Political Cortex: Progressive Democrat Newsletter Issue 138

Progressive Democrat Newsletter Issue 138

By mole333
10/22/2007 06:53:32 AM EST

The Progressive Democrat Newsletter grew out of the frustration of the 2004 election. Having organized protests against the Republican Convention, I found I had a core of activists who were looking to me for support after Bush "won" re-"election". My carefully thought out suggestions as to where we could go from that defeat led to this more-or-less weekly newsletter.

This week I highlight a couple of primaries progressive Democrats need to focus on for 2008, I revisit the Katrina 11 (the 11 Republicans who voted against helping Katrina victims), I highlight MoveOn.org's efforts for our children's healthcare, I discuss how serious global warming is becoming and how we REALLY need to all act now, and I highlight some local stuff going on in Virginia, New York State, New York City and Colorado.

This has been another busy week. Been working a lot on local issues and was at a local presidential forum that had representatives from the four top campaigns. If you are interested in my thoughts after that forum, you can read them at Culture Kitchen. 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