Get in on some Accountability Action Next Week!

Stories from across the country are coming in about some great actions to hold our elected leaders feet to the fire. BIG card deliveries, rallies outside of Capitols, lobby days inside. Check out just a few of the highlights below! And then start to plan your own, its not too late!

http://www.powervote.org/nov18

A post-election poll confirmed that “18-24 year-olds outpaced other age groups in their support for clean energy as a fix for America’s ailing economy, with 87 percent support.” Now that the election is over, we can’t let them forget it! Plan on action and tell us about it in the comments!

In the Rockies, Power Voters from Univ. of Northern Colorado and Univ. of Colorado, Boulder are printing out some big welcome cards, taking them to campus on Monday to get hundreds of signatures, then delivering them to their reps on Tuesday!

Students from four different campuses in Florida are headed to their State Capitol in Tallahasse where they’ll get a lobby training and then meet with the offices of Representatives Boyd and Nelson, along with meeting with 6 state reps. Meanwhile events are sprouting up all over Flordia, notably in Miami and the University of South Florida in Tampa.

Folks with the Maryland Student Climate Coalition are joining DC residents, CCAN, 1Sky and a host of other allies on Capital Hill to demand Obama and the new Congress to take “Climate Action Now.” The rally will serve as an energizer for when they storm the Capitol Building and talk with as many reps as possible.

S.P.E.A.K. at University of Tennesse, Knoxville are creating a HUGE 15 foot greeting card. That card is going to be nearly as big as the stack of Power Vote Pledges they collected this fall.

Chelsea of the Black Mesa Water Coalition is working to secure a meeting with newly elected Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick.

A green jobs campaign is underway at Clark University, and students there are using the Nov. 18th to demand green jobs now of their representatives.

And this is only the beginning. There are a ton of things going on out there. Got something planned? Post it in the comments!

About Whit

Whit recently graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, MN where he majored in International Relations and minored in Political Economy and Environmental Studies. While on campus, he and his friends worked to make Carleton carbon neutral by designing a Sustainability Revolving Fund, studying the feasibility of bringing new wind turbines to campus, and participating in Minnesota Campus Wars. He spent his summer organizing the March to ReEnergize Iowa, and is currently working on Power Shift 2007 and preparing for upcoming international climate negotiations in Bali as the Partnerships Coordinator for SustainUS