Let’s show them how global we are
For several days in May the world will know, we hope, what we know here.
We are the world living here on this big lake with the large flat plains at our back.
We come from everywhere and we are Chicago.
Let me explain and let me ask your advice, also.
From May 19 to 21 and a few days close by the leaders of the G8 nations and the leaders of the 28 nation NATO organization will meet here in separate meetings.
This may bring 5,000 diplomats and others. Also as many as 3,000 foreign journalists and who knows how many journalists from the US, Canada and Mexico.
City officials have been planning events for months to show what a global city Chicago is.
But you’ve been doing this for a long time in every thing you do daily.
So, here’s where I need your help
How can the ethnic news media tell the story of this city and our legacies here – our languages, our roots, our histories – in a way that unites us and shows respect for who we are?
Do we want to plan articles about our communities and file them in a place that the world’s media can learn about a city that speaks no less than 80 languages and has more immigrant communities – no more immigrants however – than any other US city?
Do we want to make sure the foreign media knows about our communities and our ethnic media outlets. We want to get them out of downtown to see where their relatives from Lvov and Mumbia and Warsaw and Shanghai are living, right?
So how do we do this? I’m thinking that we need to get together to think this over. Do you agree?
if you want more info about the gathering, go to http://www.chicagog8nato.org
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