Olympic goldmetalist Seth Wescott on "STEP UP TO THE PLATE"
We're honoring Portland's young social entrepreneurs...
Wednesday October 3rd, 2007 @ The Holiday Inn By The Bay
Choose your fave nominees here!
On Oct. 3, the League is going to bat for Portland's young social entrepreneurs at the first annual "Step Up to the Plate Awards" at the Holiday Inn By The Bay ... and the winners are up to you.
Connect now to cast your vote for Portland's best young movers and shakers in the following categories: Green Professional; Start-up Businessperson; Urban Ecologist; Artist; Service Worker; Technology Maven; Activist; Healthy Lifestyle Educator and City of Portland Employee.
The Step Up to the Plate event won't be a party WITHOUT YOU, so, we've done everything we can to get you there. How's this? Olympic Gold Medalist in Snowboard Cross Seth Wescott will BE on board, he'll SIGN a board, and AUCTION a board to one lucky bidder … and he made this dope video to PERSONALLY invite you.
Seth is just one reason to attend. When you Step Up to the Plate, you'll be treated to delicious eats, sweet grooves from DJ Saylove, and the opportunity to bid on tons of special silent auction items donated by local businesses and organizations.
Tickets are a reasonable $18-50, on a sliding scale … or simply pay your age. Buy your tickets HERE .
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The League is a national, peer-driven, values-based, power-building organization that uses hip-hop and the creative arts in issue-based campaigns, electoral organizing, and community-building. We work to re-create the image of politics, reframing it as positive, accessible, directly related to our lives, tangible, and engaging.
We strive to engage our peers in the political process, to support each other in building power to solve problems in our own communities, to enable our peers to develop their political voice in a safe atmosphere, and to create ways to engage and take action to facililtate the emergence of our vision.
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The Portland League kicked itself off in April of two-thousand-and-fo'. The Portland League started because there was a HUGE glaring gap in Maine politics: there were no young people playin' the game! No one was addressing what we were concerned with, so we started doing it our own way- using hip-hop and the arts. and creating a new message of what politics is.
We got our friends together and started educating, engaging and acting on local and state political issues ourselves- now it's three years later and we're still at it!
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