Posts Gone Wild

I've got about 7 posts in my queue for Future Majority and MyDD, and not nearly enough time to finish writing them all. Sometimes I struggle to keep putting out good content, sometimes it backs up. Here's a few items in brief that I would love to mention more fully, but probably won't have the time to get to.

• Second Life shmecond life . . . Zack Exley has got a write up on the most kick-ass online/virtual advocacy action I've heard of yet. Unionizing World of Warcraft at (Virtual) Sword-Point.
• Opportunity Maine, a bill to help make college more affordable for Maine residents, passed the state house this week. The bill is the brain-child of the Opportunity Maine coalition, who both wrote the bill and organized for its passage. The coalition includes our friends at the League of Young Voters. I may write more about this later.
• Generation Debt has some dirt on the student loan reforms now wending through congress
• I have not paid near enough attention to the folks at Campus Climate Challenge. This year alone they held events on over 600 campuses. Held 500 screenings of an Inconvenient Truth, held 35 regional/state conferences, trained 3,800 students, and convinced 280 colleges and universities to agree to become carbon-neutral. They've touched over 1 million students with their message. Not a bad year. Now they're coordinating a video campaign aimed at the Presidential candidates. That is some serious activism.
• Finally, North Carolina recently passed a bill that will make it easier for young people to register and vote by allowing them to do either three days before election day.