FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Tolerance, Equality, and Awareness Movement (TEAM) Contact: Chris Surfus, President Business: 616-528-TEAM Cell: 616-238-2011 www.humanrightsTEAM.org info@humanrightsTEAM.org THE CORNERSTONE STORY: ANTI-LGBT POLICIES AND INCLUSION IN EDUCATION TEAM Diversity and Inclusion Lecture Series The Tolerance, Equality, and Awareness Movement (TEAM), a 501(c)(3) human rights organization in Grand Rapids, MI, is launching its Diversity and Inclusion Lecture Series.  TEAM has organized a variety of events on human rights, including a discussion panel series, a counter-protest...


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Hello TEAM Members, The TEAM Outreach Survey is up at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7DBDLN3 We need approximately 40-50 Respondents by November 11, 2011.  If you use our website, our Facebook Like page, our Facebook Group page, follow us on Twitter, or have read about us and our work, we need to hear from you.  We need responses from EVERYONE.  Even if you just come on the website to read some articles, or cite our website in a source, we really need your input.  It will help as we continue to grow as an organization.  We have come so far as an organization.  The most difficult days may be behind...


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Want to know what your human rights are? Go under the "Educational Information" tab and click on United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There are 30 human rights defined by the Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, and this document is one of the most widely respected and translated documents in the world.


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Greetings! It brings me great joy to see the hard work of so many finally come to fruition.  It brings me great joy to state that The Tolerance, Equality, and Awareness Movement (TEAM) was approved for an expedited 501(c)(3) process due to a number of reasons. The expedited process has concluded and I just received word that the Internal Revenue Service has approved The Tolerance, Equality, and Awareness Movement (TEAM) as a 501(c)(3) federally tax-exempt nonprofit organization.  This determination was made official as of September 7, 2011, and we anticipate a determination letter sometime...


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Hello, TEAM's human peace chain event was very successful and Westboro Baptist Church did not show up.  Thankfully, they did not show.  The event was very successful overall.  Thank you to every one that came out! We showed a message to our community that this is all about love, tolerance, peace, equality, dignity, and respect.  This is all about the communities that we serve.  There were 26 signs stating our message to the community: all about love, tolerance, peace, equality, dignity, and respect.  This is about a larger 21st century human rights agenda. I would really love to type a longer...


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Hello, I am pleased to announce that The Tolerance, Equality, and Awareness Movement (TEAM) will be having a booth at the West Michigan Pride 2011 festival at Riverside Park from 1pm to 9pm on June 18, 2011. TEAM will be taking donations, having a variety of rainbow items, beverages including pop and bottled water, and will be promoting its membership program. Also, I'm pleased to announce the West Michigan Diversity and Inclusion Program coming to a community near you in Fall 2011.  TEAM will be launching this program, which will feature workshops, diversity training, volunteer training, discussion...


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Love is in the air for human rights! TEAM, which is the Tolerance, Equality, and Awareness Movement, will be having a Valentine’s Day Community Event at The Network of West Michigan on Sunday, February 13, 2011 from 5:00pm to 8:00pm. The Network of West Michigan is at 343 Atlas Avenue SE Grand Rapids, MI 49506 (Right behind Spirit Dreams). You can enter Atlas Avenue from Wealthy, which is the street by the Pizza Hut in Eastown, or you can enter off Lake Drive by Spirit Dreams. The Valentine’s Day Community Event is open to the general public- anyone may attend! We would love to see lesbian,...


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Greetings! It is my pleasure to announce that TEAM will break all previous website page view records.  We are set to surpass 3,000 page views by November 1 12:00am.  TEAM is about to exceed the 3,000 page view threshold for the FIRST TIME EVER! This is such an exciting milestone.  All of our events have been successful thus far.  We have more events coming to you soon. Also, we will be coming up with a lot more educational information and resources during the month of November. Thank you for making us #1.  Thank you for making us the best that we can be.  It's time to push forward and secure...


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Dear Attorney General Mike Cox, The actions of Andrew Shirvell against Chris Armstrong, the openly LGBT student assembly President of the University of Michigan, are absolutely unacceptable. Andrew Shirvell is a public employee, paid for by taxpayer dollars. Andrew Shirvell is expected to properly represent the Attorney General's office of the State of Michigan. TEAM does not feel that Andrew Shirvell is able to properly represent the Attorney General's office due to his unprofessional conduct. Shirvell made a number of remarks and false suggestions of Armstrong. Shirvell made statements that...


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(Sept. 2) -- Forecasters know Hurricane Earl is a powerful and dangerous Category 3 storm, but they don't know its precise track as it churns ever closer toward the Atlantic Coast today on a path they expect will carry it quickly up the Eastern Seaboard during the next couple of days. Earl is expected to turn northeastward as it begins to interact with a developing trough of low pressure along the East Coast. The official forecast is for the eye of the storm to pass near the barrier islands of North Carolina tonight and be very near southeastern New England by Friday night. However, a westward...


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