Day 1: Wednesday

To recap the Day 1 Keynote Address as given by NUL President Marc Morial I would say: inspiring. It took 1 hour and 15 minutes to get to his address but I didn't notice until it was his turn. Sponsors were introduced, the Governor and Mayor of Florida and Orlando welcomed us along with a Nulite from the Orlando chapter. Marc Morial introduced a new program that 60 affiliate chapters will get the honor of running. It will be called
Restore our Homes and the chosen affiliates will open Homeowner Centers to aid their communities to get fixed affordable rate loans, strenghten advocacy in state governments, develop affordable housing and connect people with that housing. Marc Morial focused his address on the many effects of the housing crisis on our chapters and during the speech he quoted these statistics:

The US spends 275 million per day for the war.
1 month of no Iraq spending would:
fund No Child Left Behind
create 120,000 new units of housing
Fund Health insurance for 6 million children

2.5 days of n spending would:
Fund college for 463,000 children

The US spends 50 Billion per year on incarceration and 35 percent of those incarcerated are African American men.

1 month of prison money would:
Create 400 million summer jobs for our children
Create 100 million new schools to educate our children

Wow. I was shocked but not that suprised. We obviously have some work to do. Morial then noted the importance of the Volunteer Corp of the Urban League. The volunteer corp being the Guild and the Young Professional chapters. He has a mandate of sorts that by "...2012 every Urban League should have both." It is a mandate for the future he stated and we must grow our volunteers in order to effectively continue with our vision.

He left us all with this:

Will We Thrive?
Will We Own?
Will We Prosper?

Urban League Conference

Hello and greetings from the Urban League Conference, Influencer summit. I have finally had the time to sit down and upload some photos of this wonderful conference and I will share a summary of some of the events that myself (Christine), James, Jerome, Sport and Melanie have been to.

So far this conference has by far exceeded my expectations. From the opening lunch to the workshops we are definetely being exposed to our peers in the Urban League's world and the nation itself. The pictures to the left are from the Opening Luncheon 1st is Marc Morial and the second is Howard Dean. He was a suprise visit and definetely strove to inspire us all to get involved in the political process. As the resident "google girl" I have taken notes whenever I can and will type them up once we all get back to Sacramento. Many of the things that I have witnessed and recorded can be used to help us stay on track and get out into our community even more than we do now. For those of you that have time go to www.nul.org to look at the web casts of many of the weekend events.

Its now time for a YP dinner so thank you all for reading and I will post again sometime tomorrow.

live from St. Louis,

christine hopkins
GSUL YP
PR Chair




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Saturday, July 21, 2007

BLACK WOMEN EXPRESSING TOUR (Emcee Taylor Williams)

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