Colorado Aids Walk

Colorado Aids Walk

PRS was well represented August 13th and joined by two new PRS Members and our favorite Denver minister Cameron Moore! We had a blast from 7:30 AM to 9AM just talking and enjoying ourselves and getting to know eachother more. We were the group that had the most fun however… we danced and laughed and laughed some more J

PRS is really coming alive and starting to make an impact in the community and that was the goal. To bring women and actually all people in general on a positive note. While embracing every aspect of the individual and creating a support system that is real and drama-free.

At the walk there were many big organizations represented and each team had a common color or shirt to stand for their organization. We of course wore purple! It was so amazing seeing so many people come together for such a good cause. We ended up raising $275 towards the cost and raising awareness for this disease. Our original goal was $100! Please join us at our September event where we will go to the Denver Rescue Mission and serve the less fortunate…

Thakn you to all of you who participated in the walk and we look forward to many more times :-)

Email us at purpleringsociety@gmail.com to get on our mailing list!

We finally crossed the finish line! It felt like the walk was 100 miles because it was so hot out but we made it!!!

Come support a good cause!!

Come joing PRS walking for a good cause! Join our Team!-----------> http://aidswalkcolorado.kintera.org/faf/search/searchTeamPart.asp?ievent=464143&lis=1&kntae464143=847484EE2BE14445846614124797E16D&supId=0&team=4201291&cj=Y


AIDS Walk Colorado is a day-long event. Registration opens at 7:30am with the opening ceremony at 9:00am followed by the step off of the Run and Walk. After the Walk, join us back in Cheesman Park for the Celebration of Life Festival that includes panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, live music, great food, vendors, the Diva Dash Stiletto Fun Run, the CHEERS! Beer Garden and many more activities! 8/13/2011

Email us at PurpleRingSociety@gmail.com for any questions!

PRS Honored at the HOTTEST 90's Concert in Denver

We are sooo happy and honored to have been apart of one of Denver's HOTTEST 90's Concert EVER!!

It was a tribute to women in the 90's performed by the HOTTEST acts in Denver! There was a raffle, and donations and wonderful vendors who were selling and promoting their businesses!

We would like send a special thanks to SistaSoul Cooper for asking us to be apart of this amazing event! We are blessed beyond belief! We have some new ladies who are interested in getting to know who PRS is more and we are delighted!

Purple Ring Society has so much more to do and this is only the beginning. Coming together as strong women there is NOTHING like it! We must continue to empower eachother and stay positive!

Thank you to all of you who support us we appreciate you! Our community needs us and we are just so excited for what God has in store!!

PRS is being honored! Please Join!

Save the date March 27th at Casselmans 2620 Walnut at 6:00 PM.

We are being honored as a local business that empowers women! We are a beneficiary as a celebration of Womens History Month. PRS is being honored this night!!!!!!!! This is also a tribute to women in music in the 90’s! Performances from the hottest women in Denver will be present! Please come and continue to spread the word!

We are so happy to be honored and we are thankful for this Fundraiser for our business!

Purpleringsociety@gmail.com  and Twitter @PurpleRing00

PURPLE RING IS BEING HONORED!!!

Save the date March 27th at Casselmans 2620 Walnut at 6:00 PM.

We are being honored as a local business that empowers women! We are a beneficiary as a celebration of Womens History Month. PRS is being honored this night!!!!!!!! This is also a tribute to women in music in the 90’s! Performances from the hottest women in Denver will be present! Please come and continue to spread the word!

We are so happy to be honored and we are thankful for this Fundraiser for our business!

Purpleringsociety@gmail.com  and Twitter @PurpleRing00

PRS and Martin Luther King Jr.

PRS is in the community! We were volunteering at the Parade making a difference :-) What are you doing to improve your community?

Biography of Martin Luther King Jr.:

by Clayborne Carson
One of the world's best known advocates of non-violent social change strategies, Martin Luther King, Jr., synthesized ideas drawn from many different cultural traditions. Born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929, King's roots were in the African-American Baptist church. He was the grandson of the Rev. A. D. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church and a founder of Atlanta's NAACP chapter, and the son of Martin Luther King, Sr., who succeeded Williams as Ebenezer's pastor and also became a civil rights leader. Although, from an early age, King resented religious emotionalism and questioned literal interpretations of scripture, he nevertheless greatly admired black social gospel proponents such as his father who saw the church as a instrument for improving the lives of African Americans. Morehouse College president Benjamin Mays and other proponents of Christian social activism influenced King's decision after his junior year at Morehouse to become a minister and thereby serve society. His continued skepticism, however, shaped his subsequent theological studies at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, and at Boston University, where he received a doctorate in systematic theology in 1955. Rejecting offers for academic positions, King decided while completing his Ph. D. requirements to return to the South and accepted the pastorate of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.

On December 5, 1955, five days after Montgomery civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to obey the city's rules mandating segregation on buses, black residents launched a bus boycott and elected King as president of the newly-formed Montgomery Improvement Association. As the boycott continued during 1956, King gained national prominence as a result of his exceptional oratorical skills and personal courage. His house was bombed and he was convicted along with other boycott leaders on charges of conspiring to interfere with the bus company's operations. Despite these attempts to suppress the movement, Montgomery bus were desegregated in December, 1956, after the United States Supreme Court declared Alabama's segregation laws unconstitutional.
In 1957, seeking to build upon the success of the Montgomery boycott movement, King and other southern black ministers founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). As SCLC's president, King emphasized the goal of black voting rights when he spoke at the Lincoln Memorial during the 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. During 1958, he published his first book, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. The following year, he toured India, increased his understanding of Gandhian non-violent strategies. At the end of 1959, he resigned from Dexter and returned to Atlanta where the SCLC headquarters was located and where he also could assist his father as pastor of Ebenezer.
Although increasingly portrayed as the pre-eminent black spokesperson, King did not mobilize mass protest activity during the first five years after the Montgomery boycott ended. While King moved cautiously, southern black college students took the initiative, launching a wave of sit-in protests during the winter and spring of 1960. King sympathized with the student movement and spoke at the founding meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in April 1960, but he soon became the target of criticisms from SNCC activists determined to assert their independence. Even King's decision in October, 1960, to join a student sit-in in Atlanta did not allay the tensions, although presidential candidate John F. Kennedy's sympathetic telephone call to King's wife, Coretta Scott King, helped attract crucial black support for Kennedy's successful campaign. The 1961 "Freedom Rides," which sought to integrate southern transportation facilities, demonstrated that neither King nor Kennedy could control the expanding protest movement spearheaded by students. Conflicts between King and younger militants were also evident when both SCLC and SNCC assisted the Albany (Georgia) Movement's campaign of mass protests during December of 1961 and the summer of 1962.
After achieving few of his objectives in Albany, King recognized the need to organize a successful protest campaign free of conflicts with SNCC. During the spring of 1963, he and his staff guided mass demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, where local white police officials were known from their anti-black attitudes. Clashes between black demonstrators and police using police dogs and fire hoses generated newspaper headlines through the world. In June, President Kennedy reacted to the Birmingham protests and the obstinacy of segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace by agreed to submit broad civil rights legislation to Congress (which eventually passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964). Subsequent mass demonstrations in many communities culminated in a march on August 28, 1963, that attracted more than 250,000 protesters to Washington, D. C. Addressing the marchers from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" oration.
During the year following the March, King's renown grew as he became Time magazine's Man of the Year and, in December 1964, the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Despite fame and accolades, however, King faced many challenges to his leadership. Malcolm X's (1927-1965) message of self-defense and black nationalism expressed the discontent and anger of northern, urban blacks more effectively than did King's moderation. During the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march, King and his lieutenants were able to keep intra-movement conflicts sufficiently under control to bring about passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, but while participating in a 1966 march through Mississippi, King encountered strong criticism from "Black Power" proponent Stokely Carmichael. Shortly afterward white counter-protesters in the Chicago area physically assaulted King in the Chicago area during an unsuccessful effort to transfer non-violent protest techniques to the urban North. Despite these leadership conflicts, King remained committed to the use of non-violent techniques. Early in 1968, he initiated a Poor Peoples campaign designed to confront economic problems that had not been addressed by early civil rights reforms.
King's effectiveness in achieving his objectives was limited not merely by divisions among blacks, however, but also by the increasing resistance he encountered from national political leaders. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover's already extensive efforts to undermine King's leadership were intensified during 1967 as urban racial violence escalated and King criticized American intervention in the Vietnam war. King had lost the support of many white liberals, and his relations with the Lyndon Johnson administration were at a low point when he was assassinated on April 4, 1968, while seeking to assist a garbage workers' strike in Memphis. After his death, King remained a controversial symbol of the African-American civil rights struggle, revered by many for his martyrdom on behalf of non-violence and condemned by others for his militancy and insurgent views.

Denver Rescue Mission

All of our alarms rang this morning at 4 AM.......Today 5 of us went down to the Denver Rescue Mission and served the homeless. Needless to say we had a wonderful time especially knowing that we made a difference in about 200 persons in the Denver Metro Area. Upon arriving we walked past around 15 people sleeping in sleeping bags in the below 20 degree weather on the sidewalk.. as we were gasping in amazement one rose and said good morning ladies! We responded and proceeded to go into the mission to help prepare food for breakfast. With jokes and appreciation for all the blessings we have we were able to really enjoy our time. We at PRS encourage you to volunteer in your community! They need your help and someone may be touched by your smile or a kind word. We HAVE to stick together. We also must be THANKFUL for the things we have and not take things for granted.....God bless!