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19

Tomorrow night: OH Treasurer Kevin Boyce speaking in Shaker Heights

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From the Cuyahoga County Democratic Women’s Caucus:

Beachwood Woodmere Democratic Ward Club, Cleveland Wards 4, 9,10, & 11 Democratic Clubs, Cleveland Heights Democrats, Cleveland Stonewall Democrats, Cuyahoga County Democratic Women’s Caucus, Euclid Democratic Club, Mayfield/Hillcrest Democratic Club, Ohioans for Democratic Values, Shaker Heights Democratic Club, South Euclid Democratic Club, Tri-City Democratic Club, and University Heights Democratic Club

Invite you to attend a special joint meeting
Featuring
The Honorable Kevin L. Boyce
Treasurer of Ohio
Speaking on
Securing Ohio’s Economic Future

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
7:30 pm
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Community Building
3450 Lee Road
(Between Van Aken and Chagrin Boulevards)
Shaker Heights, Ohio 44120

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:32 am May 19th, 2009 in Campaigning, Democrats, Elections, Kevin Boyce, Ohio, Politics, treasurer | Comments Off 

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May

19

[text, photos] Hillary Clinton’s Barnard commencement speech

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You can read the entire speech here and view excerpts and photos here. Many thanks to the blog, Secretary Clinton, for publicizing this information.  It is a superb speech, on many levels.  I would love to know more about how it was put together and who assisted, if anyone, in writing it.

Clinton addressed numerous topics with pithy, straightforward examples. I encourage you to read the entire speech (it’s not that long).  But here are two sections in particular:

On how we should use our privilege:

The diplomacy of this age is fueled by personal engagement and interpersonal connections. And that’s where all of you come in. With new tools and technologies and with the first-rate education you’ve received, you now have the capacity to influence events in ways that no previous generation ever has.

But of course with that opportunity does come responsibility, because this new era of diplomacy requires a new commitment to global service – a continuing effort from each of you to help us tackle the most urgent problems we face. Just as we have special envoys for climate change or peace in the Middle East, so too must each of you be a special envoy of your ideals. Use your skill and talent with these new tools to help shape and reshape the future.

I want to talk about a particular area where I think you can, you should, and you must make a difference. It’s important to me personally and it’s especially important in my new job, and that is the plight of women and girls around the world. As women with strong voices and strong values, you are in a unique position to support women worldwide who don’t have the resources you do, but whose lives and dreams are just as worthy as yours and mine. I have concluded after traveling many miles and visiting many places in the last decades that talent is universally distributed, but opportunity is not. The futures of these women and girls will affect yours and mine. And therefore, it is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing.

On the value and use of social media to advance these interventions:

And with these social networking tools that you use every day to tell people you’ve gone to get a latte or you’re going to be running late, you can unite your friends through Facebook to fight human trafficking or child marriage, like the two recent college graduates in Colombia – the country – who organized 14 million people into the largest anti-terrorism demonstration in history, doing as much damage to the FARC terrorist network in a few weeks than had been done in years of military action. (Applause.)

And you can organize through Twitter, like the undergraduates at Northwestern who launched a global fast to bring attention to Iran’s imprisonment of an American journalist. And we have two young women journalists right now in prison in North Korea, and you can get busy on the internet and let the North Koreans know that we find that absolutely unacceptable. (Applause.)

These new tools are available for everyone. They are democratizing diplomacy. So over the next year, we will be creating Virtual Student Foreign Service Internships to partner American students with our embassies abroad to conduct digital diplomacy. And you can learn more about this initiative on the State Department website.

Lessons in there for everyone.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:02 am May 19th, 2009 in Education, Gender, Hillary Clinton, Parenting, Politics, Women, Writing, Youth | Comments Off 

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