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Thank you so much to everyone who celebrated with us at the Annual Holiday Party on Friday. Catch some shots of the happy attendees below. We are also pleased to see that Doug Jones will be replacing Jeff Session in the Senate...What an amazing holiday treat for the whole country. If you want to do that here in DuPage please read on!
A short speech with a distinct plan for our future as a people and as a local party, entitled, 3 Point Process to Defeat the Dark Side and Save Democracy was presented by Executive Director, Amy Rohrer. Here is the closing quotation of that talk from Howard Zinn. If you click the title link above, you can get a pdf copy of the plan she presented on Friday. Read it and jump on board! WE CAN DO THIS.
Howard Zinn from his Book A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
"Revolutionary change does not come as one cataclysmic moment (beware of such moments!) but as an endless succession of surprises, moving zigzag toward a more decent society. We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power that can transform the world.
Even when we don't "win", there is fun and fulfillment in the fact that we have been involved, with other good people, in something worthwhile. We need hope. An optimist isn't necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not being foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of competition and cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places - and there are so many - where people have behaved magnificently, it energizes us to act, and raises, at least, the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory."
If you believe this statement from Howard Zinn and are excited about last night's win in Alabama, please click on the 3 Point Process PDF above!
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An outstanding party created by an amazing team. Many thanks to the Holiday Party Team made up of members of Joanne Tyree, Paul Adams, Helene Lamarre, Carol Redell, Carol Anthony and Amanda Recupido (PR)
Joanne Tyree and her Events Team did an amazing job putting the Holiday Party together*
Holiday Greetings from our Executive Director, Amy Rohrer and our Program Director, Dawnn Basaraba*
$1245 Dollars in cash and gift cards and a huge number of gifts were gathered for DuPage PADS and Family Shelter Service! THANK YOU!*
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Three members of our great Events Team_ Helene Lamarre, Paul Adams and Carol Redell. Thanks also to Carol Anthony and Amanda Recupido, not pictured* |
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Patrick Watson, candidate for State Central Committeeman for District 6 and his mother, Patricia* |
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L to R Ben McAdams, DPDC Field coordinator, Liz Chaplin, sole Democrat on DuPage County Board District 2, Paul Piekarski, BLE union Member and PC, Dan Bailey, Campaign Strategy coordinator* |
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Chairman Peickert introduces many of the nearly four dozen candidates running in DuPage primaries* |
Lisle Township in full force at the Holiday Party. Lisle increased their recruitment by 147% and other townships brought in a record number of Precinct Committeeman.
Jesse Ruiz, candidate for Attorney General and a bevy of DuPage movers and shakers L to R Kirsten Powers, Ruiz, Carrie Brasser, Grace Clear, Dawnn Basaraba, in back-Judy Dziugas and Chris Fraser Patterson
Former Gov and now AG candidate, Pat Quinn with our Tech and office Team L to R Susan Kasprowicz, Laura Font, Pat, Cathy Clarkin (Tech leader) and Program Director, Dawnn Basaraba
* Professional photos by Tina Tyson-Dunne of www.atdunnephotography.com
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