T-1 Week

Well everyone, this is it. We have one week until Mass Climate Summer kicks off with training on June 7th. We have an intrepid group of students ready to rock the climate world. We have a week of training lined up, and a host of amazing partner organizations eager to help build a better world with us.

Let's take the next week to think about what we're about to do. Lots of people knock on doors every summer, most of them trying to raise money for establishment environmental organizations. There are also several bike rides for the climate that are going on - the Brita ride and the Trek to Re-Energize America. None of them are doing grassroots organizing. We have an opportunity this summer to combine fun with effectiveness and the ironic thing is that those are one and the same. Why hasn't anyone done this before?

We're going to hone our community organizing skills and build the infrastructure for an incredible campaign here in Massachusetts. We're going to develop our leadership skills and bring those skills back to the campuses and states that we go to school in and propagate effective organizing all across the country (and the world!).

So I invite you, in the next week before it all begins, to reflect on your role in all of this. Take a step back and remember what we are trying to achieve, and then be glad in the realization that our generation has been given a challenge so big as to call out the best in us. Let's rise to it.