Thursday, January 15, 2015

IT'S ON! MUNICIPAL CANDIDATES QUESTIONNAIRE INITIATIVE - Blacks inGreen Joins With 100 Community Orgs To Raise Legislative Bar >> Next NAACPCandidates Forums


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2015 STARTS WITH A NEW SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION!

On December 20, 2014 the National Black Agenda Consortium held a meeting of diverse Black organizations in Chicago to discuss a draft of a 'municipal candidate questionnaire' to address the concerns of the Black Community. Out of this evolved the ad hoc "Coalition of Black Community Organizations" (CBCO) which produced the present Questionnaire.
Join us at today's press conference where CBOC launches the MUNICIPAL CANDIDATES QUESTIONNAIRE - a free and open source tool for all community groups, churches, and forum producers...and only the first in a series of civic engagement tools which members of CBOC will seed this season.
In remembrance of the honorable Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the CBCO requests that candidates running for office in Chicago's, February 24th municipal elections respond thoughtfully to our Questionnaire and the call of the community. The Questionnaire focuses exclusively on issues of special concern to the Black Community. All organizations and those producing candidate forums are encouraged to freely use all or part of the Questionnaire to engage their constituencies.
With dwindling participation in government, lack of civic education in schools, and our institutions and orgs overburdened by increasing community needs, CBCO has sought to simplify and facilitate civic engagement with tools that help frame key issues and offer insight into the greater possibilities of government.
We are not endorsing candidates; we are making candidate responses widely available - each with our evaluation - on our upcoming website, through our members, and in the media. The Questionnaire will be emailed to all candidates with a link to complete the Questionnaire online by January 31st. Answers will be tabulated and the results widely published on February 9, 2015, the first day of Early Voting.
Peace and Blessings to you and yours. We look forward to your presence this Thursday and to your ongoing participation as we make history.

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