The dog days of summer are upon us. August used to be the last gasp of summer vacation when folks escaped to cooler climes before they returned to the workday realities of fall. Alas, the lazy, hazy days of summer seem to be no more. Not only are schools across the country returning to session earlier than ever, but in the full blaze of the August sun, campaigns around the nation are hotter than Georgia asphalt.
Republicans turned up the heat last week at the Democratic National Convention flooding Boston with hundreds of surrogates and media watchdogs they called the “Truth Squad”. While imitation might be the highest form of flattery, the Dean campaign-inspired Rapid Response Network remains the grassroots gold standard when it comes to monitoring truth and accuracy in reporting. For this reason, this issue highlights the important work being done by the Rapid Response Network and its singular mission to counter the daily-spin issued by the Regressive, wing of the Republican Party. We are very proud to print the full text of a watershed speech on the vital role Rapid Response has in securing our freedom. The speech was given by Anne Lindsay at the recent DemocracyFest. Lindsay is on the RR Steering Committee, and she is the daughter of the late, former Manhattan Congressman, then New York Mayor, John Lindsay. Simply put, it is a must-read.
Inside this issue you’ll also find an interesting op-ed in the Tool Shed section introducing the term Regressive to define the hard-line conservative movement that is attempting to overtake America. We think it will soon become a part of the political lexicon.
As always Taking Root offers a lot of news from the roots including field reports from DemocracyFest and the Progressive Shadow Convention in Massachusetts.
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NEWS FROM THE ROOTS
Massachusetts Round-up
By Pam Paul, Grassroots For America Ambassador Extraordinaire
DemocracyFest
DemocracyFest, produced by My Voice is My Vote (with a good-sized pinch of GFA support), was an excellent opportunity for community and bonding and it took every single one of us participating to the fullest - exactly as we have all along this grassroots road we're on making this movement the success it has become.
All the speakers were excellent, the entertainment was awesome (especially the Flying Other Brothers!), the Children's area was great, the GFA sponsored Root Camp workshops were dynamic (kudos to GFA & Latinos for America's Ralph Miller!) and all the organizers' hard work shined! This was a high caliber event!
For those who couldn't make it, you can view a host of pictures of the event at http://sf4dean.com/gallery/album40.
As for the high-profile speakers, Gov. Dean spoke with conviction about concentrating on the future rather than dwelling on the past - and he indulged us with another "scream." I think he'd been keeping that one in for months! He will press on the rest of the week at the Take Back America Conference, the DNC, a DFA volunteer social event and the Progressive Shadow Convention where he will also speak. A true sign of unity among the Progressives!
During his talk, Joe Trippi equated the Dean campaign to the "Bad News Bears of Vermont." He eloquently conveyed how a group of little league players managed to pass security and get their chance to play in the major league. We helped each other to no end against extremely steep odds and we made it all the way to the ninth inning. For that we should all be proud - of ourselves, each other, our candidate, and our campaign.
Zephyr Teachout rekindled memories of the blog and her Drive for Democracy along with some of her favorite campaign memories. She also praised the community and passion built during the last year and more. Zephyr is currently working for ACT on their National Voter Registration Drive that is running full swing from now through November.
Thank you to Howard, Joe and Zephyr - you made the wave our movement is riding. It is now up to us as a community to keep the ride going.
This year has been an emotional and physical challenge, but we have all passed the test. We will continue on in Progressive politics no matter our niche and we will fulfill our vision of taking back our country and our party. We must leave no stone unturned!
Thanks to all who have kept the flame alive!!
Progressive Shadow Convention
The Progressive Shadow Convention, held on Thursday, July 29th, at the Roxbury Community College in Boston, was put together by Progressive Vote and Progressive Democrats of America.
This convention was absolutely needed for all those who've been busy this past year, and more, pushing Progressive politics and supporting Progressive candidates. Hundreds of people shared the same cause for the day and it was wonderful to see the works of our movement in action. It was also a positive sign for our Democracy as all persons, all signs and all opinions were welcome.
With speakers including Marianne Williamson, Granny D, Tom Hayden, Howard Dean, Dennis Kucinich, Medea Benjamin, Ralph Miller, and Kevin Spidel, among others, it was obvious that not only do we yearn for unity, we can achieve it.
It was truly a miracle to see Howard Dean and Dennis Kucinich, arms raised in unity. The campaigns of these two candidates drove more new affiliations into the Democratic system than any other Democratic candidate with by far the most powerful and passionate Grassroots activists we have seen in decades.
This election cycle has sparked a flame that fuels all of our mission to remove this administration - an administration that reflects anything but the true spirit of America. It has also caused us to reflect upon ourselves and our own party. We are responsible for promoting a government that speaks for all Americans, not just the rich and powerful, one that encourages peace and social sanity.
The Progressive Shadow Convention went a long to help unify progressive activists in our efforts to promote positive social change. Progressives are a majority in our country and by working together with the fullness of our numbers and the power of our ideals we will create the change our country needs and so deserves.
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Rapid Response Challenge: 90 Letters in 90 Days
By Liz Herbert, National Editorial Director, Rapid Response Network
Rapid Response originally issued a 100 letters in 100 days challenge to its network of over 1,700 media watchdogs last at DemocracyFest on July 26, the 100-day mark before the November General Election. We thought we should share this challenge with all of our readers as we believe it will have an important influence on the outcome of this election.
There are 90 days from today until November 2nd. There has never been an election that has driven so many people to act. There has never been an election more important to the future of this country than this one. Here's Rapid Response Network's challenge to you:
In these 90 days, write 90 letters. One a day.
The letters need not be perfect, you can write one in 5 minutes or less. They can and should be brief and succinct. They don't even need to be entirely publishable. Editors attempt to reflect the sentiment in letters they have received- your letter can help insure that someone else's is published. And your letter can help influence how the media chooses to report the "news". During the Dean campaign, Rapid Response letters contributed to a seismic shift in the political landscape - snapping many publications out of their unquestioning stance on the Iraq war. Your letters NOW will continue to have that profound influence.
Our network has grown to 1,700 people. If each member takes 5 minutes each day to write just one letter between now and November over 150,000 letters will be written. Talk about countering the Republican noise machine.
Members of the Rapid Response Network receive letter writing action items, evidence to counter media and opposition spin, media contact information and suggested talking points. Become a media watchdog and join your state or the national team today http://rapidresponsenetwork.org/.
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Grassroots Theatre Network™ Debuts at Democratic National Convention
First Feature: Orwell Rolls In His Grave
By Dr. Sandy Martin, Founder Grassroots Theatre Network and Chair Grassroots For America
The Grassroots Theatre Network™ and Producer Robert Kane Pappas co-hosted two free screenings of Pappas’ new film “Orwell Rolls In His Grave” at the Democratic Convention. The film provides an in-depth, and frightening look at the concentration of media ownership in the United States. It also discusses the political chicanery that went on when Congress voted to repeal its legislation allowing media consolidation — and the current administration simply “went in the back door” with its legislation, and got the same agenda passed by tacking it on to an unrelated spending bill.
As the audience gathered for a Q&A session after the screening, Pappas warned that the Internet is one of the last zones of “free speech,” and that if Americans are not careful, we may soon find that this medium will also be regulated. He stressed that “we have a tiny window of time” in which to change our government before even the Internet comes under the “filter” of political power interests.
Pappas has made available a limited number of DVDs of Orwell Rolls In His Grave to the Grassroots Theatre Network. These are available for a $30.00 donation at www.grassrootsforamerica.us/gfa-store/gfa-store.shtml
Editors Note: The Grassroots Theatre Network is an extremely important GFA project with enormous leverage potential: it serves as a vehicle for expanding the grassroots network – people are fired up after seeing these films and looking to take action; it will open ever more eyes to what’s really going on, and it will provide a financial base for GFA enabling us to pursue many projects currently lacking in needed resources.
If you'd like to become a local or regional Grassroots Theatre Network organizer, please e-mail us or call Sandy at 203.743.5704 ASAP. If you don't have the time (about 5 hours/week) to be an organizer, please consider making a contribution to GFA to help get the Grassroots Theatre Network up and running at full speed.
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Democrats GAIN at the Boston Convention
By Patty McIntosh, Director of Field Operations & Volunteer Support, Grassroots For America
Ms. McIntosh was invited by Democratic GAIN to present a seminar at the Democratic Convention
If you are not yet familiar with Democratic GAIN, you probably will be soon. The Grassroots Action Institute and Network (GAIN) provides professional and organizational development for individuals and groups that want to work for Democratic and Progressive politics. That's where you and I come into the picture. We are the network, and there is a lot for us to learn.
During the Democratic National Convention, Democratic GAIN sponsored numerous training sessions at the Hynes Convention Center in downtown Boston. View some of the classes offered here: http://democraticgain.org/convention/genschedule.html
Notable speakers included Stephanie Schriock, Christine Pelosi, Congressman Elijah Cummings, James Carville, and Donna Brazile. I was honored to present a seminar on behalf of Grassroots for America entitled "Grassroots Technology”, informing attendees about on-line resources they can use for planning and attending local events, diversity outreach, creating and mobilizing communities of supporters, mining candidate and voter data, responding to the media, marketing candidates and causes, and fundraising. The links, information, and tools provided in all the Democratic GAIN trainings were designed to be employed in a variety of ways depending on the needs of the attendee: personal activism, organizing around a candidate or group, or mobilizing support for an issue or cause.
The Democratic GAIN training was a great draw for delegates and non-delegates alike, often filling the halls and registration tables with people eager to learn how to get out the vote, host a smashing house party, or motivate volunteers. Future Democratic GAIN trainings will be held throughout August and into September in locations around the country. Check the GAIN calendar for the training event nearest you.
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NEW GROUPS TAKE ROOT
Yard Sale For Democracy
In homes throughout the nation, Americans have begun clearing out jam-packed garages, un-cluttering their closets, and rummaging around in basements and attics. Boxes are being filled with no longer desirable knickknacks collected on vacations, out-of-style clothes from decades past, never-used yogurt makers and onion choppers, and closet-clogging puzzles and games. Join in America, and your old junk can soon become your neighbor's new treasure!
Yard Sales For Democracy are being organized as we speak, scheduled to be held all throughout the nation the weekend of October 2/3. Proceeds will be used to get out the Democratic vote in the upcoming Presidential election. The brainchild of Cathy Garger, a mom and former Bush supporter from Maryland, Yard Sales for Democracy will provide progressive get out the vote (GOTV) organizations with the financial resources they will need to fund a strong voter mobilization push in the weeks immediately preceding the election.
According to Ms. Garger, hosting a Yard Sale for Democracy has widespread appeal as it offers something for everyone: participants get the opportunity to unclutter their homes and garages, those who attend the yard sales will enjoy finding other's bargain treasures for a song, many items will be recycled (vs. being tossed away), and the fund-raising donations will enable citizens to elect a President in tune with the needs of the American people. In addition, simply by hosting a yard sale or attending one, Americans will make a powerfully strong and empowering statement to other Americans about their desire to usher in a change of national leadership. As Ms. Garger put it, "It's a win-win-win-win-win situation!"
So be sure to ask your neighbors, friends, and family to support you by reserving the weekend of October 2/3 to host a Yard Sale for Democracy. And be sure to stay tuned for tips on: How To Host A Supremely Successful Yard Sale for Democracy in our next issue!
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Love Letter to the Dean Campaign
By Geri Weis-Corbley, Editor, Publisher, Video Producer for DVD Campaigns
Ms. Weis-Corbley is also the author of “The Dean Essential: An Almanac of The Year that Changed Politics”
July marked one year since I began shooting documentary footage of the Dean campaign and its amazing aptitude for inspiring action, empowering people to make a difference, and creating a community that reached across cultural and social divides.
To celebrate DemocracyFest, and the reunion of Dean supporters in Massachusetts, I've created a short video called, "Love Letter to the Dean Campaign," featuring grassroots communities in Iowa, Virginia, Maryland, DC and Wisconsin. This joyful and wistful retrospective can be seen on the Web and is available for purchase on DVD. The DVD also includes DemFest appearances of Howard Dean and Joe Trippi who answered questions and provided blueprints of where we're going, as well as analysis of what went wrong -- and right -- during the campaign.
Proceeds from this and other video sales will benefit DVD Campaigns and its production of a voter registration video to inspire and motivate first-time voters not only to vote for Progressives but to become involved in their democracy again. Also available for MeetUps and voter outreach is an amazing presentation by George Lakoff, What Every Voter Should Hear. http://www.DVDCampaigns.com
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GET INVOLVED
Camp Wellstone: Non-Profit GOTV Training in Florida
Camp Wellstone is an exciting and energetic 2.5 day program that trains participants in the philosophy, strategy and tactics for winning grassroots political and electoral campaigns. This national program teaches a distinctive approach that integrates electoral politics, issues advocacy community organizing and leadership development. This new camp is designed specifically for individuals and non-profit organizations interested in non-partisan voter registration, education and mobilization, as well as protecting the voting rights of citizens. Camp Wellstone for Non-Profits happens this month in Tallahassee, FL, August 13-15th. Location and schedule details will be e-mailed to all registered participants the week before the camp. The three-day schedule is planned as follows.
The training programs will help organizations learn how to most effectively achieve the following:
Register today, this camp is going to fill quickly!
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Summer 2004 Voter Mobilization Training and Job Fair
This month, the Center for Progressive Leadership will support a powerful mobilization of progressive political activists. The training and job fair happens Saturday, August 14 - Monday, August 16 at Temple University in Philadelphia – no surprise as PA is a very important battleground state.
Progressive non-profit organizations around the country are looking for trained field organizers to help them identify, educate and mobilize voters supportive of their issues. CPL aims to meet that need through targeted Voter Mobilization Training programs for individuals who are prepared to travel to work full time as Field Organizers and manage the final 60-day push to the General Election. The program includes:
The program also includes a job fair to help place attendees in full-time, paid field organizing positions directing voter outreach campaigns for key progressive organizations. Trainees should be prepared to travel and live for two months in the regions where they will be organizing. The following organizations will be hiring at the CPL training.
Cost of the training is only $95 and includes housing, materials and meals. A limited number of scholarships are available. For more information visit the Web site: www.progressiveleaders.org or call Jessie Martin at 202-449-1065.
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INSPIRATION POINT
The American Press: Failure Threatens American Freedom
By Anne Lindsay, Rapid Response Steering, RR National Coordinator, RR Mass. Coordinator
Ms. Lindsay is the daughter of the late Manhattan Congressman and former NYC Mayor John Lindsay. She presented this powerful speech at DemocracyFest last week.
"It has come to the editor’s attention that the Herald-Leader neglected to cover the civil rights movement. We regret the omission." This was the lead sentence in the Lexington, Kentucky Herald-Leader three weeks ago. The paper reported that this was due to a “conscious strategy by the paper’s former managers" in the 1960's. Do we have to wait another 40-years before our current media face their own skeletons in their own closets?
Jump forward forty years to the New York Times faulting its own Iraq war coverage and support of the war. The New York Times printed their own (more timely) mea-culpas, where the editors said:
"We did not listen carefully to the people who disagreed with us… We had a groupthink of our own."
Yet little has changed. The fact is that the NY Times and all other major media outlets are guilty.
…They're guilty of aiding and abetting the Bush administration in their criminal activities and of attempting to mislead all of us.
…They're guilty of mindlessly kowtowing to the Bush administration and our legislators.
…They're guilty of letting corporate greed undermine their duty to the American public.
…They're guilty of failing to hold true to the tenets of a free press.
Justice Hugo Black wrote:
“The Press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of the government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people.”
Our press has failed you and it has failed me, just as the Lexington Herald-Leader did 40-years ago. Indeed, the press has been in violation of its own codes of ethics. In all forms of media, you will find an ethics code similar to that of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The first article in the code is titled "responsibility" and it reads:
ARTICLE I - Responsibility. The primary purpose of gathering and distributing news and opinion is to serve the general welfare by informing the people and enabling them to make judgments on the issues of the time. Newspapermen and women who abuse the power of their professional role for selfish motives or unworthy purposes are faithless to that public trust. The American press was made free not just to inform or just to serve as a forum for debate but also to bring an independent scrutiny to bear on the forces of power in the society, including the conduct of official power at all levels of government.
They have failed in all of their articles of journalistic ethics: independence, truth and accuracy, impartiality, fair play, and a free press that belongs to the PEOPLE of the United States, not to special interests.
From CNN to the Washington Post to our local papers, radio and TV, our media are mostly owned by those who have courted the favor of those currently in power in Washington, and who have bowed to those masters.
We have a lazy media that repeats what Michael Hammerschlag calls “theme lies,” those bits of information advanced by campaign opponents or political parties that are then picked up by our dilatory press and repeated so often they become a central theme, one that has no absolutely basis in truth or fact…. but which is advanced as truth or fact. We all know that Howard Dean is an angry, liberal, unelectable candidate. Welcome to the world of media theme lies.
In about 1963, when my father John Lindsay was in Congress, he wrote:
"The Bill of Rights marks off a protected area in which each individual may develop and express himself in his own way. But even that area can be usurped in the absence of a vigilant and vocal public opinion. An absence of worry – and therefore of watchfulness – is an unhealthy condition. In a society increasingly given over to massive organization structures…. a sanguine confidence about personal rights and liberties can lead to the stagnation, and gradual vitiation, of the free system that our government was created to safeguard."
We are 1700 citizens around the country who refuse to be lulled into stagnation. We have let our media know that we will be anything but docile when they fail to fulfill their obligations to our country. We have fought this media battle and had victories both large and small. If our numbers swell, imagine our unbridled power!
Our own Liz Herbert wrote:
Just imagine the power of this network if we were 10,000 or 100,000 people. Imagine 100 Rapid Responders in every town in every state of this country. Imagine what we could do . . . Imagine the POWER that YOU as a citizen would have in setting that kind of force into action!
I challenge all of the people here to join our Rapid Response team, and to recruit other like-minded citizens to join and take back our media. I challenge all of us to be vigilant and vocal….to grow to numbers of 100,000 strong who, together, have the power to change the face of this country one media alert, one letter, one phone call, one person at a time.
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CANDIDATES
Dean Dozen Candidate Profile: “Christine Cares”
By W.A. Thomassson, Contributing Editor
Christine Cegelis for Congress (IL-6th) http://www.cegelisforcongress.org
“This is the most serious election of my life, and the most dangerous of times,” Christine Cegelis told Taking Root as we returned from the nation’s inaugural Disability Pride Parade – a parade at which she was the only political candidate present. “As I was looking at the various candidates in the Democratic presidential primary, I realized that none of the policies would change unless we changed Congress,” she said. And with no one else willing to seriously challenge Henry Hyde in Illinois’ 6th Congressional District, she decided to take on the job herself.
Cegelis had never run for any public office before. She had no idea what the procedures were, so she went on the Internet to find out. She quit her job as an information technology consultant. She even cashed in her retirement plan for seed money. As a secular member of the Franciscan order, Cegelis trusts that God will provide. Yet whether or not it is the Deity’s doing, resources have appeared to support the first serious Democratic challenge to Hyde in literally decades.
Christine Cegelis is a single mother of two sons, both currently in college, and she helps her 83-year-old mother pay for the prescriptions drugs she needs. Unlike Hyde, who has spent 30 years inside the Beltway, she knows what life is like for ordinary Americans – Cegelis and other members of her family have been directly hurt by many of the votes Henry Hyde has cast. In Congress, she will work to lower the cost of prescription drugs, protect a woman’s right to choose, and protect our jobs and wages. She also supports adequate funding for education and environmental protection, along with a universal, single-payer health plan. To solve the problem of international terrorism, she believes, the world must unite – the US must work with the international community to find solutions to the problems in Iraq and elsewhere.
On her Web page, Cegelis says, “Never has so much gone so wrong so fast, as in the last four years under Hyde and Bush.... We need representation that is up-to-date, in-touch and in-sync with the families in our district. I am Pro-Family, Pro-Future, and Pro-America. We deserve a New Deal. And, I am the Real Deal.” Many others agree, Christine Cegelis is a member of the second Dean Dozen and has also been endorsed by Citizen Action – Illinois, the AFL-CIO, the National Organization for Women, the Independent Voters of Illinois – Independent Precinct Organization, the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the United Auto Workers, Planned Parenthood, the Women’s Campaign Fund, and the Illinois Committee for Honest Government as well as by Illinois Senator Dick Durbin.
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THE TOOL SHED
New Lingo: It’s Regressive, Stupid
By Lee Ann van Leer
Ms. van Leer is a member of Democracy for America in Ithaca, NY. The opinion expressed here is her own and does not necessarily reflect those of her local organization or of Democracy for America. In an effort to bring our readers the most current thoughts and actions happening within the American progressive grassroots, we scour hundreds of Yahoo! and other newsgroups. This tidbit caught our attention. We thought you might find it interesting. We appreciate Ms. van Leer for giving us permission to reprint her commentary.
Join me in giving a new label to those often referred to more benignly as "conservatives". It seems like they have been given all sorts of labels such as the Radical Right, fundamentalists, and some even more esoteric labels.
However, today as I was writing an email to a local DFA group (Democracy for America) I was struggling for a more appropriate phrase to give the backwards candidates and movement we are fighting against when the word Regressive came to my mind. After all, our candidates are more PRO-gressive and theirs are certainly RE-gressive.
The right wing seeks to Regress us back to the dark ages on issues such as:
The list goes on and on about how the Right is trying to regress us further and further into the past and go backwards on so much of the progress of democracy that past leaders have made.
So I feel the Regressive label is the most appropriate I can think of and its not immature sounding. Yet is very definitive of the nature of the right-wing political movement, their politicians and their candidates.
So please feel free to use this terminology I am promoting. They somehow made the word liberal a dirty word and we haven't been able to get people to understand why "conservatives" are backwards so perhaps the Regressive label will help.
Just another one of my ideas, some are great, others are.....well just bizarre. I'd like to see how fast we can get this label to catch on and any of you are welcome to join me in the effort as Conservative and other labels just don't seem to cut it. Try throwing that label in to your next email or conversation when discussing these backward types and let me know how it works.
Lee Ann van Leer, Cheetahspot-at-earthlink.net, Ithaca, NY
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Audio-Visual Voter Motivation Aids & More...
If you haven't been to GFA's Web site lately, you might want to book-mark our Grassroots Fertilizer page.
There you'll find links to a great video aimed at motivating unmarried women to register to vote and get to the polls on November 2nd. We've got two new audio clips taken from the video as well - perfect for Public Service Announcements by your local radio stations as well as some great articles and additional video clips of interest (including the George Lakoff's great talk).
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Grassroots Calendar
Aug 7/8 | Phoenix, AZ -- DFA/21st Century Democrats Training |
Aug 8 | Tucson, AZ -- DFA/Latinos for America Training |
Aug 14 | Albuquerque, NM -- DFA/Latinos for America Training |
Aug 21/22 | Austin, TX -- DFA/21st Century Democrats Training |
Aug 28 | Reno, NV -- DFA/Latinos for America Training |
Aug 29 | Las Vegas, NV -- DFA/Latinos for America Training |
Sep 1 | Democracy for America Meetup |
Sept 4 | Raleigh-Durham, NC -- DFA/Latinos for America Training |
Sep 10 - 12 | San Francisco, CA -- DFA/21st Century Democrats Training |
Sept 18 | Los Angeles, CA -- DFA/Latinos for America Training |
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