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Dear Progressive Caucus Members,
Thanks for signing up to be part of the Progressive Caucus of California! This is our first official newsletter. You will be receiving periodic updates like this one, with information about what the caucus is doing, and how you can get involved.
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| PREPARATION FOR CERTIFICATION |
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| Your Executive Officers have been working their tails off to have everything ready to submit to the Rules Committee of the DSCC, and we are proud to say that our by-laws, introduction letter and around 200 signatures from members were sent to the Rules Committee this week! |
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| Southern California Teach Ins |
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| PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS ENDORSES SINGLE PAYER HEALTHCARE BILL! |
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RESOLUTION REGARDING HR 551 - PROTECT OUR CHILDREN'S PRIVACY FROM MILITARY RECRUITERS!
WHEREAS a minor’s decision to join the military is the kind of life and death decision that is ordinarily made in collaboration with his/her parents or guardians,
WHEREAS the privacy of high school students is jeopardized by aggressive military recruitment methods such as well established cases of unauthorized calls at home, gifts, documented misinformation an unauthorized release of personal information by schools to recruiters without parental consent,
WHEREAS military recruiters often choose to recruit from less affluent public high schools, which creates racial and income-based inequality in recruitment efforts,
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the California Democratic Party fully supports H.R. 551 – The Student Privacy Protection Act - which seeks to protect our high school students’ privacy by ensuring that the
decision to release private information to recruiters must be a family decision and that schools release private information to military recruiters only when families provide explicit writ! ten cons ent;(parents
must by default opt-in to release their children’s information, rather than being required by default to opt-out).
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the California Democratic Party writes to each Democratic member of Congress, urging her/him to support H.R. 551 and enclosing copies of this resolution.
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We encourage our membership to take these resolutions and get them passed, or endorsed by any other clubs or groups you are additionally affiliated with, and contact us to tell us about sponsorship. |
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| Featured Story |
| NEXT CAUCUS MEETING JULY 30th at 6:30 PM |
| Make your plans today to attend the next Progressive Caucus meeting in Sacramento at the end of July! |
www.healthcareforall.org
www.cadem.org
(California Democratic Party Website) |
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www.radisson.com
CHECK OUT THE RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE LAST CDP CONVENTION:
http://www.cadem.org/site/pp.asp?c=fvLRK7O3E&b=732065
OTHER INTERESTING LINKS:
http://democracyforamerica.com/memo_movie.php
IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION SUBMITTED BY PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS!
Submitted to the Resolutions Committee of the CDP this past week, the impeachment resolution is the talk of the town!
special thanks to Joye Swan for the crafting of this critical resolution!
"WHEREAS, the Downing Street Meeting Minutes show that President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld began planning and executing the illegal war against and occupation of Iraq before seeking Congressional and UN approval;
WHEREAS, UN weapons inspectors showed prior to the invasion that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; and
WHEREAS, there is further mounting evidence that the Administration lied to or misled the American people and the world about Iraq’s weapons capacity and plotted to commence war proceedings prior to seeking UN or Congressional approval as revealed by the following statements contained in the 2002 Downing Street Meeting Minutes, "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Progressive Caucus asks Congress to immediately begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld.
We encourage our membership to take these resolutions and get them passed, or endorsed by any other clubs or groups you are additionally affiliated with, and contact us to tell us about sponsorship.
PEACE!
The Progressive Caucus currently recognizes the following ad hoc committees:
1. Civil Rights
2. Environment
3. Reproductive Rights
4. Immigration
5. Criminal Justice
6. Education
7. Healthcare
8. Media Reform
9. Peace/Anti-War
10. Election Reform
Our standing committees include:
1. Communication
2. Outreach
3. Rules/Bylaws
4. Resolutions/Legislation
5. Rapid Response and Strategy |
