Youth Rights Podcast

NYRA President Zane Miller interviews Jessica Irizarry, a mother in Mississippi who discusses her daughter's school using illegal searches on students and their possessions to seize their cell phones, and confiscate them for the entire year as punishment. Learn more at https://www.youthrights.org/

NYRA President Zane Miller Interviews Chrissy, a survivor of the troubled teen industry, who experienced involuntary psychiatric drugging from a young age due to Oppressive parents. Listen to her story on how the involuntary medicating and the troubled teen industry harms young people. Learn more at: https://www.youthrights.org/

NYRA Members Zane Miller and Faith Choe tell stories of Academic Pressures on Youth and the negative effects it can have on student mental health. Listen as they discuss the importance of Academic Choice for decreasing school-related stress. Learn more at: https://www.youthrights.org/

NYRA Members Zane Miller and Hailey Lyu discuss AI Surveillance in schools and constant digital monitoring of students. Listen as they discuss how AI monitoring can harm vulnerable students and be a threat to student privacy. Learn more at https://www.youthrights.org/ Read Hailey's article on the constitutionality of Ai Surveillance here: https://www.youthrights.org/why-ai-surveillance-in-scho...

NYRA Members Zane Miller and Ian Golec Interview Mike Males, a researcher on social science and youth justice. Listen as they debunk the myths around teenagers: Social media is not the cause of the youth mental health crisis and curfews are harmful for society. Learn more at https://www.youthrights.org/ Check out Mike Males' Substack here: https://mikemales.substack.com/

NYRA Members Zane Miller and Bailey McCoy tell personal experiences with great teachers, and the positive impacts they can have on students' lives. Listen as they discuss the importance of teachers that care about their students. Learn more at https://www.youthrights.org/ Watch Bailey's full story here: https://youtu.be/abZbh-cKqS8?si=ErRnVMqXfD4GDR5C

NYRA members Zane Miller and Faith Choe discuss racial discrimination by schools, teachers, and parents, and the impact it has on young people's lives. Listen to discussion on the harms of racial discrimination, and how experiencing racial discrimination from a young age can negatively effect children. Learn more at Youthrights.org

NYRA Members Zane Miller and Andrew Ferguson Interview Green Party Candidate for Texas District 31, Greg Stoker. Listen as they discuss Texas student rights violations, and how they connect to broader indoctrination of youth. Learn more at https://www.youthrights.org/ Find out more about Greg stoker at: https://www.stokerfortexas.com/

NYRA President Zane Miller Interviews JDawg, Founder of Gaming Brethren Advocates about age verification and online ID. Listen as they discuss how the internet and online gaming is beneficial for youth for education and social connectivity. Learn more at: https://www.youthrights.org/ Check out Gaming Brethren Advocates Website: https://gbamfs.org/ Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/U...

NYRA President Zane Miller Interviews Otis, a young person telling his story about how having access to social media and online support systems benefited him. Listen as they discuss how KOSA, the KIDS act, and social media restrictions for minors will harm vulnerable teenagers by removing these support systems. Read more about the harms of KOSA and KIDS - https://www.youthrights.org/how-the-kosa-a...

NYRA President Zane Miller Interviews Joule, a 17 year old teenager in the UK about her personal story of parental privacy violation. Listen as she discusses room searches, location tracking, overbearing control of relationships, body shaming, and the harms that social media bans for minors would have on her. Learn more at: https://www.youthrights.org/ Read more about the Harms of the UK's Soc...

NYRA President Zane Miller interviews NYRA Volunteers and Cincinnati Students Wyatt, Coleman and Gabe about their personal youth rights stories. Listen as they discuss flaws in the school system, privilege in private schools, teachers not taking students seriously, child abuse, and the dangers of parental notification laws. If you a youth rights supporter in the Cincinnati area and would like to b...

NYRA Members Zane Miller and Bailey McCoy discuss the limited rights of youth in court proceedings, and the limited autonomy youth have over legal situations that affect them. Listen as they discuss why it is important for law enforcement and judges to take youth seriously. Learn more at: https://www.youthrights.org/

NYRA members Zane Miller and Bailey McCoy explain emancipation proceedings, the situations where youth would need to be emancipated, and the benefits of emancipation for youth. Listen as they discuss the flaws in the Emancipation process and what makes it so difficult for minors to acquire. For more Emancipation resources: https://www.youthrights.org/issues/juvenile-justice/emancipation/ Learn mor...

NYRA Members Zane Miller and Bailey McCoy tell personal stories of growing up in toxic home environments, and how it has negatively impacted them. Listen as they discuss how youth mental health services fail to address the root of the toxic home environment, while treating the young people like they're the problem. Learn more at https://www.youthrights.org/ Failures of CPS to Intervene: https:...

NYRA Members and Houston Residents Zane Miller and Kelsey Duskie discuss the recent youth curfews that have been launched by several Houston Malls including Willowbrook Mall and Memorial City Mall. Listen as they discuss the harms of these policies, and the negative impacts of banning youth from businesses. Learn more at https://youthrights.org Footage of Willowbrook mall original video: https://y...

NYRA Members Rimon-Hadassah, Susan Milton, Imogen Gannon and Annie Friday discuss their personal experiences with self directed education, and the way that this form of education can provide benefits for young people. Listen as they debunk the myths about self directed education, and explain the problems that traditional school systems can have for youth. Learn more at https://youthrights.org

NYRA members Zane Miller and Kelsey Duskie explain Parental Financial Exploitation - situations where high earning children (like child actors and social media stars) are robbed of their income by their parents. Listen as they discuss how financial discrimination against youth empowers parental financial exploitation, and the ageist flaws in state laws attempting to protect youth from exploitation...

NYRA Members Zane Miller and Kelsey Duskie discuss Age Discrimination in hotel booking age policies and how those policies can create safety concerns for youth and young adults. Listen as they discuss various discriminatory age requirements of hotels, including some that require parental consent for young adults to check in. Learn more at https://youthrights.org 11:23 Bailey's full story: http...

NYRA members Zane Miller and Kelsey Duskie discuss personal stories of the issues that young people face when their parents fail to provide them with their identification and documentation. Listen as they discuss all of the systemic flaws that come from identification policies, and how it negatively affects youth. Learn more at https://youthrights.org Texas ID list for voting https://www.votetexas...

NYRA members Zane Miller, Susan Milton, Imogen Gannon and Amaris discuss the history of colonialism's impact on youth oppression. Listen as they speak about pre-colonial practices of community and adolescence, and how it compares to today. Learn more at https://youthrights.org

NYRA members Zane Miller, Giselle Barajas and Jayla Davis speak with Xochtil Larios, a Youth restorative justice advocate. Listen as they speak about restorative justice policies in school and communities, and how to shift away from a punitive prison system. Learn more at https://youthrights.org Check out Curyj at https://curyj.org/ If you want to be a part of the NYRA east bay node, email Oakland...

NYRA Members Zane Miller and Bailey McCoy discuss stories of bullying in schools, and ways that schools have handled it both positively and negatively. Listen as they discuss the connection between bullying and systemic youth rights issues such as phone bans, the freedom to record abuse, and taking young people seriously. Learn more at https://youthrights.org 6:00 and 39:13 - Watch Bailey's fu...

NYRA members Zane Miller, Rimon-Hadassah Walker, and Bailey McCoy discuss stories of parental discrimination and oppression of LGBTQ Youth. Listen as they discuss parental notification laws, runaway rights, failures of CPS to intervene, and more.

NYRA Board member Zane Miller interviews NYRA Volunteers Bailey McCoy and Rebecca Vigil about their experiences in the foster care system. Listen as they discuss flaws in the foster care system, child abuse, and failures of CPS to Intervene Learn more at youthrights.org