Past Townhalls

• April 30th, 2008, Gallup, NM

  Hosted by: National Indian Youth Leadership Project

• April 27, 2008, Skagit/Whatcom/Snohomish, WA

  Hosted by: Community to Community Development

• April 26th, 2008, Arkansas, Delta Summit Town Hall

  Hosted by: Arkansas Public Policy and Linked with Arkansas Citizen’s First Congress

• April 26th, 2008, Chicago, IL, Quality of Life Town Hall

  Hosted by: CCH, KOCO, LVCDC, LSNA, MTO, Mikva, SWYC, & TARGET

• April 26, 2008, Fresno, CA

  Hosted by: Fresno Center for New Americans, Radio Bilingue, Centro Binacional, & PIQE

• April 26th, 2008, San Diego

  Hosted by: American Friends Service Committee, Casa Familiar, Environmental Health Coalition, & Parent Institute for Quality Education

• April 26, 2008, San Rafael, CA (Marin)

  Hosted by: Parent Services Project, Marin Grassroots Leadership Network, Marin Child Care Council & Parent Voices

• April 26, 2008, Flagstaff, AZ

  Hosted by: Hopi Foundation, UNITY

• April 26, 2008, Seattle, WA

  Hosted by: LELO, Village of Hope, AFSC, Poverty Action & Hate Free Zone, Potlatch Fund, Coalition to Undo Racism, Greater Church Council, Puget Sound Organizing, & LEAP

• April 19, 2008, Downtown Los Angeles, CA

  Hosted by: Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA); Consejo de Federaciones Mexicanas en Norte América Leadership; Asian Pacific American Legal Center (COFEM); Instituto de Educacion Popular Del Sur de California (IDEPSCA); & Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE)

• April 19, 2008, Long Beach, CA

  Hosted by: Long Beach YMCA; Latino Center for Prevention & Action in Health and Welfare

• April 19, 2008, Camden, AR

  Hosted by: Arkansas Public Policy, Linked w/ Southwest Arkansas Policy Summit

• April 19, 2008, Rio Grande, TX

  Hosted by: SCAN, Colonias Unidas, AVANCE, & CACST

• April 19, 2008, Stockton, CA

  Hosted by: PICO, Family Resource & Referral, & PIQE

• April 19, 2008 Camden, AL

  Hosted by: Federation of Child Care Centers of Alabama (FOCAL) and Linked w/ the Southern Rural Black Women's Initiative State Convening

• April 12, 2008 Lexington, MS

  Hosted by: Southern Echo & Children's Defense Fund
  

• April 12, 2008 Miami Dade, FL

  

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  Hosted by: Direct Action Research and Training, Miami Worker’s Center, ACORN, Farmworkers Association of Florida,Haitian Neighborhood Center , Santo La, FIAC

• April 12, 2008 Oakland, CA

  

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  Hosted by: Ella Baker Center, AIWA, Parent Voices, CTWO, PIQE, Lifetime

• April 12, 2008 San Francisco, CA

  
  Hosted by: Chinatown Development Corporation, Parent Voices, Support for Families of Children with Disabilities
  

• April 10, 2008 McAllen, TX

  Hosted by: ACLF

• April 9, 2008 Albuquerque, NM

  
  Hosted by: United South Broadway Corporation
  

• April 5, 2008 Birmingham, AL

  Hosted by: ARISE, Alabama Coalition Against Hunger, Alabama Council on Human Relations, Alabama Organizing Project, Fair Housing Agency of AL, FOCAL, Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Greater Birmingham Ministries, Voices for Alabama's Children.

• April 5, 2008 South Los Angeles, CA

  Hosted by: LCSC, LAM, SAJE, Children’s Family Planning Council, Clinica Romero, and Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment
  

• April 5, 2008 Albany, GA

  Hosted by: Southern Rural Black Women's Network

• March 29, 2008 - San Elizario, TX

  Hosted by: AYUDA

• March 29, 2008 - Chicago, IL

  Hosted by:Erie Neighborhood House, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights, Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA), Target Area Development Corporation

• March 29, 2008 - San Luis/Yuma, AZ

  Hosted by: Campesinos Sin Fronteras

• March 28, 2008 - Edinburg, TX - Youth Townhall

  Hosted by: AVANCE RGV

• March 28, 2008 - Alexandria, LA

  Hosted by: Every Child Matters and Children's Defense Fund

• March 28, 2008 - Phoenix, AZ

  

  Over 50 people attended the Carl Hayden Community Center located near downtown Phoenix, AZ. Activities included dinner, board games, books, basketball and activities from the CPLC teen advisory group.

  Hosted by: Chicanos por la Causa
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• March 15, 2008 - Apopka, FL

  

  Over 450 people attended the Apopka Town Hall which was conducted in 3 different languages and there were packets in three different languages - Creole/Haitian; Spanish and English.

  Hosted by: ACORN, Farmworkers Association of Florida
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• March 8, 2008 - El Paso, TX

  

  This townhall was in celebration of International Women's Day. Grantees chose this day to celebrate the contribution women make to the Las Cruces- El Paso region. It also celebrated women as the center of the family.

  Hosted by: Mujer Obera & Colonias Development Council
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• March 4, 2008 - Baton Rouge, LA

  Hosted by: Every Child Matters and Children's Defense Fund
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• March 3, 2008 - Alexandria, LA

  Hosted by: Every Child Matters and Children's Defense Fund
  

• February 25, 2008 - Nogales, AZ

  

  The townhall was held at the Americana Hotel in downtown Nogales. Various families attended and there was lively conversation stemming from the townhall questions.

  Host by: Mariposa Community Health Center
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• February 23, 2008 - Augusta, GA

  

  Over 75 people attended the Equal Voice for America's Families Campaign at Paine College. Several homeless women attended the townhall and voice there concerns.

  Hosted by: Georgia Hunger Coalition
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• February 21, 2008 - Springfield, IL

  

  Almost 300 people gathered around The Inn at 835 to discuss numerous issues including: affordable housing, access to quality education,victims of Katrina and more.

  Host by: LSNA, TARGET, UCCRO
  

• February 09, 2008- Auburn, AL

  

  Over 200 participants gathered at the Boykin Community Center to discuss issues as constructive communities, a need for better education and opportunity for jobs.

• Hosted by: Federation for Child Care Center for Alabama
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• January 26, 2008 - Atlanta, GA

  

  500 people caravanned through the streets of Atlanta, and after a rally at the State Capital came together for the first ever Poor People Assembly and Equal Voice for America Families townhall.

  Host by: Georgia Hunger Coalition & People's Assembly
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• January 23, 2008 - New Orleans, LA

  

  300 hundred people more turned out, including more than 100 single female heads of households who participated after having worked a full day.

  Host by: ACORN , Children's Defenses Fund, Every Child Matters
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• January 21, 2008 - Olympia, WA

  

  More than 100 people celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a march on the State capital in Olympia followed by an Equal Voice for America’s Families campaign townhall, where attendees focused on social justice issues that profoundly affect their families and futures.

  Host by: Hate Free Zone, Poverty Action, WA CAN!, VOICES
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• January 19, 2008 - San Juan, TX

  

  Saturday under a big tent on the grounds of La Unión del Pueblo Entero in San Juan 400 people gathered to voice their concerns.

  Host by: LUPE(La Union del Pueblo Entero), Proyecto Aztec, , ACLF (Azteca Community Loan Fund)
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• January 18, 2008 - National Radio Youth

  

  A youth-sponsored and youth perspective Equal Voice for America's Townhall meeting via radio call-in talk show. The program was heard live on a worldwide net.

  Hosted by: Linked with Radio Bilingue Network

• October 2007 - Monroe, WA

  

  Over 80 people form the community and 50 inmates attended the first townhall meeting at the Washington State Reformatory Prison.

  Host by: Black Prisoners' Caucus
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