[Imc-newsroom] Townhall with Senator Barack Obama

[Danielle Chynoweth]

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Town Hall Meeting
Health Care & Other Social Justice Issues

Featuring IL. State Senator Barack Obama
Chair of the Senate Public Health & Human Services Committee 
Candidate for U.S. Senate in the March 24 primary

Saturday, April 26th @ 2:30pm
Illinois Disciplines Foundation
NE Corner of Wright & Springfield Ave. - Champaign

Hosts: U-C Progressives, Campaign for Better Health Care, 
Champaign County Board Chairman Patricia Avery, and
Champaign County Health Care Consumers

For More Information: 352-5600 or jduffett at cbhconline.org
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Senator Obama, the first African American editor of the Harvard Law Review 
and a Constitutional Law Professor at the University of Chicago, has been 
a champion for improved health care in the Illinois Senate.  He sponsored 
the Health Care Justice Act (universal health care proposal), which moves 
towards providing health care to every Illinoisan, and is holding a series 
of meetings throughout the state to discuss the effect of federal Medicaid 
changes on Illinois citizens. He is also sponsoring the Hospital Record 
Card Bill, which will give Illinoisans more information about hospitals 
before operations and surgical procedures.  Obama held previous health 
care town meetings on Chicago's South Side, Moline, Peoria, Collinsville, 
Palatine and Elgin.

Obama spent five years working as a community organizer in Harlem and 
Chicago.

He fought for fair and equitable welfare reform ensuring that it 
included adequate support for day care and transportation. 

Working with U.S. Senator Paul Simon in 1998, Senator Obama was one of 
four state legislators who crafted Illinois' toughest-ever campaign 
finance reform law.

Obama helped secure $30 million in the state budget for juvenile crime 
prevention. 

As a member of the Senate Revenue Committee, Senator Obama helped lead a 
successful fight to make the state¹s tax system more fair by reducing 
state income taxes on the middle class and working families. 

Prior to his election, Obama served as Illinois Executive Director of 
PROJECT VOTE!, an effort that added over 100,000 registered voters to the 
Illinois rolls for the 1992 election.

Obama received his BA in Political Science from Columbia University.  He 
is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as 
the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and was a 
member of the Executive Board of the Black Law Students Association. His 
commentaries have been heard on National Public Radio.  His book, Dreams