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Chicago Press Conference on Easier Ballot Access and Petition Signature Reforms

Posted by Mark S. Allen on December 6, 2010 at 12:33am
The "Democracy Now" Easy Ballot Access and Voter Restoration Project Petition Signature Reform Advocacy Campaign Press Conference on
MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2010 AT 8:00 AM at
69West Washington

POSITION PAPERS ON "BALLOT ACCESS" AND PETITION SIGNATURE REFORM
PUBLIC POLICY CHANGES


The Voter Restoration Project Plans Field Hearing
On

Nominating Petition Reforms
DEMANDS CHANGES TO PROCESS THAT DISENFRANCHISES CITIZENS CHOICE
BY
FAVORING INCUMBENTS

MarkAllen, lead organizer of the Voter Restoration Proj
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DMV

The Republican’s Historic Night

Posted by Raynard Jackson on November 4, 2010 at 12:00am
November 4, 2010Raynard JacksonWith all the pundits giving their views on Tuesday night’s election results, I found very little insightful analysis of what really happened. So, if you want the traditional election analysis, then go on the internet and read all the conventional analysis. I want to deal with the election results from a different slant.Tuesday’s elections proved to be historic for the Republican Party. Two Blacks were elected to the House of Representatives, two Hispanics were elec
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Chicago-Midwest

Link For Chicago Grassroots Poll On Mayoral Candidate and Agenda -- Pass LInk On and Vote Now !!

Posted by Mark S. Allen on September 13, 2010 at 9:30pm

Mark S. Allen
Associate Editor
The South Street Journal Newspaper
Founder, Black Leadership Development Institute, BLDI
Chairman & Lead Organizer, Voter Restoration Project
449 East 35th Street, 1st Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60616
(Office) 312-624-8351 (Cell) 773-392-0165

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THE CHICAGO MAYORAL GRASSROOTS POLL ON CANDIDATE AND AGENDA

http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e30xgbrsge1mrlex/start


Thank you to Hermene Hartman, veteran educator, activist and publisher ofN'DIGO Magapaper and Melody Spann-Coop
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Chicago-Midwest

Chicago Mayoral Candidates and Other Local Independent Candidates Need To Endorse Petition Signature Challenge Process Now!

Posted by Mark S. Allen on September 13, 2010 at 7:31am
The Race For Chicago Mayor and other 2011 local elective offices beginswith a candidate being able to first to make the ballot with enoughpetition signatures to make the ballot. Far too many candidates foroffice spend too much time working on issues that come after making theballot and far too many prospective candidates never make the ballotbecause many of the valid signatures are traditionally ruled invalid.Today, we continue our outreach to prospective candidates for ChicagoMayor and other 20
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Chicago-Midwest

Legendary Temptations Review w/Dennis Edwards Highlight Benefit Veterans Concert In Chicago Friday September 3rd

Posted by Mark S. Allen on August 15, 2010 at 3:26pm

Legendary Temptations Review w/Dennis Edwards Highlight Benefit Veterans Concert In Chicago Friday September 3rd - also featuring Harold Melvin's BlueNotes and The Intruders
Mark S. Allen, Local Ambassador

MDC Productions (www.mdcproductionsinc.com)

773-752-5725

Dennis Muhammad, President/CEO



The legendary Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards, Harold Melvin's Blue Notes, and The Intruders highlight a special benefit concert for underserved veterans, Friday September 3rd at 7:00 PM at the new E
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Chicago-Midwest

Chicago Hosts 3rd Follow-Up To Sharpton's National Action Plan with National Convention of Black Wall Street Organizations August 20-23

Posted by Mark S. Allen on August 15, 2010 at 4:58am
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14th, 2010
Chicago Hosts 3rd Follow-Up To Sharpton's National Action Plan with National Convention of Black Wall Street Organizations August 20-23

Hermene Hartman, publisher of N'DIGO, The Rev. Dr. Al Sampson, Wallace "Gator" Bradley confirm for National Black Wall Street Convention! Key participants from Rev. Al Sharptons National 12 Month Action Plan now join The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr, Cheryle Robinson Jackson, Attorney Tom Todd Confirming ForHistoric 1st National Convention
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Chicago-Midwest

"TruthFighter" Warren Ballentine's Site Visit To Chicago's Reggio's Pizza Plant - Legendary Black Owned Business Manufacturing Plant

Posted by Mark S. Allen on July 15, 2010 at 4:00pm
Mark S. Allen, Board Member of The Black Wall Street-Chicago Economic Empowerment Project salutes "The Truth Fighter" Attorney and National
Syndicated Radio & TV Personality Warren Ballentine
for his commitment to helping lift up, sustain and increase the
business and jobs of one of our legendary Black owned & operated
businesses, Reggio's Pizza!!

Ballentine recently returned home to Chicagoto visit Reggio's President & CEO John Clark on the site of the
Reggio's Southside Headquarters and Manufacturin
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Chicago-Midwest

"President" Obama Versus "Community Organizer" Standards In Quinn Endorsement

Posted by Mark S. Allen on July 11, 2010 at 6:19pm

As one of the first community organizers to work with Barack Obama when he first came to Chicago, I have the authority to state without reservation that "President" Obama has lost the foundation he developed as "Organizer" Obama.
His latest endorsement of Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is proof that "President" Obama set a real low standard for this Quinn endorsement than the "high" standards he used to have making sure that candidates truly earned the grassroots support from the communty organizers
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Chicago-Midwest

Support For Black Owned Business Growing - Smokin' Joe Products

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 28, 2010 at 5:59am

Support For Black Owned Business Growing - Smokin' Joe Products

Marksallen
One of the first community organizers to work with Barack Obama in Chicago for over 20 years. Now Associate Editor of The South Street Journal Newspaper and 37 year activist/journalist, recently selected as 2010 Who's Who In Black Chicago.



MARK ALLEN TALKS -- Black economic empowerment and the effort to sustain an increase Black owned businesses and local job creation.

As a board member of The Black Wall Street-Chicago Projec

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Chicago-Midwest

Respond To E-Mail From Wallace "Gator" Bradley on Crime Solutions Meeting With Rev. Jesse Jackson at Rainbow/PUSH Coalition

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 26, 2010 at 1:19pm

I received an e-mail from Wallace "Gator" Bradley, regarding an e-mail that was being circulated regarding a proposed Monday afternoon meeting with Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr at Rainbow/PUSH regarding solutions to crime, assuming that I was overlooked and may indeed be welcome to this Monday's meeting or to provide some input.

The first things that sticks out to me are "activists" and "community organizers" missing from the subject matter, text of the meeting and systematic part of the plan of act

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Chicago-Midwest

Mark Allen Co Hosts VIP Reception & Business Briefing Wednesday June 16th with National President/CEO of Rain Nutrition Company

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 16, 2010 at 1:03pm

Mark Allen Co Hosts VIP Reception & Business Briefing Wednesday June 16th with National President/CEO of Rain Nutrition Company

MARK ALLEN TALKS - ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT. "As a Board member of The Black Wall Street-Chicago Project, I am pleased to help host these national company executives from Rain International, and expose grassroots entrepreneurs to the company's Chicago faith based cause initiative, and most importantly, local investment and small business, local job creation, ownership opport
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Chicago-Midwest

Governor Quinn's Death Sentence To Black Youth and Program That Was Saving Their Lives

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 12, 2010 at 9:26pm

MARK ALLEN TALKS -- The life and death decisions that Governor Quinn The State of Illinois makes when the same week that they announce the State budget will provide $6 million dollars in funds to breathe life into new downtown communication buildings, while at the same time cutting the desperately needed funds for Father Michael Pfleger at St. Sabina and his SafetyNet crime intervention and prevention programs this summer to help save the lives of Black youth who are dying at alarming rates.!!

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Chicago-Midwest

Black Actvists Say Democrats and Republicans Have No Real Grassroots Black and Poor Peoples Agenda

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 12, 2010 at 10:12am

Black Actvists Say Democrats and Republicans Have No Real Grassroots Black and Poor Peoples Agenda

MARK ALLEN TALKS ---- One thing that is clear that you do not hear in the latest media battles between Governor Quinn and Senator Bill Brady or Mark Kirk and Alexi Giannoulius is WHO best has a grassroots Black or poor people's agenda and they are on the ballot with 5,000 signatures. And the indpendent campaigns of William "Dock" Walls and Scott Lee Cohen who ARE actively engaging the grassroots Bla
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Chicago-Midwest

Mark Allen says that Ronald Holt received a "symbolic" appointment as new CAPS head and must overcome how Daley & Weis' decisions set him up for failure

Posted by Mark S. Allen on June 9, 2010 at 12:21pm

Mark Allen says that Ronald Holt received a "symbolic" appointment as new CAPS head and must overcome how Daley & Weis' decisions set him up for failure

MARK ALLEN TALKS -- Ronald Holt Must Overcome Chicago Mayor Daley's "Symbolic" Appointment as new Director of Chicago's community policing program

I called Ronald Holt and congratulated him on accepting the appointment by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley as the new Director of the C.A.P.S. (Community Alternative Policing Strategies) program, and how he

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Chicago-Midwest

Mark Allen, Chicago Community Reacts to the Death of Vocalist Ali-Ollie Woodson of The Temptations, another legend

Posted by Mark S. Allen on May 31, 2010 at 10:10pm

Statement from Veteran Activist/Journalist, Mark S. Allen on how Chicago's grassroots community remembers the life and legacy of the late vocalist Ali-Ollie Woodson of The Temptations

"In addition to being an activist, I have long been involved as a music disc-jockey and local party promotions and know how much Chicago's dance and steppers community loved Ali-Ollie Woodson for his many appearances at local events in Chicago, his performamces and despite his membership in one of the worlds most le

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Chicago-Midwest

Mark Allen Joins Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr at Chicago BP Protest Friday May 28th

Posted by Mark S. Allen on May 28, 2010 at 6:54am

Mark Allen, BLDI, BWS-C, Poor People's Campaign, Environmental activists, community organizers Joins Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr and The National Rainbow /PUSH Coalition in continued public protest and boycott call of BP, at BP site at 12th & Wabash in Chicago

The People Must Not Pay The Bill For The BP Spill

773-392-0165

FRIDAY, MAY 28th, 2010

Veteran Activist, Mark Allen, founder and president of The Black Leadership Development Institute, BLDI, and Board member of The Black Wall Street -Chicago Projec

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Chicago-Midwest

Tuesday, May 18th @ 9:30 AM Congressman Bobby Rush, Attorney Jim Montgomery Hold Press Conference With Family Of Anthony Kyser, Strangled To Death By CVS Employee

Posted by Mark S. Allen on May 18, 2010 at 2:44am

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:

May 17, 2010 Stephanie Gadlin

(773) 224-6500 ofc.; (202) 286-9829 mobile

Stephanie.Gadlin@mail.house.gov

Congressman Bobby Rush, Atty. Jim Montgomery, the Mother of CVS strangulation victim Anthony Kyser, area pastors and others to hold Tuesday Morning News Conference to ask for criminal charges against persons responsible for the man’s homicide

CHICAGO—In the wake of the recent strangulation death of a 35-year-old man by a CVS store manager, on Tuesday, May 18 at 9:30

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Chicago-Midwest

Monique Caradine's My50 Chicago Perspective TV Show Sunday May 16th includes Mark Allen and others !!

Posted by Mark S. Allen on May 16, 2010 at 11:25am
BREAKING MEDIA NEWS
SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2010
773-392-0165
Catch Perspective TV Show twice today @ 11:30 and again at noon on My50 Chicago. Are teen girls out of control? Does Chicago need the national guard to stop crime? Hear from Girls advocate Necole Muhammad and activists Mark S. Allen, CeaseFire's Tio Hardiman and ex-gang member Tim White.
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Chicago-Midwest

CVS Shoplifter Death Now An 'Active' Investigation --- Thanks To Mark Allen, Other Activists and Congressman Rush For Speaking Out

Posted by Mark S. Allen on May 14, 2010 at 5:54pm

CVS Shoplifter Death Now An 'Active' Investigation --- Thanks To Mark Allen, Other Activists and Congressman Rush For Speaking Out

CVS Shoplifter Death Now An 'Active' Investigation

Pressure Escalating On Police, Prosecutors To Probe Circumstances Of Homicide

kristyn_hartman.jpg Reporting
Kristyn Hartman

CHICAGO (CBS) ―

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