Pollution, the environment, bringing the troops home, better education, more affordable housing and rising gas prices, are just a few things on the minds of young Americans. Young people are clearly concerned about the world around them, much more than we adults give them credit for. A new website making internet waves is Vote for Me Because I Can’t – where young people, not yet able to vote, create, upload and share their own video messages online telling us who they would vote for if they were able, and why. The various video messages also ask if we won’t vote for ourselves then at least we should vote for their future.
The website, http://www.voteformebecauseicant.org, is a joint project of Media Kitchen and Innovation Nation, two media consulting firms located in NYC, specializing in online media and culture. “Our hope for this program is to encourage voting age citizens to vote beyond party lines and politics in a manner that reflects the concerns of the youth who will inherit the future we are creating for them now," says Varleton McDonald, co-founder of Media Kitchen.
Filming began in several schools in NYC and New Jersey in September 2008, but the real goal of the project is to encourage user generated videos. Kids can upload their user generated videos, similar to Youtube.
"We realize that while kids do not yet have the right to vote, they do have the right to an opinion,” says Manu Lawrence, CEO of Innovation Nation. “Our sincere desire is that this project not only inspires adults to think deeply about who they choose to become president, but also inspires those who might choose not to vote to do so."
Visit: http://www.voteformebecauseicant.com/
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