Support your local, grassroots candidates for public office!
Chicago Southwest Side Green Party Presents:
A Candidates Forum and Fundraising Dinner
Sat. June 28, 2008 7pm onwards
All you can eat Mexican Buffet (vegetarian friendly), 8-10pm
La Decima Musa Restaurant, 1901 S. Loomis, Pilsen
Candidates: Jack Ailey, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District; Paloma Andrade, Cook County Circuit Court Clerk; Howard Kaplan, Cook County Board of Review; Ante Marijan, State Rep, 2nd District
Cost: $25 for one, $40 for two
Click HERE to RSVP and buy a ticket on-line!
More about the candidates:
JACK AILEY, Candidate, Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Commissioner
Jack is a licensed electrician, former steelworker, and activist for clean air in the Little Village and Pilsen neighborhoods. B.A. from Oberlin College 1968.
Program:
* Institute treatment for bacteria at all sewage treatment plants
* Develop and institute long range plans for water conservation, comprehensive treatment for all contaminants, separation of sewage and storm water runoff, and localized treatment of waste water.
* Eliminate any influence of "connections" in hiring and contracts
www.greens4mwrd.org
PALOMA ANDRADE, Candidate for Clerk of Cook County Circuit Court
Paloma Andrade is a candidate for Cook County Circuit Clerk. Paloma is the Green Party Committeeperson for the 14th Ward, a graduate of Kelly High School and Robert Morris University (Business Management with a concentration in accounting) and a Student of Dominican University working in a (Masters in Education). Paloma is a member of Concerned Women of America, an active member of the South Side United Local School Council Federation. Paloma lives in the Brighton Park neighborhood.
HOWARD KAPLAN, Candidate for Cook County Board of Review, 2nd District
Howard Kaplan is an Occupational Therapist by day, and an activist for cleaner, safer streets in his free time, working to promote better conditions for bicyclists, pedestrian, and transit users through a variety of strategies and organizational affiliations. His attraction to work with the diverse communities of the west side brought him to settle in the Little Village/Marshall Square neighborhood in 2002. Howard has experienced first-hand how property owners are currently deprived of the power to advocate for themselves in the 2nd review district.
* Fairness transparency, and a level playing fieldfor homeowners in property tax appeals
* No special favors for corporations or "well connected" lawyers
ANTE MARIJAN, Candidate, Illinois 2nd Legislative District
Ante Marijan is a life long resident of the 2nd District which consists of Pilsen, Bridgeport, McKinley Park, Little Village, and the Back of the Yards communities. He is the Green Party committeeman of the 11th Ward and is a local school counsel member of the Armour School. He is an advocate of imp[roving education and cleaning up the environment. Ante lives in the Bridgeport neighborhood.
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Join the Pilsen Greens at our regular meetings (swside):
Next Meeting:
Monday April 21, 7pm at Efebos Cafe at 1640 S. Blue
Island Ave (next to the McDonalds) in Pilsen, Chicago.
We will be discussing candidates for local office and also the upcoming Illinois Green Party's Membership Meeting.
Meetings are normally the 4th Tuesday of every month, same time and location (at
7pm at the Efebos Cafe at 1640 S. Blue Island Ave (next to the
McDonalds) in Pilsen).
The Pilsen Greens endorse:
MARCH MAY FIRST - MARCHA PRIMERO DE MAYO
For the Rights of Immigrants and All Workers
We Demand:
# Equal Rights in the Workplace for All Workers
# The Right to Unionize
# Employee Free Choice Act
# Fair Wages
# End the Occupation of Iraq
# Equal Access to Education
# Universal Health Care
May 1st, 2008
International Workers Day
Dia Internacional de los Trabajadores
When: Meet at 10:00 A.M
Where: Union Park (Ashland and Lake)
March at 12:00 PM
Pilsen Greens ran two
candidates for office in 2006!
Clean
our children’s air!
Concerned neighbors of
the H. Kramer Brass Foundry have come together to ensure that emitters
like H. Kramer do not risk the health and saftey of the children and
residents of Pilsen and the enviornment through their operations.
Concerned neighbors of
H. Kramer got together at the end of 2004 to start to gather more
information about any ill health effects from pollution in and around
Pilsen. For information call: 312-315-4950
The
Pilsen/Southwest
Side Greens helped form P.E.R.R.O., the Pilsen Environmental Rights and
Reform Organization.
PERRO has worked hard since November of 2004 to engage the Pilsen and
Chicago community to clean up pollution from area toxic emmitters like
H. Kramer. Please visit the PERRO website for more
information. For the Press and the Public, see background on the plant
and the campaign:
1. See
an Indymedia
Story about pollution at
the plant: Chicago Indymedia Story on H. Kramer
2. Watch a video of the plant polluting: H. Kramer Pollution Video
3. For an environmental impact report on H. Kramer see: Scorecard.org Report
Informacion sobre nuestro
evento en espanol.
Limpien el aire de nuestros hijos!
De la
compañÃa H. Kramer
sale humo de la chiminea y de las ropturas en las paredes del edificio.
Este humo es contanimación que nos afecta a todos.
El humo de la chiminea esta vigilado oficialmente mientras el humo que
sale de las paredes es oficialmente ignorado. En es este humo
contaminado tiene plomo, el cual es causante del retardo mental y
cancer en nuestros hijos.
Vecinos precupados al rededor de la
compañÃa H. Kramer Brass
Foundry han formado grupos para juntar información
acerca de como afecta a nuestra salud de este aire contaminado.
Necesitaa mos ayuda para informar a todos de la
afectación en nuestra coo munidad. Si quiere mas
información o le gustarÃa
ayudarnos vengan a nuestro foro comunitario.
Para
mas información llame a: (312)
315-4950.
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