News & Action Alerts
September 25, 2007
Reaching Our Goal
We're well on our way to our membership goal of $10,000 before the end of October. We have you to thank. Please keep those checks coming so we can continue the work we do. Your generosity and determination is what keeps us strong.
New DREMA Dems Survey
Our roadmap is being drawn by all of you for what we'll do as an organization during the upcoming 2008 elections. So far a bunch of you have completed the survey, crafted by our good friend, Laura Phillips of the Phillips Group. Laura is one of the most highly regarded professionals in public opinion polling and direct mail services. When we told her we wanted DREMA Dems to decide how best to move forward this survey is what she came up with.
So please, take a moment and fill out the survey below and submit it to us online. Your name and answers will be kept confidential.
Then ask some friends to go to our website: www.dremadems.com and fill out the survey there. We won't use anyones name. We just need some direction on where we should head together in 2008. Thanks in advance for helping us out.
--- DREMA Dems Coalition
What is He Thinking?
CALL YOUR SENATORS RIGHT NOW AND DEMAND
A NO VOTE ON THE LIEBERMAN-KYL AMENDMENT
In case you thought it was just an aberrant moment of lunacy last week when Lieberman pressed General Petraeus for an attack on Iran, just before the weekend he introduced an amendment to the defense bill to authorize exactly that.
No, we are not kidding. He has drafted language that any impartial observer would interpret as a DECLARATION OF WAR against Iran , and he is pressing for a vote as fast as possible.
ACTION PAGE: Click Here
Here is the language from the amendment:
(3) that it should be the policy of the United States to combat, contain, and roll back the violent activities and destabilizing influence inside Iraq of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its foreign facilitators such as Lebanese Hezbollah, and its indigenous Iraqi proxies;
(4) to support the prudent and calibrated use of all instruments of United States national power in Iraq, including diplomatic, economic, intelligence, and military instruments, in support of the policy described in paragraph (3) with respect to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies.
The policy of the U.S should be to "combat" Iran with "all" "military instruments"?!? You can be absolutely certain that those are the ONLY words Dick Cheney and George Bush will see or care about.
Hear How Sweet Sanity Sounds?
‘No more blank check for Iraq ,' Byrd tells Senate
Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., one of the earliest critics of the ongoing Iraq war, delivered a scathing speech on Monday, urging the Senate to end the “staggering foreign policy calamity. ... “History shows the fallacy of thinking that democracy can be force-fed at the point of a gun.”
How Harsh Insanity Sounds
Graft in U.S. Army Contracts Spread From Kuwait Base
By GINGER THOMPSON and ERIC SCHMITT
Maj. John Lee Cockerham was considered an unlikely success story in his hometown, but now he faces corruption charges related to contracts in Iraq.
From MoveOn
Amazing!
Together, we've raised $1.6 million since President Bush attacked us last week. 240,000 of us have signed the "I will not be quiet, I will fight back" statement. And tens of thousands of new folks have joined MoveOn.
This outpouring sends a clear message that right-wing attacks will only strengthen us. And we'll use this money to press even harder on members of Congress who won't vote to end the war—or support other progressive bills like kids' health care. If you haven't yet donated, please consider it:
Light Up the Phone Lines
Tell Congress to Side with Children, Not Bush |
Just call the toll-free number below and ask to be connected to Rep. Capito's office: 1-866-544-7573 |
Or
Weigh In With MoveOn
Republicans and President Bush are threatening to deny health care to millions of uninsured children. Call and ask Rep. Capito to vote for the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Congresswoman Shelley Capito
Phone: 202-225-2711
So Much for Liberal Bias
Media Matters has recently released a groundbreaking new study detailing the significant conservative advantage on America's op-ed pages called, “ Black and White and Re(a)d All Over: The Conservative Advantage in Syndicated Op-Ed Columns.” They have since gone back and pulled out the data for specific states and have found that West Virginia is one of the states where conservative syndicated columnists are carried in more papers, with greater circulation, than progressive syndicated columnists.
On Media Matters ' website, you will be able to search by individual newspaper and see how it stacks up. Just go to Media Matters' by clicking here.
For Your Information
In G.M. Strike, Both Sides See a Crossroads
By MICHELINE MAYNARD
The length of the walkout may hinge on two crucial questions: How long can the union afford to stay out? And how long can General Motors endure a strike?
PLEASE TELL 10 FRIENDS TO TELL 10 TODAY!
The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota of donating at least one free mammogram a day to an underprivileged woman. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on 'donating a mammogram' for free (pink window in the middle).
This doesn't cost you a thing. Their corporate sponsors /advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate mammogram in exchange for advertising.
Here's the web site! Pass it along to people you know.
New Polling Results
The new poll results being unveiled this week highlight the deep support for guaranteeing families basic rights in the workplace. (Poll results should be showing up this week at www.9to5.org.)
The poll of 1,200 likely voters, sponsored by the National Partnership for Women & Families and the Multi-State Working Families Consortium (in collaboration with 10 organizations, including ACORN, AFL-CIO, Moms Rising, 9to5, National Association of Working Women, and Service Employees International Union), has some remarkable findings:
Eighty-nine percent of poll respondents favor a basic labor standard that would guarantee all workers a minimum number of paid sick days, including 83% of Republicans who agree that such a standard is needed.
Seventy-five percent of poll respondents favor extending current unpaid leave laws to provide for paid family and medical leave.
These numbers emphasize that such "valuing families" legislation should be at the forefront of progressive legislative campaigns in the coming year.
To highlight these and other findings from the poll, a national audio press conference will be held this Wednesday, September 26th at Noon EDT. To participate, call into:
1-877-852-6573 and use the password: polling
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Valuing Families
BY Nathan Newman
New Polling: Paid Sick Days and Family Leave Overwhelming Political Winners
As the 2008 legislative session takes shape, a large coalition of organizations is working together to help families gain the flexibility to better balance the demands of work and family.
In particular, new polling shows overwhelming, bipartisan support for legislation to guarantee workers a basic workplace right to sick days, for paid family leave to care for newborn children, and for longer-term care of family members. Building on recognition of this broad support -- and the political advantages for those leaders who step up to champion these family issues -- both legislative leaders and grassroots organizations are moving to make paid sick days and paid family leave signature legislation in 2008.
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Save the Date
Upcoming Seneca 2 Forum
Featuring Scott Ritter, Chief weapons inspector for UNSCOM in Iraq and Ballistic Missile Advisor to General Norman Schwarzkopf. Hold October 25 th at 7:00 p.m. at WVSU, West Virginia State University , in the Student Union Building . You will not want to miss this chance to meet Scott Ritter and to hear what he has to say about the Iraq war.
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