BECAUSE in 2001, Adam Taylor (at far right) co-founded Global Justice, an organization “designed to mobilize young people” around social issues of worldwide consequence. BECAUSE, while many of their peers spend time searching for the new Britney Spears instead of the next Martin Luther King Jr., these students choose activism over complacency, the profound over the trivial. BECAUSE while attending the group’s first national conference in March 2003, I marveled as youths from all over the country congregated to express their outrage at the West’s relative indifference to the exploding AIDS crisis in the Third World. BECAUSE it was a revelation to meet 700 young people who had sacrificed their time and money as part of their focused commitment to what they see as the second act of the unfinished civil- rights revolution. BECAUSE their message is that every day 8,500 people die from H.I.V./AIDS, even though there are lifesaving medications that can be made affordable. BECAUSE after the conference we went out and lobbied members of Congress and, between us, cornered 25 senators. BECAUSE on February 26 the National Rally for Decisive Global Action will converge on Washington as some 8,000 young activists participate in the Student March Against AIDS. BECAUSE during the first 100 days of President Bush’s second term Congress will determine its budgetary priorities and possibly cut back on our allocation to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria/ BECAUSE this growing voice of youthful dissent could sway our leaders toward some kind of real political awakening. BECAUSE their aim, as their name states, is global justice.