SEIU: Stronger Together

Carpenters Union Joins Change To Win Coalition

The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America announced on June 27, 2005 that it is joining the Change to Win Coalition, the labor reform movement created on June 15, 2005 by the Teamsters, UFCW, SEIU, UNITE HERE, and Laborers.

The Coalition is a new alliance devoted to creating a large-scale, coordinated campaign to expand the American labor movement. Its goal is to empower the tens of millions of American workers who struggle to make ends meet and whose voice has been silenced by the overwhelming power of global corporations and their representatives in Washington.

Read more about the SEIU's work to create a stronger community of Labor.

United Church of Christ Supports Marriage Equality

General Synod overwhelmingly calls for "full marriage equality"

The UCC, a community of Christians with roots deep in the soil of societal change, took another giant leap on Monday, July 4th.

General Synod 25 overwhelmingly passed a resolution in support of equal marriage rights for all people, regardless of gender. It marks the first time that one of the nation’s mainline churches has expressed support of marriages for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons.

To read the rest or find out other information about this ground-breaking act of community spirit please visit the UCC web site.

Progressive Democrats of America (PDA) Celebrate the Return of the Congressional Progressive Caucus

The newly reinvigorated Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) sprang to life June 28 as more than 150 friends gathered to organize. In the process, they also demanded withdrawal from Iraq, insisted on health care for all Americans, opposed CAFTA, and denounced the President's continuing refusal to answer questions about the Downing Street Memos.

The Institute for Policy Studies' John Cavannah was Master of Ceremonies for the energetic evening celebration which was held in the House of Representatives Rayburn Building banquet room. The event honored the CPC, which welcomed its first Executive Director, Bill Goold. The evening also marked the official kick-off of the "Out of Iraq" Caucus within the CPC, with a fiery speech by Maxine Waters (D-CA). Led by Caucus Co-Chairs Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), twenty five members of Congress attended and a dozen briefly addressed the gathering. House members present included John Conyers, Maxine Waters, Maurice Hinchey, Hilda Solis, Marcy Captur, Tammy Baldwin, Jim McDermott, Raul Grijalva, Gerald Nadler, Dennis Kucinich, Sheila Jackson Lee, Diane Watson, Pete Stark, John Tierney, Xavier Beccerra, Gwen Moore, Major Owens, and Don Payne.

Find our more about the Progressive Democrats of America and their work with the Progressive Congressional Caucus. PDA's work ultimately enhances and empowers the progressive community at large.

GET INVOLVED

MViMV Launches Supreme Court Nomination PSA Contest

Do you have a Supreme Court Nomination message that you know will resonate with the public?

Now is your chance to take that message to the airwaves. My Vote is My Voice, Corp. (MViMV) plans to produce a series of 30-second radio public service announcements (PSAs) extolling the importance of meaningful bipartisan deliberation for the next and future Supreme Court nominations.

MViMV knows you are creative and talented so they’re giving you the chance to compete with fellow members by submitting a 30-second radio script for a Supreme Court Nomination PSAs to MViMV.

The winner will receive a copy of each produced PSA, recognition in a MViMV membership e-mail announcing the chosen PSA, a MViMV t-shirt and perhaps most important, bragging rights!

Please visit the My Vote is My Voice web site for the contest rules and Board Contact Information.

Declare Your Energy Independence!

Campaign for America's Future has started a campaign to Declare your Energy Independence! It is time for America to declare its energy independence once again.

A few facts about our Energy Independence (Found through Apollo Alliance):

• United States has less than 3% of the world’s oil reserves, but accounts for more than 25% of global demand
• The U.S. consumed 96.95 quadrillion BTUs of energy in 2001, almost three times as much as the runner up (China with 36.67 quad), and approximately 25% of the world total.
• 2.7 million private sector jobs have been lost since January 2001, and more than 75% of those jobs have been high wage, high productivity manufacturing jobs.
• Cities and their mega-regions face nearly $2 trillion of neglected infrastructure needs according to the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Department of Energy.
• Every $1 Billion invested in public transportation supports 47,500 jobs.
• Congestion cost American commuters 4.5 billion hours of delay, 6.8 billion gallons of wasted fuel, and $78 billion in 1999, and the problem is getting worse.

People from across the country are responding to the call for Independence. You can too! CAF is asking that you share photographs of actions you've taken to foster American energy independence and tell them how this represents your personal commitment to an energy independent America.

MeetUps & House Parties - Building Progressive Communities

MeetUps and House Parties are rapidly becoming an accepted component of political campaigns based on the experience of this past Primary season when most campaigns launched both MeetUp and House Party initiatives, collectively garnering hundreds of thousands of participants. These efforts rekindled a community-based way to engage individuals in the political process and progressive causes – and they are still going strong!

Here are some groups that continue to use, have recently started and/or will be holding MeetUps and House Parties to cultivate community bonding and empowerment: Sojourners: God's Politics MeetUps, Mainstreet Moms Operation Blue, Democracy for America, Move On: Supreme Court House Parties, Rapid Response Network, the Human Right's Campaign and Code Pink.

Neighborhood picnics, block parties, and similar community gatherings are effective ways to build the progressive community. These events do not have to be focused on politics but can be used as "meet and greets" to open the door for all sorts of possibilities. More focused MeetUps and house parties are of course always an option. You can start your own MeetUp or House Party initiative focusing on exactly what you or your group of peers are interested in.

One group we know well that offers tools to run focused house parties is Party2Win – check them out!

Generation DFA Connects in all 50 States

Generation DFA has officially started youth groups in all 50 states!

The only way to take our country back is to build an infrastructure that will produce lasting majorities in the future. You can help Democrats and progressives win by starting a Democracy for America group on your college campus.

Generation DFA's work is crucial in introducing to, educating about and empowering young participants in our Democratic process.

Generation DFA's goals are simple:

• Build a strong network of young people dedicated to fiscal responsibility and social progress.
• Establish Democracy for America groups on college campuses across the country.
• Create a "healthy" community through "DFA CampusCorp," a program focused on local community service projects.
• Activate young people to support fiscally responsible, socially progressive candidates in their local communities.
• Work with Young Democrats and other like-minded student groups to coordinate efforts and create a greater impact.

Please visit Generation DFA and find out how YOU can become part of the Generation DFA Community!

Orange County CA: Out of Iraq Teach-In

WHAT: An old-fashioned Teach-In to re-energize the Out-of-Iraq movement.

OUT OF IRAQ! Support the Troops. Bring Them Home. The secret "Downing Street Memo" reveals the truth about Bush's motives for the War in Iraq. Protect our families – Stop unfair military recruitment of youth.

WHO: A region-wide coalition of peace and justice activists led by Congresswoman Maxine Waters. Many elected officials, celebrities, clergy, and community people are invited to take part.

DATE & TIME: Saturday, July 23 @ 12 noon

LOCATION: Covenant Worship Center, 425 S. La Brea Avenue (two blocks south of Manchester) Inglewood, CA 90301

Visit the Orange County Grassroots for more events and information regarding the Orange County Progressives!

SITE SEEING

Beyond Mainstream

Beyond Mainstream is an online magazine with a progressive vision. It serves as an alternative voice to mainstream media and provides a forum for creativity, activism and self-discovery. The editorial focus is experiential and down to earth, embracing a creative, socially conscious way of life. Features include a beyond the mainstream slant on politics, the arts, health and spirituality, lifestyle options, offbeat humor and more.

Beyond Mainstream's appeal crosses over generational lines, defined by values, interests and lifestyle choices rather than conventional demographics. The Website doesn't disregard mainstream culture; instead, it goes beyond its limitations with respect for human dignity, cultural diversity and the environment. The name "Beyond Mainstream" allows for originality and experimentation, not having to follow traditional rules. Add fun and playfulness to this mix, and you have the essence of the BeyondMainstream.com experience. Be Sure to Check out this subtle twist to politics!

What's the Message?

The Messaging Project answers questions about Progressive messaging, and how to promote, apply and connect with others about that messaging.

FairVisions is the primary author of this new site. They have more than 25 years in marketing, analysis, investment and marketing communications and consult with political committees on messaging and communications strategies.

Take the time to visit their web site where you will find tools and resources that can help all of us learn about our message!

You can also visit the Frame Shop for more useful tools and resources!

Have You Had Your Brad Blog Today?

Brad Friedman is a freelance writer, investigative blogger, software designer and all around trouble maker. He broke the story of the "White House Website Scrubbing" amongst other stories, and has been closely following the story of "GRAND THEFT AMERICA" since Election Day at his site, The BRAD BLOG, which can be read -- when it's not being overwhelmed by traffic -- at BradBlog.com

Brad Friedman is the co-founder of Velvet Revolution, which "Taking Root" has covered before. Velvet Revolution and Brad Blog have recently teamed up with such groups as We Do Not Concede, Global Exchange, Gold Star Families for Peace, Democrats.com, Veterans for Peace, Code Pink, Progressive Democrats of America, Democracy Rising, the Rainbow Push Coalition, Justice Through Music, Citizens for a Legitimate Government, the Velvet Revolution, and Brad Blog to form the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition.

Be sure to visit the Brad Blog for up to date news and commentary, weekend long blogathons and live broadcasts of the Brad Show via the IBC Satellite Radio Network

Can You Handle the Truth?

"Taking Root" has covered Operation Truth before and we cannot say enough about how much work this group has done in support of our soldiers of the Iraq War by facing, head on, the harsh realities that accompany this war. For this reason we wish to send our readers to visit their site again.

Operation Truth, a non-partisan veterans' organization that seeks to amplify the soldiers' voice in the American public dialogue, gives you the truth!

Paul Rieckhoff, a First Lieutenant in the Army Reserves, founded Operation Truth in June 2004, only months after he returned from a year-long tour in Iraq. As of January 2005, Operation Truth represents well over 300 OEF/OIF veterans, and has over 26,000 supporters.

Visit Operation Truth to read and hear personal stories from our brave soldiers returning from Iraq and find out what you can do to support them while they are away and when they come home.

Conversations With The Cabinet

The Backbone Campaign is a grassroots effort to embolden citizens and elected officials to stand up for progressive values. They are expanding the political dialogue by providing creative tools for citizens and the progressive movement. The backbone symbolizes an interlocking agenda, a coalition, and the personal courage necessary to fight for a future worthy of our children.

The Backbone Campaign, Progressive Government Institute, and a coalition of grassroots organizations have initiated a process to empower citizens to nominate, comment on, and rate progressive leaders to serve as a virtual Progressive Parallel Administration. This project demonstrates that the progressive movement is not an opposition, but a propositional movement, and that we are not content with running campaigns, but is prepared to run the country.

Phase II of the project is Conversations with the Cabinet a weekly Web-cast conference call and podcast, designed to create links between grassroots activists and our most effective policy and movement leaders. Past conversations have been held with Ralph Cavanaugh, Sheila Jackson Lee, David Cobb, Medea Benjamin, Tim Carpenter, Phyllis Bennis, Gayle Smith, Lori Wallach, Dennis Kucinich, Daniel Kammen and Bill Fletcher Jr.

Join the Backbone Campaign in an effort to build Progressive Communities through dialogue, creative expression and local actions.

THE TOOL SHED

Project Censored

Project Censored is a media research group out of Sonoma State University that tracks news published in independent journals and newsletters. From these, Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25 news stories of social significance that have been overlooked, under-reported or self-censored by the country's major national news media.

Between 700 and 1000 stories are submitted to Project Censored each year from journalists, scholars, librarians, and concerned citizens around the world. With the help of more than 200 Sonoma State University faculty, students, and community members, Project Censored reviews the story submissions for coverage, content, reliability of sources and national significance.

The university community selects 25 stories to submit to the Project Censored panel of judges who then rank them in order of importance. Current or previous national judges include: Noam Chomsky, Susan Faludi, George Gerbner, Sut Jhally , Frances Moore Lappe, Norman Solomon, Michael Parenti, Herbert I. Schiller, Barbara Seaman, Erna Smith, Mike Wallace and Howard Zinn.

All 25 stories are featured in the yearbook, Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News.

Re-energizing America

Re-energizing America offers excellent information on American energy use and how we can reduce our dependence on foreign oil while expanding our energy choices, stimulating innovation, and creating jobs – all while protecting our natural heritage and stopping global warming.

Re-energizing America is holding a year long "Stop Global Warming Virtual March on Washington" which is a non-political effort to bring all Americans together in one place, proving there is a vast consensus that global warming is here now and it is time for our country to start addressing it. With the support of leading scientists, political and religious leaders, prominent Americans and concerned citizens such as Robert Kennedy Jr, Senator John McCain, General Wesley Clark and others, the Virtual March on Washington will move across the United States via the Internet from one town to the next, showing the evidence of global warming's alarming affects, and highlighting real people's concerns and real solutions along the way.

Please visit their site for more information about the march and to sign their pledge to show your support for Re-energizing America. Check it out!

Global Security.Org

GlobalSecurity.org is a comprehensive online destination for military information and breaking news Their focus is on innovative approaches to the emerging security challenges of the new millennium and they seek to reduce reliance on nuclear weapons and the risk of their use -- both by existing nuclear weapons states and those states seeking to acquire such capabilities. GlobalSecurity.org aims to shift American conventional military forces towards new capabilities aligned with the post-Cold War security environment, and to reduce the worldwide incidence of deadly conflict.

Global Security is working to improve the capabilities of the American intelligence community to respond to new and emerging threats, reducing the need to resort to the use of force, while enhancing the effectiveness of military forces when needed. GlobalSecurity.org also supports new initiatives utilizing space technology to enhance international peace and security.

Nationwide Activist Education and Training Opportunities

Root Camp, an activist collaborative, has been developing a National Clickable map offering activists the information they need to find trainings in their area.

Please visit the Root Camp site to check out upcoming trainings.

Because so many groups are active in educating we are certain to have gaps in the listing. If you have information on trainings that we have missed on the site please send an email to Pam-at-grassrootsforamerica.us and we'll add it to the National Calendar immediately!

While you are visiting the site please take a look at what Root Camp is working on. You can fill out the mentor form if you'd like to become part of the team. We would love to have you!

Recently uploaded materials include audio recordings of some of the recent DemFest sessions.

Thank You for your support!

State Your Case

State Control: Sterilization, Lobotomies, and More

By Wanda Jo (Peltier) Stapleton, Oklahoma

Republican control of the Oklahoma House of Representatives this year inspired legislators to introduce 21 bills and one 20-page amendment aimed at controlling women’s reproductive choices. One of these bills passed and is being challenged in court.

This legislative zeal for taking charge of women’s bodies reminds me of the “good ole days” in Oklahoma when our legislators legalized sterilization and lobotomies.

Senate Bill 14, “Sterilization of Habitual Criminals,” passed the legislature and was signed by Governor Marland on May 14, 1935. Senator Louis H. Ritzhaup, a Guthrie physician and state senator sponsored the bill to perfect a law passed in 1933 (as part of the law to sterilize “insane persons.”) The section of the 1933 law affecting “habitual criminals” was being challenged in state court.

Senator Ritzhaup years later explained that his bill had been offered “from the eugenics standpoint.” Eugenics is a method which seeks to improve the type of offspring produced.

According to Senate Bill 14, an imprisoned man or woman “twice or more times convicted…of crimes amounting to felonies involving moral turpitude” would be “rendered sexually sterile without detriment to his or her general health.”

Exempt from sterilization were those convicted of violating prohibitory laws (dry laws), revenue acts, embezzlement statutes, and political crime codes.

Jack T. Skinner, an imprisoned chicken thief, challenged the law in 1937 after a Pittsburg County court ordered his sterilization. Skinner had first been convicted of stealing chickens and later twice convicted of robbery with firearms. These crimes qualified him as a “habitual criminal” whose offspring might inherit criminal tendencies.

Prisoners at the State Penitentiary, McAlester, paid $1,000 from their canteen fund to help with Skinner’s challenge.

When Skinner v Oklahoma reached the U.S. Supreme Court, Oklahoma Attorney General Mac Q. Williamson defended the “eugenic measure” as the state’s right to “maintain the purity and virility of the race.”

The High Court unanimously struck down this “eugenics measure” in 1942 because of “its failure to meet the requirements of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” The opinion, written by Justice William O. Douglas, pointed out that a three-time chicken thief could be sterilized, but a three-time embezzler could not. The Court concluded that this unequal treatment was “as invidious a discrimination as if it had selected a particular race or nationality for oppressive treatment.”

Despite the Skinner case, Oklahoma’s mentally ill did not escape sterilization as the state’s “habitual criminals” had done.

Senate Bill 275, “Insane Persons—Sterilization,” became law May 5, 1933. This law required sterilization of certain men under 65 and women under 47 who were patients about to be released from state mental institutions. This law limited persons requiring sterilization to those who, upon release, would be dependent on public assistance or charity and to patients “afflicted with hereditary forms of insanity that are recurrent, idiocy, imbecility, feeble-mindedness, or epilepsy.”

Newspaper accounts indicate that this law was executed in Oklahoma. An article in the Daily Oklahoman (May 25, 1934) was headlined “Hearings Set for 50 Due To Be Sterilized.” According to the article, two sterilizations had already been performed, and “There appears to be little opposition in the hospitals.” Later, the Daily Oklahoman (June 21, 1939) reported that “Sterilization of 30 women inmates at Eastern Oklahoma Hospital for the Insane at Vinita has been ordered by the Board of Affairs.”

Sterilization of mental patients had been upheld in 1927 by the U.S. Supreme Court through Buck v Bell.

The Court’s opinion, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., said, “Carrie Buck is a feeble-minded white woman” who was committed to the State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble Minded in Virginia. “She is the daughter of a feeble-minded mother in the same institution and the mother of an illegitimate feeble-minded child. She was eighteen years old at the time of her trial.” Further, she “is the probable potential parent of socially inadequate offspring, likewise afflicted… It is better for the world, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those from continuing their kind.”

In a 1949 law, Oklahoma legislators delegated authority to the superintendent of each state mental hospital to “generally direct the care and treatment of the patient.” However, in 1953, after lobotomies became more numerous, legislators clarified each superintendent’s total control by saying, “The superintendent of the hospital shall have exclusive custody and control of the person of the patient during the period of time he is detained for observation or treatment or both, whether a guardian of the person of said patient has been appointed or is appointed by any court” (Title 43A, Sec. 93).

Records are scarce about lobotomies performed in Oklahoma. However, a “Report on the State Mental Hospitals of Oklahoma,” dated February, 1952, exists in the state’s archives. This report, made by the Central Inspection Board of the American Psychiatric Association, includes information about the Central, Eastern, Western and Taft State Hospitals.

According to this report, at Eastern State Hospital, “A consulting neurosurgeon performs pre-frontal lobotomies in selected cases…During the past year, 24 operations were performed.”

At Central State Hospital, “a few prefrontal lobotomies have been performed with cooperation of the University Hospital” because Central State “is not equipped to do brain surgery.” However, “the hospital operating suite should be equipped to do brain surgery.”

Taft and Western State Hospitals also requested hospital operating suites to do brain surgery. Taft reported that “brain surgery is impossible under existing conditions.” Western State indicated that its surgical suite was in poor condition, but that “a few pre-frontal lobotomies were performed two or three years ago by a certified neurological surgeon.”

All four hospitals spoke favorably about lobotomies and of each institution’s future willingness to perform them, given the proper instruments, equipment, and operating suite.

In conclusion, when our legislators take control of our bodies, the result, even though well intended, can be brutal and invasive. Once again, as in the past, Oklahoma legislators have successfully clamped a law on our bodies. This anti-choice measure, House Bill 1686, has been legally challenged. The outcome is uncertain.

BOOK & ARTICLE REVIEW: What the Roots are Reading

Don Hazen and Lakshmi Chaudhry; An AlterNet Book Start Making Sense

Like you, millions in the progressive movement are ready to turn the conversation toward how we the people can begin to deliver U.S. politics from fear and fundamentalism.

In essays and interviews, they've brought together leading progressive voices to offer creative and practical solutions for building the grassroots strength we need to turn our country around. The consensus: It's time to stop doing politics as usual!

Some of the featured authors in the book are: Howard Dean, Barbara Ehrenreich, Amy Goodman, Arianna Huffington, Naomi Klein, George Lakoff, Andy Stern and Jim Wallis.

Grassroots For America is proud to offer Start Making Sense as a GFA Premium! To get your copy and support the GFA newsletter at the same time, please go to our GFA Premium Page!

You can also visit Alter-Net to become part of the conversation on their book blog.

Shawn O'Donnell is a regular contributor to Root Camp and Rebuilding the Democratic Party from the Grassroots is the ultimate guidebook for taking the Democratic Party back to its future, back to its values, and back to the people.

Black Commentator: It's time to Build a Mass Movement"

An excerpt from the article written by Bruce Dixon, Associate Editor for the Black Commentator

Politicians are elected and selected, but mass movements transform societies. Judges uphold, strike down, or invent brand new law, but mass movements drag the courts, laws and officeholders all in their wake. Progressive and even partially successful mass movements can alter the political calculus for decades to come, thus improving the lives of millions. Social Security, the New Deal, and employer-provided medical care didn't come from the pen of FDR. The end of “separate but equal” didn't come from the lips of any judge, and voting rights were not simply granted by the Voting Rights Act of 1965. All these were hard-won outcomes of protracted struggle by progressive mass movements, every one of which operated outside the law and none of which looked to elected officials or the corporate media of those days for blessings or legitimacy. It’s time to re-learn those lessons and build a new progressive mass movement in the United States.

This is a wonderful story which we wanted everyone to read. We have only provided the first paragraph- so please go to the Black Commentator to read the rest.

Progressive Humor

The following has been floating around the Internet. We tried to track down the original author without success, but trust that he or she will be OK with our reprinting it here.

Thinking...

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then -- to loosen up.

Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker. I began to think alone -- "to relax," I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true.

Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was thinking all the time. That was when things began to sour at home. One evening I had turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent that night at her mother's.

I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't stop myself. I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job."

This gave me a lot to think about. I came home early after my conversation with the boss. "Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..." "I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But Honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver. "You think as much as college professors and college professors don't make any money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!" "That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently. She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama. "I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped out the door.

I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche. I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors...they didn't open. The library was closed.

To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night. Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked. You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinker's Anonymous poster. Which is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.

I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.

I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed...easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking. I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.

Today, I registered to vote as a Republican.

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