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Raising Awareness to protect our #WildLife, Please take the pledge:
I would like to join #TeamRhinodotorg in the fight against rhino poaching to ensure a future for people and vulnerable wildlife on our planet:
I will never buy or promote any products made of rhino horn, as I know that demand drives poaching.
I will be a committed advocate to support rangers and others on the frontlines of rhino conservation.
I will share my passion about rhino conservation and recruit my friends and family to become involved.
I will urge my government to continue championing efforts to stop rhino poaching at home and abroad.
I will stand with IRF to help save rhinos from extinction. teamrhino.org
Teaching to a test is not viable education, teaching to the test is killing public education, because what is being tested is not being taught in the classroom. Dr. Jesse One Man Walking Turner understands that our students and teachers are more than a test. He see's that public education is being dismantled, little by little by Pearson and other test content making corporations. Dr. Jesse Walking Man Turner decided to raise awareness of the dismantling by walking from his home town in Connecticut to Washington D.C. June 11 - July 24, 2015 connecting stories from public school students and parents.
Dr. Turner will be walking into Philadelphia from Camden Tuesday, July 7, 2015!! Crossing Ben Franklin Bridge 8:30am and walking to the People's Plaza Independence Mall by 10am. Then we will make our way to a BYO-Picnic at Sister Cities Park at about 12:45pm and end our day with a Parent and Educator Opt Out Organizing Meeting at Mander Playground 6-9pm. Empowering families and teachers is the goal!!
To learn more about how to Opt Out of testing please visit The Caucus of Working Educators website: www.workingeducators.org/announcing_our_opt_out_toolkit
To join our July 7th day of events please visit our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1598486303753996/1600341076901852/
To join the Philly opt out movement please email Alison McDowell at optoutphilly@gmail.com
Watching a community organization grow into a grassroots community powerhouse is what i have been able to do with Neighborhood Networks. I first met NN in 2009 or 2010 when i was working for ACORN and conducted a voter registration training for the members of Neighborhood Networks at Drexel university. We stayed in contact throughout the years and i’m recognized as member of NN because i contribute to events hosted by NN.
I’m very impressed with how involved Neighborhood Network is in the Northwest community of Philadelphia and issues that concern our city. Neighborhood Networks is a perfect example of concerned community members building relationships in our communities and with elected officials to get the folks in office who share the views and values of NN. Grassroots organizing not nonprofit organizing, grassroots citizens advocacy in living color, for no one but the utility and supply companies get paid. NN shared their numbers for the 2015 Primary canvassing that they did in various wards. The volunteer work of the members of NN raised the number of votes for NN candidates and that makes them a force to recognize when elections happen.
Senator Shirley Kitchen and her Senate colleagues held a roundtable discussion on a new drug call Palcohol aka powder alcohol. Sen. Kitchen introduced two bills that would prevent powdered alcohol from becoming legal for sale in the state of Pennsylvania.
Senator’s Kitchen stand is that her bills gives families and our communities added protection from a potentially hazardous product. I agree with Senator Kitchen and hope that her bill is put into law. Temple head police officer spoke on how alcohol is a problem on and off the campus and that problem would worsen with palcohol. Senator John Wozniak stated that he graduate two from penn state recently. While attending football games at the school he seen college students drinking heavily and believes that if palcohol is legal the substance will be abused.
All of our concerns is safety for the vulnerable in our society. Dateline has been producing "The Perils of Parenting" On Drinking and Driving
Imagine you and your teen are part of this scene that took place two weeks ago. How do you think your teen would respond?
You drop your teen off to what you both think is a casting call for a reality show and are escorted to a room with the other parents. A woman comes in to introduce herself as a producer from NBC’s Dateline explaining that they’re doing a special about the dangers of teen drinking and driving. Hidden cameras will film your unsuspecting kid with an actor who is to play the role of a drunken drinker. He tells your kid that he’s been drinking. Your kid can smell the alcohol on his breath (though he really hasn’t had a drop), sees that the clearly unfit to drive, and admits later that he believed that the actor consumed alcohol.
You watch the scene live on a monitor reminding yourself that you’ve told your teen repeatedly to never get into a car with a drunk driver and the dangers. So now the question: Will your teen get into that car knowing the driver has been drinking?
Dateline filmed the scene again and again while their parents watched. And each time every single teen got into the car with a driver who they thought was drunk. Every teen also got into the car when the actor took his “drunken role” up a notch--almost unable to walk. And each and every time the parent voiced complete and total disbelief.
Don’t be too sure your teen won’t do the same. If there’s a lesson here it’s this: Please don’t use a “not my kid” kind of attitude.
Underage drinking is a growing problem. And the mix of drinking and driving are a lethal combination. Here are tips that could save your teen’s life that I offered Dateline. This is one parenting peril we cannot ignore.
Palcohol is orderless, colorless, tasteless and comes in a packet. That means you could be drinking alcohol and not know until you are drunk. That means alcohol can be bought into schools, workplace and anywhere alcohol is prohibited. That means a potential crack epidemic all over again, for the fastest fix would be to pour palcohol directly on the tongue and chased with some liquid. The thought of this drug being legal for sale anywhere is scary. Sen. Kitchens bills offers protection to families and communities who are working hard to be safe and productive. Please contact your senator and ask them to support Senate bill 588 and 773!!
Teaching to a test is not viable education, teaching to the test is killing public education, because what is being tested is not being taught in the classroom. Dr. Jesse One Man Walking Turner understands that our students and teachers are more than a test. He see's that public education is being dismantled, little by little by Pearson and other test content making corporations. Dr. Jesse Walking Man Turner decided to raise awareness of the dismantling by walking from his home town in Connecticut to Washington D.C. June 11 - July 24, 2015 connecting stories from public school students and parents.
