Join the Florida Alliance for Renewable Energy (FARE) to lobby in Tallahassee for clean energy. If you went to Power Shift ’09, this is a great followup opportunity.

From FARE’s website:

Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Time: 8:00 am to 2:00 pm
Meet at: Tallahassee Community College Capitol Center Downtown, 300 West Pensacola St

Agenda:

• 7-8 am Registration
• 8-9:30 Briefing/Training
• 9:30-11:45 Lobbying
• 1 pm Rally & Press Conference
• 1-5 Lobbying
• 5:15 Debrief
• 6 pm Depart

Renewable energy businesses, experts, and advocates will be there to show support for a Renewable Energy Dividend for Florida, similar to the Gainesville feed-in tariff currently in place.

Click to read FARE’s proposal for a Florida Renewable Energy Dividend.

Update: Click to watch the video of Here’s to the Long Haul’s performance at the CMC on March 16.

Willie Dodson and Joe Overton, along with guest musicians and activists, make up this Appalachian string band & teaching team that is traveling the US celebrating the culture and life of the mountains while telling stories through music of “everyday people living everyday lives and trying to stand up for what’s right.”

You can learn more about their mission at the Here’s to the Long Haul web site.

On Monday, March 16th at 3pm in MAEB 229 on UF campus, Dodson and Overton will teach a Mountaintop Removal 101 workshop to show how coal-mining has affected 470 mountains and 1,000 miles of streams in Appalachia, and to talk about what we can do about it. Find MAEB 229 on UF’s campus map.

The workshop will be followed by performances at the Civic Media Center at 10pm by Here’s to the Long Haul, Lars Din and Dirty Fist.

RSVP for Mountaintop Removal 101 on Facebook.

Direct Action & Research Training (DART) Center will be on the University of Florida campus on Thursday, February 5, @ 7:00pm in the Reitz Union, Room 357 to discuss careers in the field of community organizing, and to schedule interviews with students interested in empowering their communities and working for social change.

DART is now accepting applications for the 2009 DART Organizers Institute, the paid, four-month field school for people interested in launching a career in community organizing. Participants will undergo a combined classroom and field training covering such topics as:

• Entering a community
• Identifying and training local leaders
• Strategic planning and issue cutting
• Relationship and community building
• Direct Action on community issues
• Fundraising

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President-elect Obama is encouraging everyone to take a day on, instead of a day off, on MLK day to volunteer to do something for our communities.

To get involved on National Day of Service, search for an event here.

“Life’s persistent and most urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Direct Action & Research Training (DART) Center will be on UF campus on Thursday, February 5 @ 7:00 pm in the Reitz Union Room 357 to discuss careers in the field of community organizing, and to schedule interviews with students interested in empowering their communities and working for social change.

Please RSVP if you are interested by contacting Melissa Pluss at melissa@thedartcenter.org or calling 785.841.2680 with your name, phone # and email address.

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