[Peace] Jill Stein speaking at the IMC this evening, Saturday April 18, 2015

[Karen Medina]

Speaker: Jill Stein
Date: April 18, 2015
Time: 6pm (dinner needs to have been RSVPed. It is a fund-raiser)
Place: CU Independent Media Center / 202 S. Broadway, Urbana, IL 61801

Jill Stein to Speak at Membership Meeting Dinner!
The Illinois Green Party is pleased to announce that 2012 Green Party
presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein will be the keynote speaker at its
April 18th membership meeting dinner in Urbana. Both the meeting and the
dinner will be held at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, 202
S. Broadway, Urbana, IL 61801.

    Dr. Jill Stein was born in Chicago and raised in suburban Highland
Park, Illinois. She is a mother, physician, longtime teacher of internal
medicine, and pioneering environmental-health advocate. She was a principal
organizer for the Global Climate Convergence for People, Planet and Peace
over Profit. Besides serving as its most recent presidential candidate in
2012, she has been a tireless advocate and spokesperson for the Green
Party. She has helped lead initiatives promoting healthy communities, local
green economies and stronger democracy – including campaign finance reform,
green jobs, racially-just redistricting and on the front lines in Ferguson
Missouri demanding justice for Michael Brown, and the cleanup of
incinerators, coal plants, and toxic-pesticides. Stein recently formed an
exploratory committee for a possible 2016 presidential campaign. (See
announcement here: http://www.jill2016.com/announcement_pr)

The dinner, which begins at 6:00 p.m., is a fundraiser for the Illinois
Green Party. The cost is $30 a plate, $20 for low-income persons. There
will be a cash bar plus musical entertainment by Jake Schumacher’s Irish
Music Quartet. We will have a silent auction -- please bring items to
donate to help raise funds for the Illinois Green Party!

    If you plan on attending either the meeting or the dinner, please RSVP
Rita Maniotis, at ritamaniotis at yahoo dot com
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