[Peace] Fwd: CFA Candidate Forum: 10/14/08 7:30PM Levis Faculty Ctr.

[Alfred Kagan]

FYI, all are welcome.  CFA is the Campus Faculty Association.

Al Kagan


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> From: cfa at prairienet.org
> Date: September 30, 2008 2:51:49 PM CDT
> To: upe_membership at lists.prairienet.org
> Subject: [Upe_membership] Questions for CFA Candidate Forum: 10/14/08 
> 7:30PM Levis Faculty Ctr.
> Reply-To: cfa at prairienet.org
>
> Dear CFA Members,
>
>       Perhaps especially after this protracted election season, many 
> of us
> are distressed to find that with only a month to go, we still
> haven’t adequately focused on local races.  So the Campus Faculty
> Association will hold a campaign forum at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday,
> October 14 on the second floor of the Levis Faculty Center (919 W.
> Illinois) with the candidates for the 15th U.S. Congressional
> District (Republican incumbent Tim Johnson, whose attendance is
> contingent on how long it takes the bail-out fiasco to be resolved, and
> Democratic challenger Steve Cox) and the 103d Illinois State
> Representative District (Democratic incumbent Naomi Jakobsson and
> Republican challenger Frank Calabrese).  We’d certainly like to urge 
> all
> CFA and other campus union members to attend (with family,
> friends, and anyone else you’d like to bring), but we’re sending
> this email to lay the groundwork for the debate.
>       We’ve learned how dire the consequences can be when our voices
> aren’t heard in Springfield and in Washington, D.C.  So could you 
> provide
> guidance on what issues that you as a member of the university 
> community
> would most like candidates to confront at our campaign forum (ranging, 
> we
> anticipate, from the “ethics guidelines” for political activities by
> university employees to education funding, tax reform, financial 
> bailouts,
> affirmative action, worker rights, universal health insurance, the Iraq
> War, global warming, and beyond)? We can then try to be sure that the
> issues of most exigent importance to our members are raised at the 
> forum.
>       Thanks.  We'd appreciate hearing from you within the next week, 
> and
> hope to see you October 14.
>
>                          Mark Leff
>                          for CFA Executive Board
>
>
>
>
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801

tel. 217-333-6519
fax 217-333-2214
akagan at illinois.edu
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