A New Green Youth Movement- John Kerry

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-kerry/a-new-green-youth-movemen_b_350947.html">A New Green Youth Movement

I know the difference a generation of young Americans in motion can make.

I was in college at a time of great political ferment and fundamental changes to our social fabric: the Civil Rights Act, the beginning of the counterculture and the passage of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that set us on a disastrous path of deepening involvement in Vietnam.

When I came home from war disillusioned, I joined with millions of young people who marched against Richard Nixon's Vietnam policy, against racial bigotry, against gender bias, and we changed our country for the better. We read Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and our generation formed the bedrock of the activism that gave America its first Earth Day and the modern environmental movement.

Now, it's time for a new generation of Americans to get in motion -- because the very survival of our planet depends on them.