Power Shift '09: 12,000+ Students Attend Largest Youth Summit on Climate Change in U.S. History

by via Democracy Now

Mon, Mar 2, 2009 7:44AM

Monday, March 2, 2009 :This weekend an estimated 12,000 young people were at the DC Convention Center for PowerShift 09, the largest youth summit on climate change in history. College and high school students from all fifty states, all Canadian provinces, as well as a dozen countries came together to discuss organizing for a clean energy revolution on the local and national levels. We hear some of their voices.

This weekend an estimated 12,000 young people were at the DC Convention Center for PowerShift 09, the largest youth summit on climate change in history. College and high school students from all fifty states, all Canadian provinces, as well as a dozen countries came together to discuss organizing for a clean energy revolution on the local and national levels. Democracy Now! producer Nicole Salazar was on the scene and spoke with some of the students about why they came to PowerShift 09.

Voices from the Power Shift 09 conference,