Guest Post by Ryan Maue:
Starting Friday, April 15 in Washington DC, we will be able to witness an absolutely surreal public display of anti-capitalist, extreme far-left community organizing, all wrapped in the cloak of climate change / clean energy activism: The Power Shift Youth Climate Conference. Can we finally stipulate that there exists a well-organized nexus of scientists/politicians/organizations that wish to solve the “climate crisis”, and are using the issue as a political tool to further their leftist agenda? From the list of speakers, partners, and Workshop Titles, there is certainly no doubt about the motivations of this collection of greens. Arrogant, condescending scientists and politicians sneer at so-called anti-science, Big Oil Republicans and demand global warming adherence as a litmus test for elected office. Instead, advocate scientists and environmentalists should be continually questioned about their motivations prior to consideration of their extreme|draconian policy prescriptions. I’m getting really tired of their holier-than-thou-attitude.
After this, you will know the true meaning of the acronym of Win The Future.
Noel Sheppard at newsbusters.org provides a nice summary of the speaker line up, including EPA administrator Lisa Jackson, everyone’s (especially Glenn Beck’s) favorite communist and former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, and, of course, Nobel Prize winner Al Gore! Keynote speaker list.
Perusing the program of this Youth Climate Conference should immediately disabuse you of all preconceived notions that climate change is not a political issue:
Plain and simple: Power Shift 2011 is a mission to recruit 10,000 youth leaders from every walk of life to be on the front lines in the fight for a clean energy future.
We are moving far beyond the pursuit of building a crowd for a weekend conference. Power Shift 2011 attendees – young faith leaders, entrepreneurs, student government leaders, social justice advocates and blue-collar workers – are signing up for the launch of critical, focused, and strategic campaign efforts in their communities.
“Our Power Shift 2011 “training boot camp” will yield 10,000 leaders, equipped with the game plans, tools, and strategies to WIN on the frontlines of every community across this country.”
Dr. James Hansen of NASA death trains/coal protesting infamy should like this workshop:
Is it too much to dream of an America where polluters are held accountable for their disasters? Is it too much to dream of an America where people aren’t burdened with the cost of pollution? Is it too much to dream of an America where citizens are in charge of our energy decisions, not big polluters? We don’t think so.
Then we will form two marches, one storming Capitol Hill to lobby and hold our elected leaders accountable, the other will march from one corporate polluter’s office to another and return to Lafeyette Park for a dance party.
Here are a list of other Workshop Titles: Link to many, many more
Sex and Sustainability
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Dirty Money, Chamberleaks, and how to win back Main Street
Ethical Solutions to Environmental Classism – Case Studies around the World
What would Jesus/Moses/The Buddha Drive? An Inter-Faith Discussion on Religious Environmental Activism
From the BP Oil Spill to the Japanese Nuclear Crisis: Why Capitalism is Killing the Planet:
Panelists
Finding the Billions for Clean Energy and Climate Justice Now!
Regulating Greenhouse Gases (GHGS) Under the Clean Air Act
Stop the Tar Sands Invasion
Climate Voices — The Human Rights of Climate Change
High School and Junior High Organizing
Exposing the Climate Denial Machine
What to do when the President’s just not that into you (program excerpt below)
Despite the hopes of millions that President Obama would champion clean energy and help solve the climate crisis, his response has fallen far short of what’s necessary. At best, his record and rhetoric have been mixed. At worst, he’s actively obstructed progress by boosting offshore drilling, recently announcing a huge expansion of coal mining on public lands, and financing environmentally destructive products overseas. President Obama has also treated the environmental movement, and especially the youth climate movement, with relative disdain: while there are many examples, the most visible was refusing to speak to the 2009 Powershift conference, and then attending a Washington Wizards basketball game just two blocks away. The panel will explore some key questions that have bedeviled our movement since Obama’s inauguration: What is President Obama’s climate/environment record? How should the climate movement deal with the White House? What can we learn from other movements’ response to the White House? Is there a possibility for a pro-environment, progressive challenger to Obama in the 2012 primaries? Is that a good idea? To answer these questions, and share inside knowledge, we’ll feature some of the brightest thinkers on climate politics and movements.
Next Steps for White Allies (program excerpt below)
“Now that you understand the importance of diversity and inclusion to the climate change movement, how do you practice being a strong white ally? For the most part, white folks have little opportunity to talk about race, racism or how to be an ally to people of color. Indeed, we are socialized to not notice or talk about such things. It can be lonely being a white ally.”
Spoiled Brats Of The World Unite!
The political agenda is the UN Agenda 21 sustainable development plan.
This is a communitarian project.
In the UK, this agenda is being implemented by Common Purpose.
The chancellor of the UEA is a senior Common Purpose figure.
Join the dots and try to understand the politics behind the AGW fraud.
More:
http://www.stopcp.com/cpclimategate.php
I only hope that it snows ….
Socialists never realize the difference between say West Berlin in the 70’s and East.
As an old CIA spook I knew said- “On a clear day you might see the Brandenburg gate
from W.Berlin due to all the smoke and haze-From East Berlin-including from the
notorious Trabant two strokes. They are only interested in power, not a clean environment…”
Ironically, they celebrate both Lenin and Hitler’s birthdays…
Nice work, Mr. Maue. This is an excellent opportunity to reveal the communist roots of the Green movement, not to mention trunk and limbs.
Funny how socialists scream for liberation, yet support carbon taxes and regulation schemes. “Liberation through Regulation” is a perfect chant for them.
I would love to go to these rallies with signs saying “Don’t forget the Medieval Warm Period” or “Kudryavtsev and Porfiryev were right”, though these kids probably never heard of abiogenic oil theory.
Quite, quite mad.
I wouldn’t worry too much about this given that the only ‘well known’ speaker is McKibben and all the International Socialist participants are decrying capitalism whilst using the fruits of it to spread their ‘message’.
Small beer.
Very scary stuff. Leftists who can’t win at the polls indoctrinating the next generation.
Recently a student here (who attended Cancun) wrote in the local paper (more or less), “Democracy is not working for the green movement … we need to change the system.”
Eco-fascism is alive a growing.
Clive
Alberta
This has far more humor potential than the previous post about the climate communicator awards.
“Sex and Sustainability”
^^ ??? wow, hilarious. I think there are pills for this now.
“What would Jesus/Moses/The Buddha Drive?”
^^ Of course, they’re not a religion, which is why they use appeal to authority arguments any chance they get, riiiight…
Let a thousand watermelons bloom…….
I would think they would do a cyber virtual meeting . . . I will say that the President has pretty much got that down with the Whitehouse facebook site and CSpan has got the rest of that technology covered with their committee hearings techniques. . .
And they don’t charge $80 bucks to do it . . . . “Only $80 for students for all three days of programming!” http://www.powershift2011.org/
three days of programming??? Just what does that mean?
Conferences like this should be a source of embarrassing quotes to throw in believers’ faces. Similar conferences in the past should be trawled (if possible) for juicy bloopers.
April 15! How ironic to hold it on the day US taxpayers have to submit their tax returns to support Big Government.
Rob says:
April 13, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Quite, quite mad.
I don’t agree with some of what they say, but a lot of their complaints are factual, valid and make sense. They are far from “quite mad”.
There are however a group of people in US politics who are quite and totally mad – the tea party, and the leading Republican candidates for the presidential nomination, who claim that President Obama was not born in the US.
The history of the idea of global warming is that the scientific objections to the idea of AGW, which arose in the late 1980’s were the spearheaded by right wing think tanks who objected to government regulation. So the politicization of this issue originated with the American political right.
[RyanM: you nailed it, the Tea Party is “mad as hell” at the economic situation and big government. Trump is a very smart man, and he will tell you that often. No other GOP would-be candidates are touching the birther issue.]
In the 1950’s we just wanted to get Marxists out of the defence and state departments and off the streets. It seems nobody cared much about them going into the universities and media, and into public education. Now we have a major problem!
This is so transparently a piece of what used to be called Madison Avenue manipulation that I would be surprised, and of course dismayed, if large numbers of young people actually turn up. These slick websites, such as Powershift’s, the work of astro-turfing workshops, are not really very cool, nor appealing. They lack grit, integrity, and of course that unfashionable but still important to humans young and old, truth. I’m hoping for a non-event in Washington. If it is not, we have a bigger hill to climb.
“What would Jesus/Moses/The Buddha Drive? An Inter-Faith Discussion on Religious Environmental Activism”
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Why don’t they just admit they are proselytizing bahai belief?
“Stop the Tar Sands Invasion”
WOW, that sounds scary. I don’t want Tar Sands invading my house.
If they are talking about petroleum product that originate from the Alberta Oil Sands, well it isn’t much on an invasion. It is how is has always been. A smallish % of US petrolium comes from the Alberta Oil Sands. Rather than an invasion, it is really more of a takeover. Most of the Oil Sands development happening now is being done by American publicly traded corporations.
What would Mohammed drive? Uh, don’t mention Mohammed, we don’t want to get in trouble… Very courageous. But i’ll take a guess. Mohammed was a merchant AFAIK; his natural choice would be a Mercedes.
This isn’t a laughing matter. There is an urgency by the ideologues to get going before the planet cools too much so they can take credit for the cooling and then lead us to their promised land. With every socialist experiment a gross failure, the whole world would go down into a very long dark age.
The dumbing down of America appears to be having scarier cpnsequences than had been thought.
You are not alone in the US Anthony … we have the blue shirt brigade (brown is so very last century) in Australia in the AYCC:
http://aycc.org.au/
Here’s a picture:
http://www.ecosmagazine.com/temp/EC151p10_Fa.gif
The youth are so very easy to manipulate for their political masters…
Physics Major says:
April 13, 2011 at 2:33 pm
April 15! How ironic to hold it on the day US taxpayers have to submit their tax returns to support Big Government.
Maybe 1) many will attend, forgetting, in the process, to submit their taxes on time, hence garnering big penalties, or 2) many won’t attend, realizing that they left their taxes to the last minute.
See? Democracy working for the Greens!
eadler says:
April 13, 2011 at 2:35 pm
“The history of the idea of global warming is that the scientific objections to the idea of AGW, which arose in the late 1980′s were the spearheaded by right wing think tanks who objected to government regulation. So the politicization of this issue originated with the American political right.”
You seem to live under the illusion that pro-AGW scientists are politically neutral and scientific objectors are right wing. Maybe that skewed worldview arises from your point of view?
This is actually a example of a logical fallacy close to a hasty generalization. You are associating all Tea Partiers and all of their gripes about the U.S. government with the birther issue. In fact the tea party’s main focus and their primary focus has always been out-of-control government spending, hence the name, “Tea Party” referring to people who violently opposed British taxes 200+ years ago.
This “Power Shift Youth” seem to be a scruffy lot – some of them in their website pictures appear not to be wearing the regulation black shirt. No discipline! They look and sound like a sort of Common Purpose for Kids – a band of barking mad little zealots who will run around applauding one another for every act which goes beyond their smugly self-imposed “duty”, every offence against reason, every stamp of boot on face. I wish you well in dealing with them. Sometimes I yearn for that overdue Ice Age.