[Peace] Rolling Thunder: Democracy Festival in Chicago June 15

[Peter Miller]

Patch Adams, UNITE, the Ruckus Society, Jim Hightower--sounds like a great 
event to me!

I'll probably head up after my program.  Does anybody want a ride?

-Peter

>Chicago, Illinois - June 15, 2002
>The event will take place at Union Park at Randolph and Ashland
>
>more info at web site http://www.rollingthundertour.org/events/chicago.cfm
>
>Yo unionizers and wage earners, hipsters and farmers, activists and artists,
>stargazers and soccer moms, high-schoolers and life scholars, welders and
>body-builders, and all the rest of you. mark your calendars now for a
>festival of democracy coming to Chicago June 15th that you won't wanna miss.
>
>The Chicago Rolling Thunder Festival featuring heroes of word, deed and
>music such as Erykah Badu, Jesse Jackson Jr., Jim Hightower, Patch Adams,
>spoken word performance impresarios Kuumba Lynx, the soon-to-be-famous Union
>of Needle Trades, Industrial & Textile Employees (UNITE) gospel choir and
>many many others, is coming to Chicago to raise the rafters and some hell
>and we think you should join us.
>
>The day-long festival will not only showcase the considerable talents noted
>above, but will have hard-hitting workshops on issues ranging from
>genetically modified food to youth decriminalization along with hands-on
>trainings about how to mobilize a grassroots campaign, how to access and use
>the media and many other power-building activities.
>
>There'll be free organic pepper jack grilled cheese sandwiches from the
>Organic Valley Magic Farm Friends bus, carnival games like Dunk-A-Lobbyist,
>free Ben and Jerry's ice cream, the Mother Jones Magazine Hellraiser's Tent
>for writing to elected officials and corporate schmucks, a vision quest by
>Patch Adams, a solar-powered sound stage supplied by Greenpeace, and more.
>
>This is no froo froo festival, we're serious about our fun and we're serious
>about making a difference in the world.
>
>SOO, get your behinds to Union Park, Saturday June 15th and be ready to
>agitate your booty and your mind.
>
>See you on the 15th!!
>
>Do you want to be a volunteer?
>We're serious about needing your help to make this event a success - we need
>all y'all to volunteer some time to help create and post flyers, call media
>contacts, alert your lists, phone bank, do graphic design, submit a proposal
>to do a workshop, sell tickets, etc. (check the volunteer listing of
>subcommittees for more details on ways in which you can lend a hand!)
>
>If you'd like to volunteer or want to help from out of town, please contact
>Lily Jimenez, 312-738-6143, education16 at juno.com
>
>For more information
>Contact:
>Darci Andresen
>312-738-6123
>darci at rollingthundertour.org
>
>A few of the Organizers:
>United Food and Commercial Workers
>Communications Workers of America
>Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO
>Farm Labor Organizing Committee
>Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
>National Coalition for the Homeless
>Ruckus Society
>Alliance for Democracy
>Center for Voting and Democracy