 Welcome to the Beta Village, and I'm going to show you what's going on here. I'm Sharon and Wallace, and I'm on the leadership team, one who doesn't live in the lead and work not equipped to work. We're a volunteer, pilot, and learning and networking speaker series with topics around work, family, and community. We've been sending programs since 2013. Thank you all for your donations at the door today, which help support these events. We'd like to be able to pay for full-year lunches at once online before we can take our cards in the door. Our events are also made possible by our founding supporter, the law firm of Kramer Kyber, and our 2018 community supporter, which is the law firm of Dumpia-Somers. Mayor Ryan Harper is our event host sponsor, and Mercy Connections is our fiscal agent providing fiscal oversight and tax incentives. Please give a hand for all these great supporters. I'm Venus, and I'm the chair of Channel 17 CCTV, and we will send out a link in a couple weeks with the programs so that if you're friends, you'd like to see that they can hear online. And that support is also supported by our business. Our schedule today was a little like this. We'll hear a poetry in about half an hour. We didn't have questions and answers in full group for about 20 minutes. There are index cards and retables for questions and some pens, and towards the end of the poetry, someone will come around and collect those cards. At 1 p.m., we'll announce door prize winners and announce a welcome call. We have a space to 1.30, so if you'd like to stay and visit the network, you're welcome to stay tonight. And after our program, we have Muslim girls making change today. And the honor of the members of the United is not able to be here, and the walkie-sit is on probation. I'm afraid enough that we can drop off and honestly call in minutes. We should come in just in time. Meanwhile, we have, as the old view is, the Muslim girls making change who are caring about our Kawabata and Uwena Kawawii and the Waqis Omar are dedicated to social justice through poetry. Tired of having their voices ignored by older generations, they turn to slam poetry to be heard and to make a change. Since forming the group, these young women have competed at international levels won numerous awards, performed widely, and played several role-playing national initiatives. Kieran Mokar is a Pakistani-American Muslim senior at South Burlington High School. She's interested in social sciences and hopes to study international relations in college. And Kawabata is a small and want-to Muslim senior at Irlington High School. She loves doing social justice work and hopes to go to college. Though she's not ready to get there a major, she's very interested in sociology. Do you want to join us right now? Welcome, Waqisa. Waqisa Omar is Muslim-Somali-American and a senior at Irlington High School. Ready to start? It's a real unique change, and it's almost our tier anniversary, so we're very happy to be here. Yay! So if you ever hear a line that really resonates with you or if you like what it said or anything about it, feel free to snap. We've got to try that right now. Yeah, all right, all right, okay. And then you have the first one goes, You put... We fight the flavor, the culture, the warmth, come to the land of the free to the home of the brave restrictions. Child, come swim in this liquor of liberty. Land of liberty. Teach us again. I'm still teaching with open arms. Yes, I will. I'll let you in. I'll see what makes you close. If your travel had paid off, I'm still prepared for the wait. The curbs of people washing onto my beaches. Pollution. We are trash. We take up human space. We were, we are. Is white a remedy to the poison of blackness? Is my coffee color too black or too strong? Or do you call me white in this aspect? Occupation. That's your entire name. Nauseation. It's hijab. Not hijab. Learn to work your tongue around it. Bend it towards the tip of the perfect sound. Lesson number two, common misconceptions. People don't seem to realize it's my choice. No, my parents aren't forcing me to wear it. Let me be clear. I work for the creator, not his creation. Hijab and lack of elaboration. Defining the hijab. Hijab. Now, an error can be very impartial. But to me, it means honesty. It's a part of our personality. We have the brain on our body. Hijab's identity. Hijab's security. Hijab and herism. Today, Thomas is all about loving your body. Something your body. Showing your body without any reservation. And we do that by claiming it's in my right. Who should be ashamed of what she wears? My love is your hijab. The lack of I am. Remember, this isn't a class for you. It's not to inform you who I am. Because whoever I am or who you are, respect. Because this is my hijab. And basically, all my solos are basically about dual identities. And just managing being the mom. This one particularly is about managing me. Both the black and the strong. She thinks to herself, nothing can hold her back from this kind of success. Can tell her she can't do it. Can scare her away. Nothing. For her to make it across the thing of the most for the other kids. She wishes for one single chance to prove to the rest that she can maintain balance. She crosses her fingers that no one would laugh. Little does she know that this beam will not mean victory on her part, only obstacles. But she's not in these obstacles. No bullets, it's maimed strips. Puts on costumes to make everyone comfortable. It's white chicks. Doesn't know I choose one thing over the other. They tell me I breath up air and it takes no time for you to swillier. It's black blood, the only blood in the room. Look at me. I'm moving it. Most of the people who they are and what they do. I'm waiting one side of the scale because I appreciate one part of me over the other. Will I ever appreciate both simultaneously? And no, it's not a cry for help because you had your chance but you didn't. This isn't some child screaming for attention because you didn't dare look. This is not just a poem informing you what you do because you already know. This is me telling you that my life is a camp Montana. It's not the best of both worlds. This is me telling you that my life is exhausting. The home I've never been to, only born into, and still my heart yearns for the land that raises the father who brought me far away from it. The land that built a nation of poets. Poets that talk about a culture of land ruined by war. They speak the same words running through my veins. It's a nation where art and culture are celebrating at every festival from weddings to baby showers, funerals, and homecomings. But the question is, when will I go home? Today, small is only known not because of all of the televised terror but it was once home that too many were forced to leave so much behind. They found a new nation. They wanted to create a new home but it's not their home nor is it my home. But I'm determined to make this longing, this wanting, this goal I have again my home is the great stories from my parents. My home is community that gives me the immunity to make a difference in a world that's keeping out unity. My home is the memories of my parents that I haven't yet to live. So I'm eager to make it all happen. Until then, I hope one day people stop writing about the war that took place but about the peace that was created. I hope those who left the turn back home to live the life of those before. I hope the white star in the middle of our flag continues to shine even at the most tragic times. I hope that the Mali gang through our America will remain. I hope we fly back home to put an example that left a gun hill and our people and our innocent souls. I hope we see each other beyond our time and realize that 20 years of war was worthless. I hope people realize their dreams can take more than soft weight with hair and that it's full of the resemblance of those before them. I hope nothing more than my wish will become true because this legacy of my home was clearly explained to you. Because I'm telling you, as a Mali, that we are more than what the bloodshed has caused us. We are more than just easy freighters and immigrants because we ourselves have our own home. It's fine. There's this poem that you showed us by Patricia Smith and it's called The Black Girl for those who aren't and so I did a version of that and this is to be black and low income for those who aren't. First time I'm performing this. To be black and lower class than to our ratchet or to tame your hair as if there's anything to fix to be black and lower class to escape you but to learn that you can't afford sacrifice, can't pay the price of privilege, can't allow your skin to take 3-5 business days or you can't afford a beach, I do beach vacation. To be black and lower class to lie on government support and don't trust the government. It's like standing on enemy lines and calling a surrender, a negotiation. It takes the government to vote. It takes everything in me to hold myself down to keep them from drifting off. They say keep my burdens, my burdens because me already worked out the deal. To be black and lower class is to be two-faced. Showing a different side of you to the world that you do to your loved ones because only they know why nothing is making sense at home. While you are raised religious learning in front of your false prophets to be black and lower class the only shows up when I'm asleep. I've mistaken her for the bills too many times no wonder I only have memories of arguments with sheets of white paper called those ghosts, demons of my own nation. To be black and lower class is to apply for five jobs no one will hear from them but you don't worry because your parents talk to business from inside your home talk to gather the community collect the money and call a stop-up and bomb. Black business is a rite of passage. The only reason I share this is to remind you that we can always buy ourselves out of your system. Being black and lower class is getting a job and telling your friends you need the extra cash. Could use a little treat for yourself call that gift survival is refusing to let the words low income free reduce one slip into the conversation call that forecasting because you know where this is headed they will ask, can we take a year place today? As if it's casual as if your hands have been cramping from whiting the walls all day like you did not spend the past year preparing for them a contract stating you will not go inside my room check for other rooms or wonder why that isn't a basement a garage, an attic you don't know what it's like to have your own being black and lower class is being 15 and teaching my two year old these food stamps before footsteps advancing her into taxes before she's even got any practice before she's learned about her blackness then by age four taking her to thrift shops clothes once we were home so she wouldn't know her peers didn't shop there too only left their mess for us to clean up being black and lower class is learning age stamps for a house but you've only ever known two bedroom apartments with 14 people French spaces are the only places we take comfort in being black and lower class is understanding the one meal a day policy so when you ask a black student what their favorite part of the day was and they respond with lunch it is not a joke to watch out for surveil the first day of the hijab public this is shout out to me from caramel car typical team to caramel car to men who have lost their lives the street, was it simple that wasn't too hot for you to come here did you know that you weren't multiplying the fire and the securities within me I'm the only Muslim girl right in the hijab I can feel everyone's eyes are as sharp their lips forming questions Muslim, go home dripping in red paint on the white walls go home they say we're not just Muslims we're American Muslims equal in every he was drunk these are the things we see here in times of her voice restless souls laid up America thank you for those who don't know Marjorie had in Vermont and Florida on Tuesday California and it was to give a few voices about some of the issues that I hope for on this day because I was just even trying to believe it so it was an absolutely amazing day in Montpelier we had about 3,000 people come and in California they had like 3,000 people in California and it was really fun to organize I think the best part of it was honestly the fact that we had so many new voices there my parent person who helped us organize an 8 year old and she was just amazing the challenges were obviously that the laws were first and organized and we never got a permit before or figured out anything about 10 year old or anything so it was very there was a lot of learning and it was a lot fun as well and these guys just came home as well and that was an experience I came in the last minute but I was happy to do it I'm teaching about life after high school and here's some thoughts about college and I also want to know what are you inspired about what's the next activist and what kind of thinking about the world so in terms of like the same world making change yeah we probably we will not continue after after we graduate so we're all like individual people and we do different things we're involved in our community in a lot of ways and that's inspired us to think about things like politics or sociology or criminal justice you know and I like the different things that we're pursuing no one's like really clear on like exactly where the end of but it's kind of more interesting right now yeah I mean there's a way to think about the colleges we don't have like a certain place we were all set to go yet but we all have so many different interests so for me I'm really interested in international ways of relations especially like I'm really interested in like global poverty and education around the world so that's where my passion is in sociology but that'll probably change you know and for me I don't know exactly what I want to do yet but I really want to work with carcerities and find alternatives to differences I know for myself like my freshman year I didn't really have a very very quiet and reserved and I didn't like the fact that cause like you know you look different like I look different than other people and my school of law is not super diverse and Vermont State isn't super diverse and so when you're off and out to freshman year guys when you're trying to simulate it isn't that easy so I was very quiet like back in the classroom didn't want to make too much noise and then my freshman year in high school I don't know how well it would have been better if we had like science thoughts together like you know in the back like not paying attention and not caring for the science we care about science and so I think just like getting closer with like some other Muslim youth was really important for me but then our sophomore year in high school when we started Muslim girls made a change my confidence so much because when you just think about 20,000 people raising your hand in classes and that like yeah I think for myself like I wasn't exactly like involved in the community for my freshman year honestly I'd rather like just go home and like watch Netflix or something I would still rather do that right so that was kind of me and then I went to sophomore year in my freshman year and then I moved to my sophomore year and then I kind of like forced me out of my regular routine because I had to like learn a little new rules but I had to get readjusted and that kind of like made me seek more opportunities so then that's kind of where I got involved in my community just some drug off prevention work with this club called ATIDTV that's how I made people reunited with Kisa and yeah ever since then like I just found more like appreciation for like social work and social activism and I've grown really close with these guys and I'm more like open to like networking and meeting people so that's based on what they said through MNCMI like this confidence of like being able to do anything I want to do and so like I never really had that in my sophomore year and like throughout middle school and everything excellence for me didn't exist until like 2018 you know and I'm like I know it's terrible like nobody ever talked about it and stuff so I was like it's time to take myself out of my comfort zone and do these things and do this work and through MNC they don't have all like just being able to get up here with my friends and like having them by my side I've been talking about these serious issues whether it's through workshop or it's through performances or like attending marches or organizing marches you know so I feel like definitely I've grown throughout my high school span and I just wish I got this confidence sooner like all the outcomes were sooner Do you have any questions you'd like to shout out? Yes I wonder if you have any voices that you guys listen to on social media whether it's a poet or not a poet but just somebody who's really vocal that you wish other people listen to more Did you guys hear that in the back? Did you guys hear the question? The question was whether they have people on social media that they like to listen to or encourage others to check out and hear more about Yeah, I could spend like five hours listening to the screen because I've been spending like my vacation just watching like button poetry poetry and everything So, yeah favorite voices is definitely the place that we got inspired so a lot of those poets the Yozee's poets that we got to learn personally so those are people that we recommend to break new voices I guess and just any kind of like it doesn't necessarily have to be poetry that you find inspiration or whatever it is because that's just something that we picked up on but I think you can any kind of music or something like that or whatever it is so that's also something that we encourage to seek out wherever you are passionate about And also I think like even locally Jeff is in here somewhere but like Young Mirage Project has a lot of amazing writers who are really personal really true things so if you're like in their age range definitely post a Young Mirage Project I like to post a Young Mirage Project and check out some of the work so there's some awesome stuff going on there that's actually how we started Young Mirage Project opened my kind of event and so they really did begin that Yeah, happy also this is a website for that Yeah, of course we did a competition that we went to and it's just like 600 youth all together worldwide from Trinidad to Canada to everywhere and it was so amazing because like that was our first time like being at a competition and just like seeing youth our age having these conversations about the criminal system about like poverty and like all these things that those conversations are something that happens in Burlington as much you know or we don't have exposed to what even has there under the rug and so for the first time we were like all 16 were like these things actually exist you know creating personal stories and stuff so it wasn't even just about the competition like it was just the poetry and like the message they were giving on seeing kids our age talk about these things definitely inspired all of us So definitely check out my review voices they have a YouTube account with like the most amazing poetry I think one of my personal favorites is the police academy by Greg Jackson when he saw that we were just like we were shortly beyond like anything you could imagine we thought we were good people who are when we walk down we're like we're jokes we're never do the same poetry again that's what we've done and we also met Shastri Lay her is her role Shastri Lay how do you change that your time so the question was are there changes in attitudes among your peers I would say so I think I know my peer group hasn't changed too much since my freshman year and I think you know once the conversation started happening once we started bringing up justice issues you know it started my inner circle we become a lot more engaged and involved and I think a lot of our peers don't even know we don't talk to us every day what are you doing how can I get involved as an example of what young people can't do it's not just soccer after school can also be meeting with a number of alpharists definitely yeah and for me I feel like a lot of the time over at Burlington high school I knew other kids were doing it but I was like who got to be so hopeful if we all got together and did this work it would have such a bigger impact so me, Binti, another friend of ours and how I started the social justice unit in our school was doing this work with us and we recently raised a Black Lives Matter flag I was going to get involved I mean it's kind of like you can't really know what's going on so I know we always try to find ways that we can get them to participate and we always try to make it I don't know I guess it's like intimidating if you're seeing like poets or whatever performing and talking about this stuff so creating the social justice unit was an opportunity for us to step forward and make a change and just be like learning and growing together as activists and we're growing on networking and we've had a lot more participation ever since the flag went up so I'm excited to see what else we do It's great to hear that flag made a difference it's a symbol that really sounds like it brought people together What would you like to see adults in the community doing to support you I like that Was helping adults support other youth? I'm not sure what's the answer but I have a question that's very important and I think because we did a whole workshop on like adultism so I don't know if that's bringing back memories so I'll answer I think the most important thing is honestly just giving young people space because I think it's so many situations there's so many that young people care about when you're in high school you don't see other young people taking action it's not really something that young people can do so inviting young people to your space is really bringing them into your space and once they're there giving them time to speak is really important because I've been to a lot of meetings where I'm the only young person in the room and it feels really awkward because everyone's over the view, everyone has a class degree and you're like a 17 year old struggling in calculus and you're like I don't know what to do right now how can I help and to add on to that I just trust we give a lot of ideas and opinions but they're never set forth and put into motion and I think that's discouraging because then we don't want to continue to help out and work because we don't see our ideas being put forth or put into action so I just encourage you all to really consider what teens have to say I also think I'm making sure young people are in certain categories but I want to join an organization like you can run on social media I can do that I can do other things too I can do more of this post on Instagram or show you a snapchat so I can have some space in an organization that you think they can only do and then also just being aware that even though young people have all these resources and tools between 15, 18, 16, whatever year old and so they might have constraints if you need to be flexible with it but they'll be giving a freshman a ride somewhere or buying transportation or stopping it with their credit or giving them volunteer credit or talking to their parents and making sure they're comfortable with it so really being flexible so if I think young people in an organization they don't think it's better because young people understand social media they learn different things in school and they watch for the people that have a lot of time and energy so I think they're really a part of it Yeah, definitely I don't know what they said when you do have things you're working for that are at the table or stuff make sure they feel like they're a part of it and there's not a leadership thing where when you're like I don't know how to explain it where there's not that leadership thing where like they're inferior and it's like make sure that it's actually a partnership working with one another and taking each other's ideas and not being like oh she's a kid she doesn't even know what she's talking about so the question is are our parents proud of us and how do they show or tell us their proud? our favorite question okay this is like a my dad's a funny study doctor and he's like you gotta be a doctor too but that's your role and it's my philosophy to spend poetry not like the polar opposite of doctor treatment so my first person he was like oh whatever he should be gone in once a month and then when he came back from review voices they thought it would be over and it wasn't there was a little bit of attention but I think since we've been able to be some success in this it's been an impact on what they think success is so for example when you're on the front cover their colleagues saw that and the moths saw that and then they start saying oh okay if they're not that great but also you don't have to be a doctor to be successful so I think that's been a good change in my household so they're definitely becoming more proud he just dropped me off he was like you do your thing cause they came to America for them to make something of themselves for us to be something so they don't like Kieran said poetry is not their way to become successful or like doing something cause we came to this country for you to be successful like my dad was day and night stuff he's working all the time you will get your education and just focus on that because I'm getting a future for yourself so me doing poetry and stuff shouldn't you be studying right now should you be doing other things better I think my parents think like long term like how is this going to help you you just need to have a future supposed to look like and I think they have an idea about what that is and they don't necessarily like see what's happening like currently and what change that we're making and what we care about right now so I think it's just hard for them to think like that being like in order for refugees it's understandable and I think also like a lot of times we like to make sure people understand that I think safety is like a big issue for our parents we are Muslim females females of color so it's hard for them to see what's going on in the world and then like be okay with us just going to like lead our performances or things like that so that's what's so understandable for example one of our most recent performances there was a confederate class like I don't know five minutes away but they were performing and it was a pretty small conservative area and their parents were like very scared of us going there because you didn't have to say it was a joke and you got over thinking it but you know it is kind of scary sometimes especially after the session there was a a lot of conversation being held with our parents to talk about you know we'll look for ourselves safe we'll do this and make sure and all of them think like that and the thing is we do have some like late performances and stuff so safety is definitely one of their biggest concerns a shock to them for that trust yeah the question that our parents see was before they have a couple times I remember all of our parents all American dream and it's going to be his favorite and her I was the first time they came to see us before and I was expecting to see them there and we did that for a while and it was kind of awkward afterwards it was it was good so my family members have come to perform my sister is really proud of the work that we do she sends me like Facebook all the time she's like oh I just saw that thanks but in terms of like my mom and dad like not they don't they just know they kind of get like an idea of what I'm doing and they hang up like posters like whatever it is because one of our performances someone usually makes like an advertisement like a poster thing and they hang those up all over them they're our biggest fans they can go to her house and just like all the pictures they can go to now yeah so they do that but in terms of like attending most of our performances they got the chance so they don't need to come to our school and that's what most of my friends said he knows like an hour and a half away performance even though he was like like really annoyed on the way there he was like okay what you do is not bad you know what they do is they're like they're like it was like bad for an animal but you guys should study more but then soon they're on the phone with the family back home they go yes my daughter is still grabbing something so they don't care for our faces but we hear when they talk about it to our families you are inspired by but who are you inspiring are there with some girls or other women that are going to be stuck in your life or have you expressed interest in it? so the question is we talked about who inspires us but who are we inspiring what it is going to be like the next future like with some girls like change or something like that I think first I just want to say that we don't know clearly all the time like who we're inspiring but we hope that everybody can walk into there's at least like one or two people so but I think right now we're doing a lot of like works in terms of like legacy and how we're going to like leave our legacy so we've been working with Y'all Writer's Project we did get a $90,000 grant from the Jordan School Foundation and we're trying to get more youth to start writing to participate in activism and just get their voice out there we're actually bringing this incredible to Vermont he's definitely working with me and some of your friends have been around so hopefully they'll get you to do that and then also going back to legacy a little bit or who we're inspiring as I said earlier I think kind of redesigned my success a little bit so it's been almost a community I've definitely seen younger girls and younger boys start not just to be focused on engineering medical school but also being interested in helping them out here more and helping them out in the community so if there are like small gradual changes it's hard to plop at them but it's happened the more we can see it and just like during the summer we did a workshop at Hummel School so we did a workshop at Hummel School like how many students? 15 and so we worked with them all week long writing poetry and getting them to express themselves and stuff and then at the end of it there were girls throughout the time and so just like seeing them be walking and going I don't know I don't perform I don't do this and then just on stage so greatly talking about the very first day and she released our crime and the last day she volunteered to go first and went about being a film come out of her show and it was the best night ever and we're also going to be doing workshops with some kids in Bristol so we're excited for that recitation, it can be slow but the style that we have it's just really fun and when you memorize something you want to try to get it going and get it out of your mouth so I think that makes it go faster we have some of our poems that we've read if you can catch them fast enough but we have them written down and stuff so if you want to get in contact with any of us after contact you definitely so if you want it to be your bedtime story today I'm sorry birthday what was that? what day was it? oh nice it was your last question what a burden when you were asked who do you inspire? when to raise my hands in the media I would have had that so inspired in fact one point was happening I think oh I would just love to be a grandmother to the three aces and never underestimate who you inspire and who you inspire and who you inspire thank you very much thank you time to wrap up thanks for each of you a pack of cards from Megan who has sweet made the cards a green card company and they're right back here please bring them up and they're handmade cards and so let's give a hand to these three thanks so much from Megan and also 25 dollars we'll be sending out the event right to that soon look for these events on event right for Facebook and follow us on Instagram and then we have some announcements there's a transition here in our leadership team and we have on board our time facilitator and administrative coordinator I've held this position for a year and a half and now I'm handing over to Kate she's a project manager and business consultant we meet twice a month on the first and third Tuesdays we have connections on Champlain South Champlain Street feel free to come join us at a meeting and check it out you can contact us through our website or email address is leaders at btvwoman.org or just show up 815 to see the information on our website and that can be just checking it out or making a long term commitment we're very much a fluid group where people step up it's time for announcements and the luncheon is just a few days away so I want to remind everyone that we don't have any we'd like to have no political or candidate announcements just as a non-profit we need to keep a non-partisan space otherwise what announcements do we have? I think they can say collaborate and I'm not somebody that we're having our annual awards luncheon on April 10th and it's a really inspiring day in which we recognize communities who do work on the prevention of child obesity so I brought some invitations and it's a great event and just so I can make that kids say it's a collaboration on April 10th yes any other announcements? I'm Megan Humphrey besides making cards I also run hands which we get food to low income seniors in Chittenden County and we're running off to hang a show at Penny Clues Cafe for the month of March and then we have a silent auction of all of them some people in the room have done hands they're small wooden ones and so I have postcards and posters if anyone's interested in that thank you March 29th and you can also for most of them you can buy them off the wall for a good chunk of change yes I'm here with Mercy Connections and the Mercy Connections Women's Mall but thank you the Mercy Connections Women's Mall business program is running our next session of getting serious intro to self employment starting in April on April 5th it's a three week session for women who are considering self employment to explore what that will look like so definitely see life in a more economic opportunity and for anybody you who makes less than $54,000 a year in their family we still have free tax preparation available in St. Albans, Burlington and Middlebury for the next few weeks and we always get calls after a period of minutes where people want free tax prep but it's available now so please call 211 or refer folks to call 211 for free tax prep yes Hi, my name's Beverly Allen with the Girl Scouts we have a couple of events coming up the Girl Expo which takes place on April 28th at Shempton Valley Exhibition I have some flyers about it if anybody is willing to take them we also have a Jump In series which takes place on March 10th which is the day of jump up activities for girls the Girl Expo I forgot to mention is open to the general public you don't have to be a girl scout and I also brought camp brochures for the summer and I also brought just a little information flyer about the Girl Scouts if anybody wants information about the Girl Scouts you can feel free to put it on the table outside you can get a message any other announcements during the crack from Burlington City Arts and in partnership with the Young Writers Project we do a monthly collaboration which is called SAMCHEC it's a Writers Workshop the next one that's coming up is on March 8th it's at 7 in the evening right Jeff? and this focus this month is going to be on gun violence school safety and political inaction so please join us right next door at Burlington City Arts 3rd floor Pizza Workshop at 6 Open Microsoft at 7 plus we'll be there for you any final announcements? thank you all for being here it was great having you thank you