Puget Sound Liberals Weekly Newsletter #116

Enhancing Freedom, Opportunity and Cooperation in Puget Sound and Beyond

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Our vision is hundreds of thousands of well-informed Puget Sound Liberals working together.

 

   2300 members                                                                April 4, 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

Blair Anundson on Safe Toys

Dave Miller on Separation of Church and State

Darcy Burner on Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq*

Linde Knighton on Primaries and Voting

Sharon Abreu on Opposing Brian Baird and Norm Dicks

Donald Smith: More Gas Tax and Less Sales Tax

Valerie Tarico on UCC Criticism of Bible Worship

 

Liberals and Democrats Links to the Beef

Prolonged Primary Race May Be Helping Democrats*

John McCain’s Foreign Policy Is Different than Bush’s*

Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy*

Needed: A Platform or a Movement?*

State and Local  Links to the Beef

Sightline offers Daily NW Sustainability Newsletter*

Washington CAN’s Legislative Priorities

 

Nation and World  Links to the Beef

Preventing Another National Nightmare*

Deregulation Has Devastated Our Economy*

China’s Economic Development is Increasing Costs

What’s Happening in Iraq?

 

Our Liberal Spirit

High Maintenance and Low Maintenance*

 

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

 

 

Two Quotes of the Week by Vaclav Havel

It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions.  It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of who we are and what we do in the world.  Only such a new understanding will allow us to develop new models of behavior, new scales of values and goals, and thereby invest in the global regulations, treaties and institutions with a new spirit and meaning.

 

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Calendar of Events

 

King County Democrats - LD Meetings           Some 2008 Legislature Lobby Days

 

Thurston County Progressive Net                 Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation

 

Alliance for Democracy                               Democratic Underground.Com                          

 

Town Hall Seattle Calendar                           Sierra Club Cascade Chapter Calendar          

       

Washington Public Campaigns Calendar         Conversation Cafe

 

Whatcom County Peace and Justice Calendar  Drinking Liberally                                        

 

Wallingford Neighbors for Peace and Justice – Friday Night Movies      Liberal films on PBS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Calendar of Events

 

Friday, April 4 at 7 PM at Rainier UU Center (835 Yesler Way, Seattle) – 2 Cartoon Documentaries: The Story of Stuff and Money as Debt preceded by coffee and dessert and followed by discussion.

 

Saturday, April 5 at 10 AM – Legislative District Caucuses.  For more information about King County Districts.

 

Monday, April 7 at 10:15 AM at Zones, Inc. (1102 – 15th Street SW, Auburn) – Governor Gregoire’s Campaign Kick-off.  For more.

 

Tuesday, April 8 at Noon at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church (3030 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue) – Presentation on Job Training and Education at Goodwill Industries.  Regular monthly meeting of Eastside Interfaith Social Concerns Council.

 

Wednesday, April 9 at 7 PM at Wallingford United Methodist Church (2115 North 42nd Street, Seattle) – Father Roy (founder of School of Americas Watch) reports on the struggle for peace in Latin America.

 

Friday, April 11 at 4:30 – 8 PM and Saturday, April 12 at 9:30 AM to 5 PM at Evergreen State College Tacoma Campus (1210 – 6th Avenue, Tacoma) – Workers’ Assembly on Immigration, Sponsored by Washington State Labor Council and others.  For more.

 

Friday, April 11 at 6 PM through Sunday, April 12 at 4 PM at Red Lion Hotel on the Columbia River, Vancouver – NW Regional Conference, Campaign for U.S. Department of Peace.  $50 and up, depending on income.  For more and to register.

 

Saturday, April 12 at 10 PM and Sunday at 11 PM at Washington State Convention and Trade Center (800 Convention Place, Level 4, Seattle) – greenfestival08.

 

Sunday, April 13 at 2 PM at West Seattle High School Gymnasium (3000 California Ave. SW, Seattle) – King County Convention.  For more.

 

Thursday, April 24 at 7 PM at Woodshed Studios (300 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle – Benefit Concert for Katrina victims, including discussion of community building by Aaron Dixon, 2006 U.S. Senate candidate.  Price $20

 

Friday, April 25 at 6:30 PM at Rick Hegdahl’s home (104 - 165th Avenue NE) – Lake Hills Liberals Salon, including Light Buffet and a discussion by Duff Badgley of a Climate Manifesto.  Bring beverage, fruit, cheese, crackers, etc

 

Saturday, April 26 at 1:30 PM at the New Everett Theatre (2911 Colby Avenue, Everett) – Forum: Universal Health Care – What Should It Be and How Do We Get It?  League of Women Voters, Health Care for All – Washington, Washington State Council of County and City Employees, Communities of Color Coalition and AAUW, Everett Branch.

 

Saturday, June 7 at 2 PM at Burlington Public Library (820 E. Washington Avenue, Burlington) - SiCKO Special Features and HR 676: The Single Payer Solution.  Sponsored by United for National Healthcare.  To help arrange this event.

 

Opportunities, Petitions and Feedback

 

Opportunities

 

See Opportunities for Liberals

 

Use Senator Barbara Boxers web tools.

 

Order Earth, the Sequel

 

View Movie: Stop-Loss about extending time of military service in Iraq.

 


 


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Petitions and Donations

 

Tell your member of congress to support solutions now for global warming.

 

Send a message to the Bush Administration to protect our redwood groves.

 

Tell your member of congress to say ‘no’ to the anti-immigration politics of hate.

 

Petition your Senators and Member of Congress to restore section 4 housing funds.

 

Tell John McCain to support the new GI Bill.

Feedback

 

Would any of you like to use the MS Access program that we use to email separate messages to 2300 people concerning our newsletter?

 

Commentaries From Our Members

 

Letter by Blair Anundson to Seattle PI Published 3/30/2008

 

No more toys? Absurd thought