Hello Rooted readers! Sorry for the long time between posts. I hope you all had a great weekend – mine was spent preparing for Power Shift (see below), including filming a promo video for the event with Ian Thorpe at the AYCC offices.
Normally I don’t spend my Monday’s thinking about what I’ll be doing the next weekend ( I don’t have the kind of job where weekends are that different from the weekdays) – but today is an exception. So…
What are you doing this Friday for World Environment Day?
This World Environment Day, young people concerned about climate change won’t be out planting trees.
Instead, we’ll be on our mobile phones – doing a national call-around of other thousands of youth around the country to talk to them about one simple thing they can do to help solve climate change – come to Power Shift 2009.
The Australian Youth Climate Coalition is preparing for Australia’s first national youth climate summit, Power Shift 2009, to be held in the marginal seat of Parramatta in six weeks time (July 11th- 13th).
Equipped with mobile phones, laptops, and Twitter accounts, a climate army of young people is building a movement to rattle the Government and the Opposition.
Our aim: to turn the youth demographic into a political constituency who will act – and vote – on climate change.
Power Shift 2009 is a show of force for the youth movement that’s rapidly rising in this country on climate change. We’re bringing together thousands of young people to Western Sydney, and this is just the beginning.
Young Australians are passionate about climate change, and increasingly frustrated with the Federal Government’s delayed action and inadequate carbon pollution reduction targets. This is our future, and our leaders are failing to protect it.
The fact that hundreds of young people are giving up their weekend to call other youth about climate change shows the level of commitment in this movement.
On World Environment Day, the AYCC will mobilise hundreds of high school, University and TAFE volunteers. Our volunteers will make thousands of phone calls to our database of supporters who signed up at summer music festivals, University O-weeks, and concerts of bands supporting the event including the Cat Empire, Regurgitator & Blue King Brown.
So – this World Environment Day – if you do one thing for the climate – make it registering for Power Shift 2009!
…Or, if you’re not a “youth” any more – tell your kids, nephews and nieces etc. Soon I’ll post an awesome video that you can pass on.
