Live-blogging the DNC Western Caucus Conference

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Friday May 25, 2007 · 2:50 PM PDT

2007/05/25 · 14:50

I'm at the DNC's Western Caucus conference in San Francisco live-blogging with Christine Pelosi and others. Lots about strategy, what works, polling. We'll be posting slides later. The conference runs until Sunday noon.

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Friday August 18, 2006 · 5:04 PM PDT

2006/08/18 · 17:04

(Update: For those following this, I managed to skip the first three paragraphs when I cross-posted from myDD.

I attended the Women's Caucus meeting here at the DNC meeting in Chicago today. Here are some highlights:

Debbie Dingell noted that affirmative action is on the ballot in Michigan. It's being cast as a civil rights measure, which she noted is "neither civil, nor right."

Women were encouraged to run for office to help build our farm teams, especially in the state legislatures, city councils, and county commissions. Molly Beth Malcolm, from Texas, said that she had run for the Texarkana community college board and won, and that she was the first woman to serve on that board. Read More

Your campaign marching orders: 100actions.com. Spread the word.

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Friday August 04, 2006 · 12:50 PM PDT

2006/08/04 · 12:50

The DNC has launched a new online organizing site called 100actions.com. The site features a new action for every day between now and the election.

Please help spread the word about this site. If you have a blog or website, you can put up a nifty countdown badge to remind people to do their patriotic deed for the day.

The actions are cool, but what's even better is that any campaign or individual activist can use the site to set up events. If you have an upcoming canvass, phone bank, or fundraiser, feel free to enter it, and new volunteers may come your way. If you aren't near a Democratic organization (or don't want to belong to one), you can use the site's tools to download materials and create your own neighborhood canvass. Read More

Have Mercy! Things are bad in Iraq

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Saturday October 02, 2004 · 9:10 PM PDT

2004/10/02 · 21:10

One of the few relief agencies still on the ground in Iraq, Portland-based Mercy Corps continues to provide aid in regions racked by chaos and violence. I truly admire these folks for their perseverance. This story has a lot to say about the real conditions on the ground in Iraq--if things were going as well as Bush thinks, aid organizations would be pouring in.

"There's no one else," says David Holdridge in this Oregonian article, which gives you the sense that no place is safe in Iraq in spite of our Commander-in-Chief's rosy pronouncements.

They've all gone, says David Holdridge, Mercy Corps' director in Iraq. U.S. government contractors assigned to rebuild schools and fix water and sewer systems departed months ago from the troubled areas where the Portland-based relief organization works, Holdridge says.
Marines, Army and coalition reconstruction forces also left the provinces southeast of Baghdad, he says.

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Monday June 21, 2004 · 12:12 AM PDT

2004/06/21 · 00:12

Are any other Kossacks going to be at the convention?

It would be nice to meet some of you.

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