We just heard about the Youth Empowered Action Camp being held this summer – for youth ages 11-16. Youth who attend YEA are passionate or maybe even just curious about making a difference in the world. It sounds awesome. Are you interested? Know someone who might be? Check it out.

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I went to college on the coast of North Carolina – a medium sized school called UNC Wilmington. During my first semester there, I realized that my environmental-minded thinking was definitely in the minority. There was negligible activism, no environmental club, and the dorms barely even recycled. Not really knowing how to change things, I [...]

Reminiscing about the first US Social Forum (USSF) gives me chills.  I traveled there as part of the Peoples Freedom Caravan (PFC) delegation from San Antonio, TX.  We planned our route to Atlanta with stops in several towns and cities where we had the privilege of meeting with other grassroots communities.  Each place we stopped, [...]

Youth have power to insist that their parents boycott BP until they clean up the disaster they caused. They made $5billion this quarter…DURING the oil spill (135% more than last year.) All of that extra profit needs to go to disaster response and we can help them make that decision.

It’s only Tuesday and it has already been quite a busy week for the notorious Massey Energy and the anti-mountaintop removal community.
Monday morning, two activists blockaded the road leading to Massey Energy’s Regional Headquarters in Boone County, West Virginia. EmmaKate Martin, 18, suspended herself on a platform between three interlocking poles 30 feet above the [...]