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1. We are all in this War, from Youth Speaks Seattle.

Corbin Bugni's [BYOO nee] brother is fighting in Iraq. Corbin reflects on his own anger and fear, and the wars he feels drawn into every day.

PRODUCER
Corbin Bugni performed this poem when he was 17 years old at a competition for Youth Speaks Seattle, a slam poetry workshop and performance group.

2. Finding the Time from KUOW's Weekday High

Between volunteering, sports, school, jobs, family and friends, a lot of teens don't have the time to learn 'jack squat' about politics. Lillian Warner investigates.

PRODUCER:
Lillian Warner lives in Seattle. She made this story when she was 17 years old for KUOW?s summer training program, Weekday High. She got help from Nathan Friend and Irene Noguchi

3. Campaigning for Credit, from the Alaska Teen Media Institute

In Anchorage, some students get school credit to work on political campaigns. Tonei Glavenic finds they learn a lot about political work, including that it's often what you'd call...boring.

PRODUCER:
Tonei Glavinic lives in Anchorage, Alaska. He made this story when he was 17 years old for the Alaska Teen Media Institute. He got help from Shana Sheehy.

4. Our host, Amina Al-Sadi, is joined by Michelle Herman (16) and Henry Apfel (17), members of a local high school speech and debate team. They talk about how their families have shaped their political views.

5. The Night I Met Newt, from KRCB's Voice of Youth

Greg Shimada likes to go on late night graffiti missions and listens to music politicians complain about. So imagine his surprise when he found himself eating caviar with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. We go along for the ride.

PRODUCER
Greg Shimada lives in Sonoma County, California. He worked on this story when he was 18 years old, with Laquoia Simmons, for KRCB's Voice of Youth. They got help from Tatiana Harrison.

6. Voting Behind bars, from the Blunt Youth Radio Project

Maine is one of the few states that lets inmates vote. Branden's locked up in a juvenile detention center in Maine. He asks 18-year-old inmates if they're going to exercise their right to vote.

PRODUCER
Branden made this story for Blunt Youth Radio in Portland, Maine.

7. Amina, Henry and Michelle were kids on 9/11. They talk about how the attacks, and America's reaction to them, affected their political views.

8. Global Warming Rap, from Terrascope Youth Radio

If you don't do something to stop global warming, you 'might as well shoot your children, because that's who you?re killing.' So say these Cambridge, Mass. teens. They got into politics and made this rap.

PRODUCERS
Aaron King, Fahim Sinha and Nelson Dow produced this story for Terrascope Youth Radio, a collaboration between MIT and Cambridge Youth Programs, funded in part by the National Science Foundation.

9. Dear Mom: I Joined the Marines, from Curie Youth Radio

Omar Macias fought his mother over whether he could join the Marines. When he turned 18, it was his choice. He wrote this plea to his mom, in hopes she'd understand his decision.

PRODUCER
Omar Macias produced this story when he was 18 years old for Curie Youth Radio, a class at a public high school in southwest Chicago.

10. Be All You Can Be, from a graduate of KUOW's Weekday High

Molly McGill's family always assumed her brother would join the army and Molly would go to college. But Molly is still thinking of signing up for the service. She goes on a personal investigation to find out if it's right for her.

PRODUCER:
Molly McGill made this story when she was 18 years old for KUOW. She got help from Jenny Asarnow. She's a graduate of KUOW's Weekday High training program.

11.Alan Wolf, from the Youth Noise Network

Lena Eckert-Erdheim started protesting the war in Iraq before it began. But she started to think that protests don't make much difference. She went to a corner in downtown Durham to ask a middle aged man, Alan Wolf, why he protests there every week.

PRODUCER:
Lena Eckert-Erdheim made this story for Youth Noise Network, an after-school program in Durham, North Carolina. Financial support came from the North Carolina Civic Education Consortium, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, and the City of Durham.

12. Amina, Michelle and Henry talk about political protests. Do they make a difference? Amina also poses the question: should teens get involved in politics?

13. Students' Rights: Then and Now, from Blunt Youth Radio

In 1969 the Supreme Court ruled that students 'do not shed their constitutional rights...at the schoolhouse gate' and could protest the Vietnam war in school. What rights do protesting students have today?

PRODUCER:
Charlie Thaxton made this story when he was a high school sophomore for Blunt Youth Radio in Portland, Maine.

14. Coming out for Politics, from KUOW's Weekday High

Bryce Jacobson is a junior at a private Christian school in a small, conservative town. He's generally apathetic toward politics. But he realizes he's been an activist in one way: by coming out.

PRODUCER:
Bryce Jacobson made this story when he was 16 years old, for KUOW's summer training program, Weekday High. He got help from Nathan Friend and Irene Noguchi.