Are youth apathetic?

If you believed everything that you read in the corporate media then you would think that all young people are apathetic and that Australian youth are the most apathetic in the world. This is what two recent articles in the Sydney Morning Herald allege. "Young people nowadays are simply not interested in politics", argued Ben Heraghty, in an article titled ``Youth needs to be seen, heard and inspired, politically'', which appeared in the March 13 Sydney …

…a scale that the Sydney Morning Herald journalists fear to admit. Young people will need to take further radical political action in the future, because even though many of us can't vote, we can still have a voice when we demonstrate on the streets. History proves that young people can play a huge role in the fight against racism and injustice if they are organised and mobilised. http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2002/486/486p9.htm