Say It!: Story-telling as Organizing was a program that trained 15 youth interns in the skills of participatory research and storytelling as organizing. The youth story-tellers engaged over 400 local youth in their communities, neighborhoods, and schools to identify key issues youth are facing, the potential root causes of those issues, and strategies for organizing youth movements to transform those issues.
For us, story-telling is political. Every story raises young people’s voices, sheds light on their most pressing issues, and inspires visions and strategies for local social change. These stories are political beginnings of the political change we want to make in our homes, neighborhoods, communities, schools, and worlds.
