The Hot Sheet

Make Your End-of-the-Year Charitable Donation Here

There’s a lot of reasons people give generously every year, but in some cases one of the benefits of supporting a worthwhile cause is the ability to take a federal income tax deduction.

Contribue to our sister organization, the PA League of Young Voters Education Fund, and receive a 2008 receipt for a charitable donation. It’s easy — you can do it online!

Click here to make a tax-deductible contribution today

or feel free to mail a donation by check to:
PA League of Young Voters EF
Attn: Development
6101 Penn Avenue Suite 302
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

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Passion, but without anger

http://kdka.com/local/North.Fayette.School.2.861673.html

This story, while disturbing, shows very clearly what the League has
known all along: the youth of the United States, and of Pennsylvania,
are not apathetic about politics, as they are so often portrayed. What
they are is frustrated and angry, and they don’t know how to express
that constructively.

Luckily, that is why we are here, and it is because of stories like
this that we get out every day to teach young people that there is a
way that they can change their country peacefully but forcefully, with
passion but without anger, constructing new centers of power rather
than willy-nilly tearing down old ones.

It is all there in our tagline: engage, educate and empower for the
future of Pennsylvania.

Mac Booker

Tags: apathy, Civic engagement, Education, politics, schools, violence, Youth

Volunteer Orientation — Monday Sept. 8th

Get yourself orientated to be able to get out that vote for this election!
Sure, you probably think that people would have to be crazy to not vote in an election that’s received as much attention as this one has, but you would also be surprised. People need to be encouraged, to know that others think it is important, to overcome apathy, and to vote down the whole ballot, dagnabit.

There are tens of thousands of inactive voters in our area.

So, to be able to motivate and mobilize those voters for the future of PA,
come to our volunteer orientation!

Some things that will be covered:
- history of the League
- the Fall strategy for election turnout
- the keys to successful voter mobilization
- volunteer opportunities before and on election day

That’s MONDAY, SEP 8th, and 7PM, at our office (6101 Penn Avenue Suite 302).

Any questions, email field-pa@theleague.com

Tags: Education, election, orientation, Outreach, pa league of young voters, training, volunteer, voter

Documentary Screening: Philly’s road to College

Tuesday, Aug 26th - First Person Documentary Screening
6pm - 9pm - The Pittsburgh Project, 2801 North Charles Street (Northside)
The PLYVEF is happy to help WYEP and Valley View Presbyterian Church bring you a documentary told through the eyes of six promising inner city Philadelphia teens as their paths take them to community college and to the corner, to pending motherhood and to prison.

First Person provides a deeply personal examination of how navigating the college pipeline leads to a dream deferred for far too many young people. First Person is also scheduled for public television broadcast in Fall 2008. Refreshments and discussion will follow the screening. Please join us to advocate for the improvement of circumstances facing many of our youth!

There will be another screening on August 28th from 6pm - 9pm on the Southside at 67 Bedford Square in the WYEP studios on the Southside. Both events are free to the public.

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Tags: documentary, Education, philadelphia, PLYVEF, Youth