Action Newsletter
DEMOCRATIC EVENTS
1. Two Events with Senator Maria Cantwell and Elizabeth Warren, Friday, Dec. 9, 2011, Seattle
a. Lunch: At noon at the Columbia Tower Club
Fighting for Main Street over Wall Street
- When: Dec 9, 2011, at noon
- Where: The Columbia Tower Club – 701 Fifth Ave Seattle
- How Much: $1250 per guest (It will be split between the candidates)
- RSVP: 206-285-2012, ally@cantwell.com
b. Evening Reception: At 5pm at the Paramount
- When: Dec 9th from 5:00 pm-7:30 pm
- Where: The Paramount Theater, 911 Pine Street – Seattle, WA
- How Much: $40 per guest OR – $400 Co-host (write or raise)
- RSVP: call 206-285-2012 or email Joanna: Joanna@cantwell.com
- (Be sure to tell Joanna that you’re friends with us. She’s actually staying with us for now)
Thank you,
Debbie Aldrich
Debbie.aldrich@gmail.com
Cell phone 360-708-3978
2. 10th LD Meeting, Saturday, Dec. 17, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Headquarters of the Skagit County Democrats, 300A S. 1st Street, Mount Vernon
Ray Miller, Chair 10th LD
360-926-8024
3. Holiday Open House, Saturday, Dec. 31, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., Party Headquarters, Mount Vernon
As usual we’ll supply coffee, tea, and hot chocolate, but we could use some finger food donations. Hope you can stop by to celebrate a successful year and perhaps to strategize a bit for successful campaigns in the coming year.
4. Executive Board Meeting of the Skagit County Democrats, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012, 10 a.m. – noon, Party Headquarters, Mount Vernon
5. Central Committee Meeting of the Skagit County Democrats. Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012, 10 a.m. – noon, Venue TBA
COMMUNITY EVENTS
MoveOn Potluck, Sunday, Dec. 11, Noon, PUD, Mount Vernon
Park behind the PUD building (1415 Freeway Drive) and enter the main entrance. Enjoy good food, good company, review our activites since we organized in early August and look ahead, including planning for an action, Jan 21, the 2 year anniversary of the Citizens United decision.
ANACORTES rallies every single Friday from 12 to 1 at 12th and Commercial. Feel free to join them any Friday. Just show up!!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
1. The Group Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin Announces a New Website
Over the past year, Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin has emailed information regarding opposition to the contract that the City of Anacortes signed with Tethys Enterprises, Inc., to build in Anacortes the largest bottled beverage/water and food manufacturing plant in the United States. The plant, as proposed, is entitled up to five million gallons of municipal water per day from the Skagit River until Dec. 31, 2050.
We have not given up our effort to show why the Tethys Enterprises contract is not in the best interest of our communities and our river basin. To help promote our efforts, we are very pleased to announce the launching of a new website http://defendingwater.net/washington/category/features-wa/ This is a result of Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin joining Defending Water in Washington, which, in turn, is part of the national Defending Water for Life Campaign. All are part of the Alliance for Democracy, which believes that water is a fundamental right for people and nature.
The website is linked to Defending Water websites in Oregon and Maine and will soon will be linked to California. So now, we are connected with people in other states, who are also campaigning to prevent corporations from taking control of their water as a commodity. The commodification of water refers to the process of transforming water from a public good into a tradable commodity.
Please join us to continue our local efforts and to learn how communities throughout the United States and the world are defending their rights to determine the makeup of their communities and to protect and advance clean, public water.
All the best,
Sandra Spargo
Defending Water in the Skagit River Basin
Alliance for Democracy
Anacortes
Rebecca Wolfe
Defending Water in Washington
Alliance for Democracy
Edmonds
2. Democratic Headquarters Holiday Events and Operation Hours
HQ will be closed the 23rd, 24th and 26th of December, unless there are two people who would like to volunteer for the 23rd or 26th. Let staff at HQ know or sign up at HQ.
If you are available for back-up volunteer hours at HQ, especially at the last minute, please let staff at HQ know, and I will forward your contact info to HQ volunteers.
Your volunteer service doesn’t go unnoticed and is very much appreciated. Truly all that gets done couldn’t get done without you.
Enjoy the Holidays!
Shirley Viscalla, Office Manager
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:
Inequality creates a lopsided economy, which leaves the rich with so much money that they can binge on speculation, and leaves the middle class without enough money to buy the things they think they deserve, which leads them to borrow and go into debt. These were among the long-term causes of the financial crisis and the Great Recession. Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another in schools, in neighborhoods, at work, on airplanes, in hospitals, in what we eat, in the condition of our bodies, in what we think, in our children’s futures, in how we die. Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem collective. Inequality undermines democracy. “
George Packer in Foreign Affairs
Gail Nicolls, Secretary
Skagit County Democrats
Formatting and posting by Brad Clure, Chair of Technical Committee
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