Transform America newsletter

I hope to see you today at 6:30, at Society Cafe (114th & 8th). Bring your calendars. There's a lot of doing to be done. We'll be making plans to,

-Street Team
-Recruit Campus organizers
-Present Youth Councils to Community Boards
-Recruit youth at schools
-Recruit mentors

Thank you to all who came to the 3rd Annual AFFIRMative ACTion Social Justice Park Party!

It was a huge success with great artists, great food, and great weather! More importantly we recruited tens of new mentors and youth for our Youth Councils, and left with a new energy to take action. The graffiti wall asked, "What will you do?" Many people contributed, and now we're waiting for your answer. ACT!!

Join Transform America, we meet every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, 6:30 P.M. at "Society" on 114th and Frederick Douglass Blvd., sign up for mentorship, join a Youth Council, lead a Youth Council, start up a Flight School, intern, be a campus agitator, join a Street Team once a month, come to our next networking event, get involved with another serious social justice organization. Just make sure you get involved and ACT.

For a quick recap of the Park Party, check out this short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlpSEYsNygQ

This Saturday at 1pm, in St. Nicholas Park located on St. Nicholas Ave. and 135th St. we will party.

We will celebrate 30 mentors, 5 Youth Councils and our efforts to end mayoral control. We will feast on the finest burgers, hotdogs and snacks. We will listen to the most beautiful soulful sounds and the most mesmerizing lyrics muttered on this side of Harlem. We will be bedazzled by b-boys & b-girls who really know how to break dance down. We will glare at glorious graff by the baddest graffiti artists in NYC. And all of this will serve to affirm our belief that we can and will make a better world.

Then we will act. We will sign up for mentorships, we will get our friends to sign up for mentorships, we will encourage kids to join Youth Councils, we will get involved. We will visit the tables of organizations like Black New Yorkers for Educational Excellence, like the Audre Lorde Project, like Drop the Rock, like LUCHA, GQ, C-Roots, and the D8 Youth Council, and we will sign up to take action. We will act to recruit 100 mentors, start 25 new Youth Councils, start 15 new scholarship funds, and redesign our school system by helping to create a People's Board of Education, and we will do this while smiling, dancing, and eating in celebration.

Share this with your friends and your listserves, speak to a friend, text a friend, work with us, party with us, join us this Saturday to help... Transform America.

Hey guys,

How does this look? I honestly think it looks pretty good.

By the way, we can set up as many newsletters as we want. So we can have an external list and an internal list, for planning purposes. Or different lists for different events, something like that.

Anyway, hit me up and let me know what you think.

Danny