[Sosfbay-discuss] Thurs Nov 12 event at SJSU

[Jim Doyle]

*Subject:* 4th Annual "Poverty Under the Stars" Campus Sleep Out: The 
Great Recession

 On Thursday, November 12, 2009, SJSU students and faculty will hold the 
4th Annual
"Poverty Under the Stars" Campus Sleep Out at San Jose State, and we 
would like to invite
your organization to participate.

This year's "Poverty Under the Stars" event, which is sponsored by the 
Gulf Coast Civic
Works Project and the Cesar Chavez Community Action Center, is focused 
on the /
Great Recessio/n (see attached flier).  There are three ways your 
organization can participate:

   1. Decorate a tent that demonstrates how the /Great Recession/ is
      impacting your community;
   2. Come to the 7-9 pm community-wide event at the Smith & Carlos
      Statue Garden and hear 
         1. speakers (including someone from your organization) discuss
            how the 
         2. /Great Recessio/n is affecting your community, and learn now
            Civic Works can create
         3. jobs and rebuild America.
   3. Sleep out in solidarity with the people who are being effected by
      the /Great Recession./

If you and/or your organization are interested in participating in the 
4th Annual "Poverty Under the Stars"
Campus Sleep Out, please email or call me at 510-508-5382.  And please 
share with your staff and
members, and feel free to distribute it widely.

best,  scott
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Scott Myers-Lipton, Ph.D.
Sociology Department, San José State
Co-Founder, Gulf Coast Civic Works Campaign
(510) 508-5382
www.SolvingPoverty.com <http://www.SolvingPoverty.com>
www.SequoiaRetreatCenter.com <http://www.SequoiaRetreatCenter.com>
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"Have courage. Press on, one step at a time in the direction of your 
dream."/
--Ellen Grace O'Brian