Glens Falls/Saratoga 2nd Anniversary Meetup Reminder
Hello Everyone;

In this update:

1. 2nd Anniversary Meetup with Saratoga Meetup
2. A special guest
3. DFA Video
4. DFA Social Security Agenda
5. In This Together and Town Meeting
6. Secure Voting
7. Dean Update
8. Links


1. 2nd Anniversary Meetup
This Wednesday at the Rockhill Bakehouse Cafe in downtown Glens Falls at 7pm we will be holding a special 2nd Anniversary Dean/Democracy For America Meetup. It will be a busy night. For this occasion we will be welcoming members of the Saratoga Springs Meetup! This will be a chance to connect with them.

To get to the Cafe, go to Exit 18 of the Northway. Turn East into Glens Falls. Continue East past a couple of lights until you see the Hannaford Supermarket on the left. Go past the market to a fork in the road at the Stewart's store; bear right , through another light and past the Post Office and the Glens Falls Hospital. Past the Hospital, the Rockhill Bakehouse Cafe is on the left at the intersection with a light just before the main intersection in the center of town; it's a low brick building with picture windows and a sign out front.

2. A special guest

We will have a special guest who is considering whether or not to run against Rep. John Sweeney. She will be coming to meet us and, most importantly, at this very early stage, learn from all of you what you all think the critical issues facing our area are. This is our chance at the very beginning to help a potential candidate shape what a campaign will be all about, which is unusual, but a great vote of confidence in all of us!

3. DFA Video

We used to have videos from the Dean campaign regularly, but we haven't really had one in a year; but we will tonight and it, too, has a surprise guest! Drew Monthie is bringing his projector so we will have a great view.

4. DFA Social Security Agenda

We will be discussing DFA's national Save Social Security initiative, using the Social Security stories we have been collecting, and organizing action for later in the month.

5. In This Together and Town Meeting

The In This Together Coalition is organizing a Town Meeting in Saratoga Springs on the 25th. Rep. Sweeney, who refuses to commit himself, has been invited. There will be an empty chair debate if he doesn't come, so this is an action we really want to get people to go to; it should be fun, to boot!

6. Secure Voting

We don't want to forget the issue of secure voting is still pending. We need secure optically scanned paper ballots for New York State! If you haven't phoned your local State Senator or Assembly member, your call is still needed!

7. Dean Update

People are asking me what is going on with The Governor. Dean is continuing his grassroots strategy, traveling around the country, especially in the "red states." It really does seem that if an event doesn't happen in Manhattan or D.C. it drops off the national media radar, but local media covers these events faithfully and they are clearly having great impact around the country. We are going to start to see the effect soon of this continuing grassroots effort. Arkansas is next: Dean In Arkansas


8. Links

There is a lot of interesting and encouraging stuff coming out:

First, if you want ammo for any economic argument with a Republican, check out Michael Kinsley's piece in the Washington Post, Democratic Superiority By The Numbers. We all know by now, as Lakoff points out, that frames trump facts, but if it comes down to facts, these are devastating. If people really grasped this, the Republicans would be looking at another forty years in the wilderness:
Democratic Superiority By The Numbers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20059-2005Apr1.html

A online open source polling project has been assembling a consensus document of what liberals and progressives stand for: Principles Project


For those still upset by the Republicans handling of the Shiavo case, check out
Theocracy Watch

Seymour Hersh has been speaking all across the country on how Bush has lost contact with reality:
Hersh

And finally, we've probably heard about the North Creek wind turbine project. There's a fascinating dKos page on "green" energy that prominently mentions this project.
Wind Power

Well known author and environmentalist Bill McKibben weighs in on green energy and wind power:
McKibben



See you Wednesday!


Larry
- posted by Larry Dudley @ 12:13 AM