Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says twentysomethings have no political voice? Now baby busters have a gaggle of youth-oriented, political group to choose from. One of them, Third Millennium, bills itself as a "post-partisan group for twentysomethings," and presumes to speak for a generation of 80 million people between the ages...
...Tuesday, it will launch a generational counteroffensive against the American association for Retired People's "Generations United" conference in Washington, D.C Formed at RFK's Hickory Hill farm in Virginia last spring, Third Millennium has laid claim to the future of Americans politics. "if I were a politician and I were not concerned about this organization and the generation, I would do so at my peril," warns the group's spokesperson Deroy Murdock. Third Millennium has effectively snatched the voice of the generation. The creation of 20 former Students for Reagan, writers, publicists, and the son of a Kennedy...
...issues to match the concerns of the generation. None of the group's leaders have track records in public service. None them even has the blessing of a substantial grass-roots group on which to build a mandate. So if the generation is actually mobilizing for change, Third Millennium doesn't seem to represent...
Nevertheless, the national media has already recognized Third Millennium and other pretenders to the generational mantle with magazine covers and reams of newsprint. The group's glitzy kick-off press conference last July marked a "new generation's arrival," gushed the Dallas Morning News. A new Kennedy (RFK's son, Douglas, who is one of the group's co-founders) was ready to lead a new progressive era, reported a New York tabloid. Third Millennium's founders have even been compared to the leaders of students for a Democratic Society, which participated in the Social revolution of the 1960s...
...Third Millennium package hasn't sold well. After a summer of hot press only 1,000 people inquired about membership to Third Millennium, half of whom joined. In the six months since, another 600 have joined. According to the estimates of the group's executive director, Richard Thau, that comes out to only one new member for every story about the group that's run since July...