In The Meantime's Project Elevate Kick Off

[Rodney Nickens]

'When I Am President'
Co-sponsored by Project Elevate. This open community forum will feature a panel of young Black gay men who will discuss the critical issues of our time and offer solutions.

What would you do about Katrina, the Gulf, Haiti, Health Care, HIV/AIDS, LGBT specific issues, Issues impacting Black Men, Youth & Education?

Tuesday, November 23, 2010 4067 W. Pico Blvd. LA CA 90019 7-9p.m. (Free, Open to the general public) (Parking at the Catch One) Project Elevate 323-733-4868 proel...@yahoo.com Facebook: Project Elevate   Project Elevate is funded by a grant from the Liberty Hill Foundation’s 2010 Fund for Change.

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Rodney K. Nickens, Jr.
Jordan/Rustin Coalition
Community Organizer
rod...@jordanrustin.org
www.jordanrustin.org
(562) 242-8601 (cell)
(310) 983-2692 (home)
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UCLA Graduate Student '11
M.A. Afro-American Studies
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"And as with so many movements, it was also something more: It was at this defining moment that these folks who had been marginalized rose up to challenge not just how the world saw them, but also how they saw themselves. As we've seen so many times in history, once that spirit takes hold there is little that can stand in its way. And the riots at Stonewall gave way to protests, and protests gave way to a movement, and the movement gave way to a transformation that continues to this day. It continues when a partner fights for her right to sit at the hospital bedside of a woman she loves. It continues when a teenager is called a name for being different and says, "So what if I am?" It continues in your work and in your activism, in your fight to freely live your lives to the fullest."
~President Barack H. Obama