Event this evening in Fayetteville....
~Jacki 

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“Shared  Prosperity” Topic of Town Hall Meeting 

Contact:  Gary Zuckett 304-346-5891 or Matt Wender  573-5980 

WV United  hosts next in a series of meetings in Fayette County 
Fayetteville – WV, West Virginians United, a coalition of 
progressive state 
organizations, is holding the next of several state-wide  community
town hall 
style meetings at the Cathedral Café on Wednesday, October  24th at
6:30  PM.  
 
The meetings are to promote  their “Agenda for a Shared Prosperity”
– a set 
of values and policy proposals to  strengthen our middle class while
creating 
the conditions necessary for more  families to realize the “American
Dream” 
Speakers will outline the  basic prosperity agenda with brief comments
and 
then open the discussion up to  the community members attending. The
topics to 
be addressed are:   
·        Health Care  Reform – making health care affordable  and
assessable 
to all West  Virginians;   
·        Cost of  War – connecting the extreme costs of  the conflict
in Iraq 
to the cuts in spending for education, housing, social  services and
other 
domestic spending in West Virginia;   
·        Justice in  the Workplace – how workplace issues  affect
quality of 
life; and  
·        Economic  Fairness – how public policy can level  the
playing field 
and work toward a shared  prosperity. 
What: Town Hall Meeting on an “Agenda for Shared  Prosperity” 
When  Wednesday, October 24th at 6:30 PM 
Where:  Cathedral Café, 134 S. Court St, Fayetteville, WV 25840 

Moderator: Dan Doyle,  MD 
Speakers:  
Renate Pore, Exec.  Director, WV Healthy Kids & Families  Coalition 
Larry Matheney, Sec./Treas. WV AFL-CIO  
Rev. Jim Lewis, WV Patriots for Peace 
Ted Boettner, Mountain State Education  & Research
 
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