Dear Friends,

We had a great turn out at our last meeting.......in attendance were 62 concerned citizens & members that signed in. We hope to double this number by our next meeting on September 3rd, location TBD.

At our meeting we introduced the H.E.L.P. website and our mission statement. You can visit the website at http://www.helpcorp.org/. Please send anyone, family, friend, neighbor, etc., to our site if they are interested in information on our upcoming events, making donations, signing up to volunteer, discussion forums, and more.

Upcoming events as discussed at meeting are as follows:

Thursday, August 20, 2009
American Majority Activist Training
River Center Library in Downtown Baton Rouge
120 St. Louis St.
Baton Rouge, LA 70802
1-4p.m.
Training is free
RSVP Required
Please register at http://www.americanmajority.org/

*This event has moved locations due to some complications with their prior reserved building. This information is correct as of 8/13/2009 3:11 p.m. (verified by Kelli)

Saturday, August 22, 2009
Rally Recess (Protest Health Care Plan)
423 Lafayette St. Ste. 107
Houma, LA 70360
(Charlie Melancon's office)
12-noon

Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Parish Council Meeting (Millage Taxes)
8026 Main St. (2nd Floor of Government Tower)
Houma, LA 70360

*Participation is key to letting your voice be heard!

 

HR 3200 BILL (Health Care Bill)

We spoke of this bill and were uncertain if we had a copy of the most current.
After contacting Charile Melancon's office once again, we were directed to the Energy Commerce website & was assured this is the most updated bill. We have added a link to the bill on our website.

We addressed all in attendance asking for volunteers to sign up and help read a portion of the proposed Health Care Bill. Our goal is if we get enough volunteers we can divide up into groups & assign a number of pages for each group to read. The groups would then meet among each other to discuss their interpretation. Once all have finished, we could then present this at our next meeting. Thus having collectively, as a whole, read the entire bill At this time we have 5 volunteers and are in need of more. Please respond to this email if you are interested in volunteering.

 

Other Meeting Highlights:

Pocket Constitutions were handed out......if you don't have one......GET ONE! This is something we should all familiarize ourselves with in order to "fight a good fight" for our rights.

Several of our Committee Leaders spoke on what their goals are and urging members to volunteer & get involved.

Donations collected at meeting totaled $552.00

Also, AARP was brought to attention at the meeting & their stance on being in favor of this Health Care Bill. A member in attendance shared with us two other organizations to check out.
ASA (American Seniors Association)
60 Plus Association www.60plus.org
We have not checked into either of these organizations and leave this to do on an individual basis.

Achievements:
As of today, we are set to have a table at Nichollos "Welcome Back" for students, so our membership committee will be out there getting the word out and getting our community involved.

Contacting our Elected Officials:
Some of our members have asked for contact information to our elected officials. This will be available on our website no later than tomorrow. Please contact your Representative and tell them your views!

Possible Upcoming Event (though we sure hope not)
* If the HR 3200 Bill passes we will need to act quickly rallying together for a demonstration to let our representatives know where we stand.

Together we can move mountains.... and that's what we intend to do.

 

United We Stand,
H.E.L.P. Corporation, LLC
"Honor, Educate, Lead, Prosper"