DFA Chair Jim Dean in Chicago this Thursday!

Written by: Toscha on Feb 13, 2007 5:40 PM EST

DFA leadership coming to Chicago.

DFA Chair Jim Dean will be in Chicago on Thursday, February 15, 2007
for a press conference at City Hall in the afternoon to announce
national DFA's endorsed candidates for the 2007 Chicago municipal
elections and at a City-Wide Living Wage Town Hall Meeting in the
evening.

If you are in the area, you are invited, encouraged to attend both!

1.  DFA Press Conference at City Hall :
12 pm (noon)
Second floor of City Hall,
121 N. LaSalle, Chicago.

DFA will be making multiple Aldermanic endorsements.

DFA also wants to give a free t-shirt to anyone who attends the press
conference.  To guarantee a shirt, email sjv60640@gmail.com by
Wednesday at 5 pm with your T-shirt size, and try to arrive for the
press conference early enough to put it on. :)

We are really honored that DFA has made the Chicago municipal
elections one their "key elections" for 2007 and that they are playing
such an active role here on the ground!


2.  Town Hall Meeting on Living Wage:
7 pm
Mandell United Methodist Church
5000 W. Congress Parkway, Chicago.

By CTA: The church is right by the Cicero stop on the CTA Blue Line.
By car: If you can give a ride or need a ride note that in your RSVP
here:  http://www.dfalink. com/event.php?id=17568

Speakers will include:

~ Rev. Gregory Seal Livingston, pastor of Mandell United Methodist
Church
~ Tim Drea of UFCW Local 881
~ Jim Dean, Chair of Democracy for America

The event will feature a community discussion on what a Living Wage
means for our economy.

All candidates for the upcoming Chicago municipal elections are
welcome to attend the City-Wide Living Wage Town Hall Meeting, and all
candidates who attend will be acknowledged.  The event is being
sponsored by The Greater Chicago Caucus, a group that has emerged from
the desire of many diverse communities to band together to form a
political alliance.  Their common goals are for economic justice for
everyone, a sustainable peace for our world, and creating a better
country to leave to the next generation. DFA-List candidate Christine
Cegelis is one of the founding members of the Greater Chicago Caucus.

If you are in the area, Please come to one or both of these to show
your support for DFA!  And if you lead or belong to a Chicago-area DFA
group, pass this information on to your members.

Toscha Mintert
Democracy for Illinois
DFA-Link Coordinator

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Location: Chicago, IL