News and Updates

Relive the Month of Liberty!

By Jared Fuller, on Mar 2, 2010

YoY Board of Directors and Governor Gary Johnson
Year of Youth Board of Directors & Governor Gary Johnson (Honorary Chairman to the Our America Initiative) at the 2010 International Students For Liberty Conference.
More photos can be found here.

February was indeed a crazy, crazy month for the hardcore of hardcore youth liberty activists. Year of Youth had a huge presence at both the 2010 International Students For Liberty Conference and the 2010 Conservative Political Action Conference.

In case you hadn't seen it just yet, the youth liberty movement stirred up a bit of controversy at the latter, but generally had a blast at the former.

At the ISFLC Year of Youth signed up around 100 new students to get plugged into our training modules and even had a raffle to give away a Scholar's Edition copy of Human Action and for a lesser prize, a Snuggie. Yes, a Snuggie. Hey, a raffle can be about humor and liberty!

At CPAC Year of Youth members were instrumental in outreach to new disenfranchised conservative youth to show them the light of the liberty movement. As testament to our collective efforts (most thanks go to YAL), Ron Paul smashed the CPAC Straw Poll with the largest margin of victory ever recorded! This video beautifully captures what was accomplished at CPAC.

Relive the amazing month of February by checking out our Flickr photostream.

Vote on Year of Youth's new logo!

By Jared Fuller, on Feb 22, 2010

In just 10 days, we received 390 design submissions for Year of Youth's new logo!

Here's the skinny: Open this link in a new tab on your browser, check out the 13 finalists, & then cast your vote below... pretty straightforward.

Click here to check out the finalists and then vote below in our poll to tell us which one is your favorite!

Which design should be Year of Youth's new logo?
#357 by leona
#333 by GDMB
#330 by skmz
#321 by ann@
#319 by Shad
#260 by Gino
#250 by silviu
#249 by skmz
#228 by inancz
#115 by Razo
#86 by inancz
#23 by RESP
#10 by inancz
  
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Kyle Geralds, the city-council kid!

By Jared Fuller, on Feb 16, 2010

The latest edition of YoY Radio is up online!

Your host Nick Hankoff brings you Kyle Geralds, an outspoke localist and freedom lover who was elected to city council at only 24 years of age!

Kyle gives his insights on youh campaigning, so tune in!

P.S. Have you looked at all the designs for our new logo? There are over 110 designs that have been submitted so far! The last update I posted I told people to comment on which one they like, so feel free to listen to the new radio show while you peruse the designs, then give us feedback on the design that suits your tastes!

Check out those designs here.

Win $350 by designing our new logo!

By Jared Fuller, on Feb 11, 2010

Calling all graphic artists!

Want to win $350 by designing Year of Youth a new, awesome logo?

Then hop on board and get in the game by reading the brief, and submitting your designs to our contest on 99Designs.com.

Click here to view the contest, the brief, and submit your design.

When the logos start to roll in, you can vote on your favorite by commenting on this post here:

Post your votes below in the comments section when they start to come in, and tell your awesome, liberty-loving friends who have a knack for graphic design!

Wake Forest Town Hall

By Jared Fuller, on Feb 9, 2010

Just this past week, I had the distinguished pleasure of being invited to sit on a panel for a town hall at Wake Forest University. Year of Youth was a non-partisan (we like to think post-partisan) sponsor of the event, as well as several other libertarian, conservative, and a non-partisan organizations.

The message of localism transcended pretty much all political boundaries and people agreed:

We have to act, and act locally!

Feel free to check out my remarks in the below video that begin at minute 4. And, the second video is of BJ Lawson who talks particularly on the topic of localism, and more than hits the nail on the head..

Localism is catching on, I'm telling ya! Check out the two videos below.

Me, starting at 4:00:

BJ Lawson, full introduction clip (he knocked this one "outta the park!"):