For Immediate Release:	CONTACT:	Holly Anderson, ext. 114
May 4, 1998 at 7 a.m.
		(202) 835-3323

Gen X Activists Fight Poverty, Crime
and Major Consumer Issues

NCL Conference Features Young Movers and Shakers

      ORLANDO...MAY 4... The power of young people as advocates and consumers is the focus of the National Consumers League annual conference on Monday and Tuesday in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The conference unites community leaders, senior and labor representatives, and business people with young activists from around the nation.

      Local students include:

• LeAlan Jones, 19, a Peabody award-winning reporter and currently a criminal justice student at Florida State University. His story on the murder of a child on the South Side of Chicago, Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse, aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. LeAlan will elaborate on how the NPR story changed his life.

• Rebecca Loeb, a second grade student, exhibited her first food related allergic reaction when she was eight months old and has since been found to have potentially fatal allergies to numerous foods. Ms. Loeb is conscientious about her allergies, regularly reads ingredient labels, and always asks questions before she eats. She will speak with her mother, Sherri Loeb, who is on a mission to educate the public about the implications of food allergies.

• Donnel Selder, 17, a Dade City, Florida, volunteer with the Teen Dream Team. The Teen Dream Team is a unique club for young farmworkers and other poverty-entrenched youth in the five-mile radius of Lock Street in Dade City, an area of high youth crime, gang-related activity, violence, and drug trafficking.

      For a full agenda visit NCL's web site at www.natlconsumersleague.org or contact Daniel Helfman at 202-835-3323 ext. 116.

For more information, write or call the National Consumers League at 1701 K Street, NW, Suite 1200, Washington, D.C. 20006, (202) 835-3323. Log onto NCL at www.nclnet.org and NFIC at www.fraud.org.

Founded in 1899, NCL is the nation's pioneer consumer group which works to bring consumer power to bear on marketplace and workplace issues. NCL worked for child labor provisions in the Fair Labor Standards Act (passed in 1938) and more recently, has helped organize the Child Labor Coalition (CLC) which is committed to ending child labor exploitation in the U.S. and abroad.