Teaching the Next Generation Their Rights Before They Lose Them — April 30, New York City

Our rights don't disappear overnight. They erode — quietly, gradually — until one day a generation wakes up and doesn't know what they lost because nobody ever taught them what they had.

That is the defining challenge of our time.

The Crisis Nobody Is Talking About

We are not teaching our children enough about the Constitution. About the Bill of Rights. About why those documents exist — not as historical artifacts, but as living protections against the permanent human tendency toward concentrated power.

A child who doesn't know their First Amendment rights cannot defend them. A young adult who has never studied the Fourth Amendment cannot recognize when it is being violated. A generation that inherits a country without understanding what holds it together will not know how to hold it together when pressure comes.

Rights that are not understood are rights that are already being surrendered.

Why This Moment Matters

We are living through a period of extraordinary pressure on foundational American institutions. The pace of change — technological, political, cultural — is faster than at any point in modern history. And the people who will navigate that future are young Americans who are, right now, forming their understanding of what this country is and what it stands for.

If we do not reach them now — if we do not sit down with our children and our communities and have the honest, courageous conversations about rights, responsibilities, and the covenant that binds this nation — we will look back on this decade as the moment we let it slip away without a fight.

The 917 Society exists because freedom is not self-sustaining. It requires people who understand it, who can articulate it, and who are willing to defend it.

April 30 — New York City — Washington's Prayer Walk

On April 30th, we gather in New York City for Washington's Prayer Walk — a rededication of this nation under God. Not as a political statement. As a moral one.

A reminder that the founding of this country was not an accident of history. It was a covenant. George Washington knelt at St. Paul's Chapel in Lower Manhattan on April 30, 1789 — the day of his inauguration — and consecrated this nation. That act of humility and faith set the tone for everything that followed.

On April 30, 2026, we return to that same ground to renew that covenant. We bring our children. We teach them where we came from. We show them what it looks like to stand for something bigger than any one of us.

The Commitment

The 917 Society is committed to making sure the next generation inherits not just a country — but the knowledge, the conviction, and the courage to keep it.

That means teaching constitutional rights in homes, in communities, and in every conversation we have with young people who are watching us to see whether any of this actually matters to us.

It matters. It has always mattered. And on April 30th, we prove it.

April 30th. New York City. Washington's Prayer Walk. Come stand with us.

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Jimmy Hayes is a member of the 917 Society and Founder and CEO of Data Power Supply.