[Peace-discuss] Petitioning for Carl

[Alfred Weiss]

Hello everyone,

    As you may have heard, some members of the Democratic party have
announced that they are going to try to challenge Carl's petitions 
"to death" in order
to insure that Carl is not allowed on the ballot in November. No 3rd
party on Independent candidate has run for congress from this area since
1914, and apparently the Democrats want to keep it that way. In order to
get Carl on the ballot, we need to collect 5000 valid signatures,
which means we should turn in at least 7000 raw signatures (or better
yet 8000) to be sure that we make it. On the bright side, we can
definitely do this - we just need to keep on petitioning every chance we
get. We are currently on track to get over 7000, and just a little more
effort will get us over 8000. Please forward this list of petitioning
events to anyone you think will be interested. Of course, you can always
download petitions on your own from www.carlforcongress.com.

As as always, please let me know how many signatures you have
outstanding. Also, please drop John Paul Schmit (jpschmit at life.uiuc.edu)
or Al Weiss (awweiss at uiuc.edu) an email if you are planning to make any of
these events.

Thanks for all of your hard work -

John Paul

Coming up this weekend:

Friday:

7am-1pm Farmer's market in Rantoul (100 block of S. Garrard)

6:00 pm - Bar Crawl in Charleston, Coles County Meet at IMC (218 W.
	Main, Urbana) to drive/ride down

6:30 pm Big Band Concert in Hessel Park (volunteers needed)

Saturday :

8:30-11:00 am Petitioning blitz! We had 8 volunteers last week and got
	over 300 signatures - We will hit the Urbana Farmer's Market,
	the IGA on Philo, Strawberry Fields and World Harvest Market.
	Meet at 8:30 at the Farmer's market in the east parking lot of
	Lincoln Square Mall

1pm: Meet at the IMC (218 W. Main) to petition in Bloomington Normal for
	Carl and  Green Party county board members

5pm: WILL-AM Concert in Allerton Park near Monticello (Jazz and
	Classical) Should be a good crowd from throughout the region
	Volunteers needed, raindate is Sunday at 2 pm.

8:00 pm Bar Crawl in Urbana - meet at the IMC (218 W. Main, Urbana)

Sunday

1 pm Meet at IMC (218 W. Main, Urbana) to petition in Bloominton-Normal

6:30 pm - Free concert in Hessel Park - volunteers needed