Time: 7:00 pm

Location: North Shore Unitarian Church, 2100 Half Day Rd., Deerfield (just east of I-294 on north side of street)

Contact: RSVP online or call Tenth Dems at 847-266-VOTE (8683) or send an email.

Tenth Dems University and Common Cause are honored to have a distinguished panel of experts who will draw upon their own work in the criminal justice system to discuss existing problems and offer solutions to these critical issues of wrongful convictions facing our community. Panel members include Rob Warden, Executive Director, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern School of Law, Rey Lopez-Calderone, Executive Director of Common Cause Illinois; Jed Stone, Criminal Defense Attorney, Stone and Associates; and Chris Kennedy, Former prosecutor and candidate for Lake County State’s Attorney.

The event is free and open to the public and preregistration is preferred. Should the capacity of the room be exceeded, priority will be given to those who have registered.

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Time: 2:30 – 4:30 pm

Location: Abel’s Pizza & Mexican Food, 125 Center St., Grayslake

Contact: RSVP online, send us an email or call 847-266-VOTE (8683).

Avon Township Democrats and Tenth Dems are hosting a discussion and all Democrats are invited. Come talk about the issues that are important to you in open forum. Let your voice be heard or just listen to what others have to say. FREE soft drinks for everyone!! Preregistration is not required, but it ensures you a seat at the table.

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Time: 6:30 -8:45 pm

Location: Northbrook Public Library, Dan Ryan Auditorium, 1201 Cedar Ln., Northbrook

Contact: RSVP online. If you need more information, send an email to Sharon Sanders or Phyllis Goldman.

Tenth Dems, Move to Amend Chicago North Suburbs, Progressive Democrats of America, Common Cause Illinois and Democracy in Action Chicago invite you to Prof. Stone’s discussion of the first amendment and the impact of Citizens United v. FEC (Federal Election Commission) on our democracy and what we can do to change the direction our country is headed.

The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and if the capacity of the room is reached, priority will be given to those who have preregistered.

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Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Northbrook Public Library, Pollak Room, 1201 Cedar Ln., Northbrook

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Want to help register voters for this upcoming election? Training takes 45 minutes, is very easy and convenient, and you need only be a registered voter in the county in which you live. This session is for registered voters who live in Cook County As a registrar, you can then register anywhere in Illinois.

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Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Tenth Dems Community Connection, 118 N. Genesee, Waukegan

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Want to help register voters for this upcoming election? Training takes 45 minutes, is very easy and convenient, and you need only be a registered voter in the county in which you live. As a registrar, you can then register anywhere in Illinois. This session is for registered voters who live in Lake County.

A training session for registered voters who live in Cook County will take place on Tuesday, January 24, at 7:00 pm at the Northbrook Public Library.

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Time: 5:00 pm

Location: Village School, 880 Nippersink Rd., Round Lake

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Want to help register voters for this upcoming election? Training takes 45 minutes, is very easy and convenient, and you need only be a registered voter in the county in which you live. As a registrar, you can then register anywhere in Illinois. This session is for registered voters who live in Lake County.

Another training session in Lake County will take place on Monday, January 23, at 7:00 pm at the Tenth Dems Community Connection, 118 N. Genesee, Waukegan

A training session for registered voters who live in Cook County will take place on Tuesday, January 24, at 7:00 pm at the Northbrook Public Library.

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Time: Doors open 1:30, Convention 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Location: Vernon Hills High School Auditorium, 145 Lakeview Parkway, Vernon Hills

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Mark the date! Come to Tenth Dems’ district-wide convention and help make a positive impact in Illinois’ 10th Congressional District. You’ll be part of an enthusiastic group (500-plus attended our first convention in 2008) who will hear from candidates running for election at all levels from all parts of the district.

The event is free and open to the public; however, only Tenth Dem members may vote in our straw poll.

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Hightower believes that the true political spectrum is not right to left but top to bottom, and he has become a leading national voice for the 80 percent of the public who no longer find themselves within shouting distance of the Washington and Wall Street powers at the top.

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He broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more than 150 commercial and public stations, on the web, and on Radio for Peace International. Each month, he publishes a populist political newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown, which now has more than 135,000 subscribers and is the fastest growing political publication in America. The hard-hitting Lowdown has received both the Alternative Press Award and the Independent Press Association Award for best national newsletter.

Below is a recent piece that Hightower wrote about Gov. Goodhair. Expect more of the same during his class.

Perry Tale: Ignore His Hypocritical Hype And Look At How Much Government Assistance He’s Gotten

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/669877/perry tale; ignore_his_hypocritical_hype_and_look_at_how_much_government_assistance he’s_gotten/

More Perry Tales

Wednesday 21 September 2011

by: Jim Hightower, Truthout | Op-Ed

It’s bedtime, children, so put on your jammies, scootch under the covers, and I’ll tell you another “Perry Tale.”

Once again, the Texas-governor-who-wants-to-be-your-president is flitting hither, thither and yon — spreading little “Perry Tales” about his record. The bonny prince is trying to make it to the big White House in Washington. It’s a bit of a strange quest, because he calls the Capital City “a seedy place,” and he tells the commoners in the land that he hates — nay, deeply loathes! — the very government that he wants to head.

With his tea party hat carefully positioned atop his bounteous crop of perfectly coifed hair, Prince Rick warns the commoners that big government is bad, bad, bad — because it intrudes into their lives, forcing things like Social Security and Medicare on them.

Strangest of all, though, this prancing prince of privilege would not be where he is without the steady “intrusion” of big government into his life. From first grade through college, his education was paid for by local, state and federal taxpayers. He was even a cheerleader for the government-run college he attended. Also, as cotton farmers, he and his family were supported with tens of thousands of dollars in crop subsidies from the pockets of national taxpayers — a big government “intrusion” into his pocketbook that he wisely avoided condemning at the time.

Then, after a brief stint in the federal government’s Air Force, the perfidious prince hit the mother load of government largesse: political office. He’s been hunkered down there for 27 years and counting. In addition to drawing more than a quarter-century’s worth of monthly paychecks from Texas taxpayers, including $150,000 a year as governor, Prince Rick also receives full health coverage and a generous pension from the state.

Wait, there’s more — he gets $10,000 a month to cover the rent on a luxury suburban home, a flock of personal aides and even a state-paid subscription to Food & Wine magazine.

So, children, the moral of this Perry Tale is to ignore the prince’s hypocritical hype — and look at what he actually does. When he says he intends to make government “as inconsequential as possible,” he means in your life, not his.

And now, Rick the Right-wing Sprite is sprinkling fresh fairy dust across the land in an effort to soften his earlier screed against America’s Social Security program. During the past couple of years, in the heat of his lusty romance of the rowdy tea party crowd, Perry has wooed and wowed those who hate government by offering passionate denunciations of Social Security as “a Ponzi scheme,” “a monstrous lie” and a “failure.” The national retirement program, he thunders, violates the Constitution’s “principles of federalism and limited government.” His unequivocal message was: Kill it!

But — oops — now in hot pursuit of the GOP presidential nomination, he’s learned that even most Republicans wince at his macho wackiness on a social program they support and millions of them use. A CNN poll in August finds that 57 percent of Republicans want no major changes in Social Security. Why? Because, despite the Ponzi-scheme Perry Tale, it works.

So, the red-meat tea partier who had savaged the program has suddenly turned into a senior-hugger, offering a revised, gentler Perry Tale. In this one, he never, ever meant to abolish Social Security. Nay, Perry now says with a pixie twinkle, he only wants to stimulate “a legitimate conversation in this country about how to fix that program.”

If you’re not sure what “fix” means, ask your dog.

Perry might heed the blunt words of another Republican, who was twice-elected to the White House, Dwight Eisenhower: “Should any political party attempt to abolish Social Security … you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can (abolish it). … Their number is negligible, and they are stupid.”

Until our next Perry Tale, goodnight children, and sweet dreams.

Copyright 2011 Creators.com

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Time: 7:00 pm

Location: Michael’s Chicago Style Red Hots, 1879 Second Avenue, Highland Park (across from the Renaissance Theater)

Contact: To RSVP, call Tenth Dems at 847-266-VOTE (8683) or send us an email. Please include contact info (name, address, phone number) when you reply. Registration in advance is preferred.

Ready for a free-wheeling discussion of the current political landscape? Join us at Let’s Talk Politics, a moderated discussion sponsored by Tenth Dems. It is open to all at no cost. Space is limited and if attendance exceeds the capacity of the room, priority will be given to those who register in advance. Starting time is 7:00 pm, but everyone is welcome to come earlier
to get something to eat.

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Date:

Time: 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Location: Pinstripes, 1150 Willow Rd., Northbrook

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Tenth Dems, MoveOn.Org Councils of Greater Chicago and Chicago Progressive Radio WCPT AM and FM are co-sponsoring our guest speaker and instructor, the well-known author, public speaker, and radio commentator, Jim Hightower. This is a free event, but advance registration helps us to plan.

Exciting opportunity! Join a small group of us for dinner with Jim Hightower at Pinstripes after his talk. The cost for this is $130, with a cash bar. RSVP by email or call Tenth Dems at 847-266-VOTE (8683). Please give your contact information (name, address, phone number).

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