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On the second Friday of every month the Citizen Advocacy Center holds Brown Bag Lunch discussions from 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. on specific topics. Everyone is encouraged to bring their lunch to the Center for a small group discussion. Past topics have included: the Illinois Tollways, TEARDOWNS, School Choice, MICROSOFT, Privacy of Medical Records and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
If you would like to suggest a Brown Bag Lunch topic email tpastika@citizenadvocacycenter.org
Several times a month the Center's community lawyers visit community groups
and organizations
to discuss the mission of the Center, to teach tools that people of every
age can use to become
informed public citizens and to describe the different programs at the Center.
Center staff have
spoken to groups such as the Rotary Clubs, the Lion Clubs, the Center for
Independent Living,
the Illinois Retired Teachers Association, high school and college classes,
Illinois Education
Association and AARP.
The Center also welcomes your organization to come here for a discussion
group or seminar. If
your organization is interested in having a community lawyer from the Citizen
Advocacy Center
talk with your class, organization or community group, email or call the Center.
The Citizen Advocacy Center holds evening programs at least once a month
at the Center in an
effort to reach out to the community and encourage discussion of topics that
have a direct impact
on citizens. In addition to the Center's evening programs, community groups
are welcome to hold
meetings and organize their own programs at the Center, subject to our availability,
resources and
calendar. Some of the Center's past programs are described below.
Recent Changes in Illinois Health Care Legislation. The Illinois Campaign
for Better Health
Care organization visited the Center for a discussion on issues such as universal
health care,
patient's rights and hospital mergers.
"Frankenfoods", Genetic Modification of the Foods We Eat. The Center
welcomed
Jerome Johnson, Director of the Garfield Farm Museum, Paul Arriola, Assistant
Professor of
Biology at Elmhurst College and Kate Millett, Community Lawyer from the Citizen
Advocacy
Center for a lively discussion. Each speaker had a strong opinion about the
benefits and problems
with genetic engineering, government research and control of genetically engineered
food and the
ultimate question of whether genetically engineered food is dangerous to our
health.
School of the Americas Sr. Mary Kay Flanigan and Ms. Ruthie Woodridge visited
the Center
to discuss the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia. SOA is a military
school which
trains South American military personnel , part of the SOA's training curriculum
included how to
torture civilians who are viewed as dissidents. Graduates of SOA have been
responsible for
horrible human rights violations since the school's existence. SOA is funded
by U.S. tax payer
dollars and for several years protesters have gathered in Fort Bennings to
protest the existence of
the SOA.
Visit the Citizen Advocacy Center's web calendar to know the date of the next evening program!
These are just a few of the many programs at the Center. If you have any
suggestions
for evening programs email Terry Pastika at
cac@citizenadvocacycenter.org.