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.”
“Al Gore and Van Jones are confirmed as keynote speakers for the evening.”
Is Al leading the ‘Sex and Sustainability’ workshop?
“Why Capitalism is Killing the Planet”
Tells all you need to know right there. Same propaganda as the Soviets, just changed what it is killing.
“What would Jesus/Moses/The Buddha Drive? An Inter-Faith Discussion on Religious Environmental Activism”
I found this to be most interesting. To think any of these people have faith in God is amazing. The anti-capitalist speech sounds like something from communist Russia. The Soviet Union was atheist. So I’m surprised they wanted someone to speak about faith. Furthermore, notice they did not say “What would Muhammad drive?” Interesting that, huh? I always thought their deity was Gaia.
Ah, yes, that evil capitalism the regulated idealism that gave their parents jobs, houses, music, cinema, choices of educations, vacations, trains, planes and automobiles, and, oh, right, Internet and interconnected phones.
So, essentially, capitalism brought on all that bad stuff that Al Gorey, apparently, can do without, nudge nudge wink wink, and that Sovs, east europe, Africa, India and Chines didn’t have until they turned to the dark side.
I for one don’t mind if the crazed communist climate hippies want to build their crazy climate communist hippie commune, at least they’d be in one place, but can they build it without capitalism being, and having been, a part of it all? But, anyhow, how many believe they can do it without forcing everyone else into their stinking (pot)holes, I wonder?
Like I keep saying folks, study the Fabians and in particular http://www.keynesatharvard.org and you will start to understand what is going on – it’s called creeping socialism and they have more or less won the game.
Tea Partiers mad? Don’t want their government to take more of what they earn, control their future, decide when, how they will receive healthcare, tired of politicians that cannot say no, think they are entitled to everything, think that the sky will fall if they don’t do something and so they do everything and most of it poorly at a higher cost. Sane people look around, observe what their government spends and ask themselves if it is worth the sacrifice each American has to make.
What is mad is spending 1/3 more than you bring in every year, then print money to cover the short fall and expect no negative consequences.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148669818520369
According to their Facebook page, 3,116 FB members will be attending, 2,426 may be attending. I clicked “See all” and it only showed me a few. Trying to friend them all would take a while.
http://act.energyactioncoalition.org/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=5594
Says the event will be “This April 1-4th in Washington, DC thousands of young people from across the world will convergence for Power Shift 2011.” Perhaps someone checked the calendar and concluded the 1st might not be the best date.
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/powershift11
At Carnegie-Mellon (my alma mater and one of the universities listed), they said on Jan 26 “Currently, we plan on taking two charter buses down to D.C.” In late February, they said “This year, we will be driving to get there so if any would like to volunteer to drive, please shoot an email and let us know! You WILL be reimbursed for all the gas you use!”
That was the last update.
http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/03/09/what-the-press-didnt-tell-you-about-the-largest-youth-movement-in-decades/
Oh – Powershift 2009 included James Hansen and that snowstorm? I don’t remember their was a name for that event. Oh, Capitol Climate Action. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/02/jim-hansens-newfound-peers-at-the-capitol-climate-action/
Hey – only 10,000 this year?
WTF?
Reminds me of Snowcrash.
Aaaargh!
Socialists! Communists! Left-wingers! Vegetarians!
Flee for the hills!
(And in the meantime, the big-money boys will gloat over their latest scam to rip us off.
http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/CarbonMonetization.htm )
It’s sad that many will wear those green plastic faux hard hats, insulting workers who actually contribute to society.
I expect that there will be a sizable contingent present from San Francisco, Portland and other distant workers’ paradises. Will they have been transported there by “green energy”? If so, I hope they will explain this variety of energy to the rest of us.
John Shade says:
April 13, 2011 at 2:39 pm
“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.”
Ya’ don’t know academia. Each and every little college has a Diversity Dean and that dean has many government funded minions to get out the word about Green events. Such events are mostly attended by university groups. However, the dismal economy will most likely put a damper on this one.
Mike McMillan says:
April 13, 2011 at 3:18 pm
“Perhaps the other would-be candidates realize that it doesn’t matter where our Prez
was born. As long as his mother was an American, he is an American. Low standard, I know, but there it is.”
You are assuming that his mother is who he says she is. The real birth certificate could contain a lot of interesting information. You are also assuming that his alleged mother had not renounced her US citizenship. She was that type, you know, the type attending the Green bash in DC. We really need to know.
Conspiracy theory time; here it goes.
With the sinister assistance of Big Oil and the dastardly anti-AGW (and polar bear-hating) crowd, Mr Watts diabolically orchestrates the “Power Shift,” a grand sillybugger-fest of The Young and the Unwashed on the surface, but actually a bold Machiavellian scheme to finally drive the stake through the black heart of the mortally wounded “climate change” scam. Bwa-hah-hah-hah!
The windmill in the logo was the first give-away. As the newest heraldry signifying financial idiocy, shoddy engineering, dismal failure, environmental damage, intrusion, broken promises and crony-capitalism, this whirling slap-in-the-face is guaranteed to enrage the entire political spectrum; the left, the right, the centre … and even the perpetually undecided.
Then … and this is just too much … we have Lisa Jackson and The Goracle attending! Delicious. Nothing like a sour government apartchik and a discredited gazillionaire to inspire our darling revolutionary youth.
But wait, there is more! The inevitable partying, hollering and trashing this unsuspecing ueber-educated leisure class of “youth leaders” will indulge in will take place right on the day when most of you stressed, overworked and cleaned-out chumps in the US are still reeling from your last-minute tax filing! For sure, that won’t be very pretty. Bwa-hah-hah-hah!
Don’t worry. If Al Gore’s turning up it’s bound to snow.
Here’s their Messiah, their HE-RO, the Leader Of The Free World.
We are so screwed.☹
The late Dr. Dixy Lee Ray (1914 – 1994) making these points in the year 1993:
The good Dr. Maue and I clashed swords briefly on MM’s site when I mentioned her name in conjunction with Rush Limbaugh who knew her back when …
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Focus is on closing down the economy – especially liquid fuels – before providing any alternatives. That effectively means no business = no school, no jobs, and no social security!
eadler says:
“There are however a group of people in US politics who are quite and totally mad – the tea party,”
From eadler’s comment we can see how today’s socialists would treat those of us who dare to oppose their utopia. This is how the Soviet socialist elite dealt with their critics, declared them mentally ill and forced them in asylums. Soviet psychiatry was no more a science than today’s climate establishment.
Actually, I would like to suggest to the readers that you actually send your teenage kids to this Direct Action Training armed with phone cameras to tape the idiocy, and some nice ironic questions to ask. Make sure they are trained ahead of time about Alinsky Method and the Diamond Tactic:
http://www.freedomforceinternational.org/pdf/diamond_tactic.pdf
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm
Knowing this material ahead of time will help them be aware of whats going on at this training seminar, and challenge things.
Why is my last post not going through??
[Reply: They were in the spam folder. Rescued & posted. ~dbs, mod.]
This protest march is being arranged by the same old tired commie leftist groups who organized the DC A16 protest back in 2000 against the World Bank and IMF. I was a student in DC at the time and I went to the protest with some friends and a few homemade signs with ridiculous slogans such as “USA out of North America”, “Your breasts are oppressing me”, etc. Washington, DC is beautiful in April so that’s normally when they have these huge, silly student rallies.
These people are no threat to anything or anyone. They are rich liberal college kids going to American University, GW, and Georgetown doing whatever they think is trendy. In a few years they will all be working as interns and lobbyists for big government and big business. It’s a joke really. Ten years ago it was anti-globalization and now it’s all about “climate justice” (whatever that means). This too shall pass!
eadler says:
Nope, eadler, you are completely and totally misinformed. I strongly suggest you get your nose out of the Huffington Post, MSNBC, the New York Times, and leave those lying rags/blogs/stations behind you. You might actually learn some truth about the TEA Party.
I do have an earlier comment on socialism, however my last comment is in response to eadler’s labeling of “Tea Party” members as mentally ill. This is a dangerous way of dealing with dissent, and it has a bad history.
Thank you!
Hi Ryan,
I hear what you are saying however weren’t many of all a little idealistically left leaning when young. Too many years ago when at university the elderly called us pinko commie wasters as we demonstrated against any capitalist pig that exploited the masses to make money. And how our attitude changed when we grew up and learned to respect the dollar.