[Sosfbay-discuss] LA Greens launch Petra Kelly Scholarships

[JamBoi]

This is very innovative!  Maybe we could work our way up to something
similar at some point.

A Million Votes for Peace!

Drew

Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:07:18 -0800
From: Lisa Taylor <lisa at losangelesgreens.org>
Subject: [GPCA-MediaComm] LA Greens launch Petra Kelly Scholarships
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Thanks to Erin Schmidt for her great work promoting and coordinating  
these scholarships!

The Los Angeles (City) Greens launched the Green Party Petra Kelly  
Scholarship thanks to a generous donation from one of our members.   
Honoring the inspirational German Green Party cofounder Petra Kelly,  
international peace and environmental leader, and cultivating a new  
generation of young activists, the scholarship awards $500 each to  
two students graduating from the Los Angeles Unified School District,  
to offset college expenses for the coming year. The Los Angeles  
Greens chose to highlight our gender balance key value by selecting  
one male and one female winner.

The scholarship's inaugural winners were Rumeisha Bowyer and Carlos  
Hernandez. Bowyer graduated from the Los Angeles Center for Enriched  
Studies and is currently attending Cal Poly Pomona. An avid  
basketball player, she served as a coach and mentor to younger  
players, as well as breaking the gender barrier in her community's  
basketball league.

  At King/Drew Magnet High School, Carlos Hernandez sought to allay  
the racial and cultural conflict in his community by serving as  
Director of Assemblies and peer mediator. He hopes to continue  
building dialogue among Los Angeles' many diverse groups while  
attending the University of Southern California. Both Hernandez and  
Bowyer attended LA Greens' events over the summer, sharing their  
stories with local Greens while learning more about the Greens and  
what we stand for.

In addition to providing these outstanding students with extra funds  
to help with the costs of tuition, computers, and books, the Petra  
Kelly Scholarship allows the Los Angeles Greens to share with the  
young people of Los Angeles the Ten Key Values. The group plans to  
throw an annual party to continue  funding  the scholarship each  
year. The late Petra Kelly stated, "Greens are neither left nor  
right--we are in front" -- by helping the next generation of leaders  
attain their goals, the LA Greens are living up to her words.

http://losangelesgreens.org/
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JamBoi
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