All across the country, tens of thousands of young adults are rising to confront the global warming challenge. Over the past two years, more than 300 of our colleges and universities have demonstrated their leadership and determination to create a clean energy future by adopting innovative policies that reduce their carbon footprints. As the efforts of youth are achieving dozens of clean energy victories in cities and states across the nation, it is becoming clear that young people are better positioned today than ever before to advance an inspiring new vision for America.

On November 2, 2007, thousands of young adults will converge on Washington, D.C. for Power Shift 2007, the first-ever national youth summit to solve the climate crisis. 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.

Our organizing committee has set out three ambitious goals:

1. Make the U.S. Presidential candidates and Congress take global warming seriously. It is widely accepted that the next U.S. president must make global warming a priority for us to solve the crisis before we reach a point of no return. With youth voting rates on the rise, we have the opportunity to drastically affect the 2008 Presidential Election and ensure our next president puts us on a path to stopping climate change.
2. Empower a truly diverse network of young leaders. The organizers of Power Shift understand the limitations of mainstream environmentalism and its history of engaging primarily white, highly educated, privileged citizens on the left while leaving behind other communities. We must diversify our movement to include every community in America and shift our culture towards one of sustainability and justice for everyone, addressing traditional racial, ethnic, geographic, and ideological divisions.
3. Achieve broad geographic diversity. We want this convergence to represent nearly every Congressional district in the United States in order to demand scientifically based solutions from all who represent us. Only when this fire is burning in every state of the union with broad awareness and pointed activism from the ground up, will we have the political power needed to take on the fossil fuel industry.

That's where you come in. To reach our goal of uniting thousands of young people at Power Shift, we need your help. Please share this message with at least ten friends and help grow our movement. The shift starts with you.

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Agenda

Rise to the Climate Challenge
Power Shift 2007 will inspire, engage and empower a generation of young people to create a fresh, positive and inspiring vision of the future, a future 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. 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!

November 2 to 5, 2007
University of Maryland, College Park

Friday, November 2, 2007

Friday	Details
Noon to 4:00 pm	Early Registration
4:00 pm to 9:30 pm	Registration
6:00 pm to 9:30 pm	Welcome Address & Keynote

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Saturday	Details
7:00 am to 9:00 am	Breakfast on your own
8:00 am to 9:00 am	Optional Activities
7:00 am to 11:00 am	Late Registration
9:00 am - 2:00 pm	Career Fair
9:00 am to 10:15 am	Panel I
10:45 to Noon	Panel II
Noon to 1:30 pm	Lunch on your own, Career Fair, Service Opportunities, STEP IT UP 2!
1:30 pm to 2:45 pm	Panel III
3:00 pm to 3:45 pm	State & Regional Breakouts & Caucus Meeting Time (Round I)
4:00 pm to 4:45 pm	State & Regional Breakouts & Caucus Meeting Time (Round II)
4:45 pm to 6:00 pm	Dinner on your own, Chill Time
6:00 pm to 10:00 pm	Keynotes & Major Musical Acts

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Sunday	Details
7:00 am to 9:00 am	Breakfast on your own
8:00 am to 9:00 am	Optional Activities
9:00 am - 6:00 pm	Toxic Tours & Service Opportunities
11:00 am - 4:00 pm	Career Fair
9:00 am to 10:15 am	Workshop I
10:45 am to 12:00 pm	Workshop II
12:00 pm to 1:00 pm	Lunch on your own
1:15 pm to 2:30 pm	Workshop III
2:45 pm to 4:00 pm	Workshop IV
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm	Break & Early Dinner
5:30 pm to 6:15 pm	Lobby Day Legislative Briefing
6:30 pm to 9:00 pm	Lobby Day Training, Prep, Small Group Practice

Monday, November 5, 2007

Monday	Details
7:00 am to 8:30 am	Breakfast on your own & Travel to Capitol Hill - Note: travel could take up to 2 hours
9:00 am to 10:00 am	March & Rally on West Lawn of US Capitol
10:00 am to 4:30 pm	Lobby Meetings
10:00 am to 4:30 pm	Debriefs with organizers, Lobby Prep & Support, Media Opportunities
10:00 am to 5:00 pm	Sustainable Living Roadshow on Capitol Mall, Congressional Briefing on Capitol Hill, Lobby Day Support