{"pk":3121,"title":"The 500 Windows Campaign: A Case Study of a Youth Movement for Educational Resources in South Africa","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This case study seeks to examine what organizing methods and ethos helped Equal Education (EE), a community-based youth organization, convince government officials to repair 500 broken windows at Luhlaza School in Khayelitsha, an impoverished township near Cape Town, South Africa. Through various methods, including petitions, op-ed articles, and a rally, the group succeeded in its campaign. EE takes inspiration from apartheid-era youth movements. In the burgeoning democracy of the \"New\" South Africa, EE constitutes the next generation of youth civic engagement.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"South Africa"},{"word":"activism"},{"word":"civic engagement"},{"word":"community engagement"},{"word":"sociology"},{"word":"International and Comparative Education"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7r8387bx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Harini","middle_name":"","last_name":"Angara","name_suffix":"","institution":"Harvard University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2010-06-30T07:00:00Z","date_accepted":"2010-06-30T07:00:00Z","date_published":"2011-05-31T07:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/gseis_interactions/article/3121/galley/1914/download/"}]}