We will have a social outing for our meeting tonight (9/29) at either Laclede’s or Triumph (To be determined). Meet at 6pm by the clocktower and we will go together to grab a bite to eat and get to know our fellow College Democrats. We will also have some updates about the dodgeball tournament with the College Republicans.
Monthly Archive for September, 2009
The Young Democrats of Greater Saint Louis will be having a meeting on Monday, 9/28 at 6:30 pm at Maggie O’Brien’s (2000 Market St). http://bit.ly/14rc9H Anyone interested in attending with the SLU Dems can meet at the clock tower at 6:15 pm
The Agenda:
In the News: Funniest story from past month wins a prize.
Guest Speaker: Tommy Sowers Candidate for Congress MO-08 http://www.sowersforcongress.com/
Strategies for 2010: Ideas needed; if you have any ideas on what the YD’s should do in 2010 to have an impact on elections SHARE IT WITH THE GROUP
Job Updates: People looking for work might want to hear this.
Halloween Party Update
Trivia Night Update
Social Hour(s)
Our next College Democrats meeting will be tomorrow, Tuesday 9/18 in Beracha Hall 221 at 7 pm.
We will be finalizing our healthcare reform strategy and organizing task forces so it is very important that you attend! We will also have important information on how YOU can contribute to this website!
Tomorrow (9/18), the Young Democrats of Greater Saint Louis will be hosting a Luau. It costs $10 to get in, which goes to support the organization and includes 3 free drinks!
If you want to go with the College Democrats, we will be meeting at the clocktower at 7pm and car-pooling. However, the Luau starts at 4pm and continues until midnight, so feel free to go earlier or later on your own. It is located at Trueman’s Place (1818 Sidney Street).
The STL Young Dems are always a fun crowd, and this is a great opportunity to meet some prominent Democrats in the area!
For more info, visit youngdems.com or email sluclgdems@gmail.com
Tomorrow night (9/15), Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, will be speaking in the Busch Student Center Wool Ballrooms. Doors will open at 6:15 pm and President Fox will begin speaking at 7.
This is a fantastic opportunity to see a head of state and learn about major issues of international concern. The speech is entitled “Surveying the Geo-Political Landscape” and is expected to address hot button issues from immigration to globalization.
Because of the unique and exciting nature of this event, we have canceled our regular Tuesday night College Democrats meeting to encourage everyone to attend.
For more information, check out gic.slu.edu or email gic@slu.edu
The Muslim Student Association will be putting on its annual SLU Fast-A-Thon event on Monday, September 14. SLU students of all religious and cultural backgrounds will spend a day participating in the traditional fasting that is practiced from dawn until sunset in the Islamic month of Ramadan.
This is a great way to show solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters while participating in a great cause. For every person who pledges to participate in the Fast-A-Thon, local businesses have agreed to donate money to help out needy individuals in the community. Plus, The Muslim Student Association will be providing a free dinner Monday night at 7:14 pm in BSC 170-173 to all participants.
To learn more and to sign up, please go to msa.slu.edu or email msa@slu.edu.
Today marks the eighth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives as four airlines were hijacked and flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. One of the planes crashed in rural Pennsylvania after the heroic efforts of the passengers and crew to regain control of the aircraft.
Many of us remember our experience on that day. Most SLU students were no older than 12 at the time. The school year was just starting and we were thinking about our classes and our friends and what we did over the weekend. In a matter of hours, we were stripped of our innocence and confronted with the reality of the world’s darkest nature. We saw images of destruction and death and wondered how such a thing could happen. The pain of that day is as sharp and piercing today as it was eight years ago.
Those images continue to tear at our hearts, but a spirit of resilience and determination holds us together. Even as we faced the world in all of its brutality, we found our brightest light in our common humanity. We continue to face incredible challenges in our world, but we face them with the knowledge that we are in this together. We will all memorialize the tragedy of September 11 in our own way, whether that be by proudly flying our country’s colors, expressing gratitude to our servicemen and women, serving our communities, or simply reflecting silently. But we will all be reminded of our common experience, and of our obligation to one another – to stand united.
The late Senator Ted Kennedy wrote the following letter to Obama, which the president referenced in the above speech:
Dear Mr. President,
I wanted to write a few final words to you to express my gratitude for your repeated personal kindnesses to me – and one last time, to salute your leadership in giving our country back its future and its truth.
On a personal level, you and Michelle reached out to Vicki, to our family and me in so many different ways. You helped to make these difficult months a happy time in my life.
You also made it a time of hope for me and for our country.
When I thought of all the years, all the battles, and all the memories of my long public life, I felt confident in these closing days that while I will not be there when it happens, you will be the President who at long last signs into law the health care reform that is the great unfinished business of our society. For me, this cause stretched across decades; it has been disappointed, but never finally defeated. It was the cause of my life. And in the past year, the prospect of victory sustained me-and the work of achieving it summoned my energy and determination.
There will be struggles – there always have been – and they are already underway again. But as we moved forward in these months, I learned that you will not yield to calls to retreat – that you will stay with the cause until it is won. I saw your conviction that the time is now and witnessed your unwavering commitment and understanding that health care is a decisive issue for our future prosperity. But you have also reminded all of us that it concerns more than material things; that what we face is above all a moral issue; that at stake are not just the details of policy, but fundamental principles of social justice and the character of our country.
And so because of your vision and resolve, I came to believe that soon, very soon, affordable health coverage will be available to all, in an America where the state of a family’s health will never again depend on the amount of a family’s wealth. And while I will not see the victory, I was able to look forward and know that we will – yes, we will – fulfill the promise of health care in America as a right and not a privilege.
In closing, let me say again how proud I was to be part of your campaign- and proud as well to play a part in the early months of a new era of high purpose and achievement. I entered public life with a young President who inspired a generation and the world. It gives me great hope that as I leave, another young President inspires another generation and once more on America’s behalf inspires the entire world.
So, I wrote this to thank you one last time as a friend- and to stand with you one last time for change and the America we can become.
At the Denver Convention where you were nominated, I said the dream lives on.
And I finished this letter with unshakable faith that the dream will be fulfilled for this generation, and preserved and enlarged for generations to come.
With deep respect and abiding affection,
[Ted]
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