Tricounty DFA Update: Meeting Reminder, more
Hello Everyone;

In this update for December 1st, 2008:

1. Meeting Wednesday
2. Obama Transition Page
3. Washington County Dem Holiday Party
4. Which Direction Obama?
5. Rockhill Film Fest


1. Meeting Wednesday

Don't forget our monthly Greater Glens Falls DFA meeting this Wednesday, December 3rd, at 7pm at the Rockhill Bakehouse Cafe in downtown Glens Falls. Last month we mainly celebrated and savored, but need to talk a bit more seriously about the future: specifically, we may want to join in nationwide Obama house parties on the 12/12-12/13.

The Cafe is located on the corner of Elm and Exchange Streets and Hudson Avenue, one block east of the roundabout in downtown Glens Falls.

2. Obama Transition Page

In case you haven't seen it, President-Elect Obama has a transition team webpage up at http://change.gov/ with lots of info on new appointments and what the transition is doing.


3. Washington County Dem Holiday Party

The Washington County Democratic Holiday Party is this Thursday, December 4th, at 7:00pm at the Rice Mansion Inn, Cambridge, NY. Food and drinks are included for $30, with catering by Spoonful Catering. Please contact Judy Doonan immediately if you want to go at 692-7215 or judy@judydoonan.com so that they can order enough food and beverages!


4. Which Direction Obama?

There has been considerable discussion of what direction Obama is taking with some of the surprisingly conservative appointments he has been making: there is reason to think he "plans on using conservatives to carry out progressive policies, and cal it pragmatism." A really interesting view by Tom Edsall and worth a read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/29/battle-royale-center-righ_n_147072.html


5. Rockhill Film Fest

The Rockhill Cafe Progressive Saturday Film Fest Continues:

SAT DEC 6 7:00 pm SATURDAY SCREENINGS Free.
THE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR (2004) 101 min. RT Rating = N/A
A beautiful, powerful and deeply-moving documentary about the life of Desmond T. Doss, a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for acts of incredible bravery during World War II. Although classified as a conscientious objector for his religious beliefs as a Seventh Day Adventist against carrying a weapon or working on Saturday, he wanted to be called a "conscientious cooperator," not an objector. He refused the automatic deferment available to him since he worked in a naval shipyard. Instead, he signed up to join the military and asked to be put on the frontlines to care for the wounded.

SAT DEC 13 7:00 pm SATURDAY SCREENINGS Free.
KING CORN (2006) Aaron Woolf 90 min. RT Rating = 95 %
A feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat — and how we farm.


Thanks, everyone!

Larry

Labels: Democracy For America, Democracy For The Greater Glens Falls Area, DFA, Obama, Rockhill Bakehouse Cafe

- posted by Larry Dudley @ 11:37 PM