http://groups.google.com/group/chi.politics/browse_thread/thread/d5d92296fba9a75f/17699d1e87cff10e?lnk=st&q=%22%22barack+obama%22%22#17699d1e87cff10e
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The Democratic Socialists of America Present
The First Chicago Town Meeting on Economic Insecurity
EMPLOYMENT AND SURVIVAL IN URBAN AMERICA
a discussion of policy, problems, and possibilities
with
WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON,
Director, Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Chicago
MICHAEL DAWSON,
Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
BARACK OBAMA,
Candidate, State Senate, 13th Legislative District
TONI PRECKWINKLE,
4th Ward Alderman
JOSEPH SCHWARTZ,
Professor of Political Science, Temple University
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH
7:00pm
Ida Noyes Hall, Cloyster Club
1313 E. 59th Street, Chicago
Sponsored by:
*University of Chicago Democrats
*Chicago Democratic Socialists of America
*University of Chicago Democratic Socialists of America
For more information call:
University of Chicago Democratic Socialists, 312-955-6371
Bobwoodard,
Indeed :)
The DSA later praised Obama for his words at that forum:
“When Obama participated in a 1996 UofC YDS Townhall Meeting on Economic Insecurity, much of what he had to say was well within the mainstream of European social democracy.”
source:
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng69.html#anchor540108