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January 25, 2006

Obama Town Hall 2.0

If you missed the last Town Hall meeting with Barack Obama, you’ve got another chance. The junior Senator from Illinois will be hosting another one this upcoming Monday, January 30, at our own London Middle School.

Like the last one, this is free and open to the public, so get there early and maybe you’ll have a chance to find out the Senator’s position on library issues close to you!

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January 16, 2006

ALA Calls for “PATRIOT Call In Day”

In their January 13 newsletter, ALA’s Washington Office is seeking to have a nationwide call in effort, where library supporters across the country call their Senators and Representatives and ask them to suppor the Senate language reauthorizing the Patriot Act.

In contacting your legislatorsl, ALA suggests the following:

When you call, ask Members of Congress to fight for:

1. The inclusion of language in Section 215 requiring a statement of fact linking the person whose records are sought to a terrorism investigation.
2. The inclusion of language allowing a Section 215 recipient to pose a meaningful challenge to a FISA Court order.
3. The inclusion of language allowing a Section 505 recipient to pose a meaningful challenge to National Security Letter.

As a reminder, NSLS members (and, for that matter, anyone in the NSLS district) can find their member’s contact info in our Legislative Directory, and if you don’t know who your personal legislators are, you can turn to sites such as Project Vote Smart to find out.

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January 13, 2006

Obama Town Hall at CoD

Looking for something to do this Tuesday? Why not head out to the College of DuPage, where Sen. Barack Obama will be holding a town hall meeting. CoD promotes it as “[a]n open discussion with Senator Obama will focus on his work in the U.S. Senate. This event is open to the public and no tickets are needed. This is an opportunity to ask questions of the senator.”

Over at his own site, Sen. Obama has this to say about the event:

Too often, politicians end up representing Washington to their constituents rather than representing their constituents in Washington,” said Obama. “These town hall meetings give me the opportunity to hear directly from people in Illinois about the issues affecting their lives and how I can help. It also gives me a chance to talk with them about the issues I’ve been working on in the Senate, like reducing our dangerous dependence on foreign oil by increasing ethanol production, making sure Illinois veterans get the disability pay and health care they’ve earned, or the transportation bill I helped write that brought 33 percent more federal funding for infrastructure to Illinois.

The meeting will be at 10:30 a.m., and no tickets are required. If you have the time, be sure to stop by and make sure our library concerns are well-represented!

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