The Hot Sheet

The League and Planned Parenthood get Warped!

Hey guys!  The PA League had an amazing time tabling at the 2008 Van’s Warped Tour with our good friends at Planned Parenthood (as you can see from the photo above)!  We had the opportunity to talk to a lot of amazing young people about the importance of voting and getting the youth voice heard!  Thanks to everyone who came out to visit our table, signed voter pledge cards, bought some of our rad homemade patches or registered to vote - we had an incredible time meeting all of you and can’t wait to see you at the next event!

Intern Alison

Help Get Voter Regs at the Penn Ave Art Crawl!

Mac and Terry will be crawling the crawl looking for unregistered voters — stop them and say hello if you need an absentee ballot form, haven’t filled out a voter pledge yet, or just want to give them a thumbs up.

Also, if you’d like to volunteer to help them at this event, fill out the volunteer form at the bottom of our webpage!

Friday August 1st, 6pm, Penn & Fairmount headed downtown

http://www.pennavenuearts.org/unblurred/unblurred.php

Visit our table at WARPED TOUR and make a t-shirt!

 

http://www.warpedtour.com/warpedtour/index.asp

Jennifer has left the building.

Jennifer Smith, visiting from Oklahoma for the summer, had her last day as one of our key development interns on the 22nd of July.  We’ll miss you!

Students Rally Against Violence!

Middle school students from all over Pittsburgh have prepared speeches, dances, hip-hop songs, and arts projects against violence in their communities at this public awareness event! Come support the kids! Buses leave for downtown at 12:45 from: Gwen’s Girls in Point Breeze, YMCA in Homewood, Boys & Girls Club in Lawrenceville, and Hill House in the Hill District. The Anti-Violence Youth Voices Rally starts at 1pm in Market Square! See you there!

New hires!

We’ve hired three new people to help us do the job — meet our two new Field Organizers Terry Griffin and Mac Booker, and our new Development Director Dylan Lampe!  Now we’re really going to be able to engage folks in Western PA.

E-Fest Returns

Each year, high school students in East Liberty put together an environmentally-themed carnival for kids 12 and under to come and learn, do projects, and have fun.  We know we’ve got to start them when they’re young, so we’ll be talking to kids about civic engagement and reigstering their parents to vote.   This year it will taking place at Peabody High School on Saturday, July 12th!  See you there!