The world is facing a looming global warming crisis. Attend this presentation and learn how we can be part of the solution if we begin making healthier food choices.

Our speaker will be Mike Durschmid. Mike is a GMO-Free, Vegan Activist; Anti-Consumption-ist, Climate & Social Justice-ist, and Egalitarian-Horizontal-ist. He became a vegetarian 31 years ago while attending the College of DuPage, and has been a vegan the past 25 years.
Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.

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Click here if you were unable to attend the caucus and want to vote on-line

Voting in the Green Party Presidential Caucus ends at 11:59 p.m. on February 19.

On this day we will take a stand against government corruption, against the greed of Wall Street, and demand a true democracy! Stand with us to remind politicians that they were elected to represent us, the voters, not those who financed their elections.

We ask the whole country to join us in Chicago this spring to stand in solidarity as we say no to corporate greed and economic injustice. Stand with us, as we make it impossible to be ignored any longer.

Tell your family. Tell your friends. Tell the world.

#ChicagoSpring begins on #Apr7. But it doesn’t end there.

#Apr7 #May1 #May12 #May19 #NATOG8 #OChi

The occupation is not leaving… Be There

Facebook invite to the start of the American Spring in Chicago

In anticipation of the American/Chicago Spring April 7, 2012, US National General Strike Mayday, May 1, 2012, and Chicago May 19, 2012 G8/NATO Summit Protest and in memory of the police riot that occurred at the 1968 Democratic Party National Convention protest in Chicago, here’s the song that rallied everyone to come to Chicago in 1968.

Chicago (We Can Change The World)

“Somehow people must be free I hope the day comes soon
Won’t you please come to chicago show your face
From the bottom of the ocean to the mountains of the moon
Won’t you please come to chicago no one else can take your place

We can change the world rearrange the world
It’s dying – if you believe in justice”, Graham Nash.

Facebook invite to the start of the American Spring in Chicago

There will be several caucuses held throughout the state if you would like to meet other members to discuss the candidates and where they stand on the issues that matter the most to you.  Here is a list of times and places for Green Party Caucuses:

• Sat Feb 11 – Wheaton, Two Thirteen Building, 3-5 PM
• Sun Feb 12 – Oak Park, Oak Park Public Library, 1-5 PM
• Sun Feb 12 – Rockford, Just Goods Fair Trade Store, 3-5 PM
• Sat Feb 18 – Carbondale, Varsity Theater, 1:30-3:30 PM
• Sat Feb 18 – Peoria, Peoria Pizza Works, 6-9 PM

If you prefer to vote online, or if you’d just like a sneak peek at the ballot before you go to the caucus, you may do so here.  For more information about the rules or the primary process, please contact Illinois Green Party Election Administrator, Patrick Kelly, at patrick.kelly@ilgp.org.

On Wednesday, January 25th, at 7:00 PM, we invite you to join us at the Two-Thirteen Building for The People’s State of the Union: A Green New Deal for America. You’ll hear a realism about America’s situation –and the ways to overcome it– that Wall Street and the Washington establishment don’t want you talking about. 

We can have an economy that provides jobs for everyone without depressing wages or destroying the environment. We can get Wall Street off our backs and win control of our lives and common future. 

Through this special online broadcast, you will hear presidential candidate Jill Stein describe the Green New Deal that can reclaim our future and fulfill the promise of America. Lines will be open for your questions and ideas. We will meet at 7 PM at the DuPage County Green Party Office.  Please come by and bring your friends too!  Snacks and refreshments will be served.  The address is 213 S. Wheaton Ave., Wheaton, IL.  We will also be accepting donations for Jill Stein’s campaign.  If you’d like to learn more about Dr. Stein, please visit www.jillstein.org.

. . . and here’s another idea for those that can’t make it to Wheaton:

Host a People’s State of the Union House Party at your house!  Use the occasion to share some good news. Your vision for people, peace and the planet finally has a political voice! Invite friends to come listen, celebrate, and consider ways to strengthen our voices in the coming year.

• If you’d like help publicizing the party, just register your house party by clicking here.
• And if you want some ideas on how to organize a super house party, read this.

Join us for a discussion forum on

A Plant Based Diet

Save Your Life & The World

7 p.m. Wednesday, January 18, 2012

213 S. Wheaton Ave., Wheaton, IL

The US is faced with widespread rates of cancer, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, etc.  The world is also facing a looming global warming crisis.  Attend this presentation and learn how both of these major problems can be solved if we begin making healthier food choices.

Dr. Michelle Brannick, a Vermont licensed Naturopathic Physician and Illinois licensed Chiropractor, will speak about “Eating For Health”, followed by a presentation on why if the world switched to primarily a plant based diet we could reduce our carbon footprint enough to stop global warming in its tracks.

Free and open to the public

This event is sponsored by Social Justice in DuPage

Spread the word by widely distributing the flyer for this event.

Please also plan to attend the Just Views, showing of the documentary “Forks over Knives” which has the same theme as this discussion forum.  This documentary will be viewed at 7:20pm Friday, February 10, 2012 at the Unitarian Church (DUUC)  in Naperville IL at 4 S 535 Old Naperville Road.

1:30pm Monday, January 9, 2012

Room 1003

DuPage County Courthouse

505 N County Farm Rd

Wheaton, IL

Empty homes bring down home values and create the right conditions for crime and vandalism in our neighborhoods. Up to 90% of homeowners do not even appear in court to fight their foreclosure, but on behalf of those who do not – and more especially, as support for those that do – please consider attending this foreclosure hearing to observe how DuPage County Judge Robert Gibson is handling the foreclosure cases in his courtroom. My hope is that we can have several advocacy groups represented now, and in future hearings, to let the court know that all homeowners are being supported by our presence. Please also plan to attend the 7pm Wednesday, February 1, 2012 DuPage Coffeehouse Discussion, “The Foreclosure Crisis – What can we do?”, 213 S. Wheaton Ave., Wheaton, IL, to hear more about this issue from the Executive Director of the DuPage Homeownership Center, along with my personal story regarding the frustrations involved with my own foreclosure.

Regards, Toni Boughner