It’s Getting Hot In Here

You couldn’t slap the grins (and some tears) off our faces as we sat with six thousand students dedicated to changing the world this weekend at Power Shift.

It was incredible to be in the same spot at the same time with thousands of other people our age who get it and want to do something about it.

We needed it.

We needed to know there were that many of us who cared (and think of all the people who couldn’t make it).

But now the real work starts. This weekend alone will not force our leaders to listen and act – we’ve just begun to heat things up – we need to engage them in their districts with some serious education.

If anything inspires us more than the raw enthusiasm unleashed this weekend, it’s what that enthusiasm will become when we all head back to our campuses and gear up for Focus the Nation. We used to think January 31st would be huge; now we know it is going to change the world!

In less than 90 days, millions of student-citizens will combine the knowledge of academia with the drive our generation has sparked by creating the largest teach-in in U.S. history.

Not only will we help more people get educated on the issue, we will take that knowledge into a solution-oriented discussion with politicians where we get to grill them on how well educated they are on this crisis. And then, we’ll vote on top solutions and send the word back to Washington DC and our state capitols.

Will your campus and community make history? Is your community a part of the solution yet? How can you make it happen there?

Check out our new Organizers HQ with all the tools you need to harness this weekend’s excitement back at home and lead your community to the brighter, cleaner, more just future we deserve and demand.

Consider this a call to all who were moved this weekend by Power Shift and Step it Up to come home and Focus the Nation so we can hit DC with another wave February 1^st. Let’s keep the heat on!