DC ACT-SO Workshop Planning Team
The National ACT-SO program celebrates it's 40th Anniversary this year. We are looking to make this a special year for DC ACT-SO as well and with that in mind we are looking to expand our ACT-SO Committee. We are reaching out to you to invite you to be a part of this committee. Planning an ACT-SO program takes many hands to make it the best that it can be. We need your help, our young people in DC need your help. I hope that you will consider joining the committee--the work is very rewarding and we need all skill-sets.
If you are unable to fully commit as a member of the committee, perhaps there are other ways you can help,
for example:
- recruiting judges
- serving as judge
- mentoring students
- fundraising
- public relations
- workshop presenter
- donor of in-kind services
An immediate need--We are looking for persons interested in helping to plan our upcoming workshop, on March 24, 2018, 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. Please email Ruby Lewis actso.naacpdc@gmail.com if you are interested in working on this task. If you are you have ideas, please feel free to share your ideas via of email, even if you are unable to attend the workshop.
If you are connected to other youth organizations, please inform us and we will be happy to send information that you can share with your organization.
If you believe in our youth, then ACT-SO. We look forward to hearing from you.
If you know a student in Washington DC Grades 9th-12th, we hope to see them at our Act-So Workshop this year!
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We are Re-Activating the Trinity Washington College Chapter
If you know any students who are interested in joining the NAACP at Trinity Washington College please have them RSVP HERE! or send them that link. If anyone knows of any faculty/alumni who are willing to sponsor the youth who are re-activating as well as help with their National Convention costs please email Brittney Calloway naacpdc@gmail.com
Georgetown University
NAACP Chapter Presents:
 | Often times networking events center around alumni. However, we believe we have a lot of knowledge to share with each other, so we wanted to created a space to so.
Please join GU NAACP during our first ever Peer Networking Event!
We will set up the room by industry so you can find other students who have similar interests as yourself. We hope this time allows everyone to share job opportunities, internships, classes, programs, and scholarships.
Feel free to invite friends from other schools - the more people that participate, the greater amount of knowledge shared within our community. |
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On March 24, the kids and families of March For Our Lives will take to the streets of Washington DC to demand that their lives and safety become a priority and that we end gun violence and mass shootings in our schools today. March with us in Washington DC or march in your own community. On March 24, the collective voices of the March For Our Lives movement will be heard.
This is the official event page for the DC march. Please RSVP here for updates: http://act.everytown.org/event/march-our-lives-events_attend/8738
| Saturday, March 24 at 12 PM - 3 PM
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| Pennsylvania Avenue between 3rd street and 12th street NW |
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NAACP NATIONAL NEWS:
It is once again that time for us to begin thinking about the resolutions process which culminates at our annual convention in July, where resolutions are considered by the full body of Delegates prior to final ratification by the National Board of Directors at its October 2018 meeting. Attached, for your information, is the Instructions Guide for Units on how to submit a resolution. Please take a few minutes to review this guide, as it also contains a sample resolution and guidelines as to what is required to ensure that your resolution will be received by the Resolutions committee prior to being submitted to our convention delegates for consideration.
Please note that hard copies (not fax copies nor electronic copies) of all resolutions must be received by the President and CEO in his office in the National Headquarters Building of the NAACP in Baltimore, Maryland, no later than close of business,5:30 p.m. eastern time, on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. The specific address to mail the resolution(s) to is:
President Derrick Johnson
NAACP
4805 Mt. Hope Drive
Baltimore, MD 21215
Although it is not required, I would strongly recommend that all resolutions be sent via Certified Mail or some other process in which you can receive a return receipt with the signature of the individual who received the resolution (s).
I hope that this instruction guide is helpful. Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions or comments.
CLICK HERE FOR THE RESOLUTION GUIDE
NAACP ON FLORIDA LEGISLATURE DECISION TO ARM TEACHERS
MARCH 8, 2018
BALTIMORE (March 8, 2018) The NAACP, the nation's leading civil rights organization issued the following statement regarding the arming of Florida teachers with guns.
"Last night, the Florida Legislature voted to allow teachers to carry weapons in schools. The NAACP finds the very idea of arming teachers as a solution to gun violence utterly absurd and misguided. We know that children of color are portrayed and seen as more dangerous, more culpable and less human than children viewed as white. Given this background, how can parents of Black children feel comfortable sending their children to a school where guns abound and where the perception of threat could have deadly consequences? Can one imagine telling a parent that their child has been shot in school not by an intruder but by a teacher or staff person who felt threatened by them?
"In two decades since the mass murder at Columbine, Florida has locked up over a million children for basic school discipline issues like talking back. Instead of investing $400 million to make our schools an armed camp, the NAACP instead calls for Floridians to embrace sane gun laws and reforms that make our communities and schools safer. This means universal background checks on any gun sale or transfer and banning military-style and semi-automatic assault weapons. Sensible gun policy that makes our communities safer would also mean funding the CDC to research gun violence as a public health issue.
"The issue of ensuring that reckless gun laws do not infringe upon the common safety of our communities is one of freedom. If our schools are transformed into prisons, we are not free and are instead held hostage by the gun lobby and the less than three percent of the population that owns 50 percent of the guns in our nation. We become locked down by a minuscule percentage of the population who feel a background check before purchasing a weapon is somehow an infringement on their rights. We as a nation must ask ourselves whether the few have the power to make our communities unsafe despite the will of the majority. The people of Australia, facing similar dilemma, decided to choose public safety over an unbridled gun industry; surely we should expect no less from our own policymakers." Derrick Johnson, NAACP President and CEO
See Derrick Johnson's recent Op Ed on gun violence here: http://www.blackpressusa.com/opinion-gun-safety-is-about-freedom
NAACP CRITICAL OF BEN CARSON'S ATTEMPT TO CHANGE
HUD'S MISSION STATEMENT
MARCH 8, 2018
BALTIMORE (March 8, 2018) – The NAACP is deeply concerned by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson's move to dilute the agency's long-standing mission.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development Act which established HUD as a cabinet-level agency declared a purpose: "[T]o provide for full and appropriate consideration, at the national level, of the needs and interests of the Nation's communities and of the people who live and work in them." This purpose is sustained through the agency's mission to "build inclusive and sustainable communities free from discrimination." Secretary Carson's action not only threatens HUD's founding purpose but also reveals plans of regression.
"Dr. Carson's attempt to diminish HUD's mission comes on the heels of the 50th anniversary of the Kerner Commission's report which affirmed that discrimination and segregation had long permeated much of American Life and continues to threaten the future of every American; and at a time when the Trump administration seeks to cut billions of dollars in housing aid for low-income families," said NAACP's Sr. Director of Economic Programs, Marvin J. Owens, Jr.
Despite these attempts, the promise of discrimination-free practices lives on in the Fair Housing Act which has the central objective of prohibiting race discrimination in sales and rentals of housing. The hope of continued progress in America rests in the hands of communities across the country that continue to push their elected leaders to preserve programs designed to help disadvantaged communities and promote policies that make economic inclusion a reality.
The NAACP recognizes the importance of an inclusive economy and economic policies that address the challenging realities facing our country including poverty, lack of jobs and disproportionate high unemployment, lack of affordable housing, and foreclosures. The NAACP Economic Department's work enhances the capacity of African Americans and other under-served groups through financial economic education; individual and community asset building initiatives; diversity and inclusion in business hiring, career advancement and procurement; and monitoring financial banking practices.
NAACP REQUESTS
NATIONAL SUPPORT FOR THE DREAM ACT
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
On September 5, 2017, U.S. Attorney General Sessions announced that as of March 5, 2018, the Trump Administration would formally terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or "DACA" program which President Obama had initiated and the NAACP supported in June of 2012. The program allows some individuals who entered the country without documentation as minors to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a work permit. As of 2017, approximately 800,000 individuals—referred to as "DREAMers", named for legislation known as the DREAM Act—were enrolled in the program created by DACA.
In order to qualify for the program immigrants had to be younger than 31 on June 15, 2012, must have come to the U.S. when they were younger than 16, must have lived in the U.S. since 2007, and may not have felonies or serious misdemeanors on their records. The policy further stipulated that the protections offered by DACA were renewable upon good behavior. Soon after the program was announced in 2012, it was estimated that as many as 1.7 million people already living in the U.S. might qualify. DREAMers originate from many parts of the world including Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central, North, and South America, the Middle East, and Europe, and currently live in every state in our nation.
For a formal list of the countries of origin of these young people, as well as for additional information on the situation and advice on how you can advocate in support of this crucial federal legislation, please see the attached Action Alert.
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