ABSTRACT
In 2003, Kim McGill and 60 other people who had been jailed, imprisoned or deported got together to build a youth, family, and prisoner-led movement to end juvenile detention. The organization that they built, Youth Justice Coalition (YJC), is one of dozens of groups in the United States that use popular education and other methods of critical inquiry to support young people from marginalized communities to become activists, conduct participatory action research. In the early 2000s, as YJC was forming, other youth and their allies around the country also discovered the potential of youth-led media projects to build political organizing skills and incite action on issues that were ignored by adults and mainstream media. As a social justice youth media-arts organization that supports youth organizers to tell their stories, Global Action Project (GAP) saw clearly that the media landscape was quickly changing.
