JOB: The other (paid!) summer fellowship you should take a good hard look at. Seriously please read this.

[Sahar Massachi]

Deadline May 1: http://act.boldprogressives.org/signup/fellowship/

Four years ago, I took a summer fellowship that changed my life.

That's where I learned the online organizing skills that I still use today. And it's where I met smart, passionate people who I stay in touch with. Everything I did at Brandeis post-2009 came from that experience.

You can have it too. http://act.boldprogressives.org/signup/fellowship/

The PCCC are the people who drafted Elizabeth Warren. They're the smartest, toughest, strongest force on the electoral/institutional left outside of organized labor. If you get accepted to be a summer fellow, you'll learn how to work the media, how to use email, facebook, and data to organize in cool new ways. You'll see the cutting edge.

But Sahar, I'm not a liberal! I don't believe in electoral politics.

I'm not one either. But let's separate the tools from the ideology a bit. The stuff you can learn here, you can use for awesome organizing at Brandeis and beyond. Besides, the people on the PCCC are about as left as you can get in DC. They'd like you. For example - their co-founder was strongly involved in Occupy DC for months as a valued member. 

But Sahar! I'm not qualified!

You probably are. I've seen SDS and the Justice League do incredible work. In some ways, you're also on the cutting edge. And I tried hard to prepare you for stuff like this by teaching you skills, like email blasts and online campaigning. How many other college kids have that under their belt? You're from Brandeis fucking University. Organizing is what we do.

Hey, um, remember when we did that campaign together? The website link doesn't work anymore.

Let me know if you want to link to something (Celebrate Brandeis?) and the URL doesn't work anymore. I'll fix it.

This sounds too good to be true. What should I be worried about?

You'll be worked hard. You'll be given projects and tasked with getting them done - there won't be much handholding. So be prepared for that. You'll learn a lot, you'll learn by doing, so you'll have to do a lot. 

What else is cool about it?

You might get sponsored for a training with the New Organizing Institute. They're possibly the best in the country. You'd be the precocious student (or young professional, it's definitely not just for undergrads) amid people in their late 20's or early 30's. 

You'll probably be set, job-wise, after the fellowship ends. PCCC is highly respected. 

The stuff you do would show up on the national news. You'd get to hear about national strategy calls and so on for organized progressives. 

You could move to DC, or work from home wherever you want.

Okay, okay, I'll apply.

You better. Let me know if you do so I can try to put in a good word.

http://act.boldprogressives.org/signup/fellowship/?source=bp

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Sahar Massachi

(585) 313-6649

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[Gordon Fellman]

Many tdhanks, Sahar. Am forwarding this to PAX students.

  Gordie

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THE COMPULSION TO WIN AND ITS THREAT TO HUMAN SURVIVAL,

see my web page, people.brandeis.edu/~fellman/

"Listening is the beginning of peace." -- Elise Boulding

[Sahar Massachi]

Glad to hear it, and glad to hear from you, too, Gordie.