First ever youth global warming summit: Power Shift 2007

On the 2nd November 2007, thousands of young people will protest in Washington DC at the Powershift 2007, to make the U.S. Presidential candidates and Congress take climate change seriously. The first ever youth global warming summit is is designed to empower a truly diverse network of young leaders with activism tactics taught at workshop and seminars.

"Youth of all backgrounds will use their experience from local and state level climate change movements to create a fresh, positive, and inspiring vision of the future, one focused on our potential to overcome the challenges of the 21st century, build a clean energy economy, achieve energy independence, create millions of green jobs, increase global equity, and revitalize the American economy.

Power Shift will take the climate movement to new levels. At this conference, leaders of our generation will share ideas, learn new skills, make new connections, establish a national voice for our generation, and send a united message to our national leaders: we are moving beyond the same old special interests, empty promises, and inadequate results to embrace a new paradigm that leverages our strengths and achieves what is possible for our future. Something incredible is happening."

The summit will focas on is overcoming the challenges of the 21st century such as building a clean energy economy, achieving energy independence, creating millions of green jobs, increasing global equity, and revitalizing the American economy. With hundreds of workshops, dozens of panels, and leading experts and advocates, Power Shift 2007 will arm a generation of young people to learn how to use the next 431 days as effectively as possible to ensure that in 2009, we pass a powerful, national plan to stop global warming!

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