December
27 and 29
January
begins a new year for DAWN with monthly meetings once again!
Hope
to see you there. For your viewing pleasure, we have the recently released
Robert Greenwald produced video , ACLU Freedom Files, "Beyond the
Patriot Act", which we plan to screen at 6:30 pm. ( Please RSVP by
January 5th for the 7:30 voter training-in consideration
of our trainer we must have a minimum number to train/renew that
night. To RSVP- send name, address, and phone number. )
DAWN
Meeting January 11th
6:30-7:30 movie, discussion "Beyond the
Patriot Act"
7:30- 8:00 training/renewal Please RSVP by January 5th
8:00- 9:00 DAWN meeting
Renew
Credentials
Voter
Registrar Training
Wednesday,
January 11th, 7:30 pm
Glen
Ellyn Public Library
About Registering Voters...
Our DuPage
County trainer, Department Manager of Voter Registrars for DuPage
County, Charlene Basile, has volunteered to stop
by our Wednesday, January 11th DAWN meeting at the Glen Ellyn Library - 400
Duane St.- at 7:30 pm. The process of renewal or new training is quick ( about 30 minutes )
DAWN hopes that you will stop
by and take this opportunity to maintain or obtain your
credentials as deputy voter registrar. As you may know, the credentials
will allow you to register any qualified
You may bring a friend. (Just
forward the name, address, and phone number to DAWN - dawnvoter@msn.com -prior to the meeting. )
If you obtained your training
already, please email so that we can update our records. Questions? email DAWN. Need voter
registration supplies? We will have signs,
forms, and everything you may need. Hope to see you.
Happy New Year!
DAWN
AMY’S ADDRESS TO MR. HYDE My name is Amy Tauchman and I am the co-founder of Dupage Against War Now, a group based in Glen Ellyn that has proudly and correctly opposed the invasion and occupation of Iraq As of yesterday, December 12th, 2005, at 10:32 a.m. the cost of the occupation of Iraq - to Dupage County Mr. Hyde, I have three kids who need to get through college in the next five years. Will we, your constituents, still be doling out this kind of money for a failed policy as we were nearly seven years after Richard Nixon gave his "stay the course" speech, which, ironically, contained nearly identical rhetoric to the speech that Mr. Bush gave last week? Have we learned nothing in three decades? I would like to give you an idea of what we could have done with that money in your district. * With it, almost 62,000 kids could receive full time four-year scholarships at state universities. Those are my kids and the children and grandchildren of those who stand here today. Okay, my family will struggle to get our kids through but we'll probably be fine. Still, what other needs could have been met in District 6 with our share of the billion plus dollars you have committed DuPage county to pay? (Incidentally, our share of the cost soared 3000 more dollars while I wrote these first three paragraphs):
With the money you have wasted for your constituents: * We could have fully insured 764,000 children for a whole year. That's a real pro-life policy. * We could have built 11,500 new housing units for the inadequately housed in our district, many of whom are families who work full time -- although not for a living wage. And, because they are not insured, one even relatively minor trip to the emergency room or to the pharmacy can push them into homelessness. I work at PADS as many do. I have met these people and heard their stories. That's a real pro-life policy. * We could have hired 22,000 new public school teachers so that my kids could have a real class in place of the study hall they were forced into this year, and kids in less affluent areas could have a student-teacher ratio that assures connection and learning, so that they may become productive citizens rather than fodder for street wars and this war. That's a real pro-life policy. Mr. Hyde, we know your tenure is nearly done. You have no one to prove anything to in Washington Not cut and run. God knows the Iraq people and their country have been cut to bits already -- NOW we must offer a comprehensive strategy, not words, not documents, but a true commitment to sew up the wounds we have made in Iraq By 10:51 a.m. yesterday, December 12th, when I had finished the first draft of this speech, 13,000 more dollars and, more importantly, an untold number of lives had been wasted. You, Mr. Hyde can help us find our way to the door in a respectful way -- but it must be done now. We anxiously await your public presentation of a plan for us to do just that. Thank you.