Wellstone Action!

posted by Mattie Weiss

AUGUST 19, 2008

Whew!  We just got back from a whole week with the organizers, leaders, and front-line activists of the Power Vote campaign, training them on the skills needed to successfully fight for a clean energy future on their campuses and in their communities. The goal of their campaign:  get one million pledges from young people that they will vote this November and make clean energy a top issue in this election.

200 young people from all over the country (and Canada!) gathered in St. Paul for an in-depth, hands-on skills training on everything from executing a press event, to having one-to-one meetings with fellow students, and confronting candidates on the issues.

Check out these two videos from the event.  The first one gives you a small taste of the week and what the students were doing in their interactive sessions.  The second one is an example of the awesome simulated Youtube videos that students came up with to get their message out on campus.