Grass Roots Organizing

So, today I went to grass roots organizing training today. Somehow, I feel like I cheated the system. Are you supposed to go to training for these things, or does that somehow steal from the authenticity of organizing the masses? Since I don't want a nice little blogpost on authenticity, I'll just tell you about the day.

I'm an officer in the newly created Texas Freedom Network chapter at Baylor University (first plug) and to become officialized we had to attend this training session. This particular session was about Comprehensive Sex-ed so now I know a lot more about sex-ed in Texas than I ever knew or cared to know. But it actually is quite the problem since ever 1 in 4 Texas girls has an "STI," we have the third highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation, and our teens engage in more "at risk" sexual activities than most of the kids in the nation. See, I learned quite a lot today. Anyways, most of the day was spent just discussing how to get policy changed. That included learning how to lobby and learning how to organize the masses. I feel like I'm a complete master in these things now, and I will be using them often.

My favorite part of the training was learning about "New Media" which include this blog, my twitter account (www.twitter.com/Sano_Insano), my myspace (www. myspace.com/sanoinsano) and my youtube video (soon to be more Sano_Insano). I felt fairly secure in the fact that I was pretty good at using all of these things.

Seeing as I only got an hour of sleep before going to this meeting, I was fairly tired throughout the entire thing. I was going to take an hour or two nap today at 7 when I had gotten back and eaten, but it ended up being 5 hours. So, I'm gonna go to sleep again, and hopefully not have to much trouble.

Man, shameless self-promotion right?