Nurses PUSH, SNAP, and ACT-UP collaborative AIDS talk, WEDS (10/29)!

[Danielle Heitmann]

Nurses PUSH, ACT-UP, and SNAP Collaborative AIDS Discussion
Wednesday, October 29
12:00-1:00pm
NEB 112

Nurses PUSH, ACT-UP Philadelphia (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) and SNAP (Student Nurses at Penn)--acronym friendly much?--have partnered to bring in speaker Val Sowell and others from ACT UP on the issue of AIDS as a priority in the White House. Come out this Wednesday for some free food and great insight, co-sponsored by yours truly and SNAP!

 

From Val:

"The presentation is definitely not a lecture-style thing. We call it a "teach-in," and the idea is that we give people some background info on an upcoming action, and then get people motivated to join us, and answer any questions they might have. We solicit a lot of the presentation from the audience themselves; it's more like a facilitated discussion than a straight-up lecture.

 

As for who should attend, we are primarily looking for any people who are interested in joining us and taking action to put pressure on an elected official, regardless of orientation/gender. It probably does make sense to have a joint presentation, like you suggest. The action does not have an explicit LGBT focus, but it's never far from our demands. One of our demands for this rally is to stop funding abstinence-only-until-marriage education, partially because it entirely excludes LGBT people (but also because it just doesn't work!) Also, at least one of the presenters will probably be LGBT. Who can come to present depends on when it's set for. [...]"

 

Come harness the energy and commitment to change you demonstrated during last week's AIDS walk!! As always, we welcome any interested LGBT person or ally. Hope to see you there!

 

 

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PS-- if you're around, check out alpha Kappa Delta Phi's Breast Cancer Awareness Coffeehouse this Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 to celebrate breast cancer awareness month and raise public knowledge for the cure. The event will take place at the Phi Kappa Sigma (Skulls) house from 8pm-10pm featuring various performing groups. Food and coffee will be provided. They will also be raffling off great prizes at the event! There is a suggested $5 donation. All proceeds raised will go to the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

 

Performances by:

Chinese Music Society

Dhamaka

Excelano Project

Freaks of the Beat

Off the Beat

Penn Masala

Penn Six

Pennchants

 

Raffle prizes from:

Bubble House

Douglas Cosmetics

La Terrasse

New Deck Tavern

Penn Bookstore

Penn Book Center

The Saturn Club

Wawa

Food and coffee provided by:

Auntie Anne's

Cosi

Dunkin Donuts

Gia Pronto

Koreana

Penn Dining

Starbucks

 

 

Listening pleasure provided by Control Freaks

For more information, please contact Dani Li: yid...@wharton.upenn.edu or Flora Zeng: flo...@sas.upenn.edu

 

 

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Danielle Heitmann

School of Nursing

University of Pennsylvania 2010

4019 Pine St. | Philadelphia, PA 19104

[m] 973.769.6527 | dream...@gmail.com