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Day 4: Manchester, New Hampshire

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I feel honored to say that I’m on the Planned Parenthood Truth Tour this week, traveling across the country with my colleagues and stopping in communities to rally for women’s health. It’s been nothing short of amazing, and we’re only half way done. I have met so many women and men of different ages and backgrounds who each have their own story on what Planned Parenthood means to them.  People who can see the direct correlation between access to preventive services and the health of our country and future generations. This isn’t about abortion. This is about basic health care. It’s common sense and it just gives me hope when I know others get it. Follow our adventures here: http://istandwithplannedparenthood.blogspot.com/

I feel honored to say that I’m on the Planned Parenthood Truth Tour this week, traveling across the country with my colleagues and stopping in communities to rally for women’s health. It’s been nothing short of amazing, and we’re only half way done. I have met so many women and men of different ages and backgrounds who each have their own story on what Planned Parenthood means to them.  People who can see the direct correlation between access to preventive services and the health of our country and future generations. This isn’t about abortion. This is about basic health care. It’s common sense and it just gives me hope when I know others get it.

Follow our adventures here: http://istandwithplannedparenthood.blogspot.com/

Participants in the morning, lunch, and closing plenary sessions will include: * President Bill Clinton* Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi* Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius* John Oliver, The Daily Show Correspondent* Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, White House Council on    Environmental Quality* Daniella Gibbs Leger, Special Assistant to the President and Director of Message Events, The White House* Joel Madden, leader of the band Good Charlotte* John Prendergast, Co-Chair of the ENOUGH Project* John Podesta, President, Center for American Progress* Spoken word artists Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai and Staceyann Chin* David Halperin, Director, Campus Progress* Erica Williams, Deputy Director, Campus Progress TOMORROW!

Participants in the morning, lunch, and closing plenary sessions will include:

    * President Bill Clinton
    * Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
    * Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius
    * John Oliver, The Daily Show Correspondent
    * Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, White House Council on    Environmental Quality
    * Daniella Gibbs Leger, Special Assistant to the President and Director of Message Events, The White House
    * Joel Madden, leader of the band Good Charlotte
    * John Prendergast, Co-Chair of the ENOUGH Project
    * John Podesta, President, Center for American Progress
    * Spoken word artists Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai and Staceyann Chin
    * David Halperin, Director, Campus Progress
    * Erica Williams, Deputy Director, Campus Progress

TOMORROW!

Jackie, Jana and I at the “Debt Hits Hard: Students Seeking a Fair Tuition” event that our Campus Progress chapter put on last Thursday. The panel of speakers included: Bill Shiebler, National Field Director from United States Student Association; Pedro de la Torre III, the Advocacy Senior Associate from Campus Progress; as well as Lindsay McCluskey from Massachusetts Students Uniting. The speakers discussed how the rising cost of tuition and financial aid cuts are making it harder for people to attend college, and many young people are burdened with mountains of student loan debt. Students of all ages are falling behind as the gap between the rich and the poor widens, and America as a whole is falling far behind other countries. They gave us good advice on how to make our colleges work with us and not against us while seeking a fair tuition, lessening student debt and freezing the current tuition in the state of Kansas.

Jackie, Jana and I at the “Debt Hits Hard: Students Seeking a Fair Tuition” event that our Campus Progress chapter put on last Thursday. The panel of speakers included: Bill Shiebler, National Field Director from United States Student Association; Pedro de la Torre III, the Advocacy Senior Associate from Campus Progress; as well as Lindsay McCluskey from Massachusetts Students Uniting.

The speakers discussed how the rising cost of tuition and financial aid cuts are making it harder for people to attend college, and many young people are burdened with mountains of student loan debt. Students of all ages are falling behind as the gap between the rich and the poor widens, and America as a whole is falling far behind other countries. They gave us good advice on how to make our colleges work with us and not against us while seeking a fair tuition, lessening student debt and freezing the current tuition in the state of Kansas.

Wichita State University gets named Student Labor Action Project Chapter of the Year! Woot woot. This is such a big honor for our group and I’m glad to see that all the events we put on have received this sort of national recognition. What a great way to end the school year/my college education. Yowza, that sounds weird. I actually just realized I’m graduating in less than 28 days from now. This basically means that if hell were to ever freeze over, it’ll take place sometime within the next four weeks. Yep. Oh, and it’s cool to see that my BlackBerry takes awesome photos.

Wichita State University gets named Student Labor Action Project Chapter of the Year! Woot woot. This is such a big honor for our group and I’m glad to see that all the events we put on have received this sort of national recognition. What a great way to end the school year/my college education. Yowza, that sounds weird. I actually just realized I’m graduating in less than 28 days from now. This basically means that if hell were to ever freeze over, it’ll take place sometime within the next four weeks. Yep.

Oh, and it’s cool to see that my BlackBerry takes awesome photos.