From dfledfoundation-announce at communityforum.net Wed Feb 7 08:15:27 2007 From: dfledfoundation-announce at communityforum.net (dfledfoundation-announce@communityforum.net) Date: Wed Feb 7 08:18:05 2007 Subject: [DFLEF)] Guantanamo Bay Challenge, Let's Get Moving! Message-ID: <231574.35381.qm@web38901.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Plan on Joining Us! Stone Arch Discussion Saturday, February 10 at Jitters, 205 E. Hennepin, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. The Guantanamo Bay Challenge: Finding the Balance between Our Nation's Security and Our Nation's Ideals will be the topic for the February Stone Arch Discussion Group. Jim Dorsey and Nicole Moen, Minneapolis lawyers who represent a Guantanamo detainee, will lead the discussion by explaining who the detainees are, how they are being treated and what legal recourse is available to test the appropriateness of their continued detention. Dorsey and Moen have visited their client in Guananamo Bay three times. Their presentation will include photos of the prison and sketches of the interrogation procedures. As usual, invite anyone interested, come, buy your coffee and join the discussion. DFL Education Foundation Annual Meeting Sunday, February 11, 2 - 4 p.m. Let's Get Moving! Transportation in Minnesota Come hear Dave Van Hattum, from Transit for Livable Communities and Adeel Lari from the Humphrey Institute at the annual meeting of the DFL EDUCATION FOUNDATION Adeel Lari, Director of Innovative Transportation Finance, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, recently toured Northern Europe and will share his thoughts on Europe's fuel pricing and if any European practices could be applied to Minnesota and the United States. He is a former employee of the Minnesota Department of Transportation and has worked on the I394 MnPASS project. Dave Van Hattum, Policy and Advocacy Program Manager of Transit for Livable Communities, will discuss current legislative activities and the recent constitutional amendment passage. He is a graduate of the Humphrey Institute and worked for the Downtown Mpls. Transportation Management Organization and the I-494 Corridor Commission. Free and open to the public - Bring your friends Council Chambers, 3rd floor 5005 Minnetonka Blvd. St. Louis Park City Hall about 0.1 mi. east of Hwy 100 For more information, please visit www.dfleducationfoundation.org If you no longer wish to receive our announcements, reply with 'remove' in subject line. --------------------------------- Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mapnp.Geeks.ORG/pipermail/dfledfoundation-announce/attachments/20070207/a71ea1bf/attachment.html From dfledfoundation-announce at communityforum.net Wed Feb 14 12:54:31 2007 From: dfledfoundation-announce at communityforum.net (dfledfoundation-announce@communityforum.net) Date: Wed Feb 14 12:50:21 2007 Subject: [DFLEF)] WHERE DOES THE 'FL' IN DFL COME FROM? Message-ID: <45D35AE7.3010502@maltzen.net> *Plan on joining us! * MINNESOTA'S DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR PARTY: A TWENTIETH CENTURY RETROSPECTIVE *The first in a series on the history of the DFL Party in Minnesota* Sunday, March 18, 2007 2:00 -- 4:00 P.M. _WHERE DOES THE 'FL' IN DFL COME FROM?_ Featuring: AL EISELE the man on the cover of this month's /Law & Politics/ Mr. Eisele is the newly retired editor of 'The Hill', Washington's newspaper about Capitol Hill and Politics. A native of Minnesota he is the winner of the 1971 American Political Science Association Award for distinguished reporting of public affairs. He has worked for both Senators Gene McCarthy and Walter Mondale and is the author of 'Almost To The Presidency: A Biography of Two American Politicians' -- Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy. Mr. Eisele currently resides in Great Falls, Virginia Ukrainian Event Center 301 Main Street NE* Minneapolis (Parking is available adjacent to the building) FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC *on the Mississippi river front three blocks off East Hennepin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mapnp.Geeks.ORG/pipermail/dfledfoundation-announce/attachments/20070214/f99c2b89/attachment.html From dfledfoundation-announce at communityforum.net Wed Feb 21 08:58:52 2007 From: dfledfoundation-announce at communityforum.net (dfledfoundation-announce@communityforum.net) Date: Wed Feb 21 08:53:04 2007 Subject: [DFLEF)] Where does the 'FL' in DFL come from?, Politics in Mexico! Message-ID: <45DC5E2C.1050604@maltzen.net> Plan on joining us! MINNESOTA'S DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR PARTY: A TWENTIETH CENTURY RETROSPECTIVE *The first in a series on the history of the DFL Party in Minnesota* Sunday, March 18, 2007 2:00 -- 4:00 P.M. _WHERE DOES THE 'FL' IN DFL COME FROM?_ Featuring: AL EISELE the man on the cover of this month's /Law & Politics/ Mr. Eisele is the newly retired editor of 'The Hill', Washington's newspaper about Capitol Hill and Politics. A native of Minnesota he is the winner of the 1971 American Political Science Association Award for distinguished reporting of public affairs. He has worked for both Senators Gene McCarthy and Walter Mondale and is the author of 'Almost To The Presidency: A Biography of Two American Politicians' -- Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy. Mr. Eisele currently resides in Great Falls, Virginia Ukrainian Event Center 301 Main Street NE* Minneapolis (Parking is available adjacent to the building) FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Sponsored by the DFL Education Foundation Don Fraser, Chairman...Carol Flynn President *on the Mississippi river front three blocks off East Hennepin _ Downtown Discussion Group _Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:00 to 1:30 pm (bring your own lunch) *"Politics in Mexico" * Join us for a discussion with a LEADER OF MEXICO'S LABOR PARTY, Saul Escobar Toledo, a founding member and International Secretary of Mexico's PRD Party. The Downtown Discussion Group of the DFL Education Foundation is very pleased to sponsor this special session with one of the top leaders of Mexico's PRD Party. At the Offices of the Robins, Kaplan Law Firm 2800 LaSalle Plaza Building 800 LaSalle Avenue (between 8th and 9th Streets on LaSalle Avenue) Downtown Minneapolis Mr. Escobar Toledo, a resident of Mexico City, will be talking during this tour of the upper midwest with citizens, union workers and leaders, students and teachers about Mexico's foreign relations and recent shifts in the Americas: immigration and border relations, NAFTA and globalization, the presidential electoral challenge by popular Mexico City mayor Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador in July 2006, the recent turbulence in Oaxaca, reactions to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia. Free and open to the public For more information, please visit www.dfleducationfoundation.org If you no longer wish to receive our announcements, reply with 'remove' in the subject line. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mapnp.Geeks.ORG/pipermail/dfledfoundation-announce/attachments/20070221/dafed23d/attachment.html From dfledfoundation-announce at communityforum.net Wed Feb 28 09:48:06 2007 From: dfledfoundation-announce at communityforum.net (dfledfoundation-announce@communityforum.net) Date: Wed Feb 28 09:43:10 2007 Subject: [DFLEF)] Minnesota Liberalism and Building the DFL Party Message-ID: <45E5A436.9020909@maltzen.net> *Plan on joining us! * MINNESOTA'S DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR PARTY: A TWENTIETH CENTURY RETROSPECTIVE *The first in a series on the history of the DFL Party in Minnesota* Sunday, March 18, 2007 2:00 -- 4:00 P.M.* _"Minnesota Liberalism _*_*and Building the DFL Party"*_ Featuring: AL EISELE - the man on the cover of this month's /Law & Politics/ A native of Minnesota, Mr. Eisele is the newly retired editor of /The Hill/, Washington's newspaper about Capitol Hill and politics. He is the winner of the 1971 American Political Science Association Award for distinguished reporting of public affairs. He worked for both Senators Gene McCarthy and Walter Mondale and is the author of /Almost To The Presidency: A Biography of Two American Politicians/ -- Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy Ukrainian Event Center 301 Main Street NE* Minneapolis (Parking is available adjacent to the building) FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Sponsored by the DFL Education Foundation Don Fraser, Chairman...Carol Flynn President *on the Mississippi river front three blocks off East Hennepin ** ** ** _Downtown Discussion Group_ ********Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:00 to 1:30 pm** **(bring your own lunch)** **** **"Politics in Mexico"** Join us for a discussion with a LEADER OF MEXICO'S LABOR PARTY, Saul Escobar Toledo, a founding member and International Secretary of Mexico's PRD Party. The Downtown Discussion Group of the DFL Education Foundation is very pleased to sponsor this special session with one of the top leaders of Mexico's PRD Party. At the Offices of the Robins, Kaplan Law Firm 2800 LaSalle Plaza Building 800 LaSalle Avenue (between 8th and 9th Streets on LaSalle Avenue) Downtown Minneapolis Mr. Escobar Toledo, a resident of Mexico City, will be talking during this tour of the upper midwest with citizens, union workers and leaders, students and teachers about Mexico's foreign relations and recent shifts in the Americas: immigration and border relations, NAFTA and globalization, the presidential electoral challenge by popular Mexico City mayor Andr?s Manuel L?pez Obrador in July 2006, the recent turbulence in Oaxaca, reactions to Hugo Chavez in Venezuela and Evo Morales in Bolivia. **** ** **For more information, please visit www.dfleducationfoundation.org If you no longer wish to receive our announcements, reply with 'remove' in subject line.** ** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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