Monday, July 9, 2012

A Round-Up of Recent Millennials News-Sightings


  • From Andrew Sullivan comes a haunting piece about a fundamentalist Christian preacher whose son is gay. The original piece highlights the growing conflict between Millennials and conservative Christianity.  Here's where it gets into a discussion of Millennials and religion.
  • Policymic has a good post up about Newark Mayor Cory Booker's foray into Millennial media with his project #waywire (see what he did there with the hashtag? He soooo knows us.)  The problem?  Booker's no Millennial.
  • In the Meta Department, blogger Sierra from the phoenix and olive branch, has a lovely little piece on Thing I Love About Being a Millennial.  My favorite: "I’m so happy to be part of the generation that fights back against street harassmentrape and domestic violence." Me too.  Do yourself a favor and go check it out.
  • Are Millennials anti-capitalist?  (Mobilize.org)
  • Will college students/Millennials throw off the chains of oppression, and take to the streets at the major party conventions this summer?  Will they overthrow their superiors in the august halls of the university?  Somehow I doubt it, but as James Howard Kunstler says, "weird things happen."  (Dissident Voice)
  • Finally, Forbes has another profile of Millennials.  When will the business community stop treating Millennials like a strange anomaly to be understood, commodified and put in a box? (Forbes)

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