About Us
DFA Evanston/North Shore Linkups are held the first Monday of every month at 7 pm at the Celtic Knot Restaurant, 626 Church Street, Evanston, IL 60201. Phone: 847 864-1679.
Anyone who shares socially progressive and fiscally responsible political views is welcome to attend. Especially welcome are folks who want to be active in effective progressive changes at local, state, and national levels.
Founded by Howard Dean, we endorse his eight point plan for the DNC:
- Show up! Never concede a single state, county, district, or even single voter to the Republicans. We must be active in all 50 states and work with the state parties to build a truly national party.
- Recruit, train, and encourage candidates to run for office at every level -- building tomorrow's farm team from the ground up. This was the founding principle behind Democracy for America.
- Actively grow local Democratic committees in local communities. Local neighborhood advocates are our best spokespeople -- helping them reach out in their own communities will better articulate our message and enable the grassroots to support state and local candidates.
- Better integrate national and state party operations. Specifically, that means: providing the state party the means to pay for its executive director in every state; building and sharing lists between the national and state parties; and creating an ongoing active presence -- a permanent campaign in every state that does not have to be recreated for only four months every four years.
- Develop and articulate core Democratic principles that we can all agree on, that will let people know what our party stands for. We will not win elections or build a lasting majority solely by changing our rhetoric, not will we win by adopting the other side's positions. We must say what we mean -- and mean real change when we say it.
- Make Democrats the party of reform -- reforming America's financial situation, reforming our electoral process, reforming health care, reforming education and putting morality back in our foreign policy.
- Utilize cutting edge Internet technology, not only to fundraise, but also as an effective organizing tool to recruit more supporters, communicate with them, and empower them to lead in their local communities.
- Strengthen the party institutions and leadership institutes so that they rival the Republican machine that currently exists. These institutions must work together in a coordinated way to recruit new talent, develop leaders, articulate our values and elect Democrats at every level.
Meetup Co-Hosts
Donna Marcus
Lali Watt
Steering Committee:
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Secretary
Sylvia Morrison
Outreach
Siobhan M. Murphy
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Local Campaigns
Bob Tisch
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Communications
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Kent Wilson