PDA Weekly Field Report - 9/14 - 9/20
Conor Boylan
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PDA here, there and everywhere!
Dear friend,
Educate Congress Letter
Drop Campaign:
We are still calculating the final numbers but we are
currently on target for a total of 152 letter drops around
the country. This is great number given that fact that we
had emergency letter drops just 2 weeks earlier, speaking
out against a strike on Syria!
This month we “educated” our members on the the Trans
Pacific Partnership. You can view the letter that was delivered here and see photos here.
Issue Teams:
Click here for the strategic planning call
for Healthcare Human Rights, which included:
- news on the single payer front from the office of Senator Bernie Sanders,
- an update on DUH! Eastern
and The Healthcare Movie Tour,
- a recap of the September
PDA Progressive Roundtable, plus
- what happened at the
AFL-CIO convention last week, which you can view by
clicking here.
Don't forget to visit the
team's page here to stay on top of what's going
on, or contact them via email by clicking here.
There was a very important call for Stop Global Warming
this week, as they introduced several pieces of legislation
for recommendation to PDA. You can find out more about the
legislation by clicking here. Special guests on the call were
Michael Jay speaking on Stopping Fracking with City
Based Moratoriums and Sam Schabaker, Mountain West
Regional Director of Food & Water Watch, speaking on
Step by Step in Colorado. Listen to the call here. Also, visit the team's page here, or contact them via email here.
Calls this week:
On Monday we will have our ERA 3 State Strategy
Issue Team Call - register here.
On Tuesday we will have our Election Integrity Issue
Team Conference Call. RSVP and see agenda here.
On Wednesday we will have our End Corporate Rule
Issue Team Conference Call. RSVP and see agenda here.
Blog Talk Radio:
See the full list of all our
Blog Talk Radio shows here.
Upcoming Events:
Members of PDA Massachusetts will welcome Authors John
Nichols and Robert McChesney for an intimate
book signing and conversation about their new book
Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is
Destroying America. See more details here.
Read:
Downsizing the Military Mission, Upsizing
the Peacetime One by Mattea Kramer and Miriam
Pemberton
Just Picking on the Poor: The Facts and
the Faces of Cutting SNAP
Read the newsletter from our good friends at CCDS titled Tipping Point: When They Can No Longer
Govern in the 'Old Way
Watch:
Our Progressive Round
Table on Capitol Hill took place Sept. 11. See the
entire Round Table here. See excerpts from it below:
On the same day, Tim
Carpenter was on the Thom Hartmann Show. See it here.
Website Upgrades:
You should all know by now
that we are making some updates to our national website
(pdamerica.org). Here is a sneak preview of some of our new
pages. Expect it to go fully live in the very near future.
Progressive Round Table explained
DC letter drop team profile
Stop the TPP
Spot the Letter Drop!
PDA San Francisco members Dan
Blick and Greg Kanaga
delivered a letter to Rep. Jackie Speier (CA-14) during
the week!
In solidarity,
Conor Boylan, PDA Deputy Director
Andrea Miller, PDA Deputy Field Director
Tim Carpenter, PDA National Director
Judy Hess, PDA National Field Coordinator
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