Share Your Story with the Movement! « It’s Getting Hot In Here

(Written by the Sierra Student Coalition Publishing Group)

For those of us in school, the semester is coming to a close and our student organizations are wrapping up projects for the year. We face the next academic season with the full knowledge that we are entering an era of new politics and new opportunities, and that many decisions await our communities, our campuses and our nation. As we expand the scope of our movement and the impact of our work, we are beginning to recognize the diversity of our own stories: the victories that we have won and the setbacks we have encountered, the hopes and fears for our future, and the strain and joy of pushing a country forward.

The Sierra Student Coalition Publishing Group invites the youth movement to share your personal stories throughout the coming year – starting now. Fill out our brief questionnaire with your group or as an individual as you reflect on your semester along with the challenges and the victories that it presented. We want to publish and distribute your stories to inform and expand nationwide dialogues among youth on what we have done and how we have done it. This is your opportunity to help other groups learn from your successes and challenges without having to re-invent the wheel, so to speak.

The SSC Publishing Group is a contribution-based peer-to-peer open-access media venue that publishes and documents material for and from the youth movement to make powerful information resources, literature and campaign materials widely available in various formats. Documentation and publication of the youth movement’s efforts plays a vital role for the movement as a whole. If you are interested in becoming a member of a team devoted to further establishing the literary heritage of this movement, contact us by emailing publishing@ssc.org or check out the SSC’s leadership opportunities.

About Juliana

Juliana Williams grew up in Washington State and graduated from Whitman College with a degree in geology. Juliana began organizing in 2004, working to get her campus to purchase renewable energy. She volunteered with the Sierra Student Coalition for three years and co-organized the Northwest Climate Justice Summit in 2007. She was a lead organizer for the SSC's March to ReEnergize Iowa, a four day march from Ames to Des Moines calling for smart national action on global warming. She currently works for the SSC as their Midwest Campus Organizer, supporting amazing students in MN, WI, IA, IL and MO working on global warming campaigns. Besides fighting the good fight against global warming, Juliana is an avid ultimate player, plays her string bass and spends way too much time on wikipedia.