This was a critical meeting for us. We had been exploring different campaigns and actions, and settled on running a Beef-Free Week in June. We then formed three teams and got volunteers to lead them: Sponsor Outreach (Apple), Web Presence (Damon), and Student Organizing (Kevin C).

First we reported on our meeting with Ollie May, and whether we had received any follow-up from the Massachusetts Youth Climate Coalition on joining them (we hadn't). But we realized that until we prove that we can organize an action that makes a difference and gets us into the media, we probably are not that interesting to larger organizations like Sunrise or MYCC.

For the past two weeks, we had been exploring various possible actions. We considered helping legislators with passing new laws about having safer and greener school buildings, getting more funding for climate initiatives, or requiring schools to teach about the climate, but all of these bills were already in reconciliation so there wasn't much for us to do.

So we focused on holding a Beef-Free Week at Renaissance for the week of June 6-10. It made sense because organizing other students would be a good match for what we were already able to do, and because it would make the school look good and get our school administrators on our side to help out.

But this was still going to involve very new things. We would need to create a press release so the media knew what we were doing. We would need a website for the media and potential sponsors to visit, so they could learn more and decide whether to help or cover our work. And we needed an Instagram account so that students could use the power of social networking to spread the word about our work.

The three project leads would be working against the clock to make all of this happen. We decided to continue meeting during lunch on Thursdays, and to use the Asana project management system to keep track of who needed to do what by when, and put all our internal communications in one place (or at least link them to one place).