PDA Weekly Field Report - 10/27 - 11/01
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Dear friend,
No CUTS to SNAP
The House is expected to vote within a few weeks on
legislation that would hurt everyone on nutritional programs,
and could throw 40 Million hungry American children, veterans,
retirees, and others off Food Stamps (aka SNAP, the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program).
Please tell your Representative to stand up for SNAP. Use the provided talking points as a guide, but please use your own words. Repetitive messages lose credibility. Please share this link http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1987/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12346 . We need a groundswell of grassroots support!
As you know, Rep. Jim McGovern, is THE leader in the House on food security issues and has been a staunch, tireless, eloquent, tenacious worker in support of the most vulnerable among us. Please take a few minutes to watch his appearance on MSNBC the other night (you'll have to get through a 30 second ad first), and then take another minute to send him a thank you for his efforts. The thanks can be sent to his aides Scott Zoback at: scott....@mail.house.gov or Matt Pacheco at ma...@jimmcgovern.com
Congress: #StopTPPFastTrack
Tell Congress: Don't renew fast track authority; the content
of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) must be transparent. Using
a Thunderclap, we can reach hundreds of thousands of people
at the same time and spread our message. The Thunderclap
will post the Thunderclap message to your Facebook Friends and
Twitter follows on November 4th at 1pm EST. To
participate in the Thunderclap, click
the link here. More on Fast Track here.
Robin Hood Report
Members of PDA national were present at the Robin Hood Tax
conference. You can view videos from the conference here and
please read this piece written by Karen Higgins who is
a registered nurse and co-president of National Nurses
United titled Targeting Wall Street, Robin Hood Tax
Comes to Washington
Educate Congress Letter Drop Campaign
Our letter drop campaign will return on November 20th with a
specific asks around climate change. The letter will be
released next week and we will have our planning call on
Wednesday. If interested in this drop Conor an email co...@pdamerica.org.
Progressive Roundtable
The Progressive Roundtable will resume on November 13
and will feature Rep. Keith Ellison (MN-05) and Rep.
Alan Grayson (FL-09) along with many other allies. Please
consider distributing this leaflet to help build an
audience for the Live stream.
Issue Teams:
The ERA 3-State Strategy team had a great call; you can listen to
here . The call includes their legislative update (with
new co-sponsors!), an update on the "Equal Means Equal"
film project, the team's
new Facebook group which you can visit here, discussion
of House and Senate targets, plus state reports. To find out
more about this team, visit
their web page here or contact them via email at eraa...@pdacommunity.org
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Calls this week
On Wednesday we will have our Economic and Social Justice
Conference Call. RSVP
here
BlogTalk Radio: Full list of all our BlogTalk radio shows here
Must Read Articles
- A Weekend to Remember by Mimi Kennedy
- Senator Elizabeth Warren Signs On to SJ Res 15
- 30 House Democrats Joined the GOP to Sell You Out to Wall Street. Which Ones?
- Moving PDA Forward Written by Jeanne Marie Dauray
- Read the newsletter from our good friends at CCDS titled US Austerity Driven by Capital's Global Shifts, Short-term Profit Drive
Recommended Videos
Fmr.
Goldman Sachs Trader Supports Robin Hood Tax As A Way to
Move Away from Financialized Economy
Spot the Congressman!
We were delighted to spend some time with Rep. Rush Holt
(NJ-12) after a press conference to demand that there be no
cuts to the SNAP program.
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