Who We Are
We can change the future of this country. Young people made history by voting in record numbers in 2008. Our generation has the opportunity to make history again this Fall by educating, registering and mobilizing our peers. We will not sit on the sidelines while our elected officials and special interests make decisions that affect our lives. Together - we will define our path forward - and transform America into a clean energy leader and build a sustainable future to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Power Vote CA will engage thousands of people to vote and defeat the Dirty Energy Proposition this November. Prop. 23 is being bankrolled by oil and coal companies that want to kill California’s clean energy industry. If passed, the Dirty Energy Prop would destroy hundreds of thousands of California jobs and increase our addiction to fossil fuels. Our generation knows that NOW is the time for a clean energy future - to protect our national security, rebuild our economy, and prevent catastrophic climate change.
Toolkit - Sample LTE’s
In all of the articles printed in NEWSPAPER about the upcoming election, very few bothered to mention the role of young people in determining the outcome. The millennial generation will be the one facing the repercussions of propositions like Prop 23 in the form of long-term economic instability and worsening droughts, heat waves, and floods. Current and future generations need California to continue showing leadership in the face of the climate crisis, not cower back in fear due to the slanderous campaign of some out of state oil companies.
In the article titled “TITLE” on DATE, the author missed an important aspect of the fight against the dirty energy/weak economy proposition. While it is clear that the chief promoters of the propositions have strong ties to heavy polluting industries that have been loosing jobs in California and increasing our utility bills, the loudest opponents are predominantly young people, united under the PowerVote banner, fighting for their shot at living in a world with a stable climate. This key difference should be enough for any rational voter to understand that the debate here is not about what Prop 23 proponents claim, it’s about whether we want to continue bailing out polluting industries or whether we want California to continue leading the world in the
creation of clean energy jobs.
In ARTICLE TITLE published on DATE, AUTHOR brings up a great point regarding the importance of exposing the money trail behind Prop 23. What he didn’t mention is that the same is true for other candidates running for the November Elections. Every voter should be informed about where the politicians they like are getting their money. On college campuses across the state young people are uniting under the PowerVote banner to educate their peers about how much money each candidate is receiving from polluters. Similar efforts should be propping up across the country and should be on the front page of every newspaper as they really say a lot about who certain politicians are truly fighting for.
I was really impressed by the reporting about Prop 23 from ARTICLE TITLE on DATE. Over the summer I noticed an utter ignorance in my home community about the role of out of state companies in fouling the debate around how to improve the Californian economy. Fortunately when I returned to COLLEGE NAME I met up with numerous student groups working hard to educate their peers and surrounding neighborhoods about the issue. More people should be aware that one of the few sectors of our economy that is still surging despite the recession is clean energy manufacturing, development and installation. Are Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorina, and Prop 23 really campaigning around stalling one of the few remaining job creating sectors of our economy?
Jobs, jobs, and jobs; that should be all that NEWSPAPER should be covering until the elections in November. Enough about mosques, enough about Sarah Palin, young people are worried about whether we’ll be able to find jobs when we graduate. The clean energy sector is one of the few that is still creating jobs in our state, yet there is a Proposition and many climate denying candidates on the ballot in November that would put a stop to California’s landmark greenhouse gas reduction programs. My peers and I are tired of everyone telling us that, upon graduating, we’ll be unemployed. We need Californians to stop letting dirty energy proponents distract them from what really matters: jobs.
