PORTLAND, OR — Focus the Nation HQ is humming with activity. After doubling our staff in the last couple of weeks (pictured clockwise from bottom left: Laura, Alex, yours truly, Garett, Minna), the FtN team is getting down to the very important business of making January 31st, 2008 kick as much ass as possible.
In top news, we are now officially a nationwide teach-in (i.e. active in all 50 states) thanks to the University of North Dakota and Concord University in West Virginia whom Minna and Laura signed up this week. Booyah.
In local news we’ve brought on a team of intrepid interns (not pictured, but beautiful — trust me) from Lewis and Clark College. The intern team — Andrew, Angela, Dan, Kim, and Tori — are hard at work figuring out who we need to talk to at the 250 schools we still have to sign up.
And a related story, we are now 3/4 (that’s %75 if you aren’t that into fractions) of the way to our goal of 1000 institutions involved in Focus the Nation, having signed up our 750th just earlier today. Booyah-kah-shah.
But we’re not getting complacent. We’re calling and email professors and students at schools all across the country over the next month to make sure we get as many stragglers on board as we can. Did you know that NYU hasn’t signed up? Did you know that neither Amherst nor Hampshire has signed up? What’s the deal? If you can help with these or any other school that isn’t signed up yet, send us an email!
We’re also hard at work putting together an organizer’s kit to make it easier than ever to make Focus the Nation happen on your campus. If you are organizing a teach in and have any suggestions, let us know! If you’re not organizing an event, WTF?
Way to be Focus the Nation! I’m passing along the info to the college I used to go to in MA – Wheaton. I’m sure they will want to organize an event. Rock on.
NO GAS REQUIRED, an online environmental action portal, announced that it is launching a national student video art contest that aims to virally spread the message of zero emissions transportation alternatives.
The five entries with the most views on YouTube will each win a $1000 cash prize and a MILES Electric Vehicle for the sponsoring school.
To find out how you can participate in the MILES Revolution Video Contest and join the fight for cleaner transportation on your campus, visit the website at http://www.nogasrequired.com. Or you can send an email info@nogasrequired.com.
Word up, Josh! Thanks for helping out.