Welcome to the Boulder Population Connection!
Population growth threatens the quality of life for people everywhere. Population Connection is the national grassroots population organization that educates young people and advocates progressive action to stabilize world population at a level that can be sustained by Earth's resources.
Upcoming Events:
Summer Gathering and BBQ
When: Sunday, July 1st from 11am-3pm
Where: Martin Park Shelter at 36th and Eastman (near Table Mesa and Broadway)
Map to Martin Park
Why: Meet the Boulder Organizer for Population Connection and meet local volunteers and members of Population Connection. Share your thoughts about population, eat some delicious food, and enjoy a beautiful summer day in the park!
What to Bring: Bring the kids, the dog, and your thoughts on any and all issues related to population growth, be it environmental degradation, access to contraception, family planning funding, pollution, or unchecked growth in Boulder.
Farmer's Market
It's summer, and you know what that means...time to raise public awareness at the Boulder Farmer's Market!
Please join us to table on Wednesdays from 4-8pm and Saturdays from 8am-2pm.
Contact Jess (jess@popconnect.org) if you are interested in coming out to help!
Here are some points we will be talking about with passersby:
- The United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the Western industrialized world.
- One out of every three young women in America becomes pregnant before she reaches the age of 20.
- Eight out of 10 of these pregnancies are unintended and nearly one-third end in abortion.
We need comprehensive sexuality education for our youth! But currently there is only federal funding for abstinence-only-until marriage programs. Help us collect petition signatures to bring to our Congressmen so they will co-sponsor the Responsible Education About Life (REAL) Act, which would provide funding for this much-needed comprehensive sex ed.
Boulder Population Connection Update!
Several Population Connection volunteers have just returned from Washington, D.C., where they attended Population Connection's 'Capitol Hill Days'. Our volunteers learned more about population-related issues such as comprehensive sexuality education, the AIDS epidemic, water shortages, and global climate change, and they were trained to lobby their Congresspeople about legislation that affects these issues. Our Boulder PopConn volunteers had productive meetings with the offices of Representatives Perlmutter and Udall, and with Senators Salazar and Allard about the Responsible Education About Life (REAL) Act, the Global Democracy Promotion Act, and about funding for UNFPA and USAID.
We now have Population Connection T-shirts!
They are each $10 (and worth every penny)...please contact Jess about getting yours!
Design 1:
Design 2:
Capitol Hill Days Volunteers
Erik, Jess, Laura, Kelsi, Joe, and Karim meeting with Alec from Rep. Perlmutter's office
The Population Connection Gang
Joe, Jess and Bryan tabling at Nedfest
For more information, please contact:
Jess Steinitz, Boulder Field Organizer
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