I've been hanging out at the Bioneers Conference in San Rafael this weekend. The peak moment for me was Friday, when Van Jones of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights kicked off the conference with a moral challenge to the environmental movement to use its growing power to dismantle structures of racial and economic injustice while greening the nation. If you're not familiar with the work of the Ella Baker Center and their work to provide youth of color with skill sets in green technology as a pathway out of poverty, you should check out their site. Van Jones is being honored next Thursday night by the US Green Building Council at their Super Heroes Gala (click here to sign up!) for his work on so-called "Green-Collar Jobs." On Friday, I also attended a panel discussion on building youth movements led by Adrienne Maree Brown of the Ruckus Society and Courtney Hull of the Ella Baker Center - both colleagues of mine from our days working for the League of Young (and Pissed Off) Voters. Also present on the panel was Step It Up, who talked about their National Day of Action this past April, and their plan for the next day of action in November. This afternoon, I'm sad to be missing an all-star session with Adrienne Maree Brown (The Ruckus Society), Ilyse Hoge (MoveOn.org), James Rucker (Color of Change), and Leda Scout (DotOrganize) on electoral organizing. The session promises to be amazing, and it's inspiring to be surrounded by so many rockstars from the DIA community who are kicking ass and taking names, but I'll be out in Dolores Park throwing down with the League of Young Voters, registering voters and handing out local voter guides during the Lights Out San Francisco celebration. By the way...did y'all hear yet that Hogwarts Headmaster and Hero Albus Percival Wulfric Bryan Dumbledore is gay? That's right! JK Rowling outed Dumbledore Friday night in front of a crowd at Carnegie Hall. She went on to say that her books are a "prolonged argument for tolerance" and that her readers should "question authority." Rad.