Comments on: Power Shift Saturday: A Message of Optimism http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/11/04/powershift-saturday-a-message-of-optimism/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:45:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Benjamin Fogarty http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/11/04/powershift-saturday-a-message-of-optimism/#comment-55899 Benjamin Fogarty Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:21:11 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/11/04/powershift-saturday-a-message-of-optimism/#comment-55899 Saturday was the day that kids' priorities were switched around. It was the day that the most crucial youth movement in history kicked off officially. It was a day that should begin the reevaluation of what we not only need, but HAVE to do starting NOW. It should mark a change in the mentality of all college students, and a shift to a steady dedication to this movement. The empowering effects of this conference and all to come, along with our shift of priorities, is going to SHIFT power into our hands, power to finally stand up for our lives and our planet, power to intimidate all legislators, power to elect a conscious president and power to steer humanity away from its horrifying trajectory. Like the scores of intelligent scientists and Ph.Ds said over and over: IT CAN BE DONE!!! Let's go powershift 2007!!! Saturday was the day that kids’ priorities were switched around. It was the day that the most crucial youth movement in history kicked off officially. It was a day that should begin the reevaluation of what we not only need, but HAVE to do starting NOW. It should mark a change in the mentality of all college students, and a shift to a steady dedication to this movement. The empowering effects of this conference and all to come, along with our shift of priorities, is going to SHIFT power into our hands, power to finally stand up for our lives and our planet, power to intimidate all legislators, power to elect a conscious president and power to steer humanity away from its horrifying trajectory.

Like the scores of intelligent scientists and Ph.Ds said over and over: IT CAN BE DONE!!! Let’s go powershift 2007!!!

]]> By: Stephanie Low http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/11/04/powershift-saturday-a-message-of-optimism/#comment-55877 Stephanie Low Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:20:26 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/11/04/powershift-saturday-a-message-of-optimism/#comment-55877 I'm teaching bunches of people how to lobby their state/federal legislators, using as a focus of my 90-120 minutes seminar a NYS bill, A 8641-B, "NYS Lighting Efficiency and Toxics Reduction Act." I charge nothing, but require a commitment that the person who attends will then lobby the bill and stay in touch with me till it's passed. It has good chances of passage. I feel I know something about lobbying because I spent 3 years on voting machine integrity, working with New Yorkers for Verified Voting (nyvv.org) and then Vote Trust USA (votetrustusa.org). With vtusa, I spent 3 months last year lobbying 65+ legislative offices in DC and pushed the co-sponsor level from 189 to 222 (some of that was snowball and getonthebandwagon effect). That number pushed the bill to be marked up and discussed on the House floor in the 110th Congress. Please contact me if you know of groups that would like to program my seminar, in and around NYC. I’m teaching bunches of people how to lobby their state/federal legislators, using as a focus of my 90-120 minutes seminar a NYS bill, A 8641-B, “NYS Lighting Efficiency and Toxics Reduction Act.” I charge nothing, but require a commitment that the person who attends will then lobby the bill and stay in touch with me till it’s passed. It has good chances of passage.
I feel I know something about lobbying because I spent 3 years on voting machine integrity, working with New Yorkers for Verified Voting (nyvv.org) and then Vote Trust USA (votetrustusa.org). With vtusa, I spent 3 months last year lobbying 65+ legislative offices in DC and pushed the co-sponsor level from 189 to 222 (some of that was snowball and getonthebandwagon effect). That number pushed the bill to be marked up and discussed on the House floor in the 110th Congress.
Please contact me if you know of groups that would like to program my seminar, in and around NYC.

]]> By: Alex http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/11/04/powershift-saturday-a-message-of-optimism/#comment-55799 Alex Sun, 04 Nov 2007 07:37:50 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2007/11/04/powershift-saturday-a-message-of-optimism/#comment-55799 [...] Read the rest of this great post here [...] [...] Read the rest of this great post here [...]

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