Mass Power Shift is Heating Up « It’s Getting Hot In Here

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This past weekend, fifty students and young profressionals from across Massachusetts descended upon the University of Massachusetts-Amherst to continue the planning efforts for Mass Power Shift. This second planning meeting drew upon the strength of an earlier planning meeting, which saw 70 students, community members, and young professionals from around the state attend. (Amherst is a bit tougher to get to for Boston area students). For the second meeting in a row, the excitement of the planning team was captured on film by a professional documentary maker.

Our planning efforts are well on our way, with space confirmed at Boston University (including the Track & Field Center with seating for up to 5,000 and 50 classrooms for workshops and strategy sessions) and on the Boston Common for our exciting rally Soul Purpose Live, an event we are partnering with local band Melodeego to put on. We’ve already scored our first press hit, and have successfully engaged environmental and community organziations from across the state to join in our planning efforts, including the Sierra Club, Clean Power Now, Clean Water Action, MassPIRG, Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light, the American Instittue of Architects – Central Massachusetts, the Worcestor Immigrant Coalition, and many many more! Workshops are getting confirmed and our planning team continues to grow.

While we are targetting our recruitment at folks within the state as we will be lobbying in favor of the Global Warming Solutions Act on the House side (the Senate is voting today on this important 80% by 2050 bill), students and community members from anywhere and everywhere are welcome to attend. For more information, check out our website at www.masspowershift.org or contact Craig Altemose at craig@masspowershift.org

About Craig

Craig Altemose is the founder and Executive Director of Better Future Project, which engages in movement-building to make communities more resilient and to accelerate a rapid and responsible transition away from fossil fuels. Currently, he serves on the Massachusetts Green Economy and Climate Protection Advisory Committee and on the board of the Mass Climate Action Network. Craig founded and led Students for a Just and Stable Future (MA's state network). He has previously served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Massachusetts Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Co-Chair of the National Association of Environmental Law Societies, worked with Energy Action as an intern and a fellow, and served on the Executive Committee of the Sierra Student Coalition, a group he remains active with. Craig helped plan Power Shift 2007, and was the Lead Organizer of the Massachusetts Power Shift conference in April, 2008. He holds a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School, a Master in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. in International Relations and Global Affairs from Eckerd College.

3 Responses to “Mass Power Shift is Heating Up”

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1 Carlos Rymer Feb 26th, 2008 at 7:44 pm

Amazing!!! It looks like it’s going to be a blast. Wow, you’ve really done a lot already. I think NY and NJ people should head up to MA Powershift. I’ll lobby for it.
2 jessejenkins Feb 27th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Rock on MYCA! You guys are lucky to have all that student-passion crammed into such a small state (as opposed to spread across two large states like the CCN) Rock out and kick some climate ass!
3 Deirdre Mar 1st, 2008 at 1:41 pm

er, exCited

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