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Join the Logan Square Green Party for an evening of food, drinks, music, and politics.

March 6th at Quencher's Saloon
6:30-9:00pm
$15 suggested donation (includes pizza buffet and one drink)

Music will be provided by:
Mind's Hideaway
http://www.myspace.com/mindshideawaymusic
Two Agglets Jazzing
http://www.myspace.com/twoaggletsjazzing

Speeches from Green Party candidates:
Rich Whitney, candidate for Governor

Join the Logan Square Green Party as we stand together with Public Workers Unite! to demand money for jobs, transit, education, and health care.

No CTA Service Cuts! No Layoffs! Stop Budget Cuts!
Money for jobs, transit, education, housing and health care!

Monday, Jan. 18, 11 am
Assemble at CTA Headquarters at 11 am then march to the Board of Education and end at the Thompson Center

CTA Headquarters: 567 W. Lake (Corner of Lake and Clinton)
Clinton Stop on Green and Pink Lines
For directions to CTA headquarters click here
For more info call 773-463-0311

Agenda and Minutes

1.Petitioning
a)We want 20,000 for the statewide slate, need 10,000 minimum
b)All 7 statewide candidates are on one petition.
c)Need ~500 for Jeremy's campaign
d)Discussed buying a new statewide list of registered voters.
e)Sunday August 2 for possible phone banking @4 at Craigs – 2445 N Albany
2.Planning for events
a)August 23rd or 24th 2 or 3 hour event. We'd like to have a band, maybe 2. Confirmed for August 25th, 8-11 at Cole's Bar in Logan Square
b)Pub crawl is a possible event, wine tasting at Birchwood.

1.Farmer's Market Dates:
a)July 26
b)August 30 (To be confirmed)

2.State Budget
a)Discussed massive cuts and lack of new income tax passed
b)Budget currently in effect will leave 1.5 billion deficit and cut many state agencies by 50% or more
c)Protest scheduled for Thursday at 11:30, Thompson center (last Thursday, sorry)
d)Dave will draft an e-mail alert with a script etc
e)Letter to the Editor of The Reader, etc to encourage them to to an article on the dysfunctional budget system.

3.Gay Pride Parade
a)Pat Kelly and Jessica Dodd are organizing

Greens Meetup 5/19/09

At the meeting the following items were discussed:

1. A representative from the Rainforest Action Network visited the meeting and asked our organization to partner in turning out folks for a series of rallies aimed at shutting down Chicago's coal plants.

We will post more information on the events calendar but please also visit:
RAN Chicago
How Green Is Chicago for more information.

Sunday, May 17th 3PM-7PM

2521 N Mozart, Chicago, IL 60647 - Go around to the right side of the house to the backyard.

In the last three months we’ve rebranded our organization, launched a new, open-source, Drupal-based website (www.logansquaregreens.org), and kicked off a precinct-by-precinct campaign to get public referenda on health care and political reform.

We have started canvassing for the following referenda questions:
Please join us as we petition to place two referendum questions on the ballot:

Question 1: Do you believe health care is a basic human right and that it should be provided regardless of ability to pay?

Question 2: Do you support contribution and spending limits for political campaigns?

The weather is beautiful, and it's a great way to spend some time outdoors getting to know your neighbors, community, and local Green Party.

The Illinois Green Party congratulates Matt Reichel, who earned 34% of the vote to win yesterday's Special Primary in the 5th Congressional District.

Runners up include Deb Gordils (32%), Mark Fredrickson (14%), Alan Auguston (13%) and Simon Ribeiro (1%).

The outcome of the primary had been uncertain until this afternoon, when the Chicago Board of Election completed its unofficial count of seven precincts where data cartridges failures had prevented counting on primary day.