PDA Weekly Field Report - 6/14-6/21
Conor Boylan
| View
as Web Page|Share on Facebook/Twitter |
Tell a Friend |
Where to begin???
Dear friend,
Our Hard Work Paid Off!
It was quite the week in the
PDA community that started with targeted Emergency
Actions at the offices of Democratic leadership around
the country, asking them to speak out against the SNAP cuts
in the Farm Bill, and ended yesterday with the defeat
of the Farm Bill. In between, we had 225 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. See the digest of where these drops took place
here.
Please share (do not forward!) this
email on your social media accounts as it recaps a
lot of the great
work we did!
Here is just some of the media coverage around this week's
events:
- Organizations in LA protest against possible food stamp cuts
- Activists
Protest Possible Cuts To Food Stamps
- Oh,
SNAP! Local leaders brace for cuts to food
assistance programs.
- Radio on the Lila
Garrett Show.
Thank you all for your
efforts during this monumental week. View photos from the
week here,
and join next month on July 17th as we try to break 250
letter drops!
Issue Teams:
Healthcare Is A Human Right - This week, Dr Bill
Honigman and Kurt Bateman, co-chairs of our Healthcare
for All team, hosted guest Benjamin Day,
Organizing Director of Healthcare-NOW! You can find out more
about the discussion and the plans for actions surrounding
Medicare's Anniversary by clicking here. To
learn more about this team, visit their page here,
or you can contact Dr Bill and Kurt by clicking here to get
more involved with this important issue.
Stop Global Warming - Healthcare workers, including
physicians, are in an uproar! Grandparents will be
marching from Camp David to the Capitol in Summer Heat
actions! Find out more about the 2013 March for our
Grandchildren by listening to the SGW
call that our chair of Stop Global Warming team, Russell
Greene, hosted with guests, Dr. Wendy Ring,
Organizer and Project Manager of Climate 911: Physicians
for Social Responsibility, and the leadership
of the 2013 March for Our Grandchildren. To find out more
about this team, visit their page by clicking here
or contact Russell directly here to get
more involved.
Calls this week:
On Monday we will have our ERA 3 State Strategy
Issue Team Conference Call. RSVP and see the agenda here.
On Tuesday we will have our Clean, Fair, Transparent
Elections Issue Team Conference Call. RSVP here.
On Wednesday we will have our End Corporate Rule
Issue Team Conference Call. RSVP here.
BlogTalk Radio:
Access the full list of all our BlogTalk Radio shows here.
Read:
- Former Obama Campaign Staffers Protest Keystone XL Pipeline
- Read the newsletter from
our good friends at CCDS called War
Danger at Home, Insurgency Abroad.
- Read the latest
newsletter from our good friends at the Project Defense
Alternatives titled Changes to U.S. Nuke Posture on the Way?
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 letter drop!
Congrats to Joey Jackson
who sent us this very creative photo of himself delivering
the letter.
Can you guess what member of Congress office belongs to?
In solidarity,
Conor Boylan, PDA Deputy Director
Andrea Miller, PDA Deputy Field Director
Tim Carpenter, PDA National Director
Judy Hess, PDA National Field Coordinator
Follow PDA
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |