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Campaign Calendar - Watch for more events coming up!
• Sunday, Oct. 29 - Groton "Got Democracy" Music Gathering at Groton Grange Hall, 80 Champney St., Groton, MA. 4-8pm. http://www.grotongrange.com/ . For more info call Dan Fassett at 978-337-6130 or axol@charter.net • Monday, October 30th, 7pm - 9pm - House Party - Medford, MA 76 Boston Ave., Medford, MA - Meet the candidate, hear Jill Stein speak in West Medford. Contact: Jason King, 781-475-0827, jasonkin1@earthlink.net • Friday, November 3, 7pm - 9pm - Public Meeting- Boston, MA RSVP to seth@planet-tech.com or call 617-996-9157 Annette Itzkan & Seth Itzkan would like you to meet Green-Rainbow Party candidate for Secretary of State Jill Stein, M.D. "I come to the race as a medical doctor and community advocate, with years of experience helping people engage the democratic process to improve our lives and communities." Where: Beacon Hill Friends Meeting House, 6 Chestnut St., Boston. MALight refreshments will be served. Archive of Calendar Events • Wednesday, Oct. 25 - 7 - 8:30pm. Northampton Unitarian Church. "Vital Signs of Democracy in Decline". Speaking Engagement with Shays 2. Jill is speaking as former President of Mass. Coalition for Healthy Communities. (This is not a formal campaign event.) • Saturday, Oct. 21 - 9:30am - 1pm. Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner's District 7 Round Table, Eliot Church, intersection of John Eliot and Putnam St., Roxbury, MA. • Saturday, Oct. 21 - 1 - 4pm. Wheels of Change Bus Tour with Mel King, Roxbury. Come make your voice heard! We'll stop at Dudley and Eagleston Squares, Grove Hall, Codman Square, and Uphams Corner. Speak out and celebrate grassroots democracy in action. Bring an original rap poem, song or picture about what's got to change, and your dreams of a better future. Face painting, poster making, free refreshments. For more information, call _. • Sunday, Oct. 22 - 2-4pm, Easton House Party, 39 Caroline Rd., South Easton, 02375. Call _ for more information. • Wednesday, October 18th, 7pm - Jill will guest on Emily Rooney's Greater Boston, Channel 2. Thursday, Oct. 19 - 7pm, Cambridge House Party at the home of Elie Yarden, 143 Pleasant St., Cambridge. Please RSVP to 617-491-5350, yen.yarden@verizon.net . • Sunday, October 15th, Noon - Luis Bosch's House Party 305 Sargeant St. Holyoke. Call Luis at: 413-250-2045 for more information. • Thursday, October 12th, 6pm - Jill Stein will be meeting with local Berkshire press at the Over the Rainbow restaurant in Pittsfield (109 First St.). • Thursday, October 12th, 7pm - Jill Stein will be at the Over the Rainbow restaurant in Pittsfield (109 First St.). If you would like to meet her and/or help with her campaign, PLEASE COME. Yard signs will be available.Come one, come all - let's make change happen with our own open grassroots 'back room' meeting. • Friday,October 13th, 7am - Radio Interview -WXOJ-LP (LP for low power, 10 mile radius), 103.3 FM out of Northampton, MA • Week of Oct. 9 - MERRIMACK VALLEY PLANNING MEETING FOR "WHEELS OF CHANGE" We will be meeting next week with activists in the Merrimack Valley to plan our campaign in the region. If you are interested, please call the campaign office. • Saturday, October 7 - "WHEELS OF CHANGE" MEETS "HONKFEST!" IN DAVIS SQUARE, Somerville We will be part of the HONKFEST! in Davis Square this Saturday. The event will showcase some of the nation's finest street orchestras, whose music is as bold and brash as it is visionary. Learn more at http://www.honkfest.org. We will be parking near Redbone's BBQ at 55 Chester St. in Somerville (http://www.redbonesbbq.com/). Davis Square is a great place to spend an autumn afternoon under normal circumstances, and it will be three times the fun with the big green bus and the HONKFESTivities... See you there! Saturday, October 7th, 9a-6p Davis Square, Somerville Call 857-829-1882 for more info • Sunday, October 8 - HOUSE PARTY - TAUNTON Join us at the home of long-time supporter and social justice activist Pat McSweeney for an afternoon of conversation, community-building and campaign planning. Sunday, October 8th, 2-4p 43 Summer St. (Near the intersection of Rtes. 44 and 140) Taunton, MA 508-822-2882 • Tuesday, October 10 - WORCESTER ORGANIZING PARTY The Worcester planning event on Tuesday 10/10 will take place at 15 Brook Street in Shrewsbury 6 - 9 pm Directions: About 100 feet before the first set of lights Bear Left at first folk ( This is Brook Street) Call 508-842-1450 if you get lost. • Saturday, September 30 - Wheels of Change Bus Tour visits the Beantown Jazz Festival.From 1:30 - 5:30 Jill and the veggie oil bus will be joined by Mel King, Chuck Turner, and others for a community speakout and celebration at the Beantown Jazz Festival. Columbus Avenue (between Mass. Ave. and Burke St.) For more info: http://www.beantownjazz.org/ • Sunday, September 24 - Wheels of Change Bus Tour roll into Dighton, Fall River, & New Bedford.
Campaign Contact: Jill Stein, (617) 852-4727 (cell) • Saturday, September 23 - Amherst, Easthampton, first stop of the Wheels of Change bus tour, a Speak Out/Arts Festival for a healthy, just, sustainable community. WHEN-WHERE:
LOCAL CONTACT: Larry Ely, 413-256-6044 for Amherst event; Sue Bartone, 413-527-9228 for Easthampton event. CAMPAIGN CONTACT: Jill Stein, 617-852-4727 (cell) INTERVIEW: Jill is available at the Amherst Common for interviews between 10:00 am and 11:00 am, and periodically throughout the event. Jill Stein, Green-Rainbow Party candidate for Sec. of State, comes to Amherst and Easthampton on Saturday, September 23, the first of her visits in her "Wheels of Change" Bus Tour across Massachusetts in a vegetable oil powered bus. The Wheels of Change Bus Tour highlights the power and inspiration of grass roots democracy in action across the Commonwealth. Each stop on the tour will celebrate community solutions to local and global challenges. There will be live music, arts for kids, a "community change talking board", face painting and an open-mic for musicians, poets, and speakers alike. Members of civic groups, businesses, religious leaders, musicians, artists, writers and residents of The Pioneer Valley are all invited to share their vision and initiatives. Come celebrate grass roots inspiration and action for the healthy, just, sustainable communities we all deserve. • Friday, September 22 - Jill will make an appearance at the Alt Wheels Transportation Festival at Boston City Hall Plaza. For more info go to www.altwheels.org • Sunday, September 17 - Brunch at Mel King's house to celebrate the succesful signature drive. There will be a brunch at Mel King's house in the South End to celebrate the succesful signature drive that put Jill and the other Green-Rainbow candidates on the November ballot - -- Noon - 3pm at 4 Yarmouth St. near Columbus Ave in the South End. Call Jill's office at _ for info. • Sept. 14 at 6-8pm - Postponed from the 6th and 7th to next week, the 13th and 14th. Sec. of State candidate forums sponsered by ¿Oiste? ¿Oiste? is the first and only statewide Latino Political Organization in Massachusetts. The purpose of ¿Oíste? is to build a solid, educated and participatory electoral base of Latinos, active in civic and electoral processes at the federal, state, and local levels.
• Sept. 12 at 4-6pm - Secretary of State Forum at Brandeis in Waltham Rappaport Treasure Hall, Goldfarb Library, Brandeis Central Campus. Park at the Tower Lot across from Heller School. Contact: James Ansorge, event coordinator, jansorge@brandeis.edu. • Thursday, August 31 - Jill on Tele Kreyol, Haitian TV Watch Jill on Tele Kreyol, a program of news and analysis for the Haitian Community, interviewed by host Charlot Lucien. The program airs in Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville. Details to follow. Shows are aired on Time Warner Cable (bright House Networks) channel 10 Saturdays from 2pm - 5pm. On local TV W.O.K.B channel 7, Mon - Sun 7pm - 12am. http://www.telekreyol.com/ 617-341-3071 • Monday, August 28 - Planning Party for The Wheels of Change Bus Tour At the meeting, we’ll be planning the details and outreach for the Northampton “Wheels of Change” (bus tour) celebration. For details and if you want to help with outreach, please contact Larry Ely at (413) 256-6044. For other questions, suggestions etc., please follow up with Joe Carvalho, (508) 646-3616, (508) 496-6078. Location: 6 PM at the Hitchcock Center for the Environment, 525 South Pleasant Street in Amherst. Specifically, we'll be organizing a phone call campaign, and planning a Northampton "Wheels of Change" celebration in September for the bus tour that Jill will be taking around the state bringing attention to local initiatives for a healthy, just and sustainable community. And she'll be talking about what the Secretary of State can do to support these efforts. The bus, by the way, is powered by clean, renewable vegetable oil fuel recycled from Mass. restaurants. • Saturday, August 26 - A Mid-Summer's Night Dream Democracy Party - 6:30pm 15 Brook Street, Shrewsbury, MA Featuring food from Udupi - Indian Vegetarian Restaurant of Shrewsbury, (I ordered enough to feed the neighborhood - - hey! grrreat idea! ) Jill Stein, Secretary of State Candidate will be on hand to explain how we can take back democracy, curtail "influence peddling" on The Hill, and build the health, sustainable Commonwealth we all deserve. Those who feel so motivated may bring a vegan dish to share, or reply requesting an Indian restaurant preparation that you'd like to eat. Salads, desserts, or beverages would be kindly accepted. For directions contact Steven Baer at baerwolf@hotmail.com or 508-842-1450. • Monday, August 14th, 6PM - Western Mass. Victory Party/Workshop We're on the ballot with signatures galore! Come celebrate our first victory and plan for more to come - with good food, good company, and winning strategy for a healthy, just Commonwealth. Come plan an outbreak of democracy - in Western Mass. and on Beacon Hill - in November and beyond! WHERE: Nat Fortune and Joyce Palmer's house 152 Westbrook Rd, Whately WHEN: Monday, August 14, 6 PM RSVP to Nat 413-665-6739, mail@natfortune.org or Jill 781-674-1377, jill@jillstein.org Bring a dish to share if you're able. Hope to see you there! Best, Joyce, Nat & Jill PS. If you dropped off petitions for certifying at the town halls, please pick them up and bring them to the party. We'll bring them to the Secretary of State's office - as required in order to get on the ballot. • Saturday, August 12th, 2-5PM - Fall River Victory Party/Workshop Come celebrate our first victory and plan for more to come - with good food, good company, and winning strategy for taking our democracy back. Let's get a voice for communities on Beacon Hill, and stop the reckless citing of explosive LNG facilities in population centers! For information and/or directions, call RSVP to Dave 508-674-5194, roher@conversent.net or Jill _, jill@jillstein.org. From Dave and Jill: Dear friends, We're on the ballot with signatures galore! Come celebrate our first victory and plan for more to come - with good food, good company, and winning strategy for taking our democracy back. Let's get a voice for communities on Beacon Hill, and stop the reckless citing of explosive LNG facilities in population centers! WHERE: Dave Dionne and Deb Roher's home 153 Davis Rd., Westport WHEN: Saturday, August 12, 2-5 PM Come plan an outbreak of democracy and justice - in Fall River and on Beacon Hill - in November and beyond! RSVP to Dave 508-674-5194, roher@conversent.net Or Jill 781-674-1377, jill@jillstein.org Hope to see you there! Best, Dave & Jill PS. If you dropped off petitions for certifying at the town halls, please pick them up and bring them to the party. We'll bring them to the Secretary of State's office - as required in order to get on the ballot. • Wednesday, August 9th, 6:00PM - Getting on the Ballot Victory Celebration! West Falmouth, MA Come to a party to celebrate Jill getting on the ballot. This will be at the home of Jim Churchill in West Falmouth, 243 North Falmouth Highway. Please RSVP (or for more info) to Jim at 508-540-9532. • Friday, Saturday, July 28th and 29th, 6:00PM LiveAlive Cafe, Lowell, MA Join Jill at Lowell’s Life Alive Café for a celebration of music and community during the Lowell Folk Festival, starting at 6 PM. 194 Middle St, Lowell. http://www.lifealive.com/hapening_pg.html. Besides MCing the festivities, she will be singing with her band, The Jill Stein/Ken Selcer Band at 7pm Friday. • Wednesday, July 26, 6:30pm - House Party Join Jill at a Westport house party hosted by David Dionne, Deborah Roher, Dan & Colleen Avedikian. Call _ for more information. Call for details. (508) 823-0430 • Saturday, July 22nd, Petitioning Join Jill, Pat and other campaign members for a day of signature collection in the greater Boston area. Call the office _ for more information. • Sunday, June 25th - Pleasant St. Congregational Church, 75 Pleasant St, Arlington Center, MA On Sunday, June 25th, from 7:00PM-9:00PM, Arlington United for Justice with Peace will devote its first general meeting of the summer to a discussion of democracy and election issues with Jill Stein, candidate for Mass. Secretary of State. This meeting will be held at Pleasant Street Congregational Church, 75 Pleasant St., Arlington Center. Possible topics include: protecting the integrity of elections, voting technology, third-party candidates, getting big money out of politics, instant runoff voting, corporate accountability, and the peace-democracy complex (the flip side of the military industrial complex). In the months of July and August, Arlington UJP will be on a summer schedule of one meeting per month (7/23, 8/27). For further information call 781-316-2018. • Friday, June 23, 3pm - United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE), Northeast Region Jill will be speaking at the next District 2 Council Meeting at the Holiday Inn, Taunton MA. UE Local 204 members at Kirkhill TA - Haskon are the hosts. Holiday Inn 700 Myles Standish Blvd. Taunton, MA 02780 Call for details. (508) 823-0430 • Sunday, June 11, 6:00pm - Forum VOTING IN MASSACHUSETTS: PROBLEMS & PROSPECTS Arlington St. Church (Boylston & Arlington Sts.), Boston, MA The Secretary of the Commonwealth plays a powerful role in our elections. Elections are the foundation of our democracy and independence. Find out what's at stake. Citizens groups engaged in election reform will pose questions to candidates for the office of Secretary of the Commonwealth, including John Bonifaz and Jill Stein. Be there for this lively discussion> How is Massachusetts doing? Are we getting better? Are we slipping? Should you get involved? Are Massachusetts voters ever disenfranchised - or does that only happen in states like Florida and Ohio? Have you heard about the changes in our elections coming this fall? What new machines is the Secretary of State choosing? Do we have any say in it? Will our system be as reliable next year as it was last year? Has the way we've draw our districts cut out certain groups? Did you know that the Voting Rights Act, hard won by Martin Luther King and others, is up for renewal? Will Congress keep it strong? Do we need to act now? Is money corrupting the political process? Should our public airways donate time to candidates for office? Common Cause Hyde Square Task Force MA Citizens for Voting Integrity Mass Vote Mass Voters for Fair Elections The Union of Minority Neighborhoods invite you to attend! Sponsored by: MA Citizens for Voting Integrity H461k@aol.com 617-448-3578 and the Social Action Committee of the Arlington St. Church Archive of Calendar Events • Saturday, June 10, 10:30am - March and Signature Gathering in Boston Pride Parade Drummers & others for peace, justice & diversity Dear friends, Please consider joining me on June 10 at Boston Pride for a day of music, parades and petitioning in the cause of peace, justice, and diversity - for the Commonwealth and beyond. Join us in marching in the noontime Pride parade, from Copley Plaza to the Boston Common, in a celebration of "diversity not divisions". We'll have a brigade of "drummers and others for peace and justice" to bring joyful noise to grassroots democratic action as we march. Throughout the day we'll be gathering signatures to put the Green-Rainbow candidates - including yours truly for Secretary of State - on the November ballot. Join in for an hour, or stay all day. You can help give voters real choices, and keep the heat on for universal health care, living wage jobs, a healthy environment, sustainable development, quality schools, universal higher education, CORI reform, equality in the Constitution, peace in the streets at home and abroad, and more. Petition supplies will be available at the Green-Rainbow tables scheduled (tentatively) to start at 9;30 AM. Luc Schuster (617-276-5759c) and other coordinators will provide petitioner support, and will help you get you started if you haven't petitioned before. Marchers will meet at 11, (location to follow), to line up for the noontime march. Bring a percussion instrument (aluminum cans with pebbles, pots, plastic jugs etc.) if you'd like to join the rhythm brigade. Costumes are encouraged. If you have a long (14 inch) clip board, please bring it along for petitioning. Another email will follow confirming times and locations. For more info, call _. Hope to see you there! Upward, jill • Thursday, June 8th, 8:00pm - Meeting of the Coalition for Responsible Siting of Liquid Natural Gas Facilities. Jill will be speaking at thie meeting. at the Somerset Old Town Hall, 1458 County Street (Route 138), Somerset, MA. Go to wwww.nolng.org for more information and directions • Tuesday, June 6th, 6:00pm - House Party Falmouth, MA Come dialogue with Jill Stein. Call Jim Churchill for more information: cell (508-566-6924) and work (508-289-2807) or email jchurchill@whoi.edu |
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