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Pledge “RespectSpeakUp”

"I will make my voice heard and help young people’s views to get noticed. When I have an opinion on a news story, I will voice it in the media by commenting online, writing to editors of papers or magazines, or calling in to TV or radio programmes. It’s our news too. but only if 1,000 other young people will pledge to do the same."

— Sophie Manning, Respect young people's advisory member (contact)

Deadline to sign up by: 31^st May 2010
279 people have signed up, 721 more needed

Country: United Kingdom

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This pledge is part of a new campaign to urge young people to take ownership of the media, and make their opinions heard, by using comment opportunities and new technology.

Respect? has teamed up with young people’s website TheSite.org, so visit www.TheSite.org/respect for tips and advice on how to make a splash in the media.

Launched on Fleet Street by former BBC broadcaster Martyn Lewis and young campaigners from the Respect? campaign group, the Respect? campaign is supported by online charity YouthNet and the British Youth Council.

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Comments on this pledge

• Young people are too often eveaded by this negative stereotype. People must remember we are not apathetic and we too care about the issues in our society!
  Scott Forbes, 16 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Absolutely. Do I count as young?
  Cllr. Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley (age 23), 12 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• This is a really good cause!
  Gaby J, 12 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Respect. The one thing we have consistently been taught throughout our lives - both in the home and in our first days at school. Why should it be then, that we are to learn to respect, yet do not receive it from those who supposedly are meant to set the example? Young people today have been boxed into a generalization that is far from the truth. So much so, that even young people believe the stereotype at times. We must make a stand, speak the truth and dispel this image so that we can finally have the respect that we all deserve.
  Kelly P Vien, 12 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• I have facilitated and organised a digital art course. This has now culminated in an exhibition that allowed young people aged from 12-16 to express their creativity. Opened by our local MP, I hope it continues to highlight the importance of getting young people, particularly females, involved in digital technology.
  Maggie Parker, 11 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• I speak up for young people's rights already by lobbying Government to open up the secret family courts. Why should young people have less human rights in these illegal secret courts than people who are tried for terrorism?
  
  I will continue to speak up for the human rights of all people, and especially for the young, elderly and disabled, who get pushed around and bullied far too often.
  Zoompad, 11 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• This is a great pledge and one that I fully support. As a young person, I don't feel that my views are adequately expressed in the media, and any that are, are generally portrayed in a negative light.
  wordpress theme, 8 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• I wrote a letter to the Exeter Express and Echo today in response to a letter about a personal recovery story. I wrote about the value of art in encouraging wellbeing and how helpful sharing personal recovery stories of managing mental health can be.I also mentioned the Time to Change Campaign. Last month I sat with a young man and a lady called Cathy and we took part in a two hour radio show on Recovery Stories and improving mental health. I do this partly in memory of Oggie - Chris Lightfoot who was a founder of My society and Pledgebank, a great young man with a huge heart and incisive mind, who lost his battle with depression on 11th February 2007.
  Linden Lynn, 7 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Traditional barriers of direct communication are crumbling. We exist in an age where, through the internet, it is possible to make your voice be heard no matter who or where you are.
  
  The Foreign Beggars are supporting the Respect? campaign because we want young people to use these tools and their voices to let journalists, the media, politicians and others in positions of power know the truth.
  DJ Nonames (James Miller), 4 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Dexplicit has signed the Respect? Pledge!
  Dexplicit, 4 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• Amir Khan has signed the Respect? Pledge!
  Amir Khan, 4 months ago. Abusive? Report it!
• I support this pledge fully. I think younger people should be allowed their points of views and to be treated with equal amount of respect as to how other people like to be treated.
  
  However, I don't see how some adults think that they can pick on us although we generally don't do anything wrong. I do believe the Respact? pledge will set things straight.
  Harry Leonard Bishop, 3 days ago. Abusive? Report it!

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