Our purpose is to create a broad-based organization whose goal is to build relational power for collective actions in the name of justice and the common good. We are an organization of other organizations, weaving together the city and its suburbs. We are inclusive, embracing the full diversity of metropolitan Chicago. As part of civil society, we are non-partisan: moderates, conservatives, liberals and radicals committed to acting on our social values and working for a just society by standing for the whole. We are generational: originating, not just reacting, and sustaining as a legacy for the future our dedication to fostering public life.
(Adopted October 1997, Founding Assembly- United Power for Action and Justice)
IMPORTANT- Collective Leadership Meeting May 6th Canceled
No Collective Leadership Meeting May 6th. In its place we will be have an assembly with state legislators to pass Young Adult Health Care legislation. Join us May 5th at 7pm sharp at Chicago Sinai Congregation 15 W. Delaware (between State & Dearborn) for this important assembly.
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Join us in June for Collective Leadership!
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United Power in Chicago Tribune
An issue we can't afford to lose sight of
Mary Schmich
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-schmich_bd20apr20,1,20...
April 20, 2008
You may have missed some of the most interesting news in Chicago last week.
It wasn't as exciting as the cougar shot to death in an alley, or the earthquake that shook us out of bed, but in its way, it was as startling:
On Thursday, for the first time in more than a decade, the Chicago Housing Authority opened its waiting list for federally subsidized rental vouchers. By the end of the day, with a month left to apply, people had picked up more than 256,000 application forms.
More than a quarter-million. In a day.
To be clear—these aren't housing applications. The hope is more remote. Applicants are tossed into a lottery to win one of 40,000 places on the waiting list.
A lot of those quarter-million forms, of course, could wind up in the trash. Some people may have picked up one for all their neighbors, aunts and cousins. Even so, the run on these Section 8 voucher applications is a signal of a problem more important in Chicago than earthquakes.
By happenstance, just the day before, four people had come to the Tribune to talk to me about affordable housing. One was Nick Brunick, a real estate attorney who lives in Oak Park and wants his kids to grow up in a city filled with people of all kinds.
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Constitutional Convention For Illinois Website
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Training through United Power
Regional Training Chicago- Friday- Saturday March 7-8
Seabury- Wester Seminary 2122 Sheridan Rd. Evanston IL
Regional Training New Jersey- May 19th- May 23rd
Drew University Theological School- Madison, NJ
Regional Training Baltimore/ Washington DC Area- March 30- April 5th
Location to be Determined
National Training Mundelein, IL July 15th-22nd
St. Mary of the Lake
Contact your local organizer for more information and to sign up.
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Collective Leadership Meeting Dates
FYI
Collective Leadership- Tuesday Nights, 7pm.
St. Francis Church Roosevelt and Halsted
2008- May 6, June 3, July 1, September 9 October 7, November 4, December 2
United Power Retreat August 9th- Details Forthcoming
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