Conference Updates

The Southeast has historically been a launching pad for significant, world-changing social movements. This weekend at the 7th Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference (SSREC), the power and energy of the more than 400 youth organizers in attendance made it easy to feel that we too are making history. Hosted by the Southern Energy Network, youth from across the Southeast gathered for an incredible weekend full of essential organizing trainings, motivating workshops, and inspirational speakers. Youth in the Southeast are organized, trained, and energized! After this year’s SSREC, they’re turning up the heat to head home and ramp up their campaigns to achieve a 100% clean energy economy.

Hello New Yorkers!

Breaking news about Power Shift New York: The Green Umbrella is postponing the convergence to April 2012.

Two weeks ago, Josh Fox brought to our attention that the Delaware River Basin Commission will be holding a hearing on October 21 in Trenton, NJ, to determine whether fracking will be permitted in the region. The Delaware River Basin supplies clean drinking water to over 15 million people in four states (NY, NJ, PA, DE). This is our call to action. We need to mobilize New York youth to rally at the hearing alongside thousands of others - it’s a pivotal moment in the anti-fracking movement.

While Power Shift New York has to be postponed, we’ve already laid the foundations for an awesome conference, and more time means more people, more workshops, and a better action! We need you to help us escalate to Power Shift and make Power Shift the tipping point for youth power and clean energy in New York.

• If you are interested in organizing your campus/community to the DRBC hearing in Trenton, NJ on 10/21, sign up here.

• If you are interested in organizing your campus/community to Power Shift New York in April 2012, sign up here.

Get involved in the swelling movement of NY youth calling for a healthy, sustainable future! Join the weekly conference calls each Thursday for the Green Umbrella, the network of New York Youth for a Just and Sustainable Future. The call-in code is 916-209-4534, and the PIN is 753-094.

Hope to organize with you soon!

The Power Shift New York Planning Team