This begins a weekly post from Unity08 campus organizers. This week we feature Zach Clayton, a senior at the University of North Carolina, and Lindsay Ullman, a junior at Yale University.
They say that the Millenials are an apathetic generation, but students on nearly 100 college campuses have already signed up for Unity08 since we launched the effort three weeks ago. Our goal: to ask every person on our campuses to sign up as delegates to the Unity08 online convention.
This week we launched the official Unity08 college campus effort. You can find out more at unity08.com/takeaction/college. A more expanded website page, which will help colleges network with one another, will launch soon. But for now, you can use this page to let us know that you want to join an existing college team, or to get one started on your campus. (And high schoolers, whether or not you're going to be eligible to vote in 2024, there's a place for you, too. Join us at unity08.com/takeaction/college).
Washington's politicians need to know that we are disgusted with politics worse-than-usual and that we are concerned for our country. Generally they only get a message when people vote. Signing up for Unity08 right now -- and bringing it to your college campus -- is another way for us to send them the message.
It's time to take ownership. We've grown up with the Internet -- it practically belongs to us -- and we're the ones who are going to pay the most (think an $8.4 trillion national debt) if our political system can't start dealing with real issues -- and fast. What better way to take our country back than to sign up everyone we know, beginning on our college campuses, to be delegates at the Unity08 online convention?
History is made by pioneers. We don't remember those who ratified the constitution; we remember the founding fathers who wrote it. So think of the Unity08 convention as being the Constitutional Convention of our time.
Get there early to have a seat throughout. Don't follow -- lead. There would be no aftershock if it weren't for the earthquake. That's what the pioneers provide. Wait and see is for followers.
