Puget Sound Liberals Weekly Newsletter #150

Enhancing Freedom, Opportunity and Cooperation in Puget Sound and Beyond

Through informing and networking Liberals and Liberal Organizations.

 

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

 

   2800 members                                                               November 28, 2008                                                                                                                  

 

 

 

 

                                                     

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                        Table of Contents  *Featured Articles

 

About Puget Sound Liberals

Communication, Opportunities and Petitions

Share Your Thoughts with Obama through Change.Gov

 

Commentaries from Our Members

Jason Osgood for King County Director of Elections*

Kathy Pryor: Need not Choose Local vs. Organic Food?

Alan Durning: Our Opportunity for a Green Economy*

Richard Borkowski: SR-520 Option A is best

Chad Shue: Mark Hintz for State Democratic Chair

David Iles: Presidential Quotes About Big Money

 

Liberals and Democrats Links to the Beef

Barack Obama Preserves His Freedom*

DailyKos poll Reveals Responses to Obama Choices

 

State and Local  Links to the Beef

Do we need a WashChange.Gov?

My Favorite Advocacy Organizations*

EOI Wants to Build a Workable Economy for All

Poverty Action Network: Responsible Government

WPC Pushes Public Financing for Judicial Candidates

 

Nation and World  Links to the Beef

Is Immediate Congressional Action Required?

Will Henry Paulson Get Restoring Credit Right?

Let’s Not Allow Any Company to Be Too Big to Fail*

 

Our Liberal Spirit

Waiting for Ourselves

 

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

·       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

We are the ones we have been waiting for.  June Jordan, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Alice Walker, and Barack Obama (video).  Also see Alice Walker’s endorsement of Barack Obama.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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                           

 

Sierra Club Cascade Chapter Calendar           Cool State Washington

       

Washington Public Campaigns Calendar          Town Hall Seattle Calendar

 

Washington State Labor Council                    Whatcom County Peace and Justice Calendar 

 

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

Conversation Cafe      Drinking Liberally          Seattle NOW          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Calendar of Events

Sunday, November 30 at 5 PM at E.B Foote Winery (127-B SW 153rd Street, Burien) – Wine Tasting Fundraiser for Washington Public Campaigns. $20.  RSVP.

Tuesday, December 2 at 8 PM at Comedy Underground (109 South Washington Street, Seattle) – Fund Raiser for NARAL Pro-Choice Washington.  $12.  For More.

Thursday, December 4 at 6:30 PM at Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center (4649 Sunnyside Avenue North, Seattle on the 4th floor) – Washington Toxics Coalition Holiday Party.  RSVP.  For more.

Friday, December 5 at 6:30 PM at the Rainier UU Center (835 Yesler Way, Seattle) – Film screening and discussion ‘The Iron Wall’, a documentary about Israel’s settlements and wall.

 

Communication, Opportunities and Petitions

 

Communication with Our Members and Feedback

 

Share Your Thoughts with Obama through Change.Gov

 

Opportunities

Useful Websites: contacts, maps, community organizing tools, and more.

Access to jillions of political cartoons.

Download Michael Moore’s latest movie ‘Slacker Uprising’ for free.

Sign up for a free Brave New Films subscription to inform more people about the Real John McCain.

Download Sightline Institute’s climate policy primer ‘Cap and Trade 101’.  About Sightline.

Wellstone Actions tools of election protection.

 

Petitions and Donations

Tell our Attorney General to not use the Department of Justice to suppress Ohio voters.

Tell President Bush that contraception is not abortion.  

Tell Barack Obama to continue funding HIV/AIDs programs.

Tell Barack Obama to fund affordable housing.

Tell Obama and our congress to protect Alaska’s wild places.