Move to Amend is a nationwide grassroots effort that already has over a hundred locals. Check out this fast growing map of Move to Amend locals, events, and resolution and ballot referendum efforts! We are the DuPage Coffeehouse Move to Amend (Wheaton, IL) local.
Add yourself to our DuPage Coffeehouse Move to Amend contact list, if you want to be notified regarding local upcoming petitioning events to get the Move to Amend referendum on the ballot, attempts to get the Move to Amend resolution passed at local city councils, other Move to Amend events to raise public awareness, planning meetings, etc.
Upcoming DuPage Coffeehouse Move to Amend Petitioning Sessions and Monthly Meeting
- 5/20/12, Sun., 3pm-8pm, 3 S 501 Landon Dr, Warrenville: Party on the Farm – The event organizers have agreed to provide table space for the Move to Amend petition and Kathy Franke will be there to answer questions. No need for other petitioners to be at this event.
- 5/27/12, Sun., 12:30pm-3pm, Atlanta Bread Company, 28251 Diehl Road, Warrenville: Petition a Warrenville Neighborhood Every Sunday
- 6/5/12, Tues., 6:30pm – 8:00pm, Naperville City Council meeting, 400 S. Eagle Street, Naperville: Join Occupy Naperville and DuPage Coffeehouse Move to Amend at the Naperville City Council meeting when we will fill the meeting room to urge the city council to raise a motion to add an agenda item to the June 19th meeting to vote regarding the Move to Amend resolution. WEAR BLACK TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT! We are wearing black to show our solidarity and to mourn the death of our democracy due to the Jan. 2010 Citizens United v. FEC US Supreme Court decision, www.dupagecoffeehouse.org/move-to-amend/naperville-city-council-move-to-amend-resolution-request. If you would like to speak, contact Keith Klingeman, kbklingeman@yahoo.com, 773-259-1511 or Virginia Wisdom, virginia.wisdom@gmail.com.
- 6/13/12, Wed., 7pm-8pm, 213 S. Wheaton Ave., Wheaton: DuPage Coffeehouse Move to Amend Monthly Meeting
- 6/19/12, Tues., 6:30pm – 8:00pm, Naperville City Council meeting, 400 S. Eagle Street, Naperville: Join Occupy Naperville and DuPage Coffeehouse Move to Amend at the Naperville City Council meeting when we will fill the meeting room to urge the city council to VOTE YES on the Move to Amend resolution. WEAR BLACK TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORT! We are wearing black to show our solidarity and to mourn the death of our democracy due to the Jan. 2010 Citizens United v. FEC US Supreme Court decision, www.dupagecoffeehouse.org/move-to-amend/naperville-city-council-move-to-amend-resolution-request. If you would like to speak, contact Keith Klingeman, kbklingeman@yahoo.com, 773-259-1511 or Virginia Wisdom, virginia.wisdom@gmail.com.
- 6/20/12, Wed., 3pm – 7pm, Courtyard Banquets parking lot, 3s200 route 59, Warrenville: Farmers Market every Wednesday
- 7/4/12, Wed., Time TBA: Parade and family events at Cerny Park, 28w351 Forest View Ave, Warrenville
- 8/3/12-8/4/12, Fri.-Sat., Batavia Road and Butterfield Roads just east of Rt. 59 in Warrenville: Summer Daze
Contact person for all Warrenville events: Kathy Franke, frankes9@att.net, 630-877-5007
Event Details
Join us 12:30pm Every Sunday as We Walk a Warrenville Neighborhood
to circulate a petition to have an advisory public question placed on the Nov. 6, 2012 ballot that will ask Warrenville voters if they support an amendment to the US Constitution to get corporate money out of OUR elections!
Next petitioning session
12:30pm-3pm, Sunday, May 27, 2012
We always start at 12:30pm at
Atlanta Bread Company, 28251 Diehl Road, Warrenville, IL
Lead Petitioner for this event: Kathy Franke, frankes9@att.net, 630-877-5007
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DuPage Coffeehouse Move to Amend Monthly Meeting
7pm – 8pm, Wednesday, June 13, 2012
213 S. Wheaton Ave., Wheaton, IL
We will discuss our petitioning drive and the next steps regarding urging the Naperville City Council to pass the Move to Amend resolution.
We will have a notary public, so bring your full petition sheets to be notarized. All notarized petition sheets can be submitted to Kathy Franke at this meeting, the Warrenville petitioning coordinator.
Contact: Steve Alesch, steve.alesch@gmail.com, 630-779-8295
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I have been flirting with the idea of getting involved in this movement for a while now. The gradiose of all that is wrong in the US is all encompassing so it’s hard to know where to start-especially when one considers that the bain of all left leaning movements is a lack of simplicity to rally around. I belileve this movement has great potential and it’s message truly addresses the core of it all-End Corporate Personhood. That said, Occupy Wall Street strikes me as the perfect venue to start the process of taking this movement (or at least the simple idea) national. Do you folks have a presence at OWS or any of its affiliates? If not, you might want to jump on that and I’d like to get involved if I can. I’ve never joined a political group before (despite being well informed in domestic and international affairs) so let me know what someone who’s new to all of this does next to get involved. Thanks.
Conor
Conor,
I share your frustration, but in my opinion, don’t demoralize, organize. MTA national is working with OWS. Regarding getting involved, you can join us tonight, Thursday at 7pm, for our next DuPage Coffeehouse Move to Amend meeting. Also, Monday, 10/17/11, at 7pm, we will be meeting to plan Occupy Naperville on 10/22/11. Both meetings are at the 213 Building, 213 S. Wheaton Ave., Wheaton, IL.