vegan ice cream social fundraiser on Memorial Day!

May 19, 2009

Hello friends!Celebrate Memorial Day and a day off from school or work by eating ice

cream, hanging out with awesome people in beautiful Dolores Park, and contributing to

Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp, an inspiring new summer camp for

young people interested in activism and social change. Your

$10 donation gets you a yummy cone of sustainably produced and

shockingly delicious, locally made Maggie Mudd ice cream and supports

local youth activists in making a difference! We'll be near 18th and Dolores. RSVP'ing is helpful. At YEA Camp,

youth will work together to explore issues that they care about; learn

skills that they can apply to take effective action; be inspired and

supported by others who are as passionate as they are; and leave

relating to themselves as leaders with the knowledge, resources, and

skills to be able to change the world. Your donation will help make

this possible!If the weather isn't nice, call or text me at 415-710-7351 to check in about possible modifications of the plan!We also now have fiscal sponsorship, so larger donations are welcome! If you'd like to donate, you can do so at http://www.yesworld.org/donations.htm - please let us know if you donate so that we can notify YES to direct that money to us. Our website will be launching, and we will be accepting registrations, shortly. We'll keep you posted!

Hope to see you Monday!Nora-- " There's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit - the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes; to see the world through those who are different from us - the child who's hungry, the laid-off steelworker, the immigrant woman cleaning your dorm room.... "

-Barack Obama " The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. " -Gandhiwww.chooseveg.com

" Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. "

-The Lorax by Dr. Seuss