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When:   March 30-April 5, 2009
Type:   Service Day

Monday, March 30: Civic Engagement Day

Aldermanic Candidate Debate and Voter Registration, 7 pm, SSS 114

  • Topics will include: Jobs, Development, New Haven Budget, Sustainability, Crime, Street (Traffic) Safety, Yale-New Haven Relationship, Constituent Services, Education, Homelessness, Immigration, Transportation
  • Moderated by: Paul Bass, Editor-in-Chief, New Haven Independent
  • Sponsored by Dwight Hall, Yale College Council, Yale College Democrats Yale Daily News and Yale Political Union

Tuesday, March 31: New Haven Solidarity Day 

ID Card Registration, 12-4 pm, Dwight Hall Common Room

·        Come register for a New Haven ID card at Dwight Hall.  The New Haven ID card gives discounts at local businesses, works as a library card, and serves as a debit card at many local stores.

Bring three forms of ID and $11 in cash to register:

  • a State-issued identification card (e.g. driver's license, international passport)
  • Your Yale id, and
  • Proof of residence in New Haven (e.g. a print out of your dorm address from www.yale.edu/phonebooklocal mail to your college or off-campus address; P.O. box mail does not work)

Wednesday, April 1: Social Justice Day

Advocacy Campaign with Junta, 11am-3pm, Woosley Rotunda

  • Letter writing and call-in campaign with Junta against the legislation slashing budgets for Latino social service agencies. Please stop by and help out the New Haven community!

Interfaith Panel on Religion and Global Women’s Rights, 6pm, WLH 119

  • Engage in a discussion about women's rights and religion with moderator Ian Oliver, scholar Andrea Blanch, and local Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious leaders.

ID Card Registration, 12-4 pm, Dwight Hall Common Room

  • Come register for a New Haven ID card at Dwight Hall.  The New Haven ID card gives discounts at local businesses, works as a library card, and serves as a debit card at many local stores.

Bring three forms of ID and $11 in cash to register:

  • a State-issued identification card (e.g. driver's license, international passport)
  • Your Yale id, and
  • Proof of residence in New Haven (e.g. a print out of your dorm address from www.yale.edu/phonebook local mail to your college or off-campus address; P.O. box mail does not work.) 

Thursday, April 2: Health Advocacy Day

     Petition for Better Healthcare in CT, 2-5pm, Old Campus

  • Join the Public Health Coalition and the Yale Dems to stand up for better healthcare in Connecticut! We will be petitioning, handing out flyers and phonebanking, particularly trying to rally support for the SustiNet bill, which aims to establish universal healthcare in CT, that has just passed the Public Health Committee of the Connecticut legislature and will now move on to the wider legislative body. More information on healthcare problems in Connecticut and what PHC and the Dems are up to will also be available. Our advocacy headquarters will be right outside of Dwight Hall.

 

     John Q Film Screening, 8pm, Old Campus

 

  • The Public Health Coalition and the Yale Dems will be showing a brand-new Frontline documentary called Sick Around America, which addresses healthcare concerns around the country and shows us that healthcare disparities have increasingly become a divider between rich and poor, and one of the biggest civil rights issues of our time. We will also be showing the wonderful movie John Q, starring Denzel Washington, about a father desperate to get a heart transplant for his young son even when all the insurance outlets turn him down. This event will be informative and fun, so come on out and enjoy your Thursday night. Food will be provided.


Friday, April 3: Tour of the NEW Cooperative Arts High School, 3 pm

  • Come see the amazing arts space of the brand new Co-Op High School designed by Cesar Pelli
    • Meet at Dwight Hall at 2:45 to walk over to Co-op where the tour will be led by a student and teacher at Co-op.
    • Sponsored by the Education Network of Dwight Hall

Help out at Marrakesh, Inc!, 10:30 am-12 pm

Diaper Bank, 12:15 - 3 pm

Mural painting at New Haven Home Recovery, 1:30-4:30pm

Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen, 5:30pm-6:45pm

 

Saturday, April 4- YHHAP Canned Food Drive, 12 - 4 pm

 

Sunday, April 5- Carmel St. Community Garden Spring Workday, 11 am- 3 pm

 



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