Misled Youth Network

There are so many of us -- livewires with bad connections. No matter where we are, it never quite feels like home. This is a place for squatters, skaters, graffiti writers, teen mothers, and kids who hide poetry under their mattresses. This is a place for comic book nerds, ghetto geniuses, suicidal guitarists, and queer video producers. This is a place for incarcerated visionaries, runaway breakdancers, and honest criminals. This is for the dropouts with straight A's in survival. Our communities bristle with loose ends and frayed connections, and we sputter and burn out with no outlets for our energy. Problems and solutions lay strewn around, ignorant of each other's existence, severed by disunity and mistrust. A lot of us are called crazy, misguided and, misled. In reality, we are simply trying to make our way in a world engineered and controlled by older generations. We devise prototypes and assemble contraptions our music, cultures, styles, and politics. Those in power try to patent our inventions and sell them back to us. They'd rather plug us into TV shows and video games than see us build our own original circuitry. The Misled Youth Network is a switchboard, a sound system, a junkyard with just the right parts for whatever you're trying to build. This website is a place for creative, ambitious, caring, or just plain pissed off young people to share ideas, find support, and collaborate with peers. We're already generating an incredible amount of creative electricity -- now it's just a matter of hooking up the wiring and pulling out the breakers so we can power anything we dream up. See http://misled-youth.org for more information.