“What’s Next” This Week

Meeting & Events this week for

Liberals and Progressives

NWSOFA-Indivisible A Guide for the week

Week of April !4th – April 21st, 2024 (times vary by event)

April 15, 2024 07:30 PM Central Zoom

“Indivisible Illinois, NWSOFA & Indivisible Evanston Present:”

Fighting Poverty from The Ground Up

Join Indivisible Illinois and Co-Hosts, NWSOFA-Indivisible and Evanston Indivisible on Monday April 15 at 7:30 pm CDT on Zoom for a panel on how many are affected by poverty, what is being done to fight it, and how activists can help.

The panel will include:

– Kyle Patterson- current City of Champaign Township Supervisor. Mr Patterson has previously been a case manager for Cunningham Township, as well as the Chairman for the Champaign County Board.

– Jessica Motsinger- An Illinois Poor People’s Campaign Tri-Chair. Ms Motsinger is also the lead for Indivisible Rural Illinois as well as co-lead for Indivisible Metro East.

– Chris Todd- Program Administrator for the Food and More Food Pantry located in Champaign-Urbana. Food and More Food Pantry is all-volunteer led and staffed. It is the product of a collaborative among several houses of worship.

– LaToya Greenwood- Democratic Central Committeewoman for Congressional District IL-13. She is the Democratic candidate for State Representative in IL-114. As a past State Representative from 2017-2023, she worked on legislation for the underserved community.

Learn about how poverty affects households, about the work that these speakers are doing on the ground, what types of opportunities are out there for us to help, and how we can influence our legislators locally, statewide and nationally to pass legislation and ordinances that help fight poverty.

Co-Hosts: Indivisible Evanston, NWSOFA-Indivisible, Voices of Reason

Tuesday April 16th @7:30 PM central Zoom

“Back to 1864: The Chilling Reality”

US Reproductive Rights Today

TOTAL ABORTION BANS

– Resurrecting 1864 Abortion Laws -IVF Under Attack

– Women traveling hundreds of miles to have an abortion/seek reproductive health care

WHAT IS HAPPENING OUT THERE SINCE ROE V WADE

– Let’s talk about it !

– Two short videos will be shown to better start the conversation and then time for discussion.

– We want your input !

We will also talk about actions we can take through NWSOFA / Indivisible & Local Democrats to elect local progressive leaders and in Washington…

– Keep the Senate – Win the House – keep Joe Biden as our leader

– If we win all three – Roe V Wade could be codified!

Every Wednesday 1 pm & 3 PM + THURSDAY 1 PM Central

“NWSOFA Social Media Training w/FT6”

Social Media training .. alternating

NWSOFA w/FT6 Wednesday & Thursday 1 PM (Join Bill while Storming SM by sharing while learning)

Wednesday, April 17th at 6:00 p.m. cst via Zoom.

Join the April meeting of the Illinois Alliance to Prevent Gun Violence

Evanston Mayor Dan Biss

Our featured speaker on the 17th is Evanston Mayor Dan Biss, who will be updating us on an array of efforts to reduce gun violence in Evanston.

Also,we have a extraordinary number of events coming up from our member organizations over the next 3-4 months. Here’s the link to scroll through the upcoming events that we currently have flyers for:.. click here -> https://www.illinoisallies.com/events

There will be time on Wednesday for members who would like to provide a little information about these upcoming events!

Thursday, April 18th 7:00 PM cst- ZOOM

“Gun Violence Prevention Supporters and Friends,”

Outstanding line-up of speakers

Two very important legislation in Illinois related to

– reopening unsolved homicide cases (Cold cases) and

– increased transparency in homicide data: Homicide Victims Families Rights Act (HB4743) and Homicide Data Transparency Bill (HB4754).

In addition to providing information about these bills, the speakers will let us know what we can do to help get them bills passed in the Illinois House and Senate. Each speaker will also share her story with us.

Our first speaker will be Alicia Schemel whose father was shot and killed in 1999 while driving to pick her up at work – a case that has never been solved. Alicia is a member of the Everytown Survivor Network and a volunteer with the Illinois chapter of Moms Demand Action. She will also present data showing why the proposed legislation is needed.

Rhiannon Jimenez who has worked for gun violence prevention in the Chicago area for a number of years advocating for common-sense gun legislation at both the federal and state levels. She will explain the proposed legislation in more detail.

Marsha Lee, Millie Burgos, and Val Burgest, each of whom is a survivor who lost a child to gun violence.

.We hope that you will be able to join us for this powerful Zoom presentation.

Thank you for your steadfast commitment to Gun Violence Prevention,

Natalie and Cathy, NWSOFA GVP Co-Leaders

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