VYC & Volunteer Recruitment Meeting

Hey everyone,

So we've gotten the Vashon Island Youth Delegates project approved by the Vashon Youth Council as an officially sponsored program, and sent in an Opportunity Knocks grant to DOIT, and now we've got our first meeting planned.

This Saturday, May 3rd we invite community members to join us at the McMurray Middle School multipurpose room at Noon to join up with the delegates, myself and your peers to volunteer to help Laura and Nick in their campaign to be delegates to the Democratic National Convention. More news on this soon!

other issues that concern us

here are three that are of critical importance, I think, for preservation of the representative democracy we may be in danger of losing.

1) the restoration of the election process, because if we don't preserve that, then we have no peaceful way to ever throw the bums out. election reform includes absolutely transparent voting which values precinct workers over "convenience" machines. it also includes legislation to remove the ability of big money to buy elections and political influence.

2) the restoration of constitutional rights of citizenship (privacy, habeus corpus, etc) which have been under assault from both government and corporate business for some time.

3) the restoration of the primary role of informed, interested, and involved citizen in our system. If the end result of our system of education is to turn out a citizenry which does not accept responsibility for its ownership of this government, then that system of education is a liability and must be changed.

kh

Greetings and welcome to the party!

Hey everyone,
Its nice to have a blog up and running, thanks Nick, so that we can all converse and get together in one place to share ideas, dates/times, etc. and keep up to date on everything.
We are a part of this political process to represent you so we want to know what issues you are most concerned with. Be it anything from the War in Iraq and global warming, to immigration and the economy, feel free to post or comment and discuss those issues with us. We plan on taking our involvement in this election to November and beyond, and we hope you will stay involved too. "The most important political office is that of private citizen." - Justice Louis Brandeis.
We are currently looking for people who want to help us get elected to the Democratic National Convention. At the Congressional District Caucuses on May 17 we will have that opportunity and would love for you to join us, in handing out flyers, carrying signs, talking to people, and doing other things we might come up with along the way. Would you be interested in joining our posse? We're both really serious about making this happen and of course we need as much help as we can get, so it would be lovely you have you on board.
Thanks for visiting, drop by anytime!
~Laura

Useful info from "Mr. Mole"

Update: Mr Mole has turned out to be none other than Ken Hicks, Laura's dad.  Thanks to Ken for the info.

There is some info posted as a comment by one "Mr. Mole" (care to take credit, anyone?)  that is very helpful, so I wanted to draw attention to it.  It can be seen as a comment on one of the previous posts, or if the person who stuck it up would like to tell me who they are I can give them author status so that they can publish it as a proper post.  Either leave a comment here or email me directly, Mr. Mole.  To the rest, check out the comment for now: it has a good overview of what we can expect, to some degree, at the CD caucus.

Peace

VYC and Vashon Youth Delegates

I met today with Julian Park, who plays an active role in the Vashon Youth Council, about having them sponsor Laura and I as part of a larger project to get more youth involved and playing a role in politics on the island.  He and I will be actively working on the paperwork to make this happen, and I will keep people updated here as to how that is going along.  This arrangement would help provide our "campaign" with publicity, funds, meeting spaces, etc.  I look forward to making this a reality, and thanks a ton to Julian for the idea and help he as put towards it so far, and will hopefully continue to put forth.

Check out the VYC website here:

www.vashonyouthcouncil.org

Peace.

Help us at the Congressional District Caucus!

So, Laura and I are, as you know, trying to get to the DNC in Denver. The next and potentially final step in doing that is our Congressional District Caucus (we are part of the 7th CD in Washington).  It is on May 17th, and will be held at North Seattle Community College.  There will be about 300 delegates there, and 9 will be elected: 4 males and 5 females.  Those 9 that are elected automatically have a seat at the DNC.  We are looking for people who are interested in being there to help us get elected.  Please contact either of us if you are interested.  Peace.

 

Here we are....

Hello all,

This is a blog for anything and everything related to the Youth Delegates from Vashon Island.  Specifically, at least for now, it is meant for everyone who will be helping Nick Bordner and Laura Hicks get to the Democratic National Convention in Denver this coming August, but is open to others as well.  Please feel free to post any relevant information, thoughts you have, comments, ideas, or whatever else you want that is relevant.  This will likely be fairly empty for a few days, but should be useful for helping find meeting times that work for everyone, etc. once more people know about it and use it.  And, of course, please feel free to contact me at nickbordner@gmail.com about anything.  Particularly, if you want to be able to post, let me know and I will invite you. Peace.

-Nick Bordner