Candidate Fund Raisers This Weekend

There are several opportunities to come out and support and party with some Green Party candidates in the midwest this weekend:

  • Brenda Konkel, Madison Wisconsin Common Council:
    Don’t forget to stop by the Brink Lounge (701 E. Washington Ave) tonight (Friday 3/20) from 5-7pm! Curt Brink is hosting a fundraiser for Brenda so come by to have a drink, pizza and snacks. AND, most fun of all, we’ll be taping short video endorsements by YOU, Brenda’s friends & supporters!
  • Matt Reichel, Illinois 5th CD House of Representatives (Chicago): The next opportunity to meet with other progressives and support Matt for Congress is on Sunday, March 22, at 2 P.M.  Conrad Weisert has been kind enough to host a coffee fundraiser at on 4620 N. Austin Avenue, Chicago, 60630.  It is located on the corner of Austin & Eastwood across from St. Robert Bellarmine Church.  Come down to Conrad’s on March 22nd to meet with Matt and his staff, discuss politics with fellow progressives, and lend your support to the only progressive candidate currently running for office on a federal level!
  • Pete Karas, running for Mayor of Racine, Wisconsin: Party With Pete! Saturday March 21, 5 – 7:30 p.m. at Park Six in Racine (Corner of Park and 6th). Live music by special guest, Jim Schwall, (guitar and mandolin) co-leader of the Siegel-Schwall Band, “one of the best acts in America”, – Billboard Magazine.  Great food, cash bar, and the Wisconsin Green Party is in town so come hang with the Greens!

Also there is a House Party at Pete Karas’ place tonight, 821 Blaine Ave, Racine.  I’ll be there (a little late), other Wisconsin Greens will be there, Pete will be there, George Martin might be there, and you should be there!  The Friday night house party is a tradition before the Saturday Spring Membership Meeting (Wisconsin Green Party).

If Local Economies is your cup of tea, the afternoon session of the Wisconsin Green Party Spring Gathering on Saturday will include a Local Economies Forum with John Peck (Family Farm Defenders) speaking on “Relocalizing a Community’s Economy-from land trusts and local currencies for farmer markets and worker collectives”, as well as Green Elected Greg David on The Natural Step to Green Economies and Michael Slattery on local level energy planning, and Amy Mondloch of the Grassroots Leadership College will lead a discussion with the public in attendance.

The Wisconsin Green Party Spring Gathering and Membership Meeting will be at Blueberries Restaurant (522 6th St, Racine) beginning at 8:30 a.m., Local Economies Forum begins at 1 p.m., followed the Party with Pete next door.

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  1. KingofthePaupers says:
    March 20, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    “local currencies for farmer markets and worker collectives”

    Jct: Best of all, all local currencies are pegged to the Time Standard of Money (how many dollars/hour child labor) and Hours earned locally can be intertraded with other timebanks globally!
    In 1999, I paid for 39/40 nights in Europe with an IOU for a night back in Canada worth 5 Hours.
    U.N. Millennium Declaration UNILETS Resolution C6 to governments is for a time-based currency to restructure the global financial architecture.
    See my banking systems engineering analysis at http://youtube.com/kingofthepaupers with an index of articles at http://johnturmel.com/kotp.htm

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