Reminder: PDSJ's Monthly Meeting Wednesday night & other events
Joanne O'Neill
PDA/DFA Progressive Democracy South Jersey
Monthly Meeting
October 21, 2009 – 7:00 PM
Collingswood Library
Please make every effort to attend, we need people to work and help out with all the important actions
and events coming up in the next couple of months, we can’t do it alone !!!!
Together We Can Win !!!
Agenda: Special Guest Speaker
1. Brief Summary of the Past Months Actions
2. Planning for Single Payer actions :
a) Sit-ins
b) Participating in Collingswood Holiday Parade or others in So. Jersey
c) Making & Distributing White Ribbons
d) Weiner and Kucinich Amendments .
3. Re-organization of Issue Organizing Teams
4. Planning for Nov. 18 Brown Bag Lunches at Rob Andrews, John Adler, and Menendez Offices. In support of HR 3699 – to bar funding to increase the troop level in Afghanistan beyond its current level.
5. Planning for the visit of PDA National Executive Board: Tim Carpenter & Conor Boylan to NJ on Dec. 5th.
6. Working on Marriage Equality – Signing up people to attend their Regional Ramp-Ups on Thursday, November 5th at 7:00 pm. Collingswood: Garden State Equality office, 583 Haddon Avenue
7. Short Film: Tortured Law - examines the role lawyers played in authorizing torture. The film is being used to spark debate across the country, and calls on Attorney General Eric Holder to uphold the Constitution and the law by releasing the Justice Department's report on the "torture memos" and authorizing a full investigation of those who ordered, designed, and justified torture. The film will be followed by discussion and plans for action.
*Also what we can do to promote HR 104- “To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties.”
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Philly Forum:
Quality Health Care for AllWhat is the meaning of the current attempt to reform health care? Is President Obama’s reform an adequate solution for working people? What’s behind the right wing meltdown over health insurance reform? Is the “public option” dead? Why hasn’t a Single Payer solution been debated?
When: Saturday, October 24th at 3 PM
Where: William Way Center, 1315 Spruce St. Philadelphia Room
Join us for a panel discussion
Andy Pollack, Socialist ActionBrenda Shelton-Dunston, Executive Director, Phila. Black Women’s Health Alliance*Bill Zoda, Organizer, Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP)**organization for identification only
Sponsored by the Philadelphia Labor Forum and Philadelphia Socialist Action.
Contact: philly.la...@gmail.com or 609.558.1869
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Public Forum: The Invasion and Occupation of Afghanistan
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Register NOW
for CFPA's 30th Annual Peace Conference on 11/15 at Princeton
University
CFPA's 30th annual
Conference and Interfaith Service for Peace will be on Sunday,
November 15 at Princeton University. This year's theme
is Toward a Peace Economy. Rabbi Michael Lerner has agreed to
be the preacher for the Interfaith Service at 11 AM at Princeton University
Chapel. We have some outstanding experts confirmed for the Conference
from 1:30-5:00 at McCormick 101 (the auditorium to your left as you enter the
Art Museum building). Click here for all the details.
Early discounted reservation fees are $20 per person for members, $35 for non-members, and $10 for limited income. These fees are good if received by October 30. After that, each level goes up by $5. So I urge you to save that extra $5 per person, and reserve now by clicking here and using the e-commerce at the bottom of the web page. You can also save, if you are not currently a member, by clicking the link at the very bottom to join and reserve at the same time.
Peace Action Education Fund
(609) 924-5022 phone
(609)
924-3052 fax
www.peacecoalition.org
771 Haddon Ave
Collingswood, New Jersey 8108
Rethink Afghanistan: Filmmaker Robert Greenwald Launches Film Opposing Escalation of War
As the eighth anniversary of the US-led bombing of Afghanistan draws closer, the Obama administration continues to debate the best way to fight this ongoing war.
The military approach to Afghanistan is not succeeding; further application of American military force will not bring stability to the country or security to our own.
With over 90 percent of U.S. funding in Afghanistan directed toward military purposes, non-military strategic options are not being pursued.
The problems facing Afghan society are economic, social and political in nature, and require economic, social and political solutions.
The U.S. can play a more constructive role in Afghanistan by engaging civil society than by waging war
Admission Free - Donations Appreciated - Refreshments will be served
HOSTED BY: PDA / DFA Progressive Democracy South Jersey. _____________________________________________________________________________________________
MARK YOUR CALENDARS !!!!! Dec. 4th, 5th and 6th
PDA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR : TIM CARPENTER
AND
EXECUTIVE FIELD DIRECTOR: CONOR BOYLAN
PLUS OTHER GUESTS TO BE ANNOUNCED, ARE COMING TO NEW JERSEY
Friday, December 4th : In the evening there will be a meet and greet with PDA National Executive Directors
Saturday, December 5th:
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PDA / DFA Progressive Democracy South Jersey
Websites:
Local Chapter: http://groups.google.com/group/PDSJ or http://democracyforamerica.com/groups/775
State: http://groups.google.com/group/pda-nj/ & http://www.pdnj.org/ or http://www.njfordemocracy.org/
National: http://www.pdamerica.org/ or http://democracyforamerica.com/
For more info on the different PDA National Issue Organizing Teams :
http://pdamerica.org/iot/ Conference Calls: https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/309/default.asp?formid=signup
Local & State IOT Groups:
Healthcare4All-Dist.1- http://groups.google.com/group/SJ-Dist1
Environment- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PDSJ-E/ A
Accountability & Justice - http://groups.google.com/group/NJAJ
Contact: Joanne O’Neill – PDA State Coordinator - ProgressiveDem...@gmail.com – 856-858-4997
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