Hi everyone,
Thanks to all of you for joining; we now have amazing activists from SLU, UMSL, WashU, Webster, Fontbonne and from the St. Louis community in the group (and these are just the people I know personally), and are quickly approaching 300 members! If you have a moment, please take the time to invite your friends to join. The larger the St. Louis Activist Hub is, the better we will be able to find out about the great events going on across town, coordinate our events with other groups, and make contact with people who share our vision of a better world. I’ll be adding a couple features to the group in the near future that will help with these efforts to collaborate.
In the meantime, here are some cool progressive events for the upcoming week. If you know of any upcoming events, please don’t hesitate to put them up on the wall; and if you’d like me to include an event in the weekly messages, please let me know the weekend before the event takes place:
Monday, August 25 The Young Democrats of Greater St. Louis are holding their monthly membership meeting at the Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood at 7 PM. You can RSVP and find out more here .
Tuesday, August 26 The Justice Institute, a group dedicated to training activists in St. Louis based on the Ella Baker model of organizing, will be meeting at the Rowan Center, 1401 Rowan Avenue, at 7 PM. One of the founders of the Student Non Violent Coordinatin Committee (SNCC), Baker’s emphasis on personal relationships and group-centered, grassroots leadership made her the consummate teacher and organizer of her time.
Wednesday, August 27. Local activist Hedy Epstein is one of the people featured in the documentary “The Easiest Targets.” The documentary will be shown at 1 PM on cable channel 18. More info at this link.
Thursday, August 28, We have dueling Watch Party’s for the Obama acceptance speech. NARAL and Drinking Liberally will be meeting at the Premium Lounge at 7 PM, and you can RSVP here. The Young Democrats of Greater St. Louis will be at the Moolah, and the event page is here.
Friday, August 29: A new exhibit titled “Images of War and Peace” will be opening at Webster University’s May Gallery, 8300 Big Bend Blvd. This is the kickoff of Webster’s International Year of Human Rights. The reception kicks off with some opening remarks at 5 PM. More info is at this link.
Saturday, August 30 . BBQ for Obama at Kiener Plaza at noon. Details here.
Also Saturday, it’s a bit of a drive, but there will be canvassing for State Rep. candidate Kristy Manning in St. Peters. Details are at this facebook page .
Saturday and/or Sunday: A group of St. Louisans are heading up to St. Paul for the RNC protests. Zachary Otte is coordinating the trip; contact him or sign up for the event at the event page if you are interested.
Sunday, August 31: John McCain is going to be in O’Fallon before heading up to the RNC. I’m sure there will be some kind of response to his visit, though I don’t know any details yet. Check in on the groups wall later in the week if you’d like to know the final plans. Here’s where I originally saw the annoucement.
A couple other announcements: There is going to be an Activist Training Day for student groups on Saturday, Sept. 20. Please contact me if you are interested in finding out more.
SLU students (and others): a group is working on getting a polling place at SLU to make it easier for students to vote: check it out.
That’s all for now; have a fun and meaningful week,
Adam