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Seminarian's for Change Host Coat Drive in Hyde Park as Pre-Inaugural Service Project

Chicago Cares Serve-A-Thon, June 13!

By Seminarians for Change - May 6th, 2009 at 1:55 pm EDT

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President Obama has called on all of us to help support our local communities through service and here's an opportunity for you to get together with some of your former Obama Campaign HQ call/correspondence center colleagues and help our city.

Organizing for America is inviting you to join in service at the 16th Annual Chicago Cares Serve-a-thon on Saturday, June 13. We are among the 8,000 volunteers who have committed to making Chicago a better place by painting, planting, building and beautifying schools across the city.

Together, Serve-a-thon volunteers will help 30,000 Chicago students succeed by transforming their schools into vibrant places to learn and grow. Volunteering is always more fun when we do it together, and as Team Captains, we are trying to recruit as many former campaign colleagues as we can to assist in this effort.

Please join one of our teams today and volunteer to make Chicago a better place!

The registration deadline is Monday, June 8 (or whenever the event reaches capacity) so visit www.chicagocares.org to register today. Be sure to select "Join a Team" and search for one of our teams when you do so:

Organizing for America1 (Team Captain, Kathy Gallo)

Organizing for America2 (Team Captain, Susan Gottlieb)

Organizing for America3 (Team Captain, Janet Taylor)

Organizing for America4 (Team Captain, Caryl Steinberg)

Here is some additional information:

There is a $30 fee per participant.

Participants must be 12 years old on June 13, 2009, and until age 17 they must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

If you have any questions, please contact one of us or visit www.chicagocares.org.

We hope to see you on June 13. Read More »

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Rally for Real Health Care Reform: Saturday April 18 (10 a.m. to 1 p.m.)

By Seminarians for Change - Apr 2nd, 2009 at 11:31 am EDT

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Join Seminarians for Change as we support Citizen Action of Illinois at a Rally for Real Health Care Reform!

http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gptw2s

RALLY FOR REAL HEALTH CARE REFORM
Saturday, April 18, 2009
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
St. Augustine College
1345 W. Argyle Street
Chicago, IL 60640

(Just Northeast of Clark Street and Lawrence Avenue/Argyle Redline Stop)

http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gptw2s

Representative Schakowsky will be there to help us in our rally call for quality and affordable health care!

You Should Attend This Health Care Rally If You Want:

Comprehensive Benefits
Choice of private or public health insurance plan
Affordable Coverage
Equal Access to Quality Care

If 55 people or more sign up and commit to attending the rally, we will sponsor a bus from Hyde Park to St. Augustine. So please help us get the word out and let's rally together for health care reform! Let's fill the bus!

To sign up for the event, visit:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gptw2s

To learn more about Citizen Action of Illinois visit: www.hcanil.org

To learn more about partnering with Sems4Change to host a community outreach, email wmiddleton@ctschicago.edu

See you at the rally!
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gptw2s

Waltrina N. Middleton
Seminarians for Change
Chicago, IL Read More »

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Let's Go To Work: Local Plan of Action for Stimulus Package

By Seminarians for Change - Mar 11th, 2009 at 11:49 am EDT

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It's time for us to go to work!

Your leadership team has worked hard to think through the concerns of those who attended our first gathering in November. The majority said they want action and not just another town hall meeting. We heard you and we invite you to join us at two upcoming plan of action forums.

Saturday, March 28 and Saturday, April 25.

March 28: Local Plan of Action for Stimulus Package, 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

April 25: Local Plan of Action on Health Care, Time TBA. Updates on this event forthcoming.

We have invited expert panelists who will inform us on these issues and how we are impacted on a local level. The panelists will invite questions from the group and we will go into break out sessions to develop a plan of action on the topics of health care, energy, environment, and employment.

The action plans developed will be implemented with the support of the group. We need your passion, creativity, wisdom, and your experience to carry out the work at hand.

Seminarians for Change will also be actively involved with Organizing for America, inviting other organizations around Chicago and Illinois to help us, partner with us as we do the same for them.

The bottom line is, this is your organization and your community.

We're ready to go to work and we need you! Read More »

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The New York Post Must Be Held Accountable

By Seminarians for Change - Feb 21st, 2009 at 8:33 am EST

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SEMINARIANS FOR CHANGE
An Open Letter to the New York Post

As an African American and as a citizen of the United States of America, I am deeply appalled by the New York Post's choice to run a political cartoon that irritates the racial tension that continues to thrive in this country. We are at a crossroad in time where we must face the reality of racism. Organizations such as yours should be facilitators and nurturers of the discussion to aid in the healing and remaking of America.

Instead, you have chosen to use that power to stoke the fire of hate, ignorance, and division. There must be accountability for the printing of this image that further threatens to oppress and marginalize a race of people. I stand by the members of my organization, Seminarians for Change, and call for the dismissal of the cartoonist and editor who gave approval for this demeaning and racist image to be published.

We, Seminarians for Change, further call for an apology by the New York Post to the American people who are deeply offended by its poor editorial choices and its vicious display of racism in publishing the cartoon depicting an assassinated chimpanzee, reminiscent of the era of lynching, cross burning, and hate crime directed towards African Americans, people of color, and those who believe in justice and equality. Only forty years ago, this country mourned the loss of brave men and women who stood up for peace, equality, unity, and justice, and were martyred for it. Your choice to publish this cartoon undermines the great sacrifice these men and women have made and sorely reminds us that racism is alive and well in America.

As concerned citizens, we hold you responsible and will encourage others in your readership to do the same. Your actions as a Newspaper must not be tolerated and your readership and citizens of this country must not be ignored as we express our outrage and call for action, acknowledgement, and accountability without delay.

In the Spirit of Human Dignity,
Minister Waltrina N. Middleton, Founder
Seminarians for Change

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Seminarians for Change Coat Drive

By Seminarians for Change - Dec 23rd, 2008 at 4:13 am EST

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The Seminarians for Change Coat Drive was a great success. We had more than three dozen coats donated, clothes, books, suit jackets, slacks, and other items to support our efforts.

The items are being donated to the Howard Brown's Brown Elephant organization. The organization will pick up the donation this week. So it's not too late to drop off coats. If you still have a donation, please email wmiddleton@ctschicago.edu by Tuesday, December 23 to arrange drop off.

The coat drive was inspired by President-Elect Barack Obama and his family and the administration's call for community service outreach prior to the January inaugural events. But it was also in response to our dedication to making a difference for people in Chicago who need clothes, food and shelter, employment and access to healthcare.

This is only the beginning and one example of how we can come together, organize, and be the change we hope to see. Let us congratulate and thank co-organizers:

Deadre Domer and Andrea McClure and their families for envisioning and organizing the coat drive. Also, Walter Ries and Joan Harrell for supporting the planning, promotional, and volunteer efforts.

The next Seminarians for Change Plan of Action meeting will take place in February. We will map out our plan of action for 2009 based on the 6 sub-committees we formed (Health Care; Education; Economy; Criminal/Social Justice; Ethics; & Environment/Agriculture/Poverty) and work along side the administration in support of its vision for change.

There is a lot of work at hand, but we are faithful, committed, and ready! Continue to let Sems4Change know about your on-going community outreach so we can support your efforts. In February, we would like to hear your success stories, your inaugural stories, and more!

May God bless you this Holiday Season...a season of hope, faith, and change!

Truly,

Waltrina N. Middleton
Seminarians for Change
wmiddleton@ctschicago.edu

"We are tied together in the single garment of destiny, caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly...I can never be what I ought to be unless you are what you ought to be." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Read More »

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