Welcome to the CCB Courier for February 14, 2025.
From CCB Governmental Affairs:
The Governmental Affairs Committee would like to let you know about an advocacy opportunity where we need all hands on deck. Perhaps you have heard how hard it is to get appointments with members of Congress if you don’t live in their district. So this year, we are asking first for those of us who can, go to DC and represent California at the DC Leadership Conference. Then we would like those who wish to learn about the imperatives and contact members at their District offices or on Zoom, sign up and learn through roleplaying and information sharing. Finally, we need CCB members across the state to be willing to help us schedule the meetings and just be present to introduce the people who are with them to talk about the imperatives, Represent California, and make CCB’s voice heard on the hill! If you can go in person, let us know by February 15.
Meetings to learn more: February 12 and March 3
DC Leadership Conference: March 14th-18th, at the Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel in Arlington, VA. Visit the ACB conference page for details:
https://www.acb.org/acb-2025-leadership-conference
Please let Ardis Bazyn know if you can attend in person or virtually:
Ardis Bazyn abazyn@bazyncommunications.com
Or call Regina Brink at (916)393-0662.
IDC members and friends:
Music is our universal language. You may have heard the song by Donald Lawrence where he says: “Sometimes, you have to encourage yourself …” IDC would like to encourage ourselves with a game of “Name That Tune.” The songs will be songs from the Civil Rights movement known as “protest songs” or “freedom songs.” So whether you grew up in the ‘60’s or have learned these songs at your mother’s knee or from your Dad’s record collection, spend your Sunday afternoon recalling those words that were so powerful then and remain powerful today during these hard times. Let’s remember this Black history, which is American history, and celebrate it! To receive the Zoom information, email Regina Brink at reginamariemusic@gmail.com or call her at (916)393-0662.
From the Audio Internet Reading Service of Los Angeles:
It’s a subject we don’t want to talk about, but we should. Suicide. “For youth ages 10 to 14, suicide is the second leading cause of death,” -Johns Hopkins Health. Emeline Sanchez reads from The Marginalian, Week of February 7, 2025, “To the Young Who Want to Die.” A simple smile or acknowledgement to another person may make all the difference.
https://airsla.org/all-podcasts/marginalian-brain-pickings/
Attention CCB Special Interest Affiliates:
Our pre-convention activities will take place virtually from April 21 through the 28th.
We are asking for programming information to be submitted no later than February 15, which will allow us to generate and disseminate the schedule in a timely manner.
Please submit your program descriptions, along with any date preferences, to Andrea DeKlotz Convention Co-chair at:
Catmom3260@gmail.com or call me at 714-921-0289
The Glendale Burbank Chapter CCB invites everyone to celebrate Valentine's Day with us.
Please join us February 22, from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM. Our
shindig will be held at the Hill Street Cafe, located at 3301 North Glenoaks
Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505. Phone: (818) 845-0046. The cross street is
Naomi.
You may order off the menu. just remember the gratuity is included in your
final check.
Please RSVP by Valentine's Day, February 14 by calling President Andre Green
at (323) 877-4077 or email at Andregreen473@gmail.com
You can also RSVP by calling Ramona Craig at: (310) 930-6929 or email at
preshusdelight@gmail.com
Thank you for reading.
