Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Help out OFA in Lake Worth

Lake Worth Democrats-

OFA is looking for a canvasser to work out of Lake Worth, October 10 through the election. Pay is $1200.

OFA is also looking for an office space to use as a staging area in the last 2 weeks of the campaign, something out west. Toward Lake Worth Road and Military.  This would be a place to work out of during canvassing, to store extra water, walk lists, flyers, and things, and to meet up at for people working the western areas.

Let me know if you have an interest or if you know someone who might help.

Sam Goodstein
561-585-4321

Ruth's List dinner, late notice so decide right away if you want to go


The Palm Beach County Democratic Party:
Invites YOU to join:
Kalinthia Dillard « Christopher Findlater « Maryna Goodman
Pam Goodman « Hava Leipzig Holzhauer « Lorraine Kobel « Wendi Lipisch
Lisa Murano « State Senator Nan Rich « Terrie Rizzo « Lesley Shriberg
Sheri Scarborough « Joy Solomon « Bunny Steinman « Kathe Thompson
(Host committee in formation)
for an evening of Conversation & Libations
with 2012 progressive women candidates for office:
State Senator Maria Lorts Sachs
State Representative Lori Berman
Shelley Vana, Re-elect for Palm Beach County Commission #3
Mary Lou Berger, Candidate for Palm Beach County Commission #5
Christine Jax, Candidate for Palm Beach County School Board #1
« « « « « «
Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 5:30 - 7:00 pm
Deck 84 restaurant
840 East Atlantic Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33483
Appetizers provided; Cash bar
Suggested donation: $10 + contribution to (at least) one candidate
Ruth’s List Florida is a statewide network connecting women and electing women to make progressive change.  Ruth’s List members are building a progressive Florida by recruiting, supporting, and electing pro-choice Democratic women to state, county, and local office.  Palm Beach and Broward voters will make all the difference in 2012.  Join us for this chance to meet and talk with Democratic women leading the way for SE FL.
The only way to change policy is to change the policy-makers!
Join us Wednesday, October 3, and bring a friend.
To RSVP: Visit www.RuthsListFL.org
and click on Upcoming Events, Oct. 3
Or call 239/472-9159 or send a check to: Ruth’s List Florida, P.O. Box 66, Sanibel 33957

Monday, October 1, 2012

Austerity is a policy view based on misunderstandings

 "As we see in wartime or in financial crises when monetary means are always found by governments to pay for needed goods and services, in an era of fiat currencies, government spending of a currency issuing government is not limited by taxes collected nor public debt issued, which are operations that have functions different from the generation of “revenue” for government, and in certain cases, are ritual vestiges of an older era of convertible currencies.  The recognition of the lack of affordability constraints on monetarily sovereign governments is not an invitation to spend with abandon but simply a fact of life and, like it or not, a source of governmental power."

Civil Liberties: future threats

The next privacy battles will be over what you print at home, and access to your private networks. When you can print anything at home, lame headed legislators, heavily influenced by big business donors, will be asked to regulate what you do in your own home.

More here.

Uncovered news: The Erosion of American Justice


 What Is Happening to Muslims Will Happen to the Rest of Us

“One of the misapprehensions of the last decade is that the government had to go outside the law to places like Guantanamo or Bagram to abridge the rights of suspects in the name of national security,” said Jeanne Theoharis, a professor of political science at Brooklyn College who has been an outspoken critic of the rights abridgement occurring in Article III courts. “But this is not the case. A similar degradation of rights that has characterized the prison at Guantanamo has also affected the judicial system within the United States. The right to dissent, the right to see the evidence against you, the right to due process, the right to fair and speedy trial, the right to have a judge who will be impartial, the right to fair and not disproportionate punishment, and the right not to be punished before you are convicted have been taken from us in the name of national security. It is not just in special secret prisons that this occurs, but also—dismayingly—within the U.S. federal courts.”

The rest of the story is here.