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Press Coverage of 2012 Nehemiah Action

impactcville — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:00:22 +0000

Breaking news: Albemarle County Board of Supervisors adds Healthy Transitions to the 2012/13 proposed budget

techkim — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:43:35 +0000

Yesterday, the Daily Progress reported that Healthy Transitions had been added to Albemarle County’s proposed FY12/13 Budget! You can read the article here.

Showing up really matters! Last month 100 IMPACT members attended Albemarle County’s Budget Work Session to stand up for the Healthy Transitions program. Yesterday, the Board of Supervisors added it to the proposed budget during their working session.

We need YOU to show up to the Nehemiah Action (March 26 at 6:00pm at John Paul Jones arena) in really large numbers. It demonstrates our commitment and support for Healthy Transitions to be funded every year and for a concrete solution to the issue of young adult unemployment.

Rally TONIGHT

impactcville — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 12:31:55 +0000

Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?
Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear;
Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.

-Isaiah 58: 6-9

It may be snowing tonight, but the Rally is still on!

Tonight at Church of the Incarnation, we will be getting ready for the Nehemiah Action just 3 short weeks from today.

Our keynote speaker will be Tim Sams, from Charlottesville Mennonite Church where he reflect on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail.

“Tension is not something we naturally enjoy. We spend most of our lives working away from
tension. But King’s believed that tension could be a tool for transformation. It can lead to change and in
King’s case, it offered the opportunity to open up dialogue where there was none before.”

Come to be inspired. Come to be challenged. Come to hear progress of our Youth Unemployment and Mental Health Campaigns.

Doors open at 6pm and program begins promptly at 6:30.

See you there!

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.-Letter from a Birmingham Jail