Written by Heather Bradley-Kubo

On Saturday June 5th, 9 Gandhi Brigade teens launched their own multimedia campaigned, "Jovenes Pa'Lante" (Youth Moving Forward). The young people wowed their guests with workshops for youth and parents about sexual and reproductive health and the importance of communication and knowledge in order to prevent the rising rates of teen pregnancy for Latino youth.

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The Gandhi Brigade seeks a Youth Organizer to train young people how to conduct a social change campaign through media and community organizing strategies.

Four Teams gathered and competed at the Gandhi Brigade's 2010 Youth Media Festival and created 4 short films in 4 Hours that required the use of Genre that was given to each team as well as 1 Prop and 1 Line of Dialogue.

See the videos after the jump.

Click the button directly to the right of the play/pause button to pull up the other videos.

Gandhi Brigade’s “Express Yourself!” Youth Media Festival was a complete success! With over 1500 people in attendance, this festival was our biggest to date. We had live entertainment all day, ongoing movie screenings of all our submitters, a VIP youth lounge, and interactive activities that filled the Ellsworth strip in Downtown Silver Spring.

We would like to send out a big thanks to our friends at Radio Rootz for coming out to our 2010 Youth Media Festival and providing terrific coverage of our event! The student-led group covered the event with live streaming of the youth performers and conducting interviews and discussions with different figures, performers and staff at the festival. http://www.peoplesproductionhouse.org/component/content/article/58-radio...

Gandhi Brigade youth teamed up with peers from the African Immigrants and Refugee Foundation to make the case for youth space in downtown Silver Spring. The meeting with County Executive, Ike Leggett was organized by Safe Silver Spring. Young people explained why dedicated space for youth was a critical missing element of the downtown development.

Written by Douglas Reyes-Ceron

Gandhi Brigade recently held their April 8th kick off to the 2010 Youth Media Festival. The Kick-off, held at the AFI Silver Theater, also honored the judges who will be judging all the Youth Media Submissions for this year's submission contest.

Written by Ashley Simmons

As part of their Earth Day celebration, the Population Institute approached the Gandhi Brigade to produce some videos about the effects of population growth on the environment.

While Silver Spring has strong youth leadership with experience in event planning and community organizing, these valuable services are very difficult to perform without a dedicated space.