Seriously folks - check out the trainers & workshop schedule for Localize This! If you are anywhere near Vashon Island, WA join us for at least a day!

Backbone Campaign is partnering with RootsAction for an online effort to get the word out for a Student Debt Jubilee and free higher education. Today's action alert featuring our imagery and the policy direction of Backbone Campaign's Student Debt Jubilee Fellows Kyle McCarthy and Natalia Abrams was sent to over 135,000 people. And yes, Backbone is pursuing a new program to lift up autonomous progressive activists and organizers through our nascent CSO (Community Supported Organizer)/Fellowship program. We know that immersion is the best way to learn, and that activism and organizing is no different. That's why we are working with Kyle, Natalia, and a few select others to generate the stipends they need to continue doing the incredible work they've begun through Occupy or elsewhere. So please, use RootsAction's online tool and then Support Backbone Campaign Student Debt Jubilee Fellows Natalia Abrams and Kyle McCarthy (by selecting Student Debt Jubilee Fellows in the drop down menu on our donate page.)

Hey folks, here's a set of photos highlighting actions between last year's Localize This! camp and today. What a year! Ready for more?

Look how our Missoula friends are using their new banner and creative tactics! http://coalexportaction.org/2012/06/15/big-coals-politicians-called-out-at-montana-republicans-convention/

If I had a hammer... Fun video of balloon action with Hammering Man for Amazon shareholder meeting

Doo-Occupy music video to "Wake up! All ye citizens..." on a warming planet