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Three Things This Week 1. Peace Prize What it is: Nadia Murad became the second youngest person to win the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts “to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war.” Why it's a start: In 2014 Mrs. Murad was kidnapped and taken into sex slavery by ISIS, where she and hundreds of girls were repeatedly raped and beaten. Thankfully she escaped to champion the rights of young women caught in the crossfire of war. In our slacktivism world, it’s encouraging to see a young person turn their empathy into action. It’s one thing to express outrage on social media, it’s quite another to go to work to end injustice. Whatever justice movement your teens are passionate about, help them mobilize their beliefs toward real change. Because “emotion without action is irrelevant.”   2. The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina What it is: Releasing October 26 on Netflix, this sister show of Riverdale stars Mad Men’s Kiernan Shipka as Sabrina in a dark spinoff from the original 1970’s Archie Comics characte