{news} Fw: [ctgp] Greenpeace Organizing Term Application

[edubrule]

This was sent to the the riseup listserve on November 7.  (I think of the riseup listserve as the predecessor to the News listserve, but this may not be accurate.)
--Ed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: [Erik] 
To: ctgp at lists.riseup.net 
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 4:57 PM
Subject: [ctgp] Greenpeace Organizing Term Application


APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED! Apply for the Greenpeace Organizing Term, a semester of ACTION, TRAINING, and TRAVEL

It's been a crazy month for activists what with the midterms and all, so we decided to extend the application deadline for the Greenpeace Organizing Term. Apply now and get the skills to protect the planet  www.greenpeaceusa.org/got

The Greenpeace Organizing Term is an action-filled semester and the best hands-on training for students to become environmental leaders. You'll be making an investment in your leadership skills, getting trainings in grassroots organizing, media, direct action, and campaign strategy. You'll travel abroad with Greenpeace and join a team of incredible activists working to protect the planet. Many students are also able to receive class credit for the semester.  

"I now understand what it means to be an organizer.  I can now use all the amazing things I've learned to actually make a difference." - Charis Barnes, University of North Carolina-Asheville, Fall '04

ACTION

We give you hands-on experience with a real Greenpeace campaign. We have the best trainers come and give you trainings here in our DC headquarters or our new San Francisco office and then you hit the ground to work with a Greenpeace campaign to implement what you've learned.  You'll put your organizing skills into action, play a critical role in organizing on-the-ground Greenpeace events, and make a real impact fighting to protect America's last remaining forests, promoting clean energy and saving our world's oceans. You'll learn how to climb, drive Greenpeace boats, use advanced communication equipment and practice peaceful direct action.  

TRAVEL 

We travel abroad for a week to meet with international Greenpeace activists.  During past trips, students have traveled to Greenpeace headquarters in Amsterdam, to Paris to take part in a 500-person peace symbol, and to Germany where they joined a 6,000-person march in to protest of nuclear waste shipments. We give people a few days to just relax and explore Europe as well.

TRAINING

We provide over 50 cutting-edge trainings in grassroots organizing, campaign skills, media strategy, and direct action. America's top environmental leaders will train you in everything from recruiting volunteers and developing leaders to creating a campaign plan. You'll learn how to climb, drive Greenpeace boats, hold press events and plan national campaigns.  

APPLY NOW

If you are passionate, bold, smart, visionary, strategic, savvy and ready to stand up for the environment, join us!  We are currently accepting applications for the Spring 2007 semester in Washington DC and San Francisco. To learn more and to apply, visit www.greenpeaceusa.org/got

To contact program staff with questions, e-mail got at wdc.greenpeace.org or call Samantha Corbin 202-319-2468.
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