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	<title>Ventura County Democratic Party &#187; Proposition 8</title>
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		<title>New Progressive Democrats Chapter: Progressive Democrats of the Central Coast</title>
		<link>http://venturacountydemocrats.com/2009/02/new-progressive-democrats-chapter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Progressive Democrats of America have a new chapter, Progressive Democrats of the Central Coast, which meets on the first Wednesday of each month.  National PDA, selected as the most important political group of 2008 by The Nation, began in 2004 after the Democratic National Convention. A group of convention delegates formulated the intention of working both inside and outside of the Democratic Party to further progressive policies. Their five core issues were ending the occupation of Iraq, promoting social justice, reforming health care, promoting election reform, and combating global warming.]]></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>
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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>The California Supreme Court Grants Review on Proposition 8</title>
		<link>http://venturacountydemocrats.com/2008/11/supreme-court-review-proposition-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 19th, 2008 the California Supreme Court agreed to consider a legal challenge by several groups who are contesting the Constitutional validity of proposition 8 along with the legal status of same sex married couples that have entered into a legal marriage during the time same sex marriage was a recognized fundamental right.]]></description>
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		<title>Prop 8 Proponents Threaten California Judges</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:46:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prop 8 proponents threaten California judges. Read about it in today’s New York Times article “With Same-Sex Marriage, a Court Takes on the People’s Voice” by Jesse McKinley at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/us/21marriage.html?_r=1&#038;th&#038;emc=th&#038;oref=slogin]]></description>
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		<title>Shame and reconciliation in California</title>
		<link>http://venturacountydemocrats.com/2008/11/proposition8commentary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The vote on Proposition 8, which eliminated the civil right to marry for gay and lesbian couples in California, was a crushing, disgraceful vote. The moment I learned of the outcome, I felt like my home had fallen down on top of me. And atop my crumpled house and my shattered self sat self-righteous religious folks pleased that they had managed to crush me and my people. They have "saved" marriage for themselves, for the time being. They have confirmed that they are ignorant at best, or at worst, claim the authority to judge. They have contributed to what will one day be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history.]]></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>
		<comments>http://venturacountydemocrats.com/2008/11/join-the-impact-ventura/#comments</comments>
		<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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