Biggest Call Yet: Sun @ 9 w/ Celebrity Guest
Bryce Carter
Hello Virginia Power Shift 2008 Recruitment
Coordinators!
Classes have
started and the first quizzes are being handed out, congratulations fall
semester is well on its way! But guess what: WE ARE NEARLY 3 WEEKS AWAY FROM VIRGINIA POWER SHIFT!!!
- CONFERENCE CALL
Our next call will be Sunday, September 21 at 9:00pm. Call (616) 597-8000 and the access code is 365238.
Get excited! This is going to be our biggest best conference call yet! Be sure to bring other folks you’re working with on recruitment on the call too!
- We will have a celebrity guest
speaker: Jessy Tolkan!
She is a downright kickass amazing organizer and empowerer who is the coordinator
of Energy Action Coalition [hosted National Power Shift] and will be a
keynote speaker at Virginia Power Shift! How awesome is she?
Find out for yourself and watch her on Hardball with Chris Matthews: http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-US&brand=msnbc&vid=58024f6d-89a7-443c-942b-ef68ce848539
- Draft Agenda:
- 9:00-9:05 Introductions
- 9:05-9:25 Jessy Tolkan & Questions
- 9:25-9:40 Updates
- 9:40-9:50 This Week’s Priority: Dorm Storm
- 9:50-10:00 Report back
obligations for week
- REGISTRATION – REGISTER NOW & MAKE PRIORITIES!!!
- We will be starting group registration very soon! A group of 5 or more people will only cost $15, whereas single registration is now $20. Stay tuned for when we get it on the website!
- With this being such an amazing conference we are in a great demand of funding that needs to come our way AS SOON AS POSSIBLE and the best way to get them to us is by registering everyone today!
- Several gracious volunteers here at VT will be helping with check-ins with all of you lovely recruiters very soon, stay tuned!
- At the time of this e-mail we have just over 100 people officially registered from 14 schools
- LET’S MAKE THIS THE BIGGEST STATEWIDE YOUTH CLIMATE CONFERENCE EVER! Talk to everyone you see!
- Already have a few people registered? Tell them to invite a friend or two and then you’ll have double the size!
- MATERIALS
- Join the Google Group if you haven’t already (sorry for the multiple e-mails otherwise)
- Recruitment Toolkit (word / adobe)
- Check out pages 8-12 & 16
- Posters made by Jake from VCU
- http://groups.google.com/group/vaps-planning/web/VAPS%20copy.jpg
- http://groups.google.com/group/vaps-planning/web/VAPSJSflyer%20copy.jpg
- http://groups.google.com/group/vaps-planning/web/BWVAPS%20copy.jpg
- E-mail to adapt and forward to teachers (below)
As usual: more is to come including an update of our finalized agenda for VAPS and the growing list of workshops and speakers!
You all rock!
Bryce
Carter
Central Planner &
Recruitment Coordinator, VA Power Shift 08
Vice President, Environmental Coalition
Undergraduate, Virginia Tech
Bry...@vt.edu
703.434.9852
EXAMPLE E-MAIL FOR PROFESSORS:
Dear Professor ____,
Hi, my name is Tom Owens, I work with Chesapeake Climate Action Network and have been a student organizer with Virginia Campuses for the past two years. I am writing to ask for your help getting the word out about an amazing statewide student conference about climate change and sustainability happening this fall.
2008 is a turning point. We are electing everyone from city council members to our next president this fall. There will be a sea of change in 2008 and young people are turning out to vote in record numbers. We represent 25% of the electorate and will be voting on issues like the economy, health and the war, all of which are intimately connected to our country's dependence on dirty energy. By elevating global warming and clean, just energy alternatives in the election, we will be able to build healthier communities, create millions of green jobs and stop resource wars forever. Our generation needs a brand new vision for our future. It is time for our elected officials up and down the ballot to join us and become champions in the fight against global warming and for a clean just energy future.
The conference is called Virginia Power Shift and it will teach an expected 1,000 participating high school and college students about the solutions to global warming and how they can put those solutions into practice on campus, in the community, and in the political arena. Power Shift will be held this October 10th - 12th at Virginia Tech University.
POWER SHIFT at Virginia Tech October 10th – 12th
Virginia Power Shift will give students the tools to build a sustainable Commonwealth through education, grassroots political action, and campus leadership training. Participants will attend their choice of workshops ranging from beginner composting to green politics, anti oppression, and engineering. Guest speakers will reinforce the workshops with invigorating ideas and personal experiences. James Hansen, NASA Scientist and Al Gore’s advisor has been confirmed for Friday Night and Mike Tidwell, executive director of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network will speak Saturday night. Finally, a roundtable discussion between local, state, and national politicians will introduce the participants to different views concerning the government’s role in building a sustainable Commonwealth. Join us in Inventing the RIGHT Future for Virginia starting right here in Blacksburg, VA!
HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN HELP US DO:
Other information can be found at www.vapowershift.org. Our goal is to send 1000 students from all backgrounds to Virginia Power Shift and I’d love it if students from your school came. We’re trying to help students fundraise to send as many people as possible for free. Everyone can download resources such as a Recruitment Toolkit to help with organizing other students and promotional materials here http://www.vapowershift.org/resources.php . Please pass this along and anything you can do to help identify interested students and support them in attending would be amazing!
Register today>> (Groups of 5 or more can now register collectively)
Please Contact Bryce Carter bry...@vt.edu or myself if you can help us find interested students at your school who can help coordinate as well.