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Thursday, May 1st & May 15th, 2014
6:30 – 9:00 PM
Coffee Planet (Rolling Meadows, IL)
1450 Golf Rd,. Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
Join the Immigration Reform CIR Dream Team as we expand our efforts in the North West Suburbs. Organization, goals, and action plans will be discussed from 6:30- 7:30 pm .
The team will make select calls to others in the Northwest Suburbs with the purpose of expanding the team. Our calls will be placed to the Northwest Suburbs to create action on the goals and action plans developed at the CIR National Day Of Action in February.
It’s Working…. We are changing the way Illinois politicians are looking at Immigration through our ACTIONS:
4-22-14: Former and current Illinois Republican politicians advocated for comprehensive immigration reform Tuesday in an apparent departure from national House Republicans’ strategy of piecemeal reform.
4-22-14 Two House Republicans from Illinois are endorsing some sort of legal status for immigrants in the country illegally, adding renewed GOP support for immigration reform efforts that have come to a standstill on Capitol Hill. (these are House Republicans we have targeted)
Come join us to get folks involved in the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Movement.
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4C’s Meeting + Phone Bank
May, 1st & May 15th 2014
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Coffee Planet
1450 Golf Rd,.
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
Coffee, Conversation, Cookies & Calls
Plus Letters to the Editor, LTE’s.
Join us every first and third Thursday from 7-9pm at the Coffee Planet. Meet the team, have some coffee and makes some calls.
We discuss the political news of the day and how it impacts our Issues and events coming up and make calls to invite others to come. Don’t like making calls, come and write letters to the editor-LTE, or help make posters if there’s a rally coming up.
Please call Sara 847-372-5594 to confirm so we know how many lists to bring.
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Sponsored by NWSOFA
in Collaboration with Mom’s Demand Action
Thursday, May 8th, 2014 , 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Starbucks @ 601 North Martingale
Streets of Woodfield .. Conf Room, Schaumburg, IL 60173
MOMS DEMAND ACTION FOR GUN SENSE IN AMERICA
Join us at the Streets of Woodfield Starbucks on Thursday, May 8th, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm for some great coffee, conversation and cookies as we help Mom’s Demand Action for Gun Sense in America celebrate the love and hard work of all moms during a week of action before Mother’s Day.
Learn how you can help us to harness the energy and strength of moms and encourage more conversations around the topic of gun safety in every town in the Northwest Suburbs. And learn how you can help us recruit as many Gun Sense Voters as we can in an effort to expand the number of voters who will vote only for candidates who support common sense gun laws. We need your ideas and passion to help grow this movement! Hope to see you there!
Host: Cathy Risberg
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Fiscal and Economic Issues Discussion Group Monthly Meeting
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| Great Discussion lead by Karl Faulstich at the April 15th meeting |
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 – 9 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
- Economic issues in President Obama’s Budget
- We want to know your ideas for misinformation that needs correcting. Come share them at the meeting.
- Letters to the editor
As always this is a discussion group .. bring your articles and your wits to talk about all sides of the issues.
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Gun Violence Prevention Planning Meeting
May 15, 2014
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Coffee Planet
1450 Golf Rd,.
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
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 Streets of Woodfield, Starbucks.
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 weekly NWSOFA Phone Banking.
Our May meeting will be held on Thursday, May 15th at 6:30 pm. Come and join us in building safe communities here in the northwest suburbs and all across America!
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Stand With Women
Monthly Meeting
Thursday,
May 27, 2014
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Arlington Heights Memorial Library
2nd Floor Rm. “I”
500 N Dunton
Arlington Heights, IL60004
You re invited to our Stand with Women monthly meeting.
We will be exploring ways we can highlight issues that are unique to women but impact everyone. We have been very pleased with the crucial benefits ACA has guaranteed women such as non-discriminatory rates for insurance, free preventive care and reproductive health care, no more exclusion from pre-existing conditions and much more.
Now our national focus is on economic issues including equal pay, raising the minimum wage, family leave, affordable child care. Bring your concerns and creativity and your friends for what is always an inspiring evening.
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NWSOFA Climate Change – Sierra Club Testifying Workshop for Hearings Related to Proposed EPA Carbon Rules
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| Joe Salvado NWSOFA CC Lead |
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| NWSOFA Climate e-magazine |
Saturday,
May 31, 2014
11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Sierra Club
70 E Lake St,
#1500
Chicago, IL 60601
On June 3 the EPA will publish its carbon rules draft for existing power plants.
The Sierra Club will be hosting a testifying workshop to prepare individuals for the EPA carbon rules hearings related to this draft.
Members from NWSOFA, Lake-McHenry OFA, North Cook Country Sierra Club, Cool Cities, Palatine Countryside Unitarian Church, Faith in Place, Harper College Green Committee, Climate Reality Project, Illinois Solar Energy Association, Citizens Climate Lobby, Northbrook Go Green and other environmental groups are encouraged to attend.
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NWSOFA Fiscal Team to Provide
Inequality for all Screening
and Discussion Forum for Local Groups
Wednesday,
May 14, 2014
6:30 pm – 9:00 PM
Ela Area Public Library
275 Mohawk Trail
Lake Zurich, IL 60047
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Notice: This is a public meeting / events.
NWSOFA is a 501(c)4, non-partisan organization.
All opinions are solely those of NWSOFA
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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 VOLUNTEER SHOUT-OUT
Meet Joe Salvato, the NWSOFA Chapter Climate Change Lead.
He has been working on the Climate Change issue since shortly after the 2012 election and is an Al Gore Climate Reality Leader.
Joe has devoted his time and energy to making a difference, educating the public about Municipal Power Aggregation and renewable energy sources, and is working to renew a Production Tax Credit for wind power companies to continue creating jobs.
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Every 1st & 3rd Thursday
it’s 4C’s Night
“Coffee, Conversation, Cookies, Calls” & LTEs
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Every 1st & 3rd Thursday night NWSOFAer’s get together to relax, drink coffee, discuss current topics, enjoy cookies and make some important calls to other Progressives in the suburbs notifying them of our meetings
We call these the 4C’s and we need your help. Volunteer for an hour or two doing what we do best “organizing”!
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