Heading into a big election year and spring semester, there's never been a better time to get the skills to organize, and work for change! Come to this activist workshop to learn to craft a compelling campaign story that will recruit and activate others, how to rally administrators to your cause, and how to organize a highly successful campaign on-campus or off-campus.

THURSDAY JAN. 26TH
4:30-6:00 pm

The Trainers:
Virginia Shannon, Field Organizer, Midd ’11, Green Corps ‘12
Guest Trainer, To be announced, Green Corps '??

Sponsored by Green Corps, the Field School for Environmental Organizing, the Sunday Night Group, and Globe Med

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Green Corps is the nation’s premiere environmental organizer training program, called a “West Point for organizers” by the Utne Reader and likened to the Highlander Folk School by climate activist and Middlebury’s very own Bill McKibben, with a track record of producing concrete grassroots victories and high caliber organizers and advocates.  

Alumni include:
Justin Ruben, Executive Director, MoveOn.org, GC '97
Heather Smith, Executive Director, Rock the Vote, GC '99
Phil Radford,  Executive Director, Greenpeace USA, GC '99
Blair Bowie, Democracy Advocate, US PIRG, MIDD '09, GC '10

Green Corps Information Session 6:00-6:30pm afterward for graduating seniors and interested underclasspersons to hear about job opportunities in the social change movement