CPR Monthly Meeting with CAUSE
Mar 31, 2009 No Comments ›› adminTitle: CPR Monthly Meeting with CAUSELocation: Foster Library's Topping RoomLink out: Click hereDescription: Join CPR and CAUSE in learning how to build grassroots power for social, economic, and environmental justice.Start Time: 15:00Date: 2009-04-05End Time: 17:00
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Mar 27, 2009 No Comments ›› 1st Vice Chair David AtkinsThe nation watched in amusement this week as Republicans laid out their plans promised an April Fool's Day Budget complete with incomprehensible Kindergarten garbage they call charts. Some of us laughed. I hope that some of us cried; certainly, were I a conservative Republican, tears would be my reaction at the ineptitude of ...
Continue ReadingTuesday, March 31, 2009 at 12 Noon, Democratic Club of the Conejo Valley, Cesar Chavez Day Luncheon, El Torito Mexican Grill, Thousand Oaks
Mar 22, 2009 No Comments ›› DCCVEl Torito Mexican Grill; 449 N. Moorpark Rd. (North of Hillcrest), Thousand Oaks, CA 91360. $12 per person includes tax and tip. (Pay cash or with a check at the door. Checks are payable to DCCV.) Choice of one entree: Enchiladas Rancheras with Chicken or Beef; Mexican Caesar Salad and Tortilla Soup; Lunch size portion of ...
Continue ReadingTown Hall with John Burton
Mar 17, 2009 No Comments ›› adminTitle: Town Hall with John BurtonLocation: Santa Monica Library, 601 Santa Monica Blvd. Santa MonicaDescription: John Burton is running for Chair of the California Democratic Party. Yes, he supports single payer health care and clean money!Start Time: 18:00Date: 2009-03-23
Continue ReadingMore Notes From The Inauguration of Barack Obama – Monday
Mar 17, 2009 No Comments ›› jkapitzMore Notes From The Inauguration of Barack Obama - Monday We took group pictures on the Capital Steps in the morning. Our group included Rep. Capps and about 30 folks from Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties. This evening 50 friends and community organizers from Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties met for dinner at La Tomate in ...
Continue ReadingPhelps, “alcohol and drugs”
Mar 17, 2009 No Comments ›› allendirrim@yahoo.comBy Richard D. Erlich Okay, here's an angle on the Michael Phelps marijuana debate you haven't seen yet: grammatical. Consider the following sample sentence: "The police broke in and saw in the sordid, sinful scene alcohol and drugs, a bong and drug paraphernalia, a pistol and weapons, and an editor and human beings." In approximately 16,500 instances on ...
Continue ReadingThe Inauguration of Barack Obama, a View frofm the Purple Section
Mar 17, 2009 No Comments ›› allendirrim@yahoo.comby Carmen Ramirez Before the Taliban take over more of Afghanistan and set their sights on Pakistan and its nuclear arms, before Mexico becomes an open battleground for the drug trade in the United States, before the State of California is nudged further toward bankruptcy because we can't afford room and board for a huge prison ...
Continue ReadingPeace now! (In the “War on Drugs”)
Mar 17, 2009 No Comments ›› allendirrim@yahoo.comBy Richard D. Erlich There was no epidemic. Heroin use was fairly common among troops in Vietnam because pain was common. The great majority of apparently addicted soldiers left their pain in Vietnam and with it their more powerful painkillers. If they came home to a decent neighborhood and a decent life, they left their drug as ...
Continue ReadingProgressives Prepare for CDP Convention
Mar 17, 2009 No Comments ›› adminProgressive delegates to the 2009 California Democratic Convention met on Sunday afternoon in Santa Monica for an orientation meeting. First-timers got the benefit of practical advice from seasoned convention goers. There will be 3,000 delegates, including 300 E-board members. One third of the delegates are elected from assembly districts; one third are elected in county ...
Continue ReadingThird Annual Social Justice Practitioners Convening
Mar 13, 2009 No Comments ›› adminTitle: Third Annual Social Justice Practitioners Convening Location: Ventura County Community Foundation-Community Room 1317 Del Norte Road, Suite 150, Camarillo, CA Description: The Social Justice Fund for Ventura County and CAUSE are hosting this workshop. Please RSVP by March 25th to (805)988-0196 ext. 126 or to lford@vccf.org Start Time: 4:00 p.m. Date: 2009-03-30 End Time: 5:30 p.m.
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