Puget Sound Liberals Weekly Newsletter #130

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                        Table of Contents  *Featured Articles

 

About Puget Sound Liberals

Opportunities, Petitions and Feedback

 

Commentaries from Our Members

Steven Silverman: Where is Our Revolution?*

Dave Gamrath: Fund Other Priorities, Not Sports

Anne Koepsell: Save Our Hospice Programs*

Don Hopps: Need New Washington Farm Policy*

Marilyn Watkins: Young Adults Face Many Difficulties

 

Liberals and Democrats Links to the Beef

Lies About Liberals*

Paul Begala also Attacks Conservatives

Are Democrats Wimps?*

Politics is like Football*

I Am an Educator, Not a Candidate

 

State and Local  Links to the Beef

Washington State Gov’t Revenues and Expenditures*

Sports Teams Should Be Publicly Owned

Will Dave Reichert Embrace Barack Obama?

 

Nation and World  Links to the Beef

Barack Obama’s Global Warming Plan*

Commodity Prices: Market or Speculation Produced?

Four Dollar Gas Isn’t All Bad

Memorable Bush Moments

Costs of our Iraq Occupation

Will Our Courts Block Liberal Reforms?

 

Our Liberal Spirit

Our Actions and Our Luck

 

Recommended Books

 

 

 

 

Our Political Values

 

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

·       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

 

 

Washington State’s 4 Major Needs

·       Federal Funding for Health and Education

·       A Progressive Income Tax

·       Public Campaign Financing

·       Replacing Republican Legislators

 

Quote of the Week

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us …  Charles Dickens (1812-70), A Tale of Two Cities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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      Drinking Liberally                             

 

Washington State Labor Council                     Whatcom County Peace and Justice Calendar 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Calendar of Events

July 5, 6, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 20 at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center (44048 Delridge Way SW, Seattle) – Edge Theatre Ensemble presents Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and her Children.  For tickets.

Tuesday, July 15 at 6:30 at Holy Family Catholic Church (5315 Tieton Drive, Yakima) – Washington Health Care Caucus. Sponsored by Healthy Washington Coalition.  For info or carpool.

Thursday, July 17 at noon at WaMu Theater at Qwest Field (800 Occidental Avenue South, Seattle) – Governor Christine Gregoire Fundraiser with Michelle Obama.  $200 and up.

Thursday, July  31st from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Sammamish Public Library (825 - 228th Avenue NE, Sammamish) – Dinner and ISSUES IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY" Discussion Group with presentation by Darcy Burner Campaign representative.  Hosted by 5th District Democrats and Democrats of Inglewood Neighborhood.

Friday, July 25 at 7 PM at Gibson Hall (105 Newport Way, Issaquah) – American Democracy Movie Night.  This timely feature examines how corporate globalization of food threatens small farmers in developing countries and the U.S. and contributes to worldwide hunger despite an overabundance of food..  Hosted by 5th Legislative District Democrats.

 

Barbara Rader of Black Widow Web Development created our Puget Sound Liberals Website, to which I can easily add, modify and remove files.  Learn more about this unique company, which offers a 50% discount for organizations that promote social justice and environmental stewardship.  Dave Thomas

 

Opportunities, Petitions and Feedback

 

Feedback

 

I spend as much time finding commentaries and creating links to them as I do writing my own commentaries.  Do you use selected links, or am I wasting my time?  Dave Thomas

 

Opportunities

See What the Iraq Occupation has cost us to this minute.

How Would You Spend $3 Trillion instead of Iraq?

Try MoveOn’s new game: What’s the difference between President Bush and Senator John McCain?

Wellstone Action provides organizing tools online.

Wellstone Action canvassing instructions

Take a quiz concerning how green is your vacation.

See the Story of Stuff (video).

Join Health Care for All to promote quality, affordable health care for all.

See lots of videos of Barack Obama’s speeches and appearances.

Barack Obama invites you to join in writing our Democratic Party’s platform.  

Did you see Barack and his family playing Dagwood and Blondie, with Michelle and 10 year old daughter Malia picking on Barack? (video)

Do you want a job with Russ Feingold’s 2008 Patriot Corps?

 

Petitions and Donations

Endorse the Global Marshall Plan proposed by the Network of Spiritual Progressives.

Join the ACLU in telling congress members to oppose FISA immunity for telecoms.  For more.

Tell our members of Congress to pass HR 676, non-profit Medicare for All.

Tell the U.N. Security Council member countries to protect Darfur people.

 

Commentaries From Our Members

 

Where is Our Revolution?

Adapted from Steven Silverman’s Blog

 

I recently read our Declaration of Independence almost as a modern document. It struck me that many of the statements used to build the case for declaring independence King George III could easily be adapted to apply to George W. Bush.  "To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world."