Summer Opportunities
Summer programs for regional climate organizers:
Mountain Justice Summer Training Camp
With an emphasis on education, strategy, non-violence and cultural sensitivity the MJS training camp will provide participants with comprehensive workshops covering the impacts and politics behind mountain top removal mining and the hands-on tactical training to take to the mountains and do something about it. Take this opportunity to share strategies and build relationships that will create an even stronger network of allies and coalitions organizing resistance to MTR this summer and beyond!
May 17-28 in Kentucky
http://www.mountainjusticesummer.org/events.php?id=88
ClimateGroundZero.org Citizens' Direct Action Camp: Cut Emisions 80% by 2020
The Action Training will be five day training and include skills needed to do effective Direct Action Campaigning against dirty fossil projects and for a clean energy future. Sessions will include History and Practice Non Violent Direct Action, Campaign Strategy, Direct Actions Skills, Media Skills, and Community Organizing.
June 1-6, 2008 in MT
http://climategroundzero.org/
Summer of Solutions
You're invited to join us June 1 to August 1 for The Summer of Solutions, an experiential training and community organizing program sponsored by Global Exchange and run by college students who are pioneering systemic and transformative solutions to global warming.
June 1 - Aug 1 in St. Paul, MN. http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/03/27/the-summer-of-solutions-wants-you/
Ruckus Mega Training Camp
July 2-9 in Minnesota
http://www.ruckus.org/
Greenpeace & Seventh Generation's Change It Training
The Change It program is an all-expenses-paid week of grassroots educational training, led by the experts from Greenpeace and other progressive organizations. Building on last year's success, the program will teach 140 dedicated full- and part-time students, ages 18 to 24, how to take on the toughest global challenge of our time – global warming.
July 16 – 21 in Boston & July 26 – 31 in Seattle
http://www.changeit08.org/about/program-info
EAC Power Vote Mega Training Camp
August 11-17 and location TBA
http://www.powervote.org
Southeast Climate Convergence
This summer, join people from throughout the southeast and beyond for the second annual Southeast Convergence for Climate Action. After the resounding success of last year's convergence we are excited to continue the struggle for climate justice in the southeast with an engaging week of workshops, strategizing, and direct action! This year's convergence will be hosted in Virginia where communities are fighting uranium mining, nuclear power, mountaintop removal coal mining, and new (as well as old) coal plants. Once again we will unite to fight the coal industry's stranglehold on our region while rejecting the deadly nuke industry's attempt to position themselves as the solution to the climate crisis.
July 30-August 5 in Virginia
http://www.climateconvergence.org/southeast/
SEN/SSC Summer Training Program
The SSC's Student Environmental Leadership Trainings, led by the nation's top student organizers, are week-long sessions where you'll learn to develop effective groups and tackle serious environmental issues. By the end of the week, you'll be prepared to take what you have learned and put it into action on campus and in your community!
July 27-Aug 3 in Georgia: SEN is partnering with the SSC for this training, but also check out lots of other SSC summer trainings the country this summer)
http://www.ssc.org/sprog/
Energy Justice Carolina
Youth from South Carolina, North Carolina and the whole of the southeast will be running listening projects this summer (from the end of May until the middle of August) in Jenkinsville, SC around the proposed expansion of the VC Summer Nuclear Power Station. Currently the station has one nuclear reactor, but Santee Cooper and South Carolina Electricity and Gas want to build two more. In addition to amazing trainings in the listening project model and profound first hand experience in community organizing, these summer projects hope to set the groundwork for a really dedicated, united, and terrifyingly powerful no coal, no nukes, no kidding campaign with youth leaders connected all throughout the southeast. The utilities are targeting our states for their so called "nuclear renaissance" and it is time for this generation to stand up and defend our futures by defeating all false solutions along with the fossil fuels empire! Everyone is invited to join our summer projects for whatever amount of time they can dedicate to being in Jenkinsville! For more information check out our facebook group at: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40143410583&ref=ts or contact Sara Tansey at sara.m.tansey@gmail.com We look forward to working with you!
