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2012-25

Support for Youth Platform

Proposed by Xochitl Espinosa, NALACC

Whereas, more than 25 youth leaders met during the Work Sessions on Migration, Culture and

Youth, (Jornadas de Migracin, Cultura y Juventud) in Chicago, IL immediately preceding the2012 Latino Congreso, May 16-17, 2012, and,

Whereas, the following consensus declaration was prepared by the group on issues of

education, workers rights, culture, and empowerment.

EDUCATION:

-We demand the integration of curriculum, language, and history relevant to Latino youth into

U.S. educational structures.

-We demand spaces and structural processes for Latino youth to empower, affirm, and expresstheir cultural identity.

-We demand resources and access to spaces of understanding the topics of sexuality, health,

and educational processes for Latino families.

-We demand resources and access for the development of various culturally sensitive parenting

tools, for Latino families including inter-generational dialogue.

- We demand NLC organizers to host an annual pre-NLC youth summit driven to discuss youth-

related issues.

- We demand that every Latino student with disabilities has equal access to public education

and their needs are fully met. Upon graduation, they should be just as able to be employed as

anybody else.

WORKERS RIGHTS

-We demand the equal treatment of all Latino workers regardless of status, citizenship, race,

age, gender, and language.

-We demand legal resources for workers to voice their demands, hardships, and discrimination

both within Latino organizations and within the workplace.

We committ to monitor the track record of Latino politicians to make sure our agendas are

their priorities.

We commit to develop advocacy stragegies aimed to solve the main issues affecting Latino

youth in the U.S. and to address the root causes of migration in sending countries

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EMPOWERMENT

-We demand spaces and access for Latino youth to be a part of leadership and all decision-

making processes and structures.

-We demand access and know-how to electoral political process within all Latino organizationsand in larger political bodies.

-We demand spaces for dialogue and collaboration for intercultural Latino groups.

-We demand the end of damaging stereotypes in the media, and all public arenas in the United

States.

-We demand an end to homophobic language towards Latinos and all LGBTQ.

-We demand an end to sexist and patriarchal language in our culture.

- We demand recognition, inclusion, and more resources for undocumented-led youth

organizations

CULTURE

We demand youth-led alternative and independent spaces for virtual dialogue to foster

solidarity across borders

We demand student-led Latino summits to know their problems and issues

We demand spaces that foster creative and conscious art education and conversations that

supports and empower Latino migrant youth to change the xenophobic treatment of Latinos inthe media.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that organizations represented by delegates of the 2012 National

Latino Congreso:

Should establish a Latino Youth Forum to be held prior to the NLC to provide a space to debate

and reach consensus about the most important issues and strategies to solve problems

affecting them across borders. The forum must include multiple agendas including culture,

human rights, education, labor rights, civic and political engagement, environmental rights and

any other issues deemed necessary by the NLC.

BE IT FURTHERMORE RESOLVED that the organizations represented by the delegates of the

2012 NLC support, disseminate, and adopt the declaration of the second Youth, Culture, and

Migration Summit, which reflect the opinions of Latino Youth in the United States and various

countries of Latin America on political, economic, cultural, and social policies affecting them,

fostering the development of multinational and multi-sector networks to find articulated

answers to these issues.

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The NLC should follow up on the resolutions proposed by Latino youth and support the Youth,

Culture, and Migration Summit as a bridge to build networks and alliances among Latino youth

in the United States and Latin America, empowering them to follow up the agreements related

to Latino youth and include the outcomes of the youth summit in plenaries and workshops.

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the NLC should include youth representatives, increasing thenumber of youth delegates with full voting rights to a minimum of 25% of the full assembly and

respecting their forms of expressions as active actors with the capacity for organizing and

leading many relevant social justice processes for the Latino population.