Progressive Democrat Issue 138: THOUGHTS

Another busy week. This week I have LOTS of stuff I am asking you to pay attention to. I hope everyone has the chance to do one or more of these actions since many of them are coming down to a crunch time.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

REVISITING THE KATRINA 11

MOVEON.Org FIGHTING FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN

GLOBAL WARMING ACCELERATING: Keep fighting for our future!

PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATS: Primary Elections

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Presidential Power

VIRGINIA FOCUS: Virginia Organizing Project

NY STATE FOCUS: A fellow blogger running for office

NY CITY FOCUS: Some upcoming events

COLORADO FOCUS: Colorado Veterans for Peace

Revisiting the Katrina 11: Targeting the Worst Republicans

Liza's recent Culture Kitchen article on a humorous side to Republican Joe Barton's (TX-6) opposition to healthcare for Amreica's children rang a bell for me. I remember this Joe Barton. His current crusade is denying Amrerica's children healthcare, but in the past he has been cold-hearted in a different way. He was one of the Katrina 11, the 11 Republicans who voted “No” on the bill that Congress approved and Bush signed to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. These are the cold-hearted bastards who would willingly see Americans die for the sake of more tax cuts for the wealthy and for Halliburton profits.

I have a long memory, even for fast moving politics. I have yet to forgive the Katrina 11 (really the Katrina 10 since we defeated one of them in 2006...maybe even the Katrina 9 if we count one who moved from Congress to Governor). I plan on making the Katrina 11 the focus of my 2008 efforts. Sounds like Joe Barton is the one to start with.

Joe Barton is one of those cold-hearted bastards who put Halliburton and tax breaks for the wealthy before the needs of Katrina victims. Only now his target is also America's children. But even THAT isn't new. Barton was one of the Republicans who worked so hard to block the Combating Autism Act in 2006. His actions were so deceptive and so awful, that Don and Diedre Imus (no left wingers themselves) were pissed off and offended. Dierdre Imus called Barton a "snake" and "liar," feeling he broke his promises regarding the Autism bill. So Barton has a history of right wing extremism when it comes to America's children.

But Barton is more than just a cold-hearted bastard who refuses to help children and Katrina victims. He is also anti-science. He has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from oil and gas industries then, when he was chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, he proceeded to go after climatologists whose work helped us understand global warming. Joe Barton has been bought and sold by the oil industry and has become one of their main attack dogs against scientists. As a scientist myself with a wife who is a climatologist, I am probably as pissed about Barton's anti-science attacks as the Imus family is about Barton's anti-children stands. The Union of Concerned Scientists discussed this back in 2005. Here is a quote from their statement:

The scientific community has weighed in strongly. The National Academy of Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science—which rarely take stands on Congressional investigations—have sent letters of concern to Rep. Barton, as have 20 leading climate scientists. Fellow legislators of both parties also have criticized Barton’s approach as “misguided and illegitimate” and “a transparent effort to bully and harass climate change experts who have reached conclusions with which you disagree.” Representative Boehlert (R-NY), chairman of the House Science Committee, and Representative Waxman (D-CA), ranking member on the House Government Reform Committee, both have submitted letters protesting the tone and content of this investigation.

Rep. Barton’s motivation for the investigation is unclear, other than his long-standing ties to the fossil fuel industry and the hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions he has received from ExxonMobil and other companies with fossil fuel interests.

In addition to the gas and oil industries, the top donors to Barton are energy companies. And what does he do in return? As chairman of the House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee, he inserted special provisions into 2002 energy legislation to let near-bankrupt Westar Energy split off its regulated utility from its heavily indebted other businesses--a split that would facilitate saddling ratepayers (that's regular Americans) with $1 billion Westar's non-utility debts. So he is MORE than willing to let a failed energy company leach off taxpayers, but is not willing to give money to poor black families who lost all they had in hurricane Katrina. Please see this article for Barton's Westar scandal as well as other aspects of his disgusting corruption. Public Citizen wrote the Department of Justice about what they call the "Westar bribery scandal" back in 2004. They specifically include Joe Barton, along with Tom DeLay, in their complaint. An excerpt from Public Citizen's complaint:

The basis of the original complaint stemmed from internal communications released by Westar Energy (Westar) in May 2002. These communications explicitly detail efforts by the named Westar executives and Bornemann, their chief D.C. lobbyist, to buy “a seat at the table” in congressional dealings through a schedule of $63,000 in campaign contributions. The particular “seat” they sought was in congressional negotiations over the energy bill, where Westar was seeking the repeal of the Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA) and the inclusion of a provision that would exempt the company from Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) oversight if PUHCA were repealed. The executives planned a major financial restructuring of its operations and did not want the SEC to interfere in the plan when the executives sought to allegedly secretly enrich themselves.

The repeal was included in the House-passed energy bill that year. In the subsequent House-Senate conference negotiations on that legislation, the special exemption for Westar from SEC regulation was quietly inserted by Rep. Barton, with the support of then-Majority Whip DeLay and former Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Billy Tauzin.

But new documents, released as part of an investigation by the House ethics committee, further implicate Westar’s D.C. lobbyist Bornemann and top Westar executives in this plan to make campaign contributions for the purpose of obtaining legislative access and preferential treatment. This new evidence warrants a formal investigation into possible violations of the anti-bribery statute by the Westar executives, its lobbyist and the House congressional leaders who may have been influenced by the plan.

For being such a cold-hearted bastard (even though he might have a sense of humor about it) for repeatedly hurting America's children, for his refusal to help Katrina victims even as he helped failed energy companies and Halliburton with massive amounts of taxpayer money, and for his anti-science stands, I place Joe Barton at the top of my Katrina 11 list and I ask you to help me defeat him (and other Katrina 11 Republicans) in 2008. Early money can help defeat these most extreme of right wing fanatics.

MoveOn.org Fights for America's Children

Now that the Republicans have once again shown themselves to be the Scrooge Party, denying millions of children health insurance because it would cost a mere week's worth of the Iraq war cost, MoveOn.org is once again initiating an ad campaign to counter right wing extremist propoganda. Here is the latest ad by MoveOn.org:



If you want to see this get on TV, please give a contribution to fight for children's healthcare in America.

Accelerating Global Warming: Act Now.

This last week was Global Warming Blog Action Day, so I think it is appropriate to repost this. All of it still applies and, to be honest, the whole thing is still freaking me out. We are further along the global warming curve than we thought and we probably have LESS than ten years to deal with it. For my son's sake, I really hope we can act fast enough to mitigate this problem.

Martin Frobisher in 1576 was one of the first navagators to try and find a Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He was 431 years too early.

This year, global warming has hit the Arctic sea ice harder than ever before, and the Arctic ice has melted to record lows...opening up the Northwest Passage to navagation.

From the Guardian:

The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer and levels of sea ice in the region now stand at record lows, scientists have announced.

Experts say they are "stunned" by the loss of ice, with an area almost twice as big as the UK disappearing in the last week alone.

So much ice has melted this summer that the Northwest passage across the top of Canada is fully navigable, and observers say the Northeast passage along Russia's Arctic coast could open later this month.

Ummmm...let me just say holy shit!

I have been nudging everyone to get busy and get active because we only have 10 years to deal with global warming, according to the more optimistic climate scientists. Well, the more pessimistic climate scientists think we may already be irreversibly fucked, to use the technical term. For my son's sake I sure hope the 10 year window holds and that we start fucking doing something. But what is increasingly clear is that the consequences of global warming are coming on faster than the most expert scientists have predicted. The current debate among climate scientists is not whether global warming is happening, but whether it is coming fast or REALLY fast and whether we have any time left to deal with it.

Please folks. Don't let history look back at our generation and brand us the biggest fuck ups in human history. The warning signs are all there. It is all in place. Get busy at all levels, personal choices, government action, spending choices...get busy and let's all stop being history's biggest fuckups!

PLEASE, join me in focusing on forests for the rest of this year.

Or join me in pressuring financial agencies to invest in alternative energy, not coal.

Change your energy supplier to an all green supplier. We did a couple of years ago and it costs us about fifty cents a month more...but it greatly reduces our carbon footprint.

Or offset your carbon usage by contributing to building green energy production on Native American land, providing jobs as well as clean energy.

Or at the bare minimum, get compact fluorescent bulbs! That is a bare minimum. AND you even save money.

If you want to do more and save more money, cut back on meat and smoking. That will help too.

If you think we have time to procrastinate, you are wrong. If we act now, most climate scientists (though not all!) think we can mitigate the damage to our standard of living. But if we procrastinate, future generations will hate us for condemning them to a much worse life than we have.

A Personal Appeal: primaries that I care about

I hate fundraising. I really do. But sometimes I get so angry that I feel I need to do things I don't like for the greater good.

Two things have triggered my desire to help out two specific candidates in Democratic primaries for 2008: 1. he inability of the Democrats to really stand up to Bush even with a House majority (and yes, I know part of this is because we DON'T have a Senate majority) and 2. a local fiasco imposed on Brooklyn by our local, rather corrupt Democratic Party.

We have, overall, a pretty good Democratic Party nationally. I like a lot of our new Congressional reps. They have been active, engaged with the voters and generally quite progressive. But there are still enough spineless Democrats around that we still can't get stuff done. Sometimes we need to fight fights within the Democratic party.

This came most into focus when my local, pretty unsavory Democratic Party decided they wanted to get someone off their backs, so they pushed him through a low turnout judicial election to make him a Civil Court judge. Problem is, the person they made a judge is a known homophobe and was rated as unqualified by the NY Bar Assn. In fact, there is no evidence he ever practiced law. You can read about this disgusting fiasco here. But now, the same group of corrupt politicians is trying to push aside a friend of mine to force their own candidate (one of those who supported the homophobe for judge) into Congress.

In 2006, a friend, Steve Harrison, ran against a Bush Republican for the NY-13 seat. He was outspend 10:1 and got no help from the DCCC because they thought it was unwinnable. Steve lost, but he did get 43% of the vote. Even the DCCC was impressed and was quoted as saying "Steve Harrison proved to us that this seat is winnable." Steve is trying again. This time he is starting early and has the DCCC considering helping him out. The only thing that could ruin this is having to squander resources in a Democratic Primary. That would almost certainly save the skin of the Republican. Steve is a great guy and is about as strongly against the Iraq war as you can get. He believes the sooner we can get out, the better. We need him in Washington!

Well, one of those who endorsed the homophobe for judge, Dominic Recchia, is running against Steve in the primary. The local, corrupt machine is backing Recchia, meaning Steve is now suddenly the underdog yet again.

You can read a quote from the NY Times endorsement of Steve in 2006.

You can read my own impression of Steve from 2006.

I am asking for some help getting two good Democrats running in tough primaries elected. I have reason to hope. Why? Because not too long ago I helped out a progressive Democrat running against a well-financed Insurance Company Shill incumbent for the Democratic nomination for Mississippi Insurance Commissioner just a month or so ago. The progressive underdog won! I am hoping that we can do this two more times in 2008 (at least!).

I have put together an Act Blue page highlighting Democratic primaries. So far I have two races on it. Steve Harrison's run for NY-13 and Mike Pera's run in IL-3. Steve's situation is that of an honest, down-to-earth guy running against a corrupt party hack....who then has to face a Bush Republican. Pera's situation is going up against an incumbent Democrat who is anti-choice, anti-stem cell research and pro-Iraq war. If we want to improve our Democratic Party and better fight the Republicans, these two primaries are very key. Please visit my new Act Blue site, read what I have to say about each candidate, and PLEASE give a donation. Early money can make all the difference. Enough early money could even head off Recchia's challenge in the NY-13 race, since corrupt though the local machine is, they are practical and know when to let a fight go. I appreciate any help you can give and if you know anyone else who wants to strengthen the spine of the Democratic Party, please suggest to them that these two primaries are a good place to start.

Thanks

Abraham Lincoln: The Powers of the President to Invade

A friend sent this some time ago, figuring it was relavent to our current situation. Abraham Lincoln's view of a President's power to invade other nations:

To WILLIAM H. HERNDON, Esq. February 15, 1848.— LETTER TO WILLIAM H. HERNDON. WASHINGTON, February 15, 1848.

Dear William :

Your letter of the 29th January was received last night. Being exclusively a constitutional argument, I wish to submit some reflections upon it in the same spirit of kindness that I know actuates you. Let me first state what I understand to be your position. It is that if it shall become necessary to repel invasion, the President may, without violation of the Constitution, cross the line and invade the territory of another country and that whether such necessity exists in any given case the President is the sole judge.

Before going further consider well whether this is or is not your position. If it is, it is a position that neither the President himself, nor any friend of his, so far as I know, has ever taken. Their only positions are— first, that the soil was ours when the hostilities commenced ; and second, that whether it was rightfully ours or not, Congress had annexed it, and the President for that reason was bound to defend it; both of which are as clearly proved to be false in fact as you can prove that your house is mine. The soil was not ours, and Congress did not annex or attempt to annex it. But to return to your position. Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose, and you allow him to make war at pleasure. Study to see if you can fix any limit to his power in this respect, after having given him so much as you propose. If to-day he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him Î You may say to him, " I see no probability of the British invading us "; but he will say to you, " Be silent: I see it, if you don't."

The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood. Write soon again.

Yours truly, A. LINCOLN. (as a Congressman)

Virginia Focus: Virginia Organizing Project Events

The Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) is a statewide grassroots organization dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering people in local communities to address issues that affect the quality of their lives. VOP especially encourages the participation of those who have traditionally had little or no voice in our society. By building relationships with individuals and groups throughout the state, VOP strives to get them to work together, democratically and non-violently, for change.

El Proyecto de Organizar Virginia (VOP) es una organizacion de base a nivel estatal dedicada a luchar encontra de la injusticia dandole poder a la gente en las comunidades locales para que puedan exponer sus preocupaciones que les afecta en su vida diaria. Como una organizacion no partidista, VOP especialmente fomenta la participacion de aquellos que tradicionalmente han tenido poca o ninguna voz en nuestra sociedad. Estableciendo relacion con grupos o personas individuales atraves del estado, el VOP sigue luchando para que trabajemos juntos, democraticamente sin violencia por cambio social.

October 22, 2007, 5:30 p.m.
Petersburg Library - 137 S. Sycamore Street-- 2nd floor meeting room
Petersburg Virginia Organizing Project Chapter Meeting

November 16, 2007, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Westminster Presbyterian Church, Charlottesville
Social Justice Bowl IV. For more information, contact Sally Bastian at 434-984-4655 x229 or bastian@virginia-organizing.org.

November 17 - January 18, 2007
Shalom Retreat House,Hanover County
Virginia Organizing Project Leadership Institute. For more information, contact Cathy Woodson at cwoodson@virginia-organizing.org or (804) 261-7497.

November 26, 2007, 5:30 p.m.
Petersburg Library - 137 S. Sycamore Street-- 2nd floor meeting room
Petersburg Virginia Organizing Project Chapter Meeting

New York State Focus: A fellow blogger running for office

My Dear Friends,

I am running for the office of Town Supervisor in the town of Stephentown, Rensselaer County, NY.

It's all Howard Dean's fault.



Here we are three and a half years later and we are preparing to turn control of ostensibly solid republican Stephentown over to Democrats. Good things start with just those first few steps.

We have a blog web site for the Stephentown Democratic Committee (contributions gratefully accepted).

And I've just created a candidate page over at DFA-Link.

Shortly after Gov. Dean ended his Presidential campaign we hosted him for a speech in Albany, NY. During this speech he urged, as he always did, that we each look around us and see how we could get involved. Run for office yourself, he said. Or, join your local democratic committee. Or, work on behalf of a local candidate.

For me the opening was obvious. There was no Democratic Committee in my town and hadn't been in about 8 years. So I spoke with a few folks I knew in town that felt as I did and we formed a committee. Our first task was to win the town for John Kerry in 2004.

86.4% of Democrats turned out to vote in 2004. 78.8% of the entire town showed up to vote. George Bush won this very Republican town but only by a total of 38 votes, 692-654, when it was all totaled up.

In 2003 the republicans ran unopposed in town elections with votes totals ranging from 343-0 to 411-0.

In 2005 we held our local town and county elections. We ran 2 young men for Town Council and both won by almost a 2 to 1 margin.

Chris Demick - Stephentown Town Councilman (496 votes - 262)




P.J. Roder - Stephentown Town Councilman (459 - 298)




Incumbent Democrtic Town Justice Cyril Grant ran on both lines with 375 votes on the Democratic line to 373 on the Republican line.




We also elected a man named Bob Jacon, a Dean supporter, to a newly created County Judgeship. This position had been created at the behest of State Senate Majority Leader and County Boss, Joe Bruno, so he could shuffle his hand-picked, incompetent, District Attorney into it. We beat him in the town and the rest of the county.

In 2006 we elected Kirsten Gillibrand to Congress...




(of course we had a little help)



... and Eliot Spitzer to Governor of New York by overwhelming margins.




This year we are running a slate of 4 candidates for Town Offices:



Terry Sykes for Highway Superintendent



Bill Jennings for Town Council



Scott McEwan for Town Council



and me, Andrew C. White, for Town Supervisor.




The Supervisors seat is an open one as 16 year incumbent Mike Angley is retiring. First term Councilman, Tom Sherman, is running on the Republican line against me for Supervisor. Incumbent Councilman Larry Eckhardt will be joined by Independence Party member Mark Prescott for Town Council. Incumbent Highway Superintendent Neil Gardner is also running for re-election... for now at least.

"All Politics is Local" a wise and experienced politician once said. He was right. Another, currently Chair of the Democratic National Committee has strongly advocated a policy of challenging Republicans everywhere.

Stephentown is considered a Republican bastion. A small rural hilltown with about 1750 voters. There are just under 700 Republicans, just over 400 Democrats, a smattering of third party members, and about 460 unaffiliated voters. Ever since we started working this town in 2004 those unaffiliated voters have shown where their real interests are by voting Democratic at all levels of government.

In fact a small but significant number of Republicans in town have been consistently voting Democratic as the Republican party has moved further and further away from the values that it once held.

Stephentown (pdf map) is in the southeast corner of Rensselaer County, the home of the highest ranking Republican left in New York, Uncle Joe Bruno. Rensselaer County has a roughly 50-50 split of Democratic and Republican voters but is dominated by Republicans at the town, city, county, and state levels of government due to Joe Bruno's control of the purse strings and his minions manipulation and control of third parties (and, on occasion, some demorats as well).

We are on the verge of taking the most Republican of towns out from under Uncle Joe thereby setting the stage for the end of Uncle Joe's career and obstruction of Gov. Eliot Spitzer and reform minded Democratic State Senators from actually working on solving the dysfunction of New York State government.

At the same time we strengthen the hold of newly elected Democratic Representative Kirsten Gillibrand on her district.

It's all local.

Locally, what this campaign is really all about, is modern day republicanism writ small. Cronyism, closed government for the benefit of a few rather than all citizens in town. As seen in the article linked above there appears to be some serious issues of possible illegal activity, corruption, fraud, unpermitted mining, cronyism, no-bid contracts, etc in the Highway Department. The State Attorney General's office has just accepted a plea deal with one player and appears to be poised to charge the incumbent Highway Superintendent. The Town Council has previously looked the other way until various parts started to become public. Attempts by the new Democratic members to reign in the abuses have been shunted to the side and they have been locked out of the decision making process.

Stephentown is a beautiful rural hilltown...




... with some of the best people. We have a rich history, a great location boarding a state park, ski resorts, Shaker History, Revolutionary War battle sites, a great hiking trail along the Taconic Ridge, attractions across the border in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and an easy drive to both Pittsfield, Mass, and Albany, NY.

Yet we take advantage of none of it. We have very few businesses in town. People driving through see no reason to stop and browse around or spend their money here. There are few job opportunities for our kids.

And as my opponent was forced to admit at the Town Budget hearing Monday night... "We have no plan."

We do... and we intend to change all that. Along with the other folks on our slate...



... we intend to take a close look at what has worked in other successful small towns. We'll look at what natural resources we have. We'll solicit input from everyone in the community on what they would like to see Stephentown become as we approach our 225th (2009) and 250th (2034) Anniversaries. We'll work hard to development that vision into a plan for the town. Small business, community development, opportunities for our kids, ourselves, and our vistors.

This is what it is all about. We can do it here. And if we can do it here. You can do it whereever you are.



UPDATE:
I have been endorsed by my U.S. Representative Kirsten Gillibrand:

"Andrew White is an innovative, selfless, and strong leader for his community. He is a dedicated, thoughtful, and passionate individual who will work tirelessly for you everyday and in your best interest. "

Kirsten E. Gillibrand
(NY 20)

NYC FOCUS: A Few Events

Klezmer, African and Bluegrass music all in one evening! Fighting for a better Brooklyn!

The Klezmatics, Kakande, and Demolition String Band
Thursday, November 8
Doors at 7pm
Brooklyn Lyceum
227 4th Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 857-4816
$20 in advance, $25 at the door
For online tickets, go to http://www.dddb.net/klezmatics

Several local merchants, such as Erica’s Rugelach and Maria’s Mexican Bistro, will be donating food, baked goods, and drinks to the show.


Lambda Independent Democrats Holds a Forum on Atlantic Yards

I got this from Lambda Independent Democrats:

LID and the Atlantic Yards - Oct. 22nd

LID will be taking a hard look at the Atlantic Yards proposal. Until now, the club has remained neutral, but the time has come to take a position. We have invited Councilmember Latitia James (confirmed) and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz (unconfirmed) to talk about the pros and cons of this project. Please join us on October 22nd, 7:30pm at Camp Friendship located at 339 8 Street, just below 6th Avenue.


End the War Now—National Day of Action
Friday, 28 September 2007

Join thousands from all over New York and northern New Jersey in a massive march and rally to end the war!

Assemble at 12 noon
Broadway, north of Union Square (permit pending)
March at 1:00pm

On October 27th, people from all walks of life will gather in 11 sites around the country for massive regional demonstrations against the war. These nationally coordinated events are being built and mobilized by groups across the country. The people of this country want the war to end, but Washington has failed to take decisive action. With each passing month, nearly 100 servi- cepeople and countless more Iraqis are killed, some 12 billion of our tax dollars are spent, and the death and destruction continue. Our communities—from New Orleans to Minneapolis—are neglected and suffer the consequences. From Vermont to California, from Florida to Wisconsin, the people have spoken: We want this war to end, and we want it to end now!

Endorsers include:

DFNYC
1199SEIU
32BJ
Bergen Peace and Justice Coalition
Long Island Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives
Metro APWU
New York Metro Area Postal Union
NJ Peace Council
North Manhattan Neighbors for Peace and Justice
NYC-UFPJ
Peace Action of New York State
Peace and Justice Coalition (NJ)
U.S. Labor Against the War
United Federation of Teachers (UFT)


MEET AND SUPPORT NORMAN SIEGEL for NYC PUBLIC ADVOCATE

LINDA STEIN & ANN SNITOW

cordially invite you to a fundraiser in honor of


NORMAN SIEGEL

Please come meet the People’s Advocate, and show your support for his campaign for NYC Public Advocate.

Wednesday, October 29th, 2007, 6:00 to 8:00pm

at the studio of Linda Stein 100 READE STREET

Bet. West Broadway & Church St. (Reade is one block north of Chambers St.)

Subways: A or C to Chambers St.; R or W to City Hall;

1, 2, 3 to Chambers St.; 4, 5, 6 to Brooklyn Bridge

PARKING ON SOME SIDE STREETS AT 6 PM; ON READE STREET AT 7 PM

Suggested Contribution: $25 to $250


Drinks & Refreshments will be served

RSVP to Theresa Canter at 212-448-6271


Democracy for NYC November 2007 Linkup
Thursday, 04 October 2007

WEDNESDAY,November 7, 7PM

East Village/LES, *New Linkup* Julip, 9 Avenue A, betwn Houston and 2nd Street, with host Tracey Denton 7pm

Upper West Side, The Parlour, 250 West 86th(btwn Broadway & West End), with host Merle McEldowney,7pm

West Village, Kettle of Fish, 59 Christopher St. (near 7thAve.) with hosts Abhishek Mistry and Judith Ren-Lay,7pm

Upper East Side, Molly Pitcher's Ale House, 1641 2ndAvenue @85th Street, with host Barbara Pearl, 7pm.

Astoria, Queens, at Sanford Diner, 30-13 Broadway, withhosts Costa Constantinides and Jeremiah Frei-Pearson.Note: this Linkup will begin at 7:30.

Sunnyside, Queens, at The Grind, 39-24 Queens Blvd. in the back room, with host Dan Jacoby, 7pm

Bayside, Queens, The First Edition, 41-08 Bell Blvd, right near the LIRR stop, with host Steve Behar of Democrats for New Politics, 7pm

Park Slope, Brooklyn, Ozzies, 249 Fifth Avenue with host Josh Skaller, 7pm

Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, Wycoff Bennett Homestead, 1669East 22nd Street, 7pm with host Annette Mont

Colorado Focus: Colorado Veterans for Peace

In Boulder and Denver, American Veterans are getting together to push for peace. Check out their website or contact them directly:

Colorado Veterans for Peace

Chapter 120 Boulder

Chapter 079 Denver

Our mission is to bring peace to the nation, the world, and our fellow veterans, through community service, education, and political action.

Join us for our regular potluck social and business meeting at 6:00 PM on the first Sunday of every month, at the Arborwood Condominums’ Club House, 3250 O'Neal Circle, in Boulder, Colorado.

or

Next Denver meeting on October 16th at 7:00 PM at the AFSC office, 901 W. 14th Street

For further information call

George Newell - 303-440-0942

Frank Bessinger - 720-939-5057

Tom Kelly –303-789-3156

Or Email info@covfp.org ask to be added to our mailing list, even if you previously signed up.