Sadly, there's no snow inside.
Some serious NYC pride coming out of the 2009 YDA Convention in Chicago: MYD took home two awards! First, the blood, sweat, and tears that culminated in 80 MYDers on the ballot for County Committee seats paid off: Open Seat Project won Outstanding One-Time Event. We also won Local Chapter of the Year. This award went to a total of three chapters. This was extremely hard on our delegation because as we all know, New Yorkers aren’t very good at sharing.
That being said–and not that I’d stake my life on this or anything–I suspect we’re still the only chapter who has been Chapter of the Year for four consecutive years–we won it in 2007 (straight up, no sharing that time), too. Basically, we rock, and ain’t no multiple-award-awarding-shenanigans can dilute the truth.
MYDers from the NY delegation weren’t just hanging out waiting for strangely-crystal-ball-esque trophies throughout the convention, either. We delivered on the “educate” piece of our mission by cleaning off a handful of training sessions for our fellow Young Dems, centered on new media, online organizing and running effective marriage equality campaigns using these tools. We also trained folks on Demopolis–the tool behind our #newyorkequality campaign and the Environmental Committee’s campaign to ban gas drilling in the Catskills.
So congratulations to every single member of MYD and our many supporters for being part of such a star-studded, overachieving, rockalicious chapter–and specific congratulations to all the people who made the Open Seat Project possible. We need more YDs like you, who take action to push the progressive youth agenda and don’t just sit around sipping happy hour cocktails hoping someone else will figure it out.
Materials from the trainings and more photos/video from #yda2009 to come, after the MYD delegates catch up on some much needed shut-eye. Check back later this week and next!
