PDA Weekly Field Report - 6/21-6/28
Conor Boylan
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Wild Week!
Dear friend,
Congrats Ed!
PDAers in Mass and across the county made Get Out the Vote
Calls to help Ed Markey win the special primary
election in April. He will now join Elizabeth Warren
in the Senate, fighting for the 99%. Thank you to all of you
who helped make this happen. Read the John
Nichols piece, Austerity Loses in Massachusetts,
here.
Supreme court rulings articles:
The Supreme Court Makes History: Two Steps Forward, One
Step Back here.
SCOTUS Voting Rights Act Decision Means We Need 'Right to
Vote' Amendment by John Nichols here.
On DOMA, Right-wing Justices Got It Right--and Wrong
here.
Women's rights:
Wendy Davis, Superhero here.
Letter Drop Campaign
As we close out June's letter drops it is important to
remind ourselves that we had 226 letters dropped
(our best ever) at Congressional offices around the country.
We also visited 72 offices on Capitol hill, sent
22,054 email messages to 527 members of the House and
Senate using our advocacy alert and made hundreds of
phone calls since this battle began. Read the digest of
where these drops took place here. We will return again on July
19th and will have a planning call around this on Tuesday at
Noon Eastern. If interested in joining this call please email
Conor.
Issue Teams:
As always, lots of hard work and exciting developments on
the ERA 3-State Strategy call, which you can listen
to here.
The team shared legislative updates, and Senate and House
targets, discussed the "Rise Up" campaign, how to sign on to
their Thunderclap on Twitter, plus the development of a phone
banking team - and more! To become involved with this
Team visit their page here or send them an email by clicking
here.
The Election Integrity
Team call exploded this week as people called in from
all over the country to discuss the SCOTUS ruling against
the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and next steps we can take to
correct this. You can listen to the call here,
visit the Team page here, or contact the Team here to
get involved. They are beginning work on a Letter Drop in
response to this situation, and to examine other actions
with our Stop Voter Suppression Team and coalition
partners.
End Corporate Rule had a lot to report, having just
come off their Letter Drop regarding amendments to reverse Citizens
United. They gained many new co-sponsors for the
legislation and continue to make a huge impact, especially
now, as they begin to create working committees on
big-agriculture and saving the postal service.
Listen to the call here.Visit
the Team's page here or drop them an email here to
learn more.
Calls this week:
On Wednesday we will have our Economic and Social
Justice call. RSVP here.
BlogTalk Radio
Listen to our past programs and see what's coming up. The
full list of all our BlogTalk radio shows is here.
Read:
Taking Food Away from Children and the Poor: The Path to
America’s Future here.
John Nichols: US Needs 3 Constitutional Amendments to
Save Our Democracy (video) by Pam Powers Hannley here.
(Also seen below.)
National Priorities Project's latest
newsletter
The latest newsletter from our good friends at the Project
Defense Alternatives, titled, Think Tank
Identifies $22 Billion in Pentagon Savings for Fiscal Year
2014 here.
The newsletter from our good friends at CCDS titled, The
Right on a Rampage, here.
Video:
On June 1, we brought together Lily Tomlin, Jim
Hightower, John Nichols, Thom Hartmann,
and Tim Carpenter at the home of Syd and Linda
Leibovitch for our most successful fundraiser to date!
View the videos here:
Lily Tomlin speaks
Jim
Hightower speaks John Nichols speaks
Thom Hartmann
speaks Tim
Carpenter speaks
Spot the Senator!
Congrats again to Senator
Ed Markey on his stunning victory in Massachusetts
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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