Economic, Education, Employment & Health Empowerment Day
A Free Town Hall Community-Wide Gathering to Collectively Brainstorm Solutions to The Challenges Facing All Of Us as a Result Of The Financial Crisis, Offshoring and Outsourcing, Private and Public Sectors Layoffs, Escalating College Costs, Income Inequality, Health and Wealth Disparity, and Gentrification
Activists, Academics, Entrepreneurs, and Youth Panelists will
be on hand to offer solutions to all of the above, for example:
1) Recommend What Parents May Do to Enhance Their Children's Learning Capabilities
2) Discuss How Adults and Youngsters May and Must Develop Financial "Smarts,"
3) Explain The Role of Credit Unions
4) Outline What It Takes to Start and Maintain a Successful Business
5) Describe in Detail the Increasingly Necessary Roles of Apprenticeships and Vocational Training
6) Stipulate How to Combat Voter Suppression and Voter Disenfranchisement Efforts
Among the confirmed panelists:
Ted Shaw, former Director-Counsel and Presidentof the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and currently Of Counsel at Fulbright & Jaworski; and
Byron E. Lewis, Sr., Founder, Chairman & CEO of UniWorld
Group advertising agency.
Lunch will be served and is free. Attendees 17 years of age and younger will be eligible to receive prizes.
Saturday, August 13, 2011 9 am to 4 pm
St. Phillips Church, 204 W. 134th St. @ Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.,
For more information, please call Dr. Linda Rock at 917-991-7434.
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