The Alliance of Youth Movements Summit will take place at New York’s Columbia Law School from December 3-5. Leaders of youth movements will launch a global network helping young people mobilize against violence and oppression. This amazing event is being sponsored by Howcast, Facebook, Google, YouTube, MTV, the U.S. Department of State, Columbia Law School and Access 360 Media.

This is another awesome example of how social-networking and other technologies are successfully being used to make a difference. 17 activist group leaders will collaborate on a set of principles and strategies, inspired by a movement against a Colombian extremist group that was formed and organized on Facebook.

“Aided by social-networking technologies, the organization inspired 12 million people in 190 cities around the world to take to the streets in protest against the FARC, an extremist group that has been terrorizing Colombia for more than 40 years,” an announcement of the summit read. “The magnitude of the marches illustrated once and for all that the FARC lacked a strong support base. Within days of the protests, the FARC witnessed massive desertions from their ranks.”- CNET.com

Speakers at the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit will include Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskowitz, Whoopi Goldberg, Oscar Morales, Founder, One Million Voices Against the FARC, Luke Russert, MSNBC, Matthew Waxman, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, and State Department Undersecretary James K. Glassman.

takepart and learn more about the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit at
http://info.howcast.com/youthmovements/summit