Metro-Detroit candidate training!

Registration is open for our full Metro-Detroit candidate training! This program is longer and will go deeper than the trainings we did in November and December. 

Please help us spread the word to any progressives or environmentalists interested in running for office or managing campaigns.

Mike Berkowitz

Legislative & Political Director

Sierra Club Michigan Chapter

 

Dear Movement Politician, If this year has taught us anything, it’s that business as usual politics got us into this mess, and it will not get us out. The vast majority of political campaigns are run in a way that serves the 1%: vacuous platforms, campaign and policy priorities dictated by big donors, money spent on TV instead of talking to people, savior candidates unrepresentative of constituents, and almost every important campaign decision made by consultants who couldn’t care less about building a long-term movement. That’s because business as usual politics is based on the premise that the next election day is all that matters. Movement politics is based on a different premise: the next Election Day is the nearest punctuation mark in a very long sentence of building a people-powered movement. This means that our political revolution is happening one voter, one conversation at a time. It is led by people of color, women, immigrants and working class people. It is fueled with our money. It is armed with a bold agenda of racial and economic justice. And to succeed, we must invest in ourselves. Michigan People’s Campaign, Sierra Club and People’s Action have partnered to launch an ambitious training program for movement candidates, campaign staff, and volunteer throw-downers. In 2018, our team of local and national trainers will train 150 movement politicians in 4 regions across Michigan, spanning 33 hours of classroom instruction time, supplemented with webinars and homework. We want to be clear. We aren’t interested in simply adding more people with progressive values to the candidate pool. The Movement Politics Academy is an engine of a political movement contesting for governing power for the 99%. Together, we are all members of a collective that encompasses hundreds of thousands of volunteers, organizers and candidates across the country. People are hungry for a bold issue agenda that calls for a transformed political and economic system- one that puts people and planet first, while dismantling structural sexism and white supremacy.  We agree- no more quick fixes that only tinker with the status quo. Let’s build a new world for ourselves and our loved ones. Join us. Click here to apply   Click Here To Apply  Registration closes on January 15th, 2018.    Dates for the 1st Cohort:  January 26-27,2018 Feburary 2-4, 2018 February 9-10, 2018    * the 33 hours is split between these dates, participants are expected to be present at all sessions.    Location: Metro-Detroit    Click here to see trainer bio's    Copyright (C) 2017 MICHIGAN PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN All rights reserved.

 

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