Word: millenium
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...think so," Richard Thau, executive director of Third Millenium, says when asked if he is preaching politics to a generation that has no use for them. "We're trying to create awareness that there's a crisis...
Thau represents a new wave of political activism: generational advocacy. Third Millenium is political group which sees itself as a voice for disenchanted twentysomethings...
Thau's group, too, remains interested in government economics, particularly the deficit and the possible future bankruptcy of the Social Security Administration. Third Millenium leaders say they want to slow down the normally rapid cycle of politics and instead focus the nation's leaders on the long term...
Less than a year after it was founded, Third Millenium claims to have signed up 1,000 members. Newsweek and The New York Times have written stories about the group, and MTV regularly covers its activities...
...that doesn't mean the organization has caught on among twentysomethings. In fact, several Harvard students questioned by The Crimson said they had never heard of either Third Millenium or Lead or Leave...