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	<title>Ventura County Democratic Party &#187; LGBT</title>
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		<title>Camp Courage Central Coast: Sign up to participate in the Santa Barbara training January 30-31, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the "Camp Obama" trainings that powered neighbor-to-neighbor organizing across America in 2008, Camp Courage is an intensive two-day training designed to teach the principles and skills of community organizing to activists working to restore marriage equality to California.

Drawing on techniques honed for decades by progressive social movements, Camp Courage teaches empowerment, team building, leadership development, and grassroots organizing skills. Camp Courage is designed primarily for new activists or those who have never engaged with the broader community about marriage equality as well as veteran LGBT activists and allies.]]></description>
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		<title>Camp Courage Training to Repeal Prop 8 on January 25th</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1st Vice Chair David Atkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our good friends and allies at the Courage Campaign continue to take an increasing lead in doing excellent work on behalf of progressive causes throughout California.  While there have been many arguments and recriminations after the election concerning who and what was to blame for the final result on Proposition 8, it is nearly universally agreed that a comparative lack of local, independent organization and grassroots, nuts-and-bolts electoral know-how on the issue was a significant contributing factor.

The Courage Campaign has therefore undertaken to conduct <b><a href ="https://secure.couragecampaign.org/page/contribute/CampCourageChallenge">Camp Courage</a></b>, a full day's program of activist training in advance of the coming fight to repeal Proposition 8, should the California Supreme Court decline to overturn the mobocratic assault on minority rights.  Speaking from experience, I can unequivocally say that training programs such as these are by far the most valuable way any activist can spend his/her time, and that the Courage Campaign knows as well as any organization in the state how to organize, deliver votes, and take the fight to the political opposition.

<a href ="http://venturacountydemocrats.com/2009/01/08/camp-courage-training-to-repeal-prop-8-on-january-25th/">Click here for more</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Join the Impact &#8211; Over 1,000 in Downtown Ventura</title>
		<link>http://venturacountydemocrats.com/2008/11/join-the-impact-ventura/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>1st Vice Chair David Atkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Ventura, there is a Progressive Left--and it came in force today for Join the Impact. It's a common joke here that we live in "Ventucky", though our situation less resembles that of the deep South and more that of a clinging outpost of Red, stuck between the swaths of Blue that are Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.]]></description>
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