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Petitions and Feedback Commentaries from Our Members Ronna
Weltman on Choosing a College Don Smith on Meeting
with Congressman Reichert Dave
Gamrath on Over Population and Consumption Peter
House on State Caucuses* Ray
McBain on Medicare Part D Prescription Costs Andrew
Villeneuve on netroots cooperation* Liberals and Democrats Links to the
Beef Has Bill
Clinton Become a Whiney Victim? Let’s hope
that Republicans Win Equally* During
Our Nightmare, What Should a Liberal Do?* State and Local Links to the
Beef Monitoring
and Influencing Our State Legislature Nation and World
Links to the Beef Preventing
Terrorist Acts in Our United States* Restricting
Our National Guard from Foreign Service Our Liberal Spirit Our Political Priorities ·
Fair Clean Elections and Open Government ·
Fair Taxes and Competent Spending ·
Investment for Productivity ·
Quality Health, Education, Jobs, Income and Retirement ·
Environmental Protection and Energy ·
Personal Security and Equal Rights ·
Justice and Peace Everywhere ·
International Cooperation and Leadership Conservatives
oppose all of these Let’s End Our National Nightmare Let’s
Restore Our American Dream More
on Conservative opposition to our American Dream See
Nancy Pelosi’s political priorities Quote of the Week Remember
that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue
elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. Socrates
Calendar of Events
Schedule
of Liberal films on PBS
Saturday, January 19 at
6:30 PM at Carrie Bogner’s home (
Monday, January 21 at
Franklin High School (3013 Mount Baker Boulevard South, Seattle) – Martin Luther King,
Jr. Celebration with 9:30 AM Workshop, 11 AM Rally and 12 PM March. For more. [Strongly recommended for suburbanites who need to
understand inner city priorities. Dave
Thomas]
Friday, January 25 at 6:30 PM at
Friday, January 25 at 7 PM
at King County Library Administration Building (960 Newport Way NW, Issaquah) –
5th Legislative District Movie Night Sicko, A film by Michael Moore on America’s failing health care
system
Wednesday, February 6 at
5:30 PM and February 7 at Hilton Seattle
(
Saturday, February 9 at 10
AM at
Saturday February 9, 2008 at 1:30 - Precinct
Caucuses. Find your caucus location.
Saturday, February 16 at 6 PM at Town
Hall (
Saturday, February 23-24
at IBEW Hall (
Saturday, March 22 at 10
AM at
Legislative District Conventions - Saturday April 5, 2008
County Conventions - Saturday April 19, 2008
Congressional District Conventions - Saturday May 17, 2008
Washington State Convention - June 14 & 15, 2008 - Spokane, Washington
Opportunities, Petitions and Feedback
Opportunities
Join
Working America in alliance with labor union members
See MoveOn’s new online tools.
Order Democracy
in America ‘Precinct Organizing’ and other Night School Training videos
Order Sightline’s
2007 Cascadia Scorecard. See other
research that they share with our politicians.
Order Lester Brown’s Plan
B, #3.0, Mobilizing to Save Civilization.
For more.
Petitions and
Donations
Join GoPetition to easily create your own
petitions. Great tool for advocacy groups.
NARAL
Pro-Choice Washington seeks support among precinct caucus participants.
Help
a Liberal Democrat defeat an incumbent Conservative Democratic Congressman.
Ask your congressman to
support hearings on impeaching vice president Dick Cheney.
Tell EPA Administrator Stephen
Johnson to explain why he denied California's waiver request!
Urge top television reporters to
ask presidential candidates about global warming.
AFL-CIO petition
to support secure high quality health care for all.
AFL-CIO petition
to support Employee Free
Choice Act to restore the freedom to form unions.
Ask U.S.
Treasury Department to put a freeze on foreclosures
Ask
President Bush to assign 24 helicopters to help peacekeeping in Darfur
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Commentaries
>From Our Members
Email from
Dorli Rainey
I work with a group called One Earth.. This
group challenges the wisdom of taking millions of acres out of farming for food
and converting it into growth areas for fuel plants. One Earth is not a group
which wants to antagonize, but live up to the definition of protest (i.e. for
the truth).
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