Newsletter – Week of June 15th – June 21st, 2014

Coffee Planet (Rolling Meadows, IL)

Our June 19th Phone Bank will be focused on calling NWSOFA members to commit to participate in the June 28th Rally commemorating the:

 One (1) Year Anniversary of the Senate passing the CIR bill

We will be urging members of the US House of representatives to do the same. Come over to the Coffee Planet and make a few phone calls for an hour or two … 15 million americans do not need to live in fear and without their families around them.

Come join us to get folks involved in the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Movement.

To RSVP to the CIR 6-19 Phone Bank – Click here! 

Coffee Planet (Rolling Meadows, IL)

 Learn how you can take action now – to honor all victims of gun violence and make our communities saferl

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.

Our June meeting will be held on Thursday, June 19th at 6:30 pm. Come and join us in building safe communities here in the northwest suburbs and all across America!

Each Week .. another tragedy.. another school shooting.. senseless violence… we can and must make a difference.

To RSVP to the GVP 6-19 Meeting – Click here! 

Coffee Planet (Rolling Meadows, IL)

  The “how to” get your message out about voting rights, climate change, or other progressive issues

Have you ever wanted to get your message out about voting rights, climate change, or other progressive issues but aren’t quite sure how to?

Join us for NWSOFA “Tweets for the Summer” to learn about how to Tweet using Twitter. Our Social Media Lead, Kathy Carter, will be conducting the training for all abilities levels. Bring your WIFI enabled smart phone, tablet, or laptop.  

Having Your Voice Heard .. loud and strong… at Rallies and now through Social Media… Tweet and be Heard.. in 140 characters

 To RSVP to the Summer Tweet Training – Click here!

Coffee Planet (Rolling Meadows, IL)

Join us every 1st and 3rd Thur.of each month 

7-9 pm at the Coffee Planet. 

To RSVP to the 4C’s Call Bank – Click here!

Location: TBA

 Workplace policies too often don’t reflect 

today’s realities 

 To RSVP to theSWW House Party – Click here!

NWSOFA ACA e-magazine.. just click on the above photo to link to the Affordable Healthcare Reform and ObamaCare e-magazine

“To coordinate the on-the-ground component, the administration has been participating in biweekly meetings with health care reform groups. One of them, Enroll America, currently has more than 230 staffers across the country, which is just slightly below the 250 it employed at the end of open enrollment. The group has maintained a robust volunteer presence as well.For a Weekend of Action planned for the end of June, the group has registered more than 1,000 volunteer shifts and scheduled just under 400 events. They had averaged the same number of events during weekends in March with about twice as many volunteers.”

“There are two reasons Enroll America hasn’t wound down more during the special enrollment period, said the group’s president, Anne Filipic: to avoid having to train new officials when the next open enrollment period starts, and because it sees ample opportunity to run up the number of insured people in the meantime.”