Vy Nguyen, Mireaya Medina, Christopher Luchini, Indasia Summerfield, Jessica Valdefiera, and Allah Parks from American Friends Service Committee United Voices Youth Group in Portland have won second prize in the National Priorities Project "If I Had a Trillion Dollars" video contest. The youths win Flip cameras and a national spotlight on their vision for the future of the nation, with their answer to the question of how they would spend the more than $1 trillion dollars spent on the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. They mixed in statistics on the Federal Budget: 58 percent goes to military spending, while only 4 percent goes towards education. View this video at youtube. com/watch?v=GVi114dypQ4.
