Newsletter – Week of September 7th – September 13th, 2014

07Sep 2014 by Kathy Carter

“Look What’s Happening this Week in the Northwest Suburbs”

Week of September 7th – September 13th

One Special Night ..One Great Location

..Two Organizations

NWSOFA and MTA (Move to Amend)

Back to Back Meetings and Presentations

NWSOFA “Linking the Social Issues”

then MTA Presents a Special Presentation of:

“Money and Politics” by David Cobb

David Cobb, Speaker for MTA

This

Friday Night

September 12th, 2014

7:00 – 9:00 PM

Arlington Heights Library

500 N. Dunton

2nd Floor,

Hendrickson South Rm.

Arlington Heights, Il 60004

Please join us for a special Night

Two Associations – Two Meetings

We Invite you to Attend and Enjoy both:

“Linking the Social Issues” by NWSOFA

“Money and Politics” by MTA

NWSOFA will hold it’s September Chapter Meeting (one of two). Our Issue teams will show how all issues are inter-related .. linked to Improving our Country for feature generations.

“Linking the Social Issues”
HealthCare (ACA) Reform

Immigration (CIR) Reform

Gun Violence Prevention (GVP)

Women s Equality (SWW)

Climate Change (CC)

Minimum Wage & Unemployment Extention (Fiscal)

Marriage Equality (ME)

In a rapid fire session each of the NWSOFA Issue Team Leads will position their Issues what we are doing to expand the awareness of each issue .. and how these issues are CONNECTED .. for creating a better society and better future for our great country.

“Money and Politics”

aka

“Creating Democracy & Challenging Corporate Rule.”

You are invited by the local Chapter of MTA to attend the MTA meeting with National Speaker, David Cobb, who is National Projects Director of Democracy Unlimited. He is a lawyer and political activist. David has sued corporate polluters, lobbied elected officials, run for political office himself, and has been arrested for non-violent civil disobedience. He truly believes we must use ALL the tools in the toolbox to effect the systemic social change we so desperately need.

David’s talk focus’s his talk “Creating Democracy & Challenging Corporate Rule.” Part history lesson and part heart-felt-call to action, David will tell the story of the American creation myth and the Constitution as it pertains to Corporate Personhood and illegitimate but legal corporate constitutional rights.

David was born in San Leon, Texas and worked as a laborer before going to college. He graduated from the University of Houston Law School in 1993 and maintained a successful private law practice in Houston for several years before devoting himself to full time activism to achieve real democracy in the United States.

In 2002 David ran for Attorney General of Texas, pledging to use the office to revoke the charters of corporations that repeatedly violate health, safety and environmental laws. He did not win the office, but the Green Party of Texas grew dramatically during his campaign from four local chapters to twenty-six. In 2004, he ran for President of the United States on the Green Party ticket and successfully campaigned for the Ohio recount.

To RSVP to September 12.. David Cobb – Click here!

Future September Events

Fiscal and Economic Issues Discussion Group Monthly Meeting

Discussion Group Engaged in Conversation at the August Meeting

Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Arlington Heights Library, 500 N. Dunton, 2nd floor Conf Rm “I”

Arlington Heights, IL 60004

Fiscal and Economic Issues Discussion Group Meeting.

Typical Agenda topic for the Month are:

Budget Deficits – Historical and Projected
Current 2014 Projections Budget
Jobs Report for August and Revisions to June & July
Economic impact of the ACA law and CBO projections on the budget if CIR is passed and implemented
CBO’s report on the the changing trend on the Cost Curve for Medicare…
We want to know your ideas for correcting misinformation that seems to spread thru the airwaves. Come share them at the meeting.
Letters to the editors

As always this is a discussion group .. bring your articles and your wits to talk about all sides of the issues.

To RSVP to the Fiscal and Economic Discussion Group Meeting – Click here!

CIR Planning Team.. What an Event they Produced on 6/28

Comprehensive

Immigration Reform

Charting the Next Call to Action

2nd half of the Month

TBA

6:30 – 9:00 PM

Location

TBD

Join the Immigration Reform CIR Dream Team as Gather to Chart our next Call to Action on:

CIR

Gun Violence Prevention

July’s Planning/ Action Meeting.. New Folks .. New Ideas

Planning Meeting
Thursday

September 18th, 2014

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Coffee Planet

1450 Golf Rd,.

Rolling Meadows,

IL 60008

Honor all victims of gun violence and make our communities safe

If you are interested in great coffee and lively conversation and want to learn how you can take action now – to honor all victims of gun violence and make our communities safer – then come to our monthly Gun Violence Prevention Planning Meeting at the Coffee Planet, 1450 Golf Rd., Rolling Meadows, 60008.

We hold a short (30 – 45 minutes) Planning Meeting on the 3rd Thursday of every month and afterwards many of us stay to help out with the NWSOFA Phone Banking.

Come and join us in building safe communities here in the northwest suburbs and all across America!

To RSVP to the GVP Meeting: – Click here!

ACA 2nd Annual Training Event

Two Day’s of Training on

ACA

Open Enrollment 2015

September 20th and 21st, 2014

@ OFA HQ office Downtown

Watch Austan Goolsbee

former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, put the Economy advances into perspective

Click on Image above to link to the You Tube Video

Our economy is making real strides forward, but there’s so much more Congress should do

to give all Americans

a fair shot.

Watch Austan Goolsbee,

former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers,

put it all into perspective

and make your voice heard.

NWSOFA August’s Events “In the News”

Look Here for your link for Special Reports on August’s Events

Special Report on Monday’s, August 4, 2014 Celebrating Success of the Affordable Care Act and President Obama’s Birthday

Special Report on Wednesday’s, August 6, 2014 Gun Violence Prevention Gun Violence Prevention Team Holds a Day of Action

Special Report on NWSOFA Fiscal Issues screening of the video “Warren / Piketty Conversation on Inequality in America – Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Other Happenings “Around the Town”

The Great March for Climate Action

Hello Chicagoland Environmentalists! My name is Jordan Parker, and I’m a Climate Leader and Mentor for the Climate Reality Project. I’m also the IL State Coordinator for the Great March for Climate Action, the longest climate march in history. This Saturday, September 6th, the marchers will be walking through Chicago – all the way from LA – continuing on to DC.

We need you, the leaders of this movement, to come to Daley Plaza at 2pm.

We are calling this segment of the greater march the Chicago Climate March. The Chicago Climate March begins in Oak Park at 8am, and follows a 12-mile route through Garfield Park, Grant Park and Millennium Park. You can bike or walk this route, and join anywhere along the 12-mile stretch. The march will culminate in a rally at Daley Plaza at 2pm.

URL: http://www.ahpd.org/events/national-night-out/

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Move to Amend, Greater Chicago North meeting is next

Tuesday, September 9 at

7 pm at the Deerfield Library, (downstairs meeting room.)

920 Waukegan Raod, Deerfield.

We will report on the Kirk Rally and the events taken place in Senator Kirk’s Office. We will tell you about the upcoming Barstorming Event and others. And, of course, we will talk about the Udall Amendment vote which will take place on the 8th.

TPP and TTIP and the activities of the coalition will also be on the agenda.

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COACH A SCHOLAR. BE A HERO:

One Million Degrees Scholars are low-income, highly motivated individuals pursuing their associate’s degrees. They have persisted through challenging situations and are striving to reach their full potential and become positive forces in their families and communities.

One Million Degrees at Harper college

link to the program website, it’s the same for all city colleges and Harper:

http://www.onemilliondegrees.org/get-involved/#coach

When a person submits the coach application form, he or she should choose a location: Chicago or Palatine: http://onemilliondegrees.tfaforms.net/296080

Notice: This is a public meeting / events.

NWSOFA is a 501(c)4, non-partisan organization.

All opinions are solely those of NWSOFA

In This Issue

9/12/14 Fiscal and MTA

9/17/14 Fiscal Issues Meeting

9/23/14 Immigration CIR Mtg

9/24/14 Gun Violence Meeting

9/20 & 21/14 ACA Training DT HQ

Austan Goolsbee Economic Video

August NWSOFA In the News

New Issues e-magazine

About NWSOFA

NWSOFA is a whole, diverse wonderful family of people who want to do more than talk about the social issues. We explore and dig deep on the facts and decide what actions we can take that can have an impact locally and nationally. NWSOFA members not only “talk the talk”, but we “walk the walk”.

All our teams have numerous events that will enlighten and inspire you and yes, challenge you to make the effort to make a difference.

We invite you to join us!

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NWSOFA

ACTION AUGUST

We Were Very, Very Busy,

Action August in Photographs

Affordable Healthcare DOA
Downtown @ HQ

Attending the NWSOFA
Fiscal Meetings

NWSOFA Climate Change
EPA Petitions

NWSOFA Gun Violence Prevention Team Event

Fiscal Team Screening and Discussion of Piketty

“Inequality in America”

It’s time to Act .. It Is Time To Get Involved

Over the years the American Citizens have lost their voices, believing that we can not make a difference. We have been beat down by the constant droning noise of the conservative right. This onslaught has made us like sheep .. afraid to express our views. Not anymore! OFA gives us back our voices and by working together we are making change one issue at a time. Together we can and will make a difference.

Thank You to our NWSOFA Issue Leads in 2013 !!