MAKE EVERY VOTE COUNT
Public Events
(last update 11/29/00 - 3:20 p.m.)
NORTHEAST
| Location | Activity | Community Partners | Date | Time | Contact | Phone |
| AUGUSTA, ME | Press Conference at the Maine State House | Speakers to be announced, invited Reps. Baldacci and Allen, Dirigo Alliance, clergy, Maine Clean Clothes, League of Women Voters, churches invited Maine Council of Senior Citizens | Wednesday 12/6 | TBA | Ed Gorham, State Fed President AFL-CIO staff: Barbara Niccoli |
207.947.0006 207.622.3151 ext 139 |
| BOSTON, MA | Press Conference
outside Fanieul Hall
(Site of the signing of the Declaration of Independence) |
Event will use theme of voices that have not been
counted: student from Miami who voted absentee, a senior citizen, elected official etc. Will reach out to allies, league of women voters, immigrant who voted first time, rabbi. Congressman Joe Moakley also participating |
Friday
12/1 |
11:30
AM |
Bobby Haynes, State Fed President AFL-CIO staff: Sandy Felder |
617.227.8260 617.557.5488 |
| CONCORD, NH | Press Event at Legislative Office
Building (State House) |
Inviting former US Senator John Durkin (who won his
election with a revote), Dick Hesse, a constitutional law scholar from
Franklin Pierce Law School, and citizens groups such as PIRG Citizen's Alliance NH Association of the Elderly, Citizens Alliance, NAACP, NH Civil Liberties Union. * Governor also invited |
Friday
12/1 |
9:30
AM |
Mark McKenzie, State Fed
President Michael Power, NH Stated Fed AFL-CIO Staff: Jan Schaeffer |
603.224.4789 603.225.4822 EXT 12 |
| HARRISBURG, PA | Press Conference at State Capitol in rotunda | PA Council of Senior Citizens will participate. | Friday
12/1 |
11:00
AM |
Dave Wilderman,
PA AFL-CIO staff |
712.238.9351 |
| HARTFORD, CT | Press Conf. With Community Political Leaders at the Capitol | Secretary of State (primary
speaker)
Women's and Civil Rights Groups and Connecticut Congress of Senior citizens will also speak. |
Thursday
11/30 |
11:00 AM | John Olsen, State Fed President AFL-CIO staff: Shavonne Perpena |
860.571.6191 860.571.8467 |
| NEW YORK, NY | Press Conference at Steven Weiss
Synagogue |
Large event with religious leaders, Jesse Jackson, Senator Schumer, Congressman Rangel and other local politicians | Wednesday | Noon | President SEIU Local 1199 Dennis
Rivera Brian McLaughlin, NYC CLC President AFL-CIO Staff: Al Davidoff/Susan Borenstein |
212.261.2222 212.685.9552 800.800.5923 |
| PHILADELPHIA, PA | Press Conference at the Liberty Bell | Congressional Delegation invited; Pennsylvania Council of Senior Citizens will participate | Thursday
11/30 |
1:00
PM |
Joe Rauscher, Phil. CLC Pres. AFL-CIO staff: Paul Lemmon/Richard Womack Jr. |
215.665.9800 800.800.5923 |
| PITTSBURGH, PA | Tentative Press Conference | Jack Shea
Allegheny County CLC |
412.281.7450
412.848.4484(c) |
SOUTHERN REGION
| ATLANTA, GA | Press Conference at City Hall (tentative) | Speakers invited: mayor, local politicians, Reps. McKinney and Lewis, State Rep Brooks, Concerned Black Clergy, Interfaith Committee of Atlanta, other community groups | Friday
12/1 |
Noon | Richard Ray, State Fed Pres, Charlie Fleming, Atlanta CLC President AFL-CIO Staff: Jimmy Hyde |
678.640.5600 404.406.1293 770.330.1607 |
| AUSTIN, TX | Press Event at AFL-CIO Building in the auditorium | Democratic leadership, environmental community, clergy invited, State Senator Barrientos, State Rep. Glen Maxey, other State reps to be confirmed, AARP, Gray Panthers, AFSCME, IBEW, CWA, Sheetmetal local unions | Thursday
11/30 |
10:30
AM |
Emmet Sheppard, State Fed Sec-Treas AFL-CIO staff: Rebecca Harrington |
512.477.6195 512.477.1811 |
| CHARLOTTE, NC | Working with Conference of Black Legislators | Friday
12/1 |
TBA | James Andrews, State Fed Pres. AFL-CIO staff: Cathy Howell |
919.833.6678 919.833.7624 601.948.0517 |
|
| EL PASO, TX | Tentative press conference | Focus on Mexican community, will be pushing for Spanish media | Thursday
11/30 |
AM | Emmett Sheppard, Sec- Treas State
Fed AFL-CIO staff: Toni Hernandez-Serna |
210.872.2979 pager: 1-888-7243 #110895 |
| JACKSON, MS | State Capitol - rally around a resolution signed by community, religious and union groups | Mayor, State Treasurer, Governor (invited), political and community leaders | Thursday
11/30 |
9:30
AM |
Neal Fowler, State Fed President AFL-CIO Staff: Jim Evans |
601.948.0517 601.969.3959 |
| LITTLE ROCK. AR | Press Conference at Capitol Rotunda | NAACP, Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, ACORN, public policy panel | Thursday 11/30 | 3:00
PM |
President State Fed Alan Hughes AFL-CIO staff : Melba Collins |
501.663.0901 501.663.0901 |
| MIAMI, FL | Rally at the Government Plaza | NAACP, Pride@Work, Asian Community, labor organizations, religious community and civil rights groups, and Florida State Council of Senior Citizens | Friday
12/1 |
4:00-6:00
PM |
Larry Scanlon, AFSCME Political
Director AFSCME: Gloria Caolie, Jean Nolan, Paul Booth staying at Wyndham Airport Hotel AFL-CIO staff: Carlos Carrillo |
305.463.9437 |
| NASHVILLE, TN | Press Conference at Legislative Plaza | Citizen Action | Wednesday
12/6 |
10:00
AM |
AFL-CIO staff: Clarence Frost | 615.232.8371 |
| NEW ORLEANS, LA | Press Conference at the Federal Courthouse Bldg | Mayor Mark Morial, Rep. Bill Jefferson, Bishop Paul Morton, community and religious groups and politicians | AFL-CIO staff:
Lorenzo Scott |
678-644-0392 | ||
| RIO GRANDE, TX | Press Conference at Hidalgo County Court House | Chair of the Dem party, few other coalitions expected to participate. Focus will be on Latino community; pushing for Telemundo and Univision media | Thursday
11/30 |
Noon | United Farm Workers Juanita
Valdez-Cox UFW Pres Gene Hanson, CLC President AFL-CIO Staff: Rebecca Harrington |
956.787.2233 |
| TALLAHASSEE, FL | Press Conference at Leon County Courthouse | Sierra Club, NOW, Florida State Council of Senior Citizens, AFSCME, NAACP, UFW | Thursday
11/30 |
10:00
AM |
Marilyn Lenard, State Fed.
President AFL-CIO staff: Paul Vasquez |
850.224.6926 407.380.9993 |
| SAN ANTONIO, TX | Tentative Press Event at City Hall | City officials and community groups expected | Friday
12/1 |
TBA | AFL-CIO staff: Erasmo Mendieta |
512.771.2849 |
MIDWEST REGION
| Location | Activity | Community Partners | Date | Time | Contact | Phone |
| CHICAGO, IL | Press Conference at the Merchandise Mart Plaza, Room 400 | Mayor Daley invited, coalition of community leaders, Congress of Illinois Senior Citizens | Friday
12/1 |
11:00 AM | Margaret Blackshere, State Fed
Pres. |
312.251.1414 |
| CLEVELAND, OH | Press Conference at Board of Elections | Rep. Kucinich, religious leaders, NAACP | Thursday
11/30 |
11:00
AM |
Bill Burga
State Fed. Pres. John Ryan Cleveland CLC Pres. |
216.881.7200 216.881.7200 |
| DETROIT, MI | Mark Gaffney,
State Fed. Pres. |
517.487.5966 | ||||
| LANSING, MI | Press Conference at AFL-CIO Bldg. Conference room | A. Philip Randolph Institute, NALC, NAACP, Michigan State Council of Senior Citizens | Thursday
11/30 |
9:30
AM |
Denise Cook,
MI State Fed Danny Hoffman |
651-227-7647 517.487.5966 |
| MILWAUKEE, WI | Press Event Freedom bus including voter registration | Emphasis on civil rights and religious community participation | Tuesday
12/5 |
John Goldstein, Pres. Milwaukee CLC | 414.771.7070 | |
| WARREN, OH | Prayer Breakfast at the Park Hotel | Sherrod Brown (invited), community and religious leaders | Thursday
11/30 |
10:00
AM |
Nick Nichols | 330.392.8731 |
WESTERN REGION
| Location | Activity | Community Partners | Date | Time | Contact | Phone |
| LAS VEGAS, NV | Press Event | Danny Thompson, Sec Treas State Fed | 775-882-7490 | |||
| LOS ANGELES, CA | Community Breakfast | Local elected officials; immigrant rights groups, clergy, seniors, etc. | Friday
12/1 |
8:00 AM | Miguel Contreras, CLC Pres. | 213.381.5611 |