Today, Los Angeles Mayor Villaraigosa held a town hall meeting in West LA. I attended the meeting to ask him how he’s going to use the lobbying weight of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) and the Los Angeles DC office to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and bring the money home. Think [...]
Friday, September 9, 2011
The following letter to the editor published in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. I loved the poignant statement by Stephen E. Sandherr, CEO of Associated General Contractors of America — “If you want to maintain economic prosperity, you have to make investments in transportation” — describing the deep cuts in funding which have led to the [...]
Friday, August 26, 2011
A coalition of women’s organizations today launched a campaign in support of women’s health and economic rights through voting, HERvotes. They also started a blog carnival, in honor of their new organization and the 91st anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment. For those who aren’t constitutional geeks, that’s the one that gave women the [...]
Monday, August 1, 2011
The "compromise" approved by the House today and expected to pass the Senate tomorrow is an atrocity. It is a rich man's coup of our democracy. Consider this: absolutely no tax increases are included in the bill. It creates a "super Congress," with authority to slash social services when the country is still reeling from
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Yesterday President Obama held the first Twitter Town Hall at the White House where he fielded questions about jobs, the budget, taxes, and education with Tweeters all over the nation. The event was streamed live on the White House page. While a valiant effort at direct interaction through a fast growing medium, it unfortunately resonated with his usual lack of accountability and transparency about critical issues and Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey just let him get away with it. [...]
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Written by CODEPINK Maine Coordinator Lisa Savage Sometimes we activists ask ourselves: how many times do we need to contact our elected representatives to let them know how we feel about out of control spending on the military? When we call their offices, are they even listening? The staffers who answer their office phones are [...]
Monday, September 12, 2011
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