Puget Sound Liberals Weekly Newsletter #107

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February 1, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

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                        Table of Contents   * featured articles

 

Puget Sound Liberals

About Puget Sound Liberals

Opportunities, Petitions and Feedback

 

Commentaries from Our Members

Marcee Stone on Current Campaign Abuses*

Washingtonians Deserve Dignified Death

 

Liberals and Democrats Links to the Beef

Martin Luther King or Lyndon Johnson?*

Barack Obama’s Huge Victory*

Presidential Races Narrow: Giuliani and Edwards Quit*

After 50 years of Southern Racism, Populism Returns?

State and Local  Links to the Beef

Local Option Public Campaign Financing Passed House*

Adding More Rights To Domestic Partnerships

 

Nation and World  Links to the Beef

Predicting Stagflation*

More on Economic Stimulus*

State of the Union.  Bush’s Mess.  Our Nightmare.

 

Our Liberal Spirit

Swift Boating

 

Recommended Books

 

 

 

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 Independence

·       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

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.  Alice Roosevelt Longworth  Her other quotes.

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Calendar of Events

 

Friday, February 1 at 6:30 PM at the Rainier UU Center (4802 South Othello Street, Seattle) – Friday Earth Forum, featuring light snack, conversation and movie ‘The LA Bus Riders Union’.  For more.

 

Wednesday, February 6 at 5:30 PM and February 7 at Hilton Seattle (1301 6th Avenue, Seattle) – Emily’s List Candidate Training for Democratic Pro-Choice Women.  For more information.

 

Saturday, February 9 at 10 AM at Kirkland City Hall (123 Fifth Avenue, Kirkland) – 48th District Legislators town meeting.  REMEMBER to attend your Democratic Presidential Caucuses afterwards!

 

Saturday February 9, 2008 at 1:30 – Democratic Precinct Caucuses.  Find your caucus location.  More information about caucus (Video).


Sunday, February 10 at 7 PM at University of Washington Kane Hall Room 120 – Panel: The Effects of Uninsuranace on our Communities, with Jim McDermott, Mike Kreidler, and Brent Asplin, sponsored by Physicians for a National Health Program, Western Washington Chapter

 

Saturday, February 16 at 1 PM at East Shore Unitarian Universalist Church (12700 SE 32nd Street, Bellevue) -  Paul Loeb (Seattle author of Soul of a Citizen, Living with Conviction in a Cynical Time) will speak.  A follow up discussion group will meet on the following 3 Tuesdays at 7 PM.

 

Saturday, February 16 at 6 PM at Town Hall (1119 – 8th Avenue, Seattle) – Americans United for Separation of Church and State presents an evening with Michael Weinstein, author of With God on Our Side who is concerned with church-state issues confronting military personnel.

 

Monday, February 19 at 10 PM at St. Martin’s University Pavilion (5300 Pacific Avenue SE, Lacey) – Annual PCO/Party Activist Training, with special guest Montana Senator Jon Tester, $10 including lunch.  At 5 PM Crab Feed with prominent Democratic officials and legislators.  $40.  For more information and tickets.

 

Saturday, February 23 at 12:30 – 7:30 PM at University of Washington Kane Hall – Annual Washington ACLU Membership Conference, with Keynote address, workshops, Plenary, Reception and Film.  For more information.

 

Saturday, February 23 at 6:30 PM at Jim Simpson’s home (5236 South Mayflower, Seattle) – InSPIRE Potluck, movie ‘Sweet Crude: A Film about the Niger Delta’ and discussion Led by Sandi Cioffi. 

 

Saturday, February 23-24 at IBEW Hall (19802 62nd Ave S, Kent) – Democracy for America Grassroots Training, sponsored by Darcy Burner.  For more.  For more.

 

Saturday, March 22 at 10 AM at Bellevue City Hall (450 110th Avenue NE, Bellevue) – 48th District Legislators town meeting

 

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

 

Still time to register for February 1-3, 2008 Camp Wellstone Portland

 

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.

 

See the 20 minute video documentary: The Story of Stuff.

 

Learn about micro-targeting for political campaigns.

 

Learn about Working Assets, a phone company that donates to liberal advocacy groups.

 

Join GoPetition to easily create your own petitions. Great tool for advocacy groups.

 

Petitions and Donations

 

Ask your state legislators to support SB 6728 and HB 2770 to end abusive lending practices.

 

Ask our BLM to stop permitting drilling and ORVs to harm Utah wildlife.