Power Shift 2011: Climate Youth Mobilize For The Largest Organizer Training In History

wonkroom.thinkprogress.org:

Power Shift 2011, the biennial national summit of the youth climate movement, begins this Friday in Washington, DC. The challenges facing the Millennial generation posed by the dirty energy economy is seemingly insurmountable: the destruction of our planet's atmosphere, the poisoning of our political discourse, the dissolution of the American Dream. Armed with the vision of a cleaner, greener, future, the participants in Power Shift are choosing not just to fight back, but to organize and realize their collective potential.

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Comments

[tjconkster]

11:15 AM on 04/16/2011

I wonder if RepubliCorp will send Joe Barton to Japan as a special envoy to apologize to the plant's operators....

Barton apologizes to BP
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDwUC3utq-8

[Lyr]

06:38 PM on 04/15/2011

Misleading graphic, why not show some Neodymium mining pits that go with making those fancy windmills. We'll get to know them well enough since China is telling the rest of the world to pollute itself for it's green hypocrisy.

[Genders]

03:40 PM on 04/16/2011

Neodymium mining can be done in an environmentally friendly way, that Dictatorial Communist China does it dirty, should not surprise you, At least you only have to dig it up once, and your can recycle it from then on, with coal and fossil the digging just keeps going.

[Lyr]

04:42 PM on 04/16/2011

If it's clean and environmentally friendly why not do it here? The less toxic methods of production are still in the laboratory phase and not ready for the mass scale needed to produce the 700 lbs of magnets each 3 mw windmill needs. The amount of digging required to produce enough neodymium is massive, the mines I have seen look like open coal mines in their scale. Rare earth metal production and it's attendant pollution is something we will get to become a lot more familiar as China shuts out the west from their resources.

[dragonmaster]

04:36 PM on 04/15/2011

The Youth of today know more about the environment then most people do over 40- its their planet and they want a clean sustainable future for themselves and their children.

If the climate deniers and tea bag fools had their way, the entire nation would resemble Pittsburgh PA out of the 1940s.

[jimboy71]

05:02 PM on 04/15/2011

Then there is Rebecca Black and her hit Friday...which gives me serious pause to consider the possibility that your comment is wishful thinking.

[dragonmaster]

05:11 PM on 04/15/2011

The only wishful thinking here, is your denial of science, and religion to the special interests. I suggest you read what the National Academy of Sciences says, or read Dr. James Hansen's 'Storms of My Grandchildren'- in the latter you may just possibly learn something.

[tomteboda]

03:06 AM on 04/16/2011

I'm so irritated by a program recently developed in "environmental policy" at my university. Its heavy in social and political indoctrination, and very, very light on science. The aim of the degree (a graduate degree, no less) is to create informed environmental policymakers, but how can they possibly be informed if they remain scientifically and technically illiterate?!

[ClimateHawk]

04:20 PM on 04/15/2011

And it's off to a great start today.

The place is buzzing with positive energy!

[jimboy71]

05:01 PM on 04/15/2011

Are you there, or here? Or is that a trick question?

[ILoveFiction]

05:26 PM on 04/15/2011

Job fair.

Orange hat. Orange shirt.

[jimboy71]

02:42 PM on 04/15/2011

This is clearly another communofascist attempt to indoctrinate our children when they should be allowed to answer "jesus" to any and all science questions.

Whatever happend to the inclusion of church and state provided for by the constitution?

[dragonmaster]

05:26 PM on 04/15/2011

communofas­cist?

hmmm The term has also been adopted by conservative American political commentators to describe extreme or intolerant forms of leftist ideology

You are confused again- Communism and Fascism our opposite ideologies.
Fascism is described as;
Fascists advocate the creation of a totalitarian single-party state that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation and the creation of an ideal "new man" to form a governing elite through indoctrination, physical education, and family policy including eugenics.

Fascism is anti-communist, anti-democratic, anti-individualist, anti-liberal, anti-parliamentary, anti-bourgeois and anti-proletarian.

In economics, fascists oppose liberalism (as a bourgeois movement) and Marxism (as a proletarian movement) for being exclusive economic class-based movements.

Fascism is normally described as "extreme right"
They argue that nations and races must purge themselves of socially and biologically weak or degenerate people, while simultaneously promoting the creation of strong people, in order to survive in a world defined by perpetual national and racial conflict

Fascism promoted principles of masculine heroism, militarism, and discipline and rejected cultural pluralism and multiculturalism

Far right politics usually involve supremacism — a belief that superiority and inferiority is an innate reality between individuals and groups — and a complete rejection of the concept of social equality as a norm. Far right politics often support segregation; the separation of groups deemed to be superior from groups deemed to be inferior. Far right politics also commonly include authoritarianism, nativism, racism and xenophobia.

[jimboy71]

06:17 PM on 04/15/2011

"inclusion of church and state" was your ticket to sarcasm...but thanks for the dictionary lesson.

;)

[This American]

01:22 AM on 04/16/2011

They are variations on the collectivist theme. Under communism the means of production are directly manged by the government. Under fascism the means of production are under titular private ownership, but are coerced by government authorities into acting as if they were organs of the state. Both are socialist.

[persimmon8]

01:16 PM on 04/15/2011

This summit is "good news". It is the youth that are coming of age who will have to be quite heroic and deal with the realities that have been created by their predecessors. Although it is up to all of us to take responsibility for a planet we can leave to future generations. At this point there is urgent work and business to take care of to create a benign and sustainable situation globally. The hour is late!!!

[This American]

01:27 AM on 04/16/2011

"It is the youth that are coming of age who will have to be quite heroic and deal with the realities that have been created by their predecesso­rs."....Such as the enormous debt that the politicians they favor rung up for their account. These kids better get at least one and better yet two JOBS they will need them.

To call climate organizers "heroic" is truly sickening.

[persimmon8]

02:15 AM on 04/16/2011

...it's going to take a bit more than working at a regular job or two to deal with the serious problems we have all created. These kids are heros who are taking responsibility for real.

If we are going to survive in any kind of positive and sublime way on this planet....we must create sustainable cooperative communities with clean energy. What is sickening is to not deal with climate change or any of the difficult problems by pretending they do not exist.

[ILoveFiction]

05:40 AM on 04/16/2011

Hey, are you talking about student loans?

I hear the government tried to take over the Federal student loan program.

The nerve!