Montclair NAACP
Your Power, Your Decision, Vote!
August 2012
#GOTV
At our August General Membership Meeting, we had a guest speaker, Jackie Cornell-Bechelli, NJ Director of the Obama for America campaign. She spoke about organized strategies across the country to suppress the vote. The NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and National Office are working diligently to prevent voter disenfranchisement, and in states where voter ID laws exist, that everyone has the necessary identification to vote.
As you all know, this November we will elect a president. The names Barack Obama and Mitt Romney... AND Merlin Miller, Virgil Goode, Jill Stein, Gary Johnson, Ross Anderson, Jeff Boss, Peta Lindsay, and James Harris will all appear on the ballot for President of the United States of America. There are a lot of people on the ballot this November, and for Montclair, we have Senate and Congressional elections as well.
Learn about who the candidates are, what your rights are, and be prepared to vote on November 6th.
Presidential, Senate and Congressional Elections are November 6th
Financial Well Being
The Montclair NAACP has received a second round of grant funding to host financial literacy programs. We've put together a schedule for the upcoming workshop series and are extending our outreach to families. We will give you the tools, so that you can have the discussion around the dinner table. The Financial Well Being program will focus on various areas including savings, banking, credit building, credit repairing, mortgages, foreclosure, investing, retirement planning, taxes and more.
The family Financial Well Being campaign will include trips to William Patterson's trading floor, career advice from the VP of Bloomfield College, and more. We will include healthy food at all our workshops.
New Website Launch
Save the Date!
The 96th Annual Thurgood Marshall Freedom Fund Dinner and Awards Ceremony
The dinner will be held at the Richfield Regency, on October 28th. Tickets are available at: www.MontclairNAACP.org. Ticket cost is $100, with discounts to Seniors, Students and Life Members.
The NAACP Freedom Fund began in 1953 (on a national level) as a ten-year program to intensify efforts to complete the job of emancipation. Near the culmination of this effort, Medgar W. Evers, a heroic NAACP Mississippi Field Secretary, was killed by an assassin’s bullet. This prompted the NAACP Chairman Bishop Stephen Spottswood to pay tribute to this gallant warrior at the NAACP Convention in Chicago, Illinois in July 1963. He did so by proclaiming that the NAACP Fighting Fund for Freedom will continue until the job of emancipating our people is complete.
The theme for this year: "Your Power, Your Decision - Vote!" is a reminder that, as the Rev. William Barber put it, "If we ever needed to vote, we sure do need to vote now."
Sunday, Oct 28, 2012, 02:00 PM
420 Bloomfield Avenue, Verona, NJ
Montclair NAACP
1st Vice President, Christine Roz Samuels
2nd Vice President, Keith Ali
Secretary, Beverly Bussey
Asst. Secretary, Jennifer Escobar
Treasurer, Marcia P Brewington
Asst. Treasurer, Rosita Dotson
Email: info@MontclairNAACP.org
Website: www.MontclairNAACP.org
Location: PO Box 353, Montclair, NJ 07042
Phone: (973) 746-9315
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Twitter: @MontclairNAACP