Photos from Greece/Powervote kickoff!

Hey Everyone!

After a long wait I have finally put my photos from Greece online! They can be viewed here.

I would also like to take the time to thank everyone from The Energy Action Coalition for such an empowering week in Saint Paul, Minnesota for the Powervote training!

For those of you who do not know, we are building a movement...and it is beautiful. So are the faces of the youth who are rising up, rising up and shunning their overabundant, materialistic, hierarchical backgrounds. They have done nothing but inspire me. I have been tolled Democracy is failing. That the power no longer belongs to the people but, I question whether it ever really has, for I have surely not seen it in my lifetime. But I have heard many stories of the past, seen photos of histories greatest social movements, read the declaration of independence. I would argue that this is the closest the people have ever been to power and we still have a long way to go but, we are building a movement and it is beautiful.
Saul Alinsky once said “start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be.” The world is still hiding beneath the shadow of the industrial revolution. The world is unequal, the world is changing and we are changing it. Why not change it for the better?
Alinsky continues: "In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of 'the common good' and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed. In this world irrationality clings to man like his shadow so that the right things are done for the wrong reasons--afterwords, we dredge up the right reasons for justification. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral; a world where 'reconciliation' means that when one side gets the power and the other side gets reconciled to it, then we have reconciliation; a world of religious institutions that have, in the main, come to support and justify the status quo so that today organized religion is materially solvent and spiritually bankrupt...This is where you start."
We, the youth of the United States of America, are building, across the country, a million youth voting block to vote on clean energy, on human rights, on green jobs. Under the banner of the Energy Action Coalition, we are voting to take dirty money out of politics, to re-engage as a leader in the international community, and we will be at the polls this November! Go to www.powervote.org, sign the Powervote pledge, and get connected to the thousands of youth across the nation who are making progress on the ground while little is being done up top. Become apart of the youth climate movement that is taking our country by storm!

Thank you and Much Love!