baby Boomers - there will always be more
of us, and if you're not careful, pretty soon old age will be
"in". Time to humiliate us with fashion, mock our vanity...get
moving."
       "Bring Back the Juvenile Delinquent" - letter to the next
generation, Time Magazine.

       29% of federal human service outlays go to people over 65,
while 7% go to those under 18, and 2% overall for education. The
economic outlook for those graduating in the 1990's is worse than
that of their parents. Real income adjusted for inflation of
families headed by someone under 30 is down by THIRTY percent
since 1973. High school dropouts will make an average of 44% less
than high school dropouts twenty years ago. (Statistics from
Business Week, "What happened to the American Dream" and Donna
Gaines' Teenage Wasteland)

So what?
(hahahahahaha)
so what? So what? Die...
(hahahahaha)
Die...kill for the love of killing. Die!
(hahahahaha)
you sell us sedatives, fecal laxatives, shit and lies
I only kill to know I'm alive
adults create the world children live in
childhood delinquency is always rooted in adult delinquency
die...die....
fuck all the rest....
so what?"  - Ministy, "So What?"

       "Drugs are out, sex is out, politics are out. It's like
everything is on HOLD. We definitely need something new...."
       - Happy Harry Hardon, Pump Up the Volume, 1989

       Drug us in almost every category has dropped significantly
among those 25 and under. In 1980 - 72% said they had drunk
alcohol in the last 30 days, in 1989 - 60%. Marijuana use: 1979 -
 37%, 1989 - 17%. Cocaine: 1986 - 6.2%, 1989 - 2.8%.
       - Time Magazine (Of course, we could just be lying more)

       "For all the importance of these new activist currents, most
students still wall off critical questions. Activism is like a
breach of decorum, those who try to address social change issues
are seen as "refugees from the 60's."
       -P.R. Loeb, Willful Unconcern, Psychology Today, May 16,
1988

       "It's very cloudy now...like I'm dreaming far far in the
future, and I think it's true, maybe I'm just playing with
reality. I can see a place where all parents are wise and all
children are beloved. If it's not Arizona, it's someplace not too
far away. Maybe Utah."
       -H.I., Raising Arizona

       Everywhere formerly apolitical students have begun to stream
into neighborhood soup kitchens, shelters and tutoring campaigns.
On some campuses, volunteer service programs have grown two fold
in the past few years, placing as many as 1,000 students a week
in community projects...if the past is a guide, these seemingly
innocuous charitable involvements may induce later commitment
that could shift the course of history.
       - P.R. Loeb, "Serve the People", Mother Jones, July/August
1991

       Rational choice theories are insufficient to explain the
dedication by students to high-risk activism. Useful theories of
student mobilization must include insights about how individual
protestors are convinced by group-level processes [i.e. means
over ends] to sacrifice themselves for a cause. New questions
must be asked...
       - Eric Hirsch, "Sacrifice for the Cause: A study of the
Divestment protests at Columbia University," American
Sociological Review, April 1990

"We're different (than 60's radicals) - we have Macs, modems, we
live our beliefs. If we say something we back it up. If we talk
about housing, we get involved with housing." Julia, 21 years
old, interview.

       "Let's gather 'round the carcass of the old deflated beast,
we've seen it through the accolades and reased in it's lea
Syntactic is our elegance, incisive our disease,
the swath indigenous of ourselves will be our quandary;
We've nestled in its hollow and we're suckled at its breast -
frivolous gavel our design, ludicrous our threat,
excursive expeditions leave us holding less and less...
So what does it mean? When we tell ourselves it's only for a
while we've been deceived and it's only for the moment that the
treasures of our day make life easier to contemplate, the
treasure thrown away. I'm so tired of all the fucked up minds
of all the terrorist religions
and all their bullshit lines
of all the hand-me-downs
from all the industrial crimes
and the weeping mothers
and those who're led so blind
from the plastic protests
and the hands of time
and the pursuit of mirth
and of all hating kind."
       - Bad Religion, "The Positive aspect of Negative Thinking"

       Statistics that shape the nation (from USA today): More
restaurant goers are ordering vegetarian dishes, 1013 mickey mouse
hats are sold at Disneyland every day, soft drinks are the most
popular beverage drunk outside of the home; youth suicide has
gone up by 65.4% in 10 years, 23% of radio stations play country
music, and a 75-foot maple tree has enough leaves to fill ten 32-
gallon bags."
       (Read that twice, if you missed it)

       "As for those with hope of going to college, another
newspaper article reported that financial aid in 1989 covered
only 60 percent of what is needed compared with 81 percent ten
years ago (50% of which is now loans, compared to 17% fifteen
years ago). just 25 percent of high school students are now able
to attend college...If we toss in to this statistical cauldron
that one in five children wake up in poverty; 1000,000 go to bed
homeless, and most major school districts in the nation are close
to bankruptcy, it is obscenely clear that U.S. capitalist society
has basically declared that millions of young people are surplus
to its needs. With the exception of a pamphlet or two from the
Democratic Socialists, this potential setting from explosive
rebellion, both on the streets and in the schools, is largely
seen as something to be written about in the exposes of
others...these are just a few comments on a situation growing
graver by the day. The issue is not can youth be attracted to the
cause, but that youth *are* the cause".
       Dave Brotherton, Z Magazine, January 1992

       "It all trickles down, anyway. Government treats citizens as
objects, corporations treat clients as objects, commerce treats
customers as objects, parents treat children as objects (a
growing objectivity? sorry...I couldn't resist that...) The
result is a generation of kids who treat EVERYONE as an object."
       -Mark, 23 years old

Teacher: Are you upset (that your friend was killed)? No, I mean,
if you are I really want to know. I don't think you care. Do you
feel ANYTHING?

Student: Are we gonna be tested on this?
       - River's Edge

Andrew: My God, are we gonna be like our parents?

Claire: No, not me. No way.

Allison: It's unavoidable. It just happens...

Bender: Who cares?

Allison: I care.

       - Breakfast Club


WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME?
AM I NOT LIVING UP TO WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE?
WHY AM I SEETHING WITH THIS ANIMOSITY?
I THINK YOU OWE ME A GREAT BIG APOLOGY.
TERRIBLE LIE
TERRIBLE LIE
I really don't know what you mean.
Seems like salvation comes only in our dreams
I feel my hatred grow all the more extreme
Can this world really be as sad as it seems?
TERRIBLE LIE
TERRIBLE LIE
TERRIBLE LIE
Don't turn away from me, I need you to hold on to.
Don't turn away from me, I need you to hold on to.
Don't turn away from me, I need you to hold on to.
Don't turn away from me, I need someone to hold on to.
Don't turn away from me, I need you to hold on to.
There's nothing left for me to hide.
I lost my ignorance, security, and pride
I'm all alone in a world you must despise
I heard your promises, your promises are LIES.
       - Terrible Lie, Nine Inch Nails

       "From the beginning, I believed that the Bergenfield
suicides (suicide pact of four in Bergenfield NJ in 1987)
symbolized a tragic defeat for young people. Something is
happening in the larger society which is not yet comprehended.
Scholars speak ominously of "the postmodern condition," "societal
upheaval," "decay," "anomie." Meanwhile, American kids keep
losing ground, showing all the symptoms of societal neglect. Many
are left to fend for themselves, often with little success. The
news gets worse. Teenage suicides continue, and still nobody
seems to be getting the point..."
       - Donna Gaines, Teenage Wasteland, 1991.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, everybody rolls with
their fingers crossed. Everybody knows the war is over, everybody
knows the good guys lost. Everybody knows the fight was fixed,
the poor stay poor, the rich get rich. That's how it goes,
everybody knows.

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking, everybody knows
the captain lied. Everybody's got this broken feeling like their
father or their dog just died. Everybody is talking to their
pockets, everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stemmed
rose, everybody knows.

Everybody knows it's coming apart: take one last look at this
Sacred Heart before it blows... and everybody knows...
       "Everybody Knows", Leonard Cohen, theme from Pump Up the
Volume

       "Boomers might read the disengagement of all these bands or
the insular self-referentiality of techno and Eny, as simple
lethargy or selfishness. The music doesn't take on the world. But
this misses the point. The impotence, the glassed in rage or
bliss, isn't the failure of music, it's the subject.The simple
us-and-them polarities of the '60's no longer hold, certainly not
for a generation that knows The Who never really tore anything
down; they've yielded to the layered contradictions of Joe Isuzu.
This generation has problems, not enemies. Instead of inheriting
conflict, they've inherited contradictions, so their natural mode
of expression is to puzzle, not to attack. But Nirvana's music,
like the best of the rest, does what all great pop music does: it
provides a metaphor for its time. It is equivocal and
contradictory because, for there musicians and their audience,
the times are equivocal and contradictory. White noise is the
perfect voice for the moment: it's literally all meanings, all
the time. The random noise, doesn't hide the meaning, it IS the
meaning."
       John Leland," Do you hear what I hear?", Newsweek, Jan. 27,
1992

       "Better hold on. Something's happening here." - Lou Reed

       "There's a lot of stuff we have to deal with. The Baby
Boomers are no standard, but we pretend like they are. They want
us to fall in love and get married, but marriages don't work.
That's why pop music is the outlet: it's not supposed to be
important, so we pretend like it is."
       John Leland, phone interview Jan. 25, 1992

       "I try and talk about things like nuclear issues that matter
to me with my parents and it's like I'm speaking Bratislavian.
They listen indulgently to me for an appropriate length of time,
then after I'm done they ask me why I live in such a god-forsaken
place like the Mojave desert they'll use them as crowbars to
jimmy you open and arrange your life with no perspective.
Sometimes I'd just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I
envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of
*futurelessness*. And I want to throttle them for blithely
handing over the world to us like so much skid marked underwear."
       Andy, GENERATION X, Douglas Coupland

In a quick survey of articles on generations from 1987 on - there
were 56 on the Baby Boomers with titles like: The Baby Boom
generation and the economy, the Middle-Aging Baby Boom, Baby boom
incomes, the baby boom's legacy: relative wages in the 21st
century, the Baby boom, housing and financial flows, Social
Security benefits and the baby boom generation....

30% of young people have attempted or seriously considered
suicide, according to an NEA survey.

       I hope this vision is as coherent for you as it is for
me.The feeling that "Everything in America is completely fucked
up" is no longer on the fringe. Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen
Spirit" is the hardest, I think, Top 40 has EVER gotten - it came
out of nowhere, and sold 4 million copies. Teen dissatisfaction
is common enough in America - but these kids have less than any
other generation to lose - and more opportunities to do it. Many
are turning criminal - one case just yesterday of a George Mason
honor student & former eagle scout caught stealing guns from a
local store. In May, in Yuba County California, a 20-year old
took hostages at his former high school - leaving five dead and
dozens wounded.

       Another factor which can't be ignored is that there is a
large part of young America which is expecting a dark future.
Heavy metal, thrash, punk and lately techno - thrive on the
feeling that America is falling apart. Movies like Robocop, Road
Warrior and Terminator convey that sense - something is about to
break. Many kids, burnt from abuse, are expecting it - even
looking forward to it. At the first sign that law enforcement is
unable to handle the situation, hell could break loose. Witness
L.A. - the most destructive urban riot this century - an
estimated 40,000 people participated - with copycat riots in a
half dozen other cities.

       It's not this black and white - there is also a very large
activist corps among young people who are struggling to make a
difference. but many can sympathize with their friends who see no
hope. If history can shed any light on the situation - the early
sixties saw a generation of youth upset with the current system -
some went radical right, some went radical left, some just smoked
pot. The key difference is that there was a strong economy
waiting for them if they changed their mind. We have no choice.
Real median income has been steadily dropping since 1973, and
according to Atlantic- Americans under 30 have the weakest middle
class of any other segment of America.

       Even a cursory glance into youth culture reveals these
themes of hopelessness & confusion are all over. When I started
this project, I was asking for attention - I wanted adults to
know what kind of trouble we're in. I wanted recognition of our
condition. Now - I don't know. There is a lot in the air. Youth,
for now, are quietly destroying themselves and starting recycling
drives - waiting like the rest of the country - waiting.

       Time will tell.

                         Sources
Books:
       Teenage Wasteland, Donna Gaines (HIGHLY recommended)
       Generation X, Douglas Coupland
       Conflict of Generations, Lewis Feuer
       Savage Inequalities, Jonathan Kozol
       Generations, Strauss & Howe
       In Pursuit of Loneliness, Philip Slater
       Cycles of American History, Arthur Schlesinger
       Less Than Zero, Bret Easton Ellis
       Bicycle Days, John Schwartz


Movies (*'s by the movies especially relevant)

       * Risky Business
       Fast Times at Ridgemont High
       Valley Girl (hippie parents, punk/prep kids)
    ** Ferris Bueller's Day Off (I know a guy who knows every
LINE to this movie)
   *** Breakfast Club
   *** Heathers
   *** Pump Up the Volume
    ** Boyz in the Hood (front lines of USA (#1 US rental for
several weeks)
    *  Risky Business (Sometimes ya just gotta say...)
    ** Wisdom (Little known, but possibly Emilio Estevez's best
movie)
   ** Wayne's World (A multi-million $ movie about absolutely
nothing else but everybody's fave aimless youth)
   ** Running on Empty
   ** Straight out of Brooklyn
   *    New Jack City
   *    Dudes
   ** Terminator 2 (think about the nuke war sequence, vision of
future, portrayal of young John Connor)

TV Shows: ( These are, by and large, less relevant. The
bureaucracy around TV production is considerably more than movies
or music. It's still possible to draw some stuff out.)

       The Simpsons (FOX)
       Twin Peaks (ABC, terminated)
       Like We care (on MTV, excellent but terminated)
       The Real World (MTV)
       Max Headroom (ABC, terminated)
       In Living Color (Fox)
       Beverly Hills, 90210 (So socially conscious it's nauseating)

Bands (illustrative only, recommendations appreciated):
       Suicidal Tendencies (Lights, Camera, Revolution)
       Mekons
       Dinosaur Jr.
       Sound Bytes from the Counter Culture (political propaganda
released on Atlantic Records. Get it.)
       Nine Inch Nails (Terrible Lie, Broken)
       Jesus Jones (Doubt, "Welcome back Victoria")
       Red Hot Chili Peppers (Under the Bridge)
       Pearl Jam (Jeremy, the video is incendiary)
       Alice Donut (My Life is a mediocre piece of shit)
       Simple Minds ("Don't you forget about me", "Let the Children
speak")
       Nirvana (SMTS, Territorial pissings)
       U2 (The ZOO TV tour was overflowing with postmodern youth
angst)
       Leonard Cohen (Everybody knows)
       Sonic Youth (Teenage Riot)
       Radioactive Goldfish
       Lou Reed (New York)
       Love and Rockets (Ball of Confusion)
       Henry Rollins
       The Messiah (There is no law)
       Mumbletypegs (I'm sick of everything)
       Social Distortion (Searching with one Eye closed)
       Soundgarden (New Damage)
       Uzi. Bros. (Riot in Cell Block #9)
       Billy Bragg (The Revolution is just a T-shirt away)
       Boogie Down Productions (Edutainment)
       William S. Burroughs (Thanksgiving Prayer)
       Skinny Puppy (Warlock)
       Lard (Jello Biafra is the lead singer - has a consistent
message of think for yourself - conveyed quite visually,
intelligently, powerfully and historically accurate)
       Ministry (So What?)
       Me Phi Me (Where are you going my friend)
       Concrete Blonde
       My Life with the Thrill Kill Cult (Lost generation)
       The Misfits
       Bad Religion ("the Positive aspect of negative thinking")
       Lords of Acid
       Bauhaus
       Porn Orchard
       Talking Heads (Burning Down the House)
       Tribe called Quest (Scenario)
       Beastie Boys (Check your head, "Something's got to Give")
(KICKIN')
       R.E.M. ("It's the end of the world, & I feel fine",Drive)
       The Descendants ( Wiener Central (title?))
       Was not Was (Kinda random, but funny. )
       Live (vague but strong generational vision)
       Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch ( the Money video)
       David Bowie (Changes)
       Divinyls (Follow through)
       Paul Simon (Baby Boomer counterpart to gen 2000 music.
Although many young people like it, I wouldn't call it originally
*ours* like the others. Many common themes exist between age
groups - there are many songs today (Mrs. Robinson) which are
covers of songs in the 60's. There definitely is a new feeling
these days.)
       Sting (see above)
       Public Image, ltd.
       The Church
       Psychedelic Furs (President Gas, Shelter)
       Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy (Television)
       L7 (Wargasm, Pretend you're dead)
       Bikini Kill (symbol of the Riot Grrls - pre-eminint 90's
feminists)( Check out Newsweek Nov 23, 1992, p. 84)

Periodicals:
       (I won't have time to list all of them, there are literally
many many many which I've looked up. Here are some of the better
ones.)
       Do you Hear what I hear: John Leland, Newsweek, Jan 27, 1992
       DIRTY WORDS: America's foul-mouthed Pop Culture, Time, May
7, 1990
       Welcome to the Jungle: John Leland, Newsweek, sept 23, 1991.
P. 52-53
       Organizing Youth: Dave Brotherton, Z magazine, January 1992
       Letter to the Baby Boomers from the next generation:
Newsweek 118: 10-11 July 1, 1991
       Do we care about our kids? Time, October 8, 1990. pp. 42-48
       SDS Jr.. (About SEAC), Forbes, June 10, 1991
       Wisdom from the Street ( About Boogie Down Productions and
KRS-One) Rolling Stone, May 30, 1991
       What happened to the American Dream? - Business Week, p. 80-
85 Aug. 19, 1991
       X marks the Angst, People Weekly, 36:105-106 October 14,
1991
       Serving the People: Paul Loeb, Mother Jones 15:18-20  Jly/Ag
1990
       Life at Jeff: High school students wonder where childhood
went: NYT. Late March, 1992.
       Sacrifice for the cause: group processes, recruitment and
commitment in student social movements (Columbia U divestment
protests) American Sociological Review, v55, p.243-54
       The effects of 1960s political generation on Former Left-
and Right-Wing Youth Activist Leaders. Social Problems, Vol. 38,
No. 3, August 1991 ( EXCELLENT. Shows that political and social
actions taken during one's youth have a lasting effect)

Write me if you want more, I have lots. Tell me what you
think/feel about or want to add to this mess - IVAN
--------------------------------
Write Ivan in care of The Free American, 703/768-3733 or
Box 7103, Alexandria, Va. 22307.

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