Community Highlights

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Last year, PowerShift 2012 brought together nearly 1500 youth from all across Canada for a one-of-a-kind gathering. Focused on building the movement to transition Canada to a just and sustainable future, author and activist Naomi Klein called it “the best environmental conference” she had ever attended.

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The Gloves are Off in the Youth Climate Change Fight

Originally Posted on the Huffington Post Canada 

 

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Serious Issues Tour - A Great Chance for Post PowerShift Trainings!

At this year's PowerShift the folks at TruthFool brought us a number of amazing, inspiring trainings about creative changemaking. With experience creating ShitHarperDid, and working on the YesLab's Shell Arctic "Let's Go" hoax, they are now hitting the road for Serious Issues, a training tour co-presented by PowerShift partners the Sierra Youth Coalition. This is a great opportunity to dig even deeper into some of the skills and tools you learned at PowerShift, as well as an amazing chance for folks who couldn't make it to PowerShift to learn those skills. 

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Power, Shifted: How Canadian Youth Do It Better

My expectations coming into PowerShift 2012 were quite high: I’d already been to three US PowerShifts (two regional, one national), and I knew some of the key organizers had also been part of the hell-raisi

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PowerShift Day Two kicked off with the facilitation of twenty simultaneous WeArePowershift workshops. These workshops introduced participants to the idea of climate justice, anti-oppression, inclusive movements, and real climate impacts. Organizers, facilitators and participants all found these workshops incredibly inspiring and energizing! The conversations and depth of analysis on climate change and climate issues were incredible, and the energy on campus was indescribable.

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10-minute interview following her workshop

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Sit-down session with Winona LaDuke

LaDuke speaks candidly about food- and energy- self-reliance, Indigenous sovereignty, and more

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