EARTH DAY: 22nd of April: YOUTH ACTING WARMLY GLOBALLYÂ ???? Are you with us?
             In the next few years, we as the world will make, or fail to make, critical decisions regarding global warming pollution and clean technology investments. These decisions will have far-reaching and irreversible impacts on the lives of today’s students and the lives of their children. At this moment in time, we owe our young people at least a day of focused discussions and projects about global warming solutions for Europe and the world.
Youth Acting Warmly Globallyis organizing a national teach-in on global warming solutions for Europe-creating a dialogue at over a thousand colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, places of worship, civic organizations and businesses, and directly engaging millions of students and citizens with the unions’s decision-makers. Youth Acting Warmly Globally will culminate on April 22nd (Earth day), 2008in simultaneous educational symposia held across the countries. Our intent is to move Europe beyond fatalism to a determination to face up to this civilizational challenge, the challenge of our generation.
Youth Acting Warmly Globally is an educational initiative, based on Focus the Nation of the United States, but we also promote civic engagement. Each team will invite local, state and federal political leaders and decision-makers to come to campus and participate in a non-partisan, round-table discussion of global warming solutions. Every institution will also vote on their top five national priorities for global warming action, producing a campus and citizen endorsed policy agenda for 2008.
To maximize both education and civic engagement, Youth Acting Warmly Globally has three components:
INTER-NATIONAL TEACH-IN: On April 22nd 2008, thousands of students on every campus, millions of students nationwide, participate in workshops and panels, brainstorming global warming solutions. Are you with us? Are your faculty supporting you? Ask ten, twenty, fifty faculty to stand up as educators on behalf of your future. They will say yes. To make this happen, start with the sample teach-in.
INTER-NATIONAL CONCRETE PROJECTS;concret projects will be developed during the day of the teaching by everyone on the school, university and more, to really get things going on your campus. This can be very broad, and creative. Involve your town as well!
GREEN DEMOCRACY:Campus to Congress. Tell top decision-makers in your country about solutions. If they can’t be there physically, then they will face a student audience via a video-chat (youtube).
CHOOSE YOUR FUTURE:Vote on the top five solutions to global warming. Proposed solutions range from a coal moratorium, to large scale renewables investment, to initiatives to strengthen forests for carbon storage. Choose the Future is the place for serious discussion about how to achieve what science and justice demand. Every political leader in the country will hear your voice, and the project can be based on the project you have want to work on at your school/university or club.
With these four components, together we will Youth Acting Warmly Globally!!!
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