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Usher Wants You to (Not) Hush Up…By Voting
October 30th, 2008

Nov. 4 is fast approaching. And ServiceNation Youth Chair Usher wants everyone to have a voice in our future. To help inspire people to get involved and vote, he has released a new video called “Hush.” Here is what he has to say about it:

“Hush is about my awakening over the past 10 years to the social issues in our country and realizing that I have a voice. As Americans we have the right to speak out about slow recovery in the Gulf Coast (after Hurricane Katrina), a long war and home foreclosures. But complaining isn’t enough, you have to also take action.

“Whether serving at the homeless shelter or going to the polls for the first time, you have to act or else Hush.”

I don’t plan to Hush. In fact no one here at ServiceNation knows what the word means. What about you?

I Can’t, But You Can!
September 26th, 2008

This is the first year I can vote in a presidential election, and I’m glad it’s one as historic as this. That said, there’s plenty of young people who’d love to love, but can’t.

That’s the inspiration for ServiceNation Youth Chair Usher’s “I Can’t, But You Can” campaign. Young people under 18 go out into their communities to register people - often first-time voters - to vote. And on the Day of Action (SATURDAY!):

The Campaign will be expanded to 8 cities simultaneously on September 27th and is projected to educate more than 4,000 youth and register 17,000 new voters nationally.

In conjunction with ServiceNation’s Day of Action ( www.servicenation.org), the “I Can’t But You Can” Campaign will host voter registration rallies and drives in cities across the US on September 27th. Participating cities include: Atlanta, Boston, Kansas City (KS), Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, New Orleans and Oakland. At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the USC Marching Band will perform, MTV’s Quddus will serve as Emcee for the Voter Registration Rally while KIIS-FM’s DJ Drew will get the crowd pumping.

Read the rest here.

ServiceNation Summit Photos
September 17th, 2008

We’ve got a huge number of photos on , and here are some of the best from John Gillooly:
Usher at ServiceNation town hall
Usher speaks at the Town Hall meeting
Senatory Hillary Clinton signs Declaration of Service
Senator Hillary Clinton signs the Declaration of Service
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Town Hall Meeting at Friday’s lunch
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BTC founder and CEO Alan Khazei speaks on Friday

John has more photos here!
Above photos credit John Gillooly/PEI

The Forum: Live, and Close to It
September 11th, 2008

So if you aren’t watching the ServiceNation summit live on CNN, Fox News, CSPAN, or MSNBC, and if you can’t access our live feed (click here), you can see videos of what’s been happening (including the pre-televised opening) on our YouTube. Additionally, I’m livetweeting!

City Year Young Leaders say hello!

And here’s part of Usher’s Press Conference:

Usher on Service
September 2nd, 2008

So as you know, Usher is our most excellent youth chair for the summit. You didn’t know Usher was a big service proponent? Well, here’s his uCast about his Gulf Coast relief efforts:

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