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This has been a huge week of victories for divestment campaigns across the nation!  Students are turning up the heat and campaigns are reaching a tipping point as the semester builds toward Board of Trustee meetings in May.  They're showing their trustees the powerful bredth and depth of student, faculty, and alumni support for divestment.

Every day our movement has seen new victories as student governments and student bodies nationwide pass resolutions and referendums with overwhelming and at times unanimous support of divestment.  As our friends at Responsible Endowments Coalition say - Our Endowment, Our Responsibility, Our POWER!

As I watched the snow fall outside my window yesterday, it was hard to believe that summer is right around the corner. But you better believe that it’s coming, and the time to figure out your summer plans is NOW!

Summer is a critical time to build and strengthen the movement, and luckily there are tons of opportunities to get involved in the youth climate movement this summer!

Check out our Summer Opportunities page to find out what’s going on across the movement! Many application deadlines are approaching soon!

Photo Credit: Shadia Fayne Wood

Let’s skip right to the big news: Power. Shift. 2013.

This October 18-21 over 10,000 of us will come together in Pittsburgh, PA for Power Shift 2013, the largest and most powerful convergence in the history of the youth climate movement.

Are you as excited as we are? Let us know and be the first to get updates about Power Shift 2013!

In the past year, our movement has made incredible progress fighting Keystone XL, shutting down the coal industry, scaling up renewables, and building a movement to see this work through.

Power Shift 2013 is our opportunity to come together and shift our country ENTIRELY AWAY from fossil fuels and TOWARD local clean energy solutions.

Yesterday was truly incredible — starting with the inspring Youth Convergence where 500+ young people gathered to continue building this movement and talk about the incredible work students are doing to push their colleges to divest from fossil fuels and move to 100% clean energy — and ending with the 50,000 strong #ForwardOnClimate rally, the largest rally in US history calling for climate action!

We’d love to hear from those of you who were at the rally or the convergence, so please share your experience on the blog! In the meantime, we wanted to share some of our favorite photos of the day.

500+ young people gather before the #ForwardOnClimate rally — Photo Credit: Energy Action Coalition