The Illinois Green Party is excited to announce that it will hold its statewide meeting in Champaign-Urbana July 17th-19th at the Amtrak Station in Champaign. At this meeting attendees will have the chance to participate in the recognizing of the Green Party statewide candidates in 2010, including candidates for Governor and U.S. Senate. In addition, a number of interesting workshops will be held on a variety of Green issues, values, and campaigning.
Registration is now open. For registration, meeting agenda, transportation, housing, etc go here: http://ilgp.org/groups/meetings/next-membership-meeting/
I encourage Champaign-Urbana residents to attend! There should be a number of issue workshops along with a campaign school for Green candidates.
Please join us for this HISTORIC event and help build the Green Party here in Illinois!
**Note if you are low-income or a student, you can pay what you can or you can mark yourself down as needing the fee waived
Here is the agenda for the meeting:
Friday, Crane Alley
6:30pm Green Party mixer
10pm End time
Saturday, Illinois Terminal
9am Registration
10am Welcome, Introductions, Agenda Approval
10:30am Nominations and Speeches
12:30pm Lunch (on your own)
2:00pm Voting for Candidate Recognition
3:30pm Press Conference
4pm Electoral Strategy Session
7pm Fundraising Dinner
10pm End Time
Workshops will also be held concurrently from 2:30pm through 6:30pm. A complete workshop schedule is available below.
Sunday, Eastland Suites
9am Breakfast
10am Plenary
11:30am Lunch (included)
1pm Workshops
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Workshops
Saturday Workshop Schedule
Issues
2:30pm - Gardening and Local Foods: Practices and Politics
3:30pm - The Coop Alternative
4:30 pm - Transition Towns
5:30pm - Green Health Care Solutions, with Rich Whitney
Campaign School
2:30pm - Putting Together a Campaign Team
3:30pm - Public Speaking and Debates
4:30pm - Fundraising for Fun and Progress
5:30pm - Beyond the Mainstream Media
Sunday Workshops
Party Building –
1pm Membership Recruitment/Retention
Campaign School/Issues
1pm - Petitioning the Charlie Howe Way
2pm - Safe Haven: Champaign's Tent City
3pm - Home Energy Efficiency Basics
The News-Gazette has a story about the meeting on their front page.
