[IMC] Date change for August meeting

Tue Jul 31 15:20:57 UTC 2012

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   August General Body meeting.
   Our regular meeting scheduled the first Thursday of the month has been
   moved to August 9^th for this month.  We will meet at 7:15pm in the
   upstairs Library Friends Conference Room 215 of the Champaign Public
   Library.
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   Our September meeting will be back to the first Thursday of the month.
   We will meet September 6^th, 2012 at 7:15pm in Robeson Pavilion Room C
   of the Champaign Public Library
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   NAACP staff and youth go to the national NAACP convention in Texas!
   Message from student attendee, Rotes McClure:
   Hello! My name is Rontez McClure and this year I traveled with the
   local Champaign County Branch of NAACP ACT-SO to Houston, Texas! I
   qualified to attend as an observer and we had a blast!! While there,
   they had several workshops for us ranging from hair design/ fashion
   clinics, to social media, youth and social justice, networking, and
   many more. I attended the Social Media workshop and it was
   very beneficial.  We learned about posting private information on
   public sites such as MySpace and Facebook is not safe because once
   information is posted online, anyone has access to it and it never goes
   away.  We learned about what is appropriate to post publicly. We
   learned that even colleges look at potential student profiles and make
   decisions of acceptance based on the information shared.  This workshop
   also drove home the issue of cyber bullying and the effects it can have
   on individuals, families, and communities.

   Outside of the workshops we got to do lots of networking and connecting
   with other students in ACT-SO!  We met students from all over the
   nation.  I even met someone competing from Alaska.  The people I met
   were extremely talented and humble!
   The competition was simply Amazing!! The level of talent and
   preparation was motivating and inspiring!! My favorite was our
   competitors from our own city.  They represented Champaign very well! I
   even got to do a solo part with the national ACT-SO choir.  We all had
   a blessed time and I cannot wait until next year’s competition!

   Message from President Patricia Avery:
   Greetings everyone,
   I arrived in Houston July 8^th just before Texas took its first yawn
   and the sky opened it eyes wide to reveal all the beauty of a city that
   welcomed hundreds of NAACP members from all over the country.  Already
   waiting to welcome me and to represent our Branch was our ACTSO Chair,
   Barbara Gillespie-Washington, members, and our talented youth who
   arrived a few days earlier.  They did very well during their
   competition, and, I’m told, they brought tears to the eyes of the
   beholders.  They didn’t bring home the gold this year but they are
   still all winners in our eyes.    I want to thank the ACTSO committee
   for their hard work with our young people and making us all very proud.

   I was delighted to be in Houston to renew my sense of purpose as your
   President and the belief that together we can make a difference.  Today
   we are challenged with familiar issues- such as economic and heath
   disparities, unemployment, voter suppression efforts, and the
   mass-incarceration of African Americans.     Once again NAACP is
   standing ready to defend our rights.   NAACP President Ben Jealous
   reminded us of that when he stated, along with the crowd, we are “ever
   forward, never backwards.”

   It is easy to get complacent and feel hopeless at a time when the
   country is going through the worst recession since the Great
   Depression.  We need to be more deliberate, more vigilant, and more
   unified today as we gear up to fight these battles again.

   I’m looking forward to sharing a wealth of knowledge as we increase our
   resolve to meet the challenges that we face in our community.
   However, we can’t do it without your help.  Please join the NAACP
   today! Thank you.

   Patricia Avery, President
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   We need your support!
   Our chapter can only be as successful and impact our community with
   your help and support.  Support us by becoming a member and by
   committing to attending our monthly meetings so you can get plugged
   into an active committee!  For more information, email
   josephinefaith at gmail.com.

2012 Officers:
Patricia Avery, President
Minnie Pearson, 1st Vice President
Josephine Underwood, Secretary
Chris Hamb, Treasurer

2012 Executive Board:
Dr. Sandra Kato, Legal Redress Chair
Barbara Gillespie Washington, ACT-SO Chair
Pam Burnside, Convention Planning Committee Chair
Michele Cooper, Political Action Committee Chair
Minnie Pearson, Education Committee Chair
Josephine Underwood, Health and Wellness Committee Chair; WIN- Women In NAACP
Committee Chair
Vacant Committee positions waiting on your leadership:
Membership
Finance
Communications
Community Relations
Housing
Labor and Industry
Press and Publicity
Religious Affairs
Youth Council
Economic Development
Armed Services & Veterans Affairs
Voter Empowerment
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