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Many
of us have been saying that our national values
are displayed in how we spend our federal dollars. Katrina proves it.
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- STARS: Students Taking Action for Real Security!
Catlin Orr:
"Humanity"
Chantel Morant: "The Deafening Sounds of Silence"
- If you don’t know, now you know-
Katrina, the budget, and our national priorities
- Ways to STAND and take action-
- Heads Up!
- On the News
- Update from National WAND
Katrina exposes our national priorities
- Announcements/Internships
1)
STARS
Humanity
by Catlin Orr
What
can I feel when I am reminded that there are so many
people in the world who are one natural disaster away
from losing everything? There is this raw disbelief
that bubbles up inside of me. Initially I just want
to rant about the politics of the situation, harp
on how relatively long it took to get aid to the victims,
even now there are numerous people stuck in the middle
of the aftermath. Yet, when I put in "Hurricane
Katrina" online, the first pages of sites are
all resources and ways to help the people affected
by the disaster. I know that on my campus every organization
is creating ways to raise awareness and bring aid
to New
Orleans; we even have a few Tulane students studying
at Mount
Holyoke
for the semester. In fact, I just have to walk down
my dorm and find boxes of clothes, toothpaste, books,
chapstick, and more on their
way to national organizations for those who suffered
from the Hurricane. This grassroots recognition of
humanity by our students and fellow citizens has been
impressionable.
Although
I am helping to raise money through my College Democrats
club and am donating clothes, I am still battling
with my political disillusionment. There is a mixture
of emotions colliding with my recognition of the poverty
gap in the United States brought to surface
through the Hurricane and my acknowledgement of hands-on
relief efforts by Americans. Do I feel that the Bush
administration could have reacted with relief and
medical aid sooner? Yes. Do I feel that there is
a problem in the news coverage portraying people with
white skin as feeding their families and people with
black skin as looting? Yes. Do I think that there
should have been better means of evacuating every
person despite their income? Yes. Do I feel that
there needs to be a critical examination of our national
healthcare coverage, especially in disaster relief
situations? Yes. Yet, do I think it is great that
American citizens are mobilizing together on all levels
to bring grassroots aid to the victims of Hurricane
Katrina? Yes.
Witnessing
our nation coming together to bring aid in all forms
is what reminds me that a country is made up of citizens
who often do care about their neighbors. Right now
there are many of us willing and ready to help in
any way we can. I can give toothpaste and toiletries
while my roommates donate clothes and in that there
is a sense of duty and recognition of humanity.
As
I see the devastation in New
Orleans on the television and read about the wretched
conditions of homes and shelters, I pledge to myself
that I will be one of many Americans who will care
and send aid. As a nation we are recognizing that
in one natural disaster so many of our neighbors lost
their foundations and we are observing the horrific
ramifications, but we are not going to turn our backs.
Humanity is here in our efforts and driving us to
help support our fellow Americans who need us.
Thus,
as I struggle to balance my mixed emotions of political
angst and dismay, I am still able to make donations
and help with the grassroots ripple effect of change.
The organic nature of creating pools of people who
are trying to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina
has been empowering. It may not be what the news
picks up on, but we aren’t helping to make headlines:
we are helping because we care. In many ways this
is the essence of the Hurricane to me, recognizing
that we are all related and that it is so important
to care: to care about socio-economic discrimination,
to care about the racial elements inherent in our
country, to care about the Bush Administrations relief
efforts, to care about our fellow Americans. Caring
and willing, I can only see us making a difference
and helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina who are
in need.
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Catlin Orr will enter her sophomore year at Mount
Holyoke College
in South
Hadley, MA.
She grew up in Fullerton, CA, where she first
became involved with the peace movement. She designed
and sold "Think Peace" shirts at her
high school and in the community; people wore
them every Friday for almost two years as a means
of peaceful protest. In the midst of this, she
found out about WAND and STAND, and has been a
member ever since. |
The
Deafening Sounds of Silence
by Chantel Morant
Almost
like the silence of loudness.
Life
is transformed
in the midst of a changing world
changing
only to become suffocated.
By:
Heartache and Misery.
Emotions
only familiar to those who've
been
around a few corners...
in the literal sense.
Walking
a thousand miles
in someone
else's moccasins
How Hard that must be?
When
I wear a size five and a half...
The
girl down the street wears a size 6...
or maybe 9-
But
what the HELL does it matter anyway
when
she's 17
and
her only knowledge of a 9 to 5
is...
on the
corner:
Prostitutin'
offering
her body for public:
Distribution
as if
she were the media :
Pollutin'
the
communities
with bogus lies of New
Orleans
evacuees:
LOOTIN'...
But
you see, no one wants to
tell you those
Truths.
The
many lies are so embedded into this country,
that you would need one of Bush's:
Nuclear
Bunker Busters
to find
it,
but
he would still try to hide it,
just
like the real reason he sent the troops to war
on a:
"Military
Assignment"
but
it's not a war
it's
a waste.
And
just another example of
The
Bush Administrations: Terrorism Case
Now
I know you've been listening,
but
do you hear
me?
Or
has the silence been loud so long...
that you've already gone-
Deaf?
-Chantel T. Morant
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Chantel
Morant is the President of STAND
(Baltimore) chapter whose mission is to ensure
that Baltimore city public school students are provided with adequate materials
in their classrooms. She is also member
of the Advocacy committee and
Chair for The Baltimore Algebra Project where
she tutors middle and high school students
for math literacy and advocate for adequate funding
for city schools. She is most passionate
about empowering youth
in the African American community and helping
them develop their leadership. |
2.
If you don't know, now you know.
Katrina,
the budget, and our national priorities
Americans
have an historic opportunity to examine federal spending
priorities in the face of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath
and the Iraq War. National Priorities Projects offers
a two-page overview of current federal spending policies
and state level numbers on the cost of the Iraq War.
It's
great. Check it out. You can see what's happening to the U.S. budget, and to your
state budget.
Your
tax dollars. Your choices?
- Amount spent each day on the Iraq War: $220 million
- Average federal tax break this year for millionaires:
$103,000
- House of Representatives cut in Army Corps of
Engineers' budget next year: $300 million
- House cut in low-income home energy assistance
next year: $197 million
3.
Ways to STAND and take action!
The
effects of Katrina on the residents of New
Orleans will far out-last the media buzz. We need
to ensure that the lessons we learn from Katrina
will be long-term. Here is something you can do
to help:
Write
a letter to the editor. The hurricane Katrina disaster shows us that four years of
the Bush administration's boundless "war on
terror" has not made Americans safer. We need
to make sure that policymakers remember this lesson.
We have provided talking points on Katrina, tips
on writing letters to the editor, and with a few
clicks you can send your letter to a newspaper in
your area.
Click
here to start
For
more information go to:
ww2.californiapeaceaction.org/pickMedia.jsp?letter_KEY=269
4.
Heads up! Some organizations putting in major work
NYSPC
and the Books Not Bombs Agenda
The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition is sponsoring
the Not Your Soldier National Youth and Student
Day of Action. NYSPC is the largest coalition of
youth and student organizations from around the
country committed to fighting for peace and justice
in our schools, communities, and around the world.
Formed in the fall of 2001, they have been organizing
youth and students to fight back against wars and
occupations and to demand a real future for young
people in the US and around the world. NYSPC has developed the
Books Not Bombs agenda, which addresses the real
concerns of young people today.
The Books Not Bombs Agenda:
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Fund Education -- Not Empire!
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Military
Out of Our Schools -- No to the Poverty Draft!
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Protect
Our Civil Liberties!
-
Campuses
For Peace -- Not War!
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Schools Not Jails!
MTV AND YOUTH
VENTURE OFFER HOPE VENTURE GRANTS FOR HURRICANE
KATRINA RELIEF EFFORTS
MTV and Youth Venture
are offering Hope Venture Grants of up to $1,000
to support young people who want to launch a venture
-- an organization, club, or business -- that will
aid those affected by Hurricane Katrina. First priority
will be given to proposals that support the creation
of sustainable ventures that aid the citizens and
communities who have lost so much from this disaster.
A second priority will be proposals to start organizations
solely for the purpose of raising and distributing
funds for those in need.
Hope Venture Grants
will be offered every week for the next six months
to groups of two or more young people (ages 13-20)
with the most compelling venture ideas to assist
the people and communities affected. Applications
for one-time projects will not be considered. For
the official rules or the application, please go
to: www.mtv.com/thinkmtv/features/take_action/disaster_relief/help4.jhtml.
For tips and tools on starting your venture visit
Youth Venture at: www.youthventure.org.
For questions, please email: ny@youthventure.org.
Please include "Hope Venture Grants" in
subject line.
THE NATIONAL YOUTH COURT
CENTER SETS UP RELIEF FUND
FOR KATRINA VICTIMS
The National Youth
Court Center (NYCC) has received numerous inquiries
from across the country regarding how to help colleagues
in the gulf coast areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.
To that end, the NYCC is setting up a fund for donations
that at some point in the future will be dispersed
to relief fund initiatives in the gulf coast to
assist our colleagues who have been affected.
Contributions can be
sent by check made payable to APPA with "NYCC-Katrina"
in the subject line to the following address: National
Youth Court Center, c/o American Probation and Parole
Association, P.O. Box 11910, Lexington, KY 40578-1910.
APPA is a non-profit, 501 C (3) organization as
determined by the Internal Revenue Service. All
donations will be processed through our secretariat
services provided by the Council of State Governments
(http://www.csg.org/CSG/default.htm).
The National
Youth Court Center
will report to all donors the status of the fund
and its disbursement via its website at: www.youthcourt.net.
100% of all donations will be distributed to those
in need.
5.
ON THE NEWS
Read about how Bush tax
cuts to the wealthy affected the administration's
response to Hurricane Katrina
http://www.alternet.org/katrina/26253/
Public
support for the war in Iraq
continues to drop
http://www.clw.org/2005/09/public_support.html
Our new Nevada
STAND Chapter
http://www.unlvrebelyell.com/article.php?ID=421
The War for Latinos by Roberto Lovato
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051003/lovato
6.
Update from National WAND
WAND
and others labor tirelessly to acknowledge respect
for the need for a strong defense, including appropriate
pay and health care for the military and veterans.
At the same
time, we urge everyone to understand that a bloated
and excessive military budget puts big unneeded weapons
systems ahead of urgent unmet domestic needs. It is
alarming that elected leaders shun recognition of
simple reality: you get what you pay for.
Not only are military expenditures over half of the
discretionary budget, but that portion of the budget
only allots 7% for homeland security and 4% for preventive
measures. Even
within the military budget, our priorities are skewed
toward war, and not for basic protection.
Real security
is a phrase we at WAND use frequently.
We say that education, jobs, housing, health care
and a clean environment make up real security. We
now see with incredible focus that the poor are not
secure in this country.
We also
see that we are not ready for any kind of major tragedy
here. The administration has lulled
the country into believing that fighting over there
will protect us over here.
There are so many lessons to learn from the heartbreak
and catastrophe of Katrina. Let just one be that we
can have smart security without being imprudent.
And while I'm at it, here are just some of the reasons
I am angry as well as frustrated:
- Everyone, it seems, except the President, FEMA and Homeland
Security knew a major hurricane was coming and disaster
loomed.
- Everyone knew the levees could break and there would
be flooding of monumental proportions.
- FEMA had thrown itself into helping Florida post hurricane in 2004, including giving out checks to
communities where the hurricane did not hit. It
was an election year.
- Leaders assumed people could get out. Not everyone has
a car, nor is able bodied.
- Leaders forgot about the elderly in nursing homes, the
sick and dying in hospitals, the jailed, and the
mentally ill.
- When help came, it was sometimes turned away because
it did not have the proper clearance.
- When soldiers diverted their flight to drop off supplies
to other soldiers to airlift over 100 stranded citizens,
they were reprimanded.
- Firefighters were used as a backdrop for President Bush's
visit to the Gulf and trained for public relations
rather than deployed to those in need.
- FEMA and Homeland Security did not know there were thousands
awaiting aid without food or water while the rest
of us saw them on TV.
And,
finally, some believed they were so poor they were
better off after the flood.
But the good news is that so many people care. Now, let's turn that caring into another flood, one that deluges our
leaders with the message: get it right. We can't continue
to squander billions of dollars in Iraq
while our military dies in a war that has a new mission
every time the President decides to redefine it.
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Katrina
exposes our national priorities
We
need to promote the concept of "real security"
as more than the military.
Ten
ways to help.
Read our message here.
| Take action here. |
7.
Announcements/Internships
egional Collegiate
Global Women's and Human Rights Conferences
Register today for one of the Feminist
Majority Foundation's four Regional Collegiate
Global Women's and Human Rights Conferences
to be held in Fall 2005. www.feministcampus.org/global_conference
Building on the foundation laid by the National Collegiate
Global Women's and Human Rights Conference this
past April, the fall conferences will educate
and mobilize young people on a range of local
and global feminist and human rights issues.
The goal of these conferences is to create a
network of progressive activists to confront
problems facing women halfway across the world,
as well as in our own backyard!
Learn more and take action on women's issues such as sweatshop
labor, reproductive rights and health, corporate
irresponsibility, HIV/AIDS, education and literacy,
slavery and human trafficking, foreign policy,
women in conflict, and violence against women.
South Atlantic Regional Conference
Location: Spelman College,
Atlanta, GA
Friday, Oct. 28th*-Saturday, Oct. 29th
Midwest Regional Conference
Location: Case Western
Reserve University,
Cleveland,
OH
Friday, Nov. 4th*-Saturday, Nov. 5th
South Central Regional Conference
Location: University of North Texas,
Denton, TX
Friday, Nov. 11th*-Saturday, Nov. 12th
Featured Speaker: Dr. Sarah Weddington
West Coast Regional Conference
Location: Claremont Colleges,
Claremont, CA
Friday, Nov. 11th*-Saturday, Nov. 12th
Keynote Speaker: Dolores Huerta
*Friday Night Event, co-sponsored by Ms. Magazine: "Never
Go Back" Forum & Community Networking
Opportunity
Register today at www.feministcampus.org/global_conference!
Democratizing
Education Convention
University of Wisconsin-Madison
October 20-23
The deadline to register for the Democratizing Education Conference
has been extended to OCTOBER 8! This is a wonderful
opportunity to get OUR ACTION PLANS ADOPTED
BY A NATIONAL NETWORK OF HIGHER EDUCATION ACTIVISTS-
and some incentive to send your action plans
to Michael Coffey if you haven't yet.
If you need help with traveling expenses, call Tom DeGloma (grad
student, Sociology at Rutgers University- (732)236-9921)... If you
know for certain that you can't make it, I will
make it a priority that all of our action plans
are articulated to the larger body of attendees,
so that you can be there vicariously, and that
the gravity of the nuclear situation is expressed.
But nuclear abolition activists shouldn't be
the tiny minority represented! Especially not
when there are hundreds of thousands of students
from dozens of universities potentially affected
by the UC and UT consortia! Please register
today!
www.DemocratizingEducation.org
Nuclear Freeze/IDDS 25th Celebration Oct 21-23
On
the anniversary of the Nuclear Freeze movement, the Institute
for Defense and Disarmament Studies (IDDS),
which launched the Freeze, is hosting a
jam-packed celebration to educate and empower
us all. Please join keynote speaker Congressman
Edward Markey (D-MA), Robert Jay Lifton, James
Carroll, John Pike, Jonathan Schell, Helen Caldicott,
William Sloane Coffin, Harvey Cox, Jonathan
Dean, Clark Abt, Joseph Cirincione, Graham Allison,
David Cortright, Susan Shaer, David Krieger,
Shelagh Foreman, Freeze co-founders Randy Forsberg
(IDDS Founder and Director), Randy Kehler and
Pam Solo, and others. Visit http://www.idds.org/ for
more information and registration.
NOT YOUR SOLDIER CAMPS
Fall 2005 www.notyoursoldier.org
Not Your Soldier activist training camps will
give youth the tools we need to stop the military
invasion of our schools and our communities.
The camps will be 2-4 days long, and hosted
by local groups in several regions of the US.
The Not Your Soldier camps will help develop
political organizing skills and create real-life
strategies to fight military recruitment, the
poverty draft, and the corporations that profit
off of war. Attendees will learn what counter-military
recruitment activism really means and how we
can take creative nonviolent direct action to
end militarism. There will be plenty of time
to link up with other local people taking action
to stop the war. Check out www.notyoursoldier.org.
SMARTMEME YOUTH STRATEGY RETREAT:
INCITE/INSIGHT
September 29 - October 3, 2005
www.smartmeme.org/story
Story Telling, Movement Building, and Creating
a Culture of Strategy...
Incite/Insight is a three-day youth strategy
retreat in Andover, New Hampshire. Content will
focus on power analysis, story-based strategies,
and building movements for systemic social change.
Cost is on a sliding scale, $30-$150, with a
request of $100 to cover yummy meals, materials,
and lodging. There are travel scholarships available.
Incite/Insight will be a unique and intimate
gathering of young activists working for systemic
social change. The retreat will offer
a reflective forum for deep discussions on the
systems of oppression, our strategies, movement
building, and how the stories we tell can reshape
our world. In a rural retreat setting, we will
take 3 days to explore narrative power analysis,
story-based strategies, creative direct action
at the point(s) of assumption, and more! Sessions
will focus on the power of story, the landscape
of media, leadership and organization, anti-racist
approaches, and identifying points of intervention
to change the story for a more hopeful future.
The autumn leaves will be spectacular. Down
time will be open for cultural sharing, community
building, listening to the land, and listening
to each other's stories, songs, poems, and strategy
ideas.
Please visit www.smartMeme.org/story for more information
or to apply.
MID-SOUTH CONFERENCE ON THE
LEFT
October 15, 2005 www.dsausa.org/yds/confreg-ar.html
Contact: UCA YDS red_riot83@yahoo.com
University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas
The Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) are hosting
a one-day conference that focuses on the struggle
for justice and equality in the American South.
The conference will feature panel discussions,
interactive workshops and grassroots trainings
from groups such as Planned Parenthood, Not
with Our Money, the AFL-CIO, the Democratic Party, and various local progressive organizations
dealing with the issues facing southern activists.
Topics to be addressed include the South's ongoing
legacy of racism, the politics of Katrina, the
abundance of anti-union legislation, widespread
rural poverty, Wal-Mart and the low-wage economy
(Wal-Mart's HQ is in Arkansas) anti-gay ballot
initiatives, the local costs of the war in Iraq
and the power of the religious right.
Keynote Speaker: Christian Parenti
Parenti is the author of The Freedom: Shadows
and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq. His
articles and ground-breaking reporting regularly
appear in The Nation magazine. Parenti
is the author of numerous other books including,
The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America
from Slavery to the War on Terror and Lockdown
America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis.
The Mid-South Conference of the Left is an excellent
opportunity for progressive youth and students
from the surrounding region to network and have
fun with each other. Limited housing and
transportation available. Friday night
(Oct 14th) and Saturday night social events
and refreshments provided.
DEMOCRATIZING EDUCATION CONFERENCE
October 21-23, 2005 http://www.libertytreefdr.org/democratizingEducationConvention.htm
Contact: Liberty Tree (608)
257-1606
University of Wisconsin
at Madison:
Plan nationally coordinated actions in defense
of higher education. Develop proposals for unity
and a possible union of grads, undergrads, faculty,
staff and community members. Learn and teach
about organizing strategies and tactics, higher
education problems and solutions, and the work
of other members of the campus community.
CAMPAIGN TO DEMILITARIZE THE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – KNUK RADIO CONTEST
November 4, 2005 www.wagingpeace.org/youth
Song-writing contest! Deadline November
4th, 2005. Winners get their song on a CD.
CD will be available for youth and student groups
to sell for fundraising.
NOT YOUR SOLDIER – YOUTH AND STUDENT DAY OF ACTION
November 17, 2005 www.nyspc.net
All around the country young people are
organizing ourselves against the invasion of
military recruiters and JROTC programs in our
schools. We are standing up to demand a positive
alternative to war and the military. We want
a future that includes funding for education
and job training and real opportunities for
our generation. NOT YOUR SOLDIER!
On November 17, International Students Day,
join youth and students from around the country
in the first nationally coordinated day of action
for and about young people! NOT YOUR SOLDIER!
Young people are the ones being forced to lose
our lives in their illegal wars and on November
17th we'll be the ones to stand up and say NO
to Military Recruitment in our schools and YES
to positive alternatives to militarism and War!
On November 17th tell Bush we are "NOT
YOUR SOLDIERS"!
STOP THE WAR CONFERENCE
November 19, 2005 www.stopthewarconference.org
8:00-5:30PM + evening program
Manual Arts
High School, Los
Angeles, 4131 S. Vermont, Los
Angeles, CA 90037
High school students attend free!
Please visit www.stopthewarconference.org
for more information or to register.
PROJECT 20/20
www.2020vision.org
On August 2, 2005, 20/20 Vision launched
"Project 2020" - a student-led grassroots
effort that is dedicated to educating, energizing,
and organizing students and communities about
the interconnected issues of energy dependence
and national security. Our goal is to
cut America's dependence on oil
in half by the year 2020. We have Student Regional
Directors in nine US cities who will be working
with their local campus communities and their
greater US region to produce a debate series,
an interactive War Games Simulation with the
National Commission on Energy Policy, several
public events, a national pledge drive, petition
drive and much more to increase America's knowledge
of these important and pressing issues. More
information is soon to follow.
I WILL NOT KILL PLEDGE
www.iwillnotkill.org
www.forusa.org
Conscientious Objection – It Takes Courage!
The "I Will Not Kill" campaign aims
to educate high school and college age youth,
especially youth of color, and youth in rural
and impoverished white communities, and works
to:
- raise awareness of resistance to war
- educate youth about the impacts of war
- oppose a future draft
- dismantle the selective service system and
promote a culture of life
- promote conscientious objection to war as
a positive alternative to violence and a way
to strengthen and uplift communities and all
civil society.
STUDENT/FARMWORKER ALLIANCE
UPDATE
www.sfalliance.org
Following the successful and precedent-setting
Taco Bell boycott victory, Student/Farmworker
Alliance is continuing to support the Coalition
of Immokalee Workers -- a grassroots organization
comprised mostly of Latino, Haitian, and Mayan
Indian immigrant farmworkers -- as they take
on McDonalds, Burger King and Subway to ensure
that the significant gains of the Taco Bell
agreement are extended throughout the entire
fast-food industry. For more information and
organizing resources, including a free DVD
and postcards to Burger King and Subway, contact
us at organize@sfalliance.org or visit www.sfalliance.org or www.ciw-online.org
SURGE UPDATES
www.surgenetwork.org
- Campus Organizing Guide: Students United
for a Responsible Global Environment (SURGE)
is actively working this summer to develop a
strong Campus Organizing Guide for the 2005-2006
year that will be available for people all over
the South and beyond who are working hard towards
peace and justice.
- Progressive Arts & Music Tour: SURGE is
focused on planning a Progressive Arts &
Music Tour throughout North
Carolina and developing a documentary to reflect
on progressive efforts within the state's diverse
communities.
- Renewable Energy as A Path Toward Peace: SURGE
is also focused on a series of events such as
solar meet-ups and tours that promote peace
through local renewable energy development that
helps to systematically prevent future resource
wars for oil and other fossil fuels.
SWEATFREE CAMPUS CAMPAIGN
www.studentsagainstsweatshops.org
In a couple of weeks USAS is going to be launching
a new phase of our Sweatfree Campus Campaign.
We're going to be demanding that brands producing
collegiate apparel produce a significant percentage
of it in good factories - those factories where
workers have democratic representation and earn
a living wage. In order to ensure a living
wage, brands will be required to pay more to
the factories so workers can make more money.
DOLLAR A PERSON NATIONAL IMMIGRATION
REFORM AD CAMPAIGN
www.ykuusa.org
In an encouraging sign of unity, national
and local organizations have come together to
launch this campaign to generate funds and endorsements
for the placement of a prominent AD in the Washington
Post. The AD will outline support for comprehensive
immigration reform and that the recently introduced
McCain-Kennedy bipartisan bill, the Secure America
and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005, is an important
step towards achieving this. Central to this
campaign is the "Dollar-A-Person"
drive enabling individuals from with our diverse
communities to send a clear message of support
for comprehensive immigration reform to lawmakers
and the American public. Endorsements and funds
are expected to be raised by early September
and the final AD will be printed in September
2005.
We are reaching out to all groups including
community based organizations, social service
agencies, hometown associations, all forms of
organized religion, sports associations, alumni
associations, and professional groups to endorse
the campaign by contributing from $50 to $100.
All endorsing organizations will be listed in
the final AD.
Young Koreans United (YKU) of USA
(yku@ykuusa.org,
http://www.ykuusa.org)
will be assisting in the efforts of the National
Korean American Service and Education Consortium
(NAK ASEC), one of the initiators of the campaign.
For more information on the campaign and how
to participate, please go to http://www.nakasecactionfund.org/.
Students and Educators
to Stop the War Fall Conference in Los
Angeles
Saturday,
November
19, 2005
Manual Arts High School
4131 S.
Vermont
Los Angeles, CA. 90037
8:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Plus evening social/cultural event
Students, Teachers, Campus Workers, ESPs, Professors,
Parents, Veterans, and Military Families are
especially invited!
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