Next week starting on September 29th the Taylor for 59A campaign will be holding a series of community forums to help open the door to finding creative solutions to some of our real problems.
I hope you can attend, Tom Taylor Green Party Endorsed Candidate for MN House Seat 59A 612-788-4252 www.VoteTomTaylor.org "Raise less corn and more hell." Mary Elizabeth Lease There will be a series of upcoming community forums on universal healthcare, the value and challenges of small businesses in our community, corporate domination and electoral reform. Tom Taylor’s campaign for State Representative will be holding these forums to investigate the some of the underlying causes of challenges within our society. These innovative forums will continue once Tom is elected to allow us to find creative solutions and common ground on pressing issues that we face every day. These community forums will be held at the California Street Gallery located at 2205 California Street in Northeast Minneapolis. All forums start at 7:00 PM, are free and open to the public. For more information please call The Taylor for 59A campaign at 612-788-4252 or www.votetomtaylor.org. Healing Our Broken Healthcare System Wednesday, September 29th ~ 7:PM Why does ever other industrialized country offer health care for its citizens yet here in the U.S. we pay twice as much as any other country? On September 29th, Kip Sullivan, Minnesota's leading expert on health care reform - by way of the single payer model - will talk about what Minnesota can do to insure all of its citizens. Kip Sullivan was an organizer and researcher for Minnesota COACT (Citizens Organized Acting Together) between 1980 and 2000. From 1986 until 2000 Kip's work focused on COACT's campaign for universal health insurance. Since 2000, Kip has continued to work for universal health insurance as a member of the steering committee of the Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition, a coalition currently consisting of 13 organizations. He has written approximately 100 articles on health policy, published in national newspapers and magazines such as the Los Angeles Times, The Nation, the New England Journal of Medicine, the New York Times, the Washington Monthly, and Z Magazine. The Role of Small Business in the economy and Community Thursday. September 30th ~ 7:PM On Thursday, September 30th John Kolstad will discuss the role small businesses play in our economy, the challenges they face and what can be done to strengthen this valuable, job creating resource. John is the president of Mill City Music and served on the Minneapolis Micro Loan Committee. He has presented to the Minneapolis City Council, the MCDA, business organizations and community and civic groups. John has learned the role small businesses play in the community and economy, both from first hand experience and extensive research. In addition to running his business, John serves as chairperson of the Minnesota Universal Health Care Coalition’ s steering committee, representing the interests of small business owners in the healthcare debate. Who’s In Control? People or Corporations? Monday, October 4th ~ 7:PM On October 4th Betsy Barnum will lead us in a discussion on the unfettered power that corporations hold in our society and what can be done about it. Betsy Barnum serves on the steering committees for the Alliance for Democracy in Minnesota and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, both working to end corporate domination. She has attended trainings by the Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy, and has conducted more than a dozen workshops and presentations on corporate personhood at conferences and events. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Great River Earth Institute, a nonprofit doing values-based environmental education for adults, and is coauthoring a book on how to end corporate control of our country and world, due out next spring. Betsy is the state chair of the Green Party of Minnesota. Making Every Vote Count - Electoral Reform for Today’s Democracy Tuesday, October 5th ~ 7:PM Tonight, October 5th, Cam Gordon will present a talk about much needed electoral reform including the need for public financing and opening up our democratic process through Instant Run off Voting and Proportional Representation. Cam has worked for campaign and election reform for over 15 years. In the early 1990s he helped form the Citizen's Reform Network and worked to develop and pass Minnesota's historic campaign finance reform legislation. As a board member of Common Cause Minnesota he worked to educate members on alternative voting methods and maintain strong campaign finance and disclosure laws. He also helped form FairVote Minnesota, a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating people about election reforms. In 1998 Cam founded the Minneapolis Election Reform Coalition, dedicated to supporting election reform in Minneapolis, and in 1999 he led an unsuccessful effort to amend the Minneapolis City Charter to include Instant Run off Voting and Proportional Representation. More recently, he was part of the Mayors Ethics Task Force which redrafted the City's Ethics Code and established an independent Ethical Practices Board for Minneapolis. In addition to his ongoing political activism, Cam currently runs a small business in Minneapolis, edits a nationally distributed education newspaper and serves as a Neighborhood Representative on the Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program Policy Board. REMINDERS: 1. 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