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“COMMUNITY ORGANIZERS SPEAK OUT: AN ORGANIZER'S PERSPECTIVE ON THE 2008 ELECTION”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Center for Community Change and its regional partners to host forum at 10 a.m. Monday, October 6 to discuss the 2008 Election and the Campaign for Community Values.
Friday, Oct 03, 2008Contact: John V. Moore 708.205.2036, jvmoore@gestaltonline.com/ Maria Moreno 202.339.9316, mmoreno@communitychange.org
“Community Organizers Speak Out:
An Organizer's
Perspective on the 2008 Election”
Center for
Community Change and its regional partners to host forum at 10 a.m. Monday, October 6 to discuss the 2008
Election and the Campaign for Community Values.
Who: Kevin
Borden, Lead Organizer
Campaign for Community Values
Keith Caldwell, Executive Director
Urban Epicenter
Won Choi, Executive Director
Campaign for Community Values
Keith Caldwell, Executive Director
Urban Epicenter
Won Choi, Executive Director
Tying Tennessee
Together
Stephen Fotopulos, Executive Director
Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition
Terrie Spetalnick, Professor
Vanderbilt
University
What: Community
Organizers Speak Out: An Organizer’s Perspective on the 2008 Election
When: 10:00 a.m.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Where: Loews
Vanderbilt Hotel
2100 West End Ave.
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
2100 West End Ave.
Nashville, Tennessee 37203
Why: Want
to know what issues are in the forefront of a community’s concerns? Ask a
community organizer! Join the Center for
Community Change and its regional partners on Monday, October 6,
at 10:00
a.m. at the
Loews Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville for a discussion on the issues
organizers, community leaders and real people want to see addressed during the
upcoming Presidential debate.
The
briefing will be led by Kevin Borden, lead organizer for the Campaign for
Community Values. He will be joined by Keith Caldwell of the Urban Epicenter,
Won Choi of Tying Tennessee Together, Stephen Fotopulos of Tennessee Immigrant
& Refugee Rights Coalition and Terrie Spetalnick of Vanderbilt University.
The
Campaign for Community Values is a national coalition of over 300 grassroots
community organizations that are lifting up the voices of low-income
people and communities of color to move the national conversation towards
making America finally
work for everyone. The
initiative is led by the Center for Community Change, for more information
visit: www.communitychange.org/communityvalues.
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