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The Chicago Libertarian Party starts its business meetings at 7pm. The business typically takes about an hour to get through, after which we stay around for a couple of hours socializing.
Feel free to show up any time after 6:00. The business portion of the meeting is open for everyone to attend. Now is a great time to get involved, as we work begin the groundwork for local elections in 2010.
The Lincoln Restaurant is near the intersection of Lincoln, Irving Park and Damen. There is parking, and I believe that the Irving Park brown line station is open again.
In addition to my prior comment, consider this:
There is one hour per month where around 20 pro-freedom manpower units meet to find out how they fit into the Chicago LP's "master plan". They might want to actually be put to good use! The gentleman who addressed this issue (of electing Libertarians to office) should have spoken with each person, and there should have been time for clarification with him. I know that the paperwork has to be taken care of, but it's too long. Streamline it.
I look forward to the Chicago LP being an active political player in Chicago politics. By that, I mean:
We oppose the tyranny of the state, loudly, and publicly, in an uncompromising way. We offer scalable growth on issue-by-issue basis. (When tyranny happens, we are there to oppose it in creative, media-savvy ways, in the newspaper, at the city council meetings, on the initiative ballots, in the courthouses, etc...)
We shouldn't just run where we live. We should allocate resources where they will do the most good. Prior to running paper candidates, we should get the pulse of the neighborhoods. Are there places where people are basically so oppressed that our movement could catch on like wild fire? Where are people against prohibition? Where do even the Democrats have to pay lip-service to social tolerance? Those are the places we could actually win an election. ie: South side, West side, Dolton, ...
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I enjoyed it, but it wasn't quite at the stage where everyone needs an hour of parliamentary pontificating.
Different people want to do different things. Rather than announce all the different events, they can go on a piece of paper, and everyone could be saved the long-winded descriptions.
There was a gentleman there who talked about actual necessary political work that needs to get done. I could have done with hearing from him, getting papers, then breaking into groups for planning.