Election Eve Candlelight Vigils Link U.S. and World Community on the Values We Share
Join people across the country for Lighting the Path for Democracy, a national Election Eve Candlelight Vigil from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. local time on November 1 � the night before the vote.
On Election Day, Americans will divide by party to vote and watch returns. Lighting the Path for Democracy will be a nonpartisan opportunity for all Americans to come together with friends and neighbors to show that democracy matters, call for clean elections, and encourage people to vote on November 2.
The vigils are a nonpartisan effort of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), an international social justice organization, and are supported by the National Council of Churches and United for Peace & Justice, a coalition with more than 800 affiliate organizations.
With offices in 43 cities in the United States and 22 countries of the world, AFSC was a primary force in the 2003 candlelight peace vigils. The Service Committee hopes to replicate those feelings of unity and support on the eve of this year�s election. Participating cities include: Baltimore, MD; Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, PA; Pasadena and San Francisco, CA; Syracuse, NY; and Washington, D.C. Participating communities outside the U.S. include: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Trafalgar Square, London and many others.
Those interested in organizing or attending a vigil should visit www.afsc.org/vigil, e-mail [email protected], or call 215-241-7179. The website includes information on sponsoring a vigil and a generic flyer that you can adapt for your community.
MONDAY, NOV. 1: Rally with Barack Obama
9-10:15pm, Hotel Allegro, 171 W. Randolph, Chicago
Nearly 22 months after declaring himself a candidate for the United States Senate, Barack Obama is finishing his campaign where it all began. On Monday, November 1st Senator Obama will be holding his final rally for the campaign season at the Hotel Allegro in Downtown Chicago � the same location where he announced his candidacy for United States Senate on January 21, 2003. Come join us on the eve of Election Day as we prepare for victory in Illinois!
The rally will begin at 9:00 pm and will feature Senator Obama as he addresses his supporters for one last time as a Senate candidate. Speakers include Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Senator Emil Jones, Senator Dick Durbin, Reverend Senator James T. Meeks, Congressman Rahm Emanuel, and Congressman Luis Gutierrez. The Hotel Allegro is located at 171 West Randolph Street in Downtown Chicago.
If you would like to attend the rally, please RSVP with our special automated reservation line at 312.386.9004, or you can email us at [email protected]. Food and refreshments will be served.
TUESDAY, NOV. 2: Reckless Records' BLOW Election Dance Party
5:30pm, Reckless Records, 1532 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago
Want to dance? Want to "blow" off election steam? Want to spend (literally) no money and create an environment of miscellaneous abstraction? Then come to our BLOW election dance party free in-store tomorrow November 2nd at 5:30 pm at the 1532 N.Milwaukee store. I don't like using "at" twice in 4 words but I did and have not any idea how to avoid that in that situation. I don't like using "that" two times in three words either for the same reason. Blow are on K records (sometimes) but their newest release "Poor Aim (Love songs)" is on State Rights. Stephen "Mr." Reckless says this about it: "This EP is a laser-focused re-evaluation of THE BLOW's already celebrated vision; her stuttered, minimalist pop-tones, undulating synths, languid bass ambience and longing lyrics delivered in a post-coital hush...as enticing as it is startling." There's a member of the Microphones hanging around too so it's that kind of thing. Read more about them here: http://www.thetouchmefeeling.com/
TUESDAY, NOV. 2: Election Night Benefit Blow-Out!
6pm-2am, Hothouse, 31 E. Balbo, Chicago
presented by Chicago Indymedia and Third Coast Press
Come to the party of the decade to take in--and take on--the election of the century!
Yeah, we know progressives view this presidential race with trepidation and that with both parties running
war candidates, but that's no excuse to sit alone on your couch with a bottle of cheap bourbon biting your nails on November 2! Join Chicago Indymedia and the Third Coast Press for a REAL ALTERNATIVE: a
rollicking night of great music, biting political satire, comprehensive electoral coverage, and the swell chance to mingle with your cohorts, Chicago's progressive community.
Keep an eye on unfolding election coverage through both network news and internet sources, celebrate the momentum of U.S. progressive political movements since the dawn of the Bush era, and sample a smorgasbord of local live music, political art, spoken-word poetry and political satire. It's the party of the decade, to take in and take on the election of the century. Festivities include:
Folk-rock extraordinaire Rebecca F, spoken-word poet and Def Jam veteran Triple Blak, hiphop/reggae sensations Star People, political punk project PAL ,rockabilly revolutionaries the Chariots, premier poetess Nina Corwin Plus video shorts from the Guerilla News Network, Street Level Youth Media , silent auction of local movement photographers, recent work ... and a plethora of other artists and entertainers, including Juggler Adita!
Proceeds go to Chicago Indymedia and the Third Coast Press, which chose election day for this benefit blast to highlight the need for a truly free and independent press, to provide space for alternative coverage of unfolding events -- and to give progressives a chance to kick back, have some laughs, conspire, debate,
dialogue and celebrate the power of our movement. Come for a great show, a chance to forge new alliances and fire up political activism in metro Chicago.
Admission: $10-50 bucks (or more if you've got it. Hey, it's a benefit...). NO-ONE WILL BE TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDS. Sorry, attendees must be 21 and over.
Partners include Chicago Media Action, Chicago Filmmakers, Hasta Cuando, HammerHard MediaWorks and other Chicago-area, independent news projects. Labor donated.
For more info, call Jessica at 773.744.2414, email [email protected], or check outchicago.indymedia.org.
Click on the link below to download a flyer in pdf format.
http://chicago.indymedia.org/usermedia/application/12/rotateddraft_11-02-04benefitflyer.pdf
TUESDAY, NOV. 2: A Night of Apocalyptic Possibilities at Schubas
Schubas Tavern, 3159 N. Southport, Chicago
6:00 p.m. - A DVD screening of pARTicipation and at...
7:30 p.m. - A DVD screening of Fahrenheit 9/11 plus at...
10:00 p.m. - Live Band Rock 'n' Roll Karaoke with The Karaoke Dokies
- After you vote on November 2 come to Schubas for the premiere of pARTicipation, the just completed documentary about the Interchange Festival, which took place throughout Chicago in August. The doc. includes performances by Andrew Bird, Bobby Conn, Diverse, The M's, Tortoise and more. After pARTicipation stick around for Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, followed by the Karaoke Dokies. Perform your favorite rock songs, with a live band, in front of the election returns on the big screen.
- What better way to celebrate, or commiserate, than over some movies and amateur rock performances?
TUESDAY, NOV. 2: Vote Then Rock!
7pm, Park West, 322 W. Armitage Ave., Chicago
Poi Dog Pondering performs free for voters with valid voter's receipts!
Call 773-929-5959 for more info.
TUESDAY, NOV. 2: Election Night Party with Melissa Bean Team
7:30pm, Grand Ballroom, Woodfield Hyatt, 1800 East Golf Road, Schaumburg, IL
After the polls close�
Join Melissa and the Bean Team at our ELECTION NIGHT PARTY!!!
TUESDAY, NOV. 2: Election Night Celebration at Heartland Cafe
8pm, Heartland Cafe, 7000 N. Glenwood Ave., Chicago, 773-465-8005
election night celebration
come home to the heartland
tv's in all rooms
wi fi internet hookup
bucky halker band
the billionaires for bush
free drink with voting stub
make signs for nov. 3 demonstration (5:00 pm Federal Building, 220 S. Dearborn)
good time
starting at 8 pm
regime change is about to begin!
TUESDAY, NOV. 2: Voting with the Underground "I Voted" Party!
8pm-midnight, "The New" Mickey's, 2450 N. Clark St., Chicago
Bring voter stub to get in FREE! Late Dinner provided.
www.votingwiththeunderground.org
TUESDAY, NOV. 2 - TUESDAY, NOV. 9: 20% Off at Powell's Bookstore
Stop by any Powell's between November 2nd and 9th, reveal your voter receipt, and get 20 percent off of any purchase. Though the store "wants you to vote for the right person," they'll honor the discount either way. Powell's Bookstore, 1501 E. 57th Street, (773)955-7780/ 2850 N. Lincoln, (773)248-1444/ 828 S. Wabash, (312)341-0748.
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 3: Anti-War Candlelight Rally and March Planned for Day After Elections
5pm, Federal Plaza, Chicago
Peace Pledge-Chicago and many other Chicago area peace and justice groups are calling for a candlelight rally and march on November 3, 2004, at 5 pm, at the Federal Plaza to protest the ongoing war in Iraq and the occupations of Afghanistan and Palestine. No matter who wins the election, the war and the occupations will continue. The rally and march will bear witness to the death and destruction caused by these illegal government actions and demand that American troops withdraw immediately. The demonstration is part of a national effort in the days following the election to bring the anti-war message back to the forefront.
The rally will begin at 5 pm with a candlelight vigil, and will feature speakers from military families who are against the war. The event is sponsored by the November Third Coalition: American Friends Service Committee, Andersonville Neighbors for Peace, Chicago Anarchist Network, Chicago Coalition Against War and Racism, Chicagoans Against War and Injustice, DuPage Coalition Against War, Eighth Day Center for Justice, Historians Against War-Chicago, Logan Square Neighbors for Justice and Peace, National Baricua Human Rights Network, Nicaragua Solidarity Committee, Palestine Solidarity Group, Peace Pledge-Chicago, Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, Southsiders for Peace, Students for Social Justice.
Contact: Peace Pledge-Chicago, www.peacepledge-chicago.org, 312-494-5840.
THURSDAY, NOV. 4: Protest the Occupation of Iraq & the Patriot Act
5pm, Intercontinental Hotel, 505 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago
On November 4th, at the Intercontinental Hotel, hundreds of the world's top bankers will meet with major CEOs and heads of government agencies to discuss international finance. They're conference is sub-
titled "The Pace Quickens." Among the focuses of the first of their two day agenda are the USA PATRIOT Act and how it effects the privacy of bank customers, and the "War of Terror" and how it effects ports. At 3:45pm, the delegates will begin the agenda item entitled "Trade Bank of Iraq & Coalition Provisional Authority Update." Several of the major Western banks that are members of BAFT joined together to form and profit off of the creation of the Trade Bank of Iraq.
In solidarity with the Election Week of Resistance, including the election day events, other BAFT actions, and
Peace Pledge anti-war protest, we call for all Chicagoans to hit the streets in front of the Intercontinental Hotel by 5:00pm for a rally against the financiers of Empire. On November 2nd, we will have the chance to
choose between two pro-war candidates, but on November 4th our city will receive a city from the real policy-makers and profiteers.
Banks finance and direct austerity measures enforced by international monetary institutions like the IMF and World Bank, and it is private banks that finance and direct death squads and state militaries in the massacres and repression of civilians from Iraq to Afghanistan, from Palestine to Haiti, from the Philippines to Colombia. Join us to oppose the corporations that run our country and the greed that is destorying the world.
To endorse or find out more information, e-mail us at [email protected].
Endorsers: Chicagoland Anarchist Network, Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism, Education Not Empire Student Network, Pilsen & DePaul Food Not Bombs, Students for Social Justice, DePaul Students Against
the War, Midwest Unrest, La Voz de Los de Abajo, Nicaragua Solidarity Committee
See also:
http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/47071/index.php
http://www.chicagonewyork.net/dontjustvote
http://www.beyondvoting.org
FRIDAY, NOV. 5: BAFT "Our World is Not for Sale" Protest Festival
6am-2pm, Outside the Intercontinental Hotel, 505 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago
On November 5th, the annual Bankers Association for Finance & Trade conference "The Pace Quickens" will enter its second day, and their agenda focuses on international free trade issues, and how banks and other corporations can invade countries to assert their economic domination. However, it is clear to us that their
so-called "free trade" is a code-word for a war on democracy, people, and the planet.
Meanwhile, outside we will reclaim common space in "Our World is Not for Sale," a festival of free food, free music, free literature, free clothes, free skills, and freedom. This will be a community that values both cultural and ecological diversity, in which all are truly free to give, receive, and create on their own terms, in which people can fulfill their needs by working together, in the midst Chicago's most concentrated area of consumerism known as the Magnificant Mile!
This is a call to all of you who support our movements and mobilizations from the bottom-up and the inside-out: Food Not Bombs, medics and care-givers, legal teams, independent media, living collectives, direct-democracy organizers, alternative energy and transportation visionaries, and affinity groups, families, individuals and organizations who are working towards solidarity and community-based alternatives.
Our World is Not for Sale will only be as great as you make it. We will provide the framework; you supply the
material. Skill-shares, free-schools and planned discussions are great ways to get involved. Instead of just perusing goods, we can spend the day together eating free food, making patches, repairing bikes, learning how to silk-screen, discussing theory, learning languages, sewing clothes, painting banners, cutting hair, smashing pi�atas, and dreaming up even more things to throw together! The only stipulation is that there is no buying, selling, or promoting involved�in this market, everything is strictly free!
If you have a skill to share, stuff to give away, or a topic to discuss, plan on bringing your own table or blanket and coming and going as you please, and if you want contact us so we can put your session on a list of events,discussions, skill-shares, and free-schools, just e-mail [email protected]
Endorsers: Chicagoland Anarchist Network, Chicago Coalition Against War & Racism, Education Not Empire Student Network, Pilsen & DePaul Food Not Bombs, Students for Social Justice, DePaul Students Against the War, Midwest Unrest, La Voz de Los de Abajo, Nicaragua Solidarity Committee
http://www.chicagonewyork.net/dontjustvote
http://www.beyondvoting.org
SUNDAY, NOV. 14: Asian American Memorial Tribute to Senator Paul Simon
11am-1pm, Claudia Cassidy Theater, Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph, Chicago
Lunch Reception will follow
As a member of the United States Senate, the late Paul Simon was unparalleled in his strong, unwavering commitment to the issues and concerns affecting Asian Pacific Americans. Asian Pacific Americans mourn the loss of this dear friend and benefactor, yet we rejoice in the spirit of goodwill and kindness that he always expressed toward our community.
PLEASE JOIN US AND THE SIMON FAMILY TO CELEBRATE THE LIFE OF A GREAT FRIEND.
Invited Speakers: Senator Richard Durbin, Senator Barack Obama, Former Senator Adlai Stevenson, Former White House Counsel Abner Mikva, Former State Comptroller Dawn Clark Netsch and Judge Sandra Otaka
Steering Committee
Nanta Buranakan, C.W. Chan, Nancy Chen, Leo Huang, Ann Kalayil, Helen Lee, Pete and Maria Lee, Sha-li Lin, Sam Ma, Paul Park, Woon-Wah Siu, Elsie Sy-Niebar, Nakares Thepjatri, Jinn Wang, Larry Wong, Bill Yoshino and Poxie Xumsai
For more information and RSVP, please contact Nancy Chen at 312-353-8890, or by email: [email protected].
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