Respond to Al Gore's video on California's education budget cuts
Al Gore recorded a video and wrote an email to Courage Campaign members about the potentially devastating budget cuts to education in California.
In the video, Al Gore asks viewers to respond to him directly on Current.com with either a video or text response. Click here to watch Al Gore’s video and to leave a response:
http://www.current.com/education
At Current, you will see hundreds of responses including a 18 video responses from Assemblymembers. Scroll down to the bottom to leave your own response.
You can read the full text of Al Gore’s email to Courage Campaign members below:
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Dear Friend,
I don’t write emails like this often.
But, with Californians facing a massive budget crisis and potentially devastating cuts to education, I feel compelled to speak out. As members of the Courage Campaign community, I hope you will speak out as well.
I recorded this one-minute video for the Courage Campaign on Current.com. Please watch it and let me know what you think by recording a short video or typing a written response of your own:
http://www.current.com/education
Jann Wenner, the publisher of Rolling Stone magazine, asked me an interesting question in an interview a few months ago:
“How do we engineer the sweeping social and political and industrial change that we need in a short period of time, from top to bottom?”
My answer is that we must create a shift in consciousness — and, education is the catalyst for this shift.
That’s why I recorded this video for the Courage Campaign. Please watch it on Current.com and, if you feel so inspired, respond with a webcam video or text response of your own:
http://www.current.com/education
Education is not a partisan issue. It is a crucial building block toward creating a more informed democracy. We can solve the climate crisis, and every other problem facing our nation, if we begin by transforming America’s priorities on education.
As parents, teachers and students speak out about these proposed cuts, they need your support, now more than ever. Please forward this message to your friends who care about the future of California and our country as much as you do.
I hope you will take a moment today to record a short webcam video or write a response to my video. Your voice, and the voices of your friends, can change the conversation in California.
Thank you,
Al Gore