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Hey, I'm in western MA for college most of the year, but I'm in Cambridge for the next couple weeks. Considering that I'm almost certainly going to leave the region for grad school by the summer, what can I do?
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Virginia goons, one of my local journalist friends, Danica Roem, decided to say "gently caress it" and jumped into the fray for a seat in the VA House to knock out old man Bob Marshall: http://www.fauquier.com/prince_will...5b8a197d31.html quote:On transportation: Improving Va. 28, which Roem calls “one of the biggest failures we have had in transportation in my entire life,” will be a focus of her campaign. She’s opposed to the Bi-County Parkway but supports the idea of extending Godwin Drive to bypass Va. 28 through Manassas if area wetlands can be traversed in an environmentally responsible way. Roem supports removing traffic lights and building overpasses “where it makes sense” along the roadway. She also supports raising the gas tax “a penny or two” to sustain public transportation funding and avoid more privately tolled roads, a form of “double taxation,” she said she fervently opposes. edit: I'm sure it's a total coincidence, but today old man Bob said he wants to bring transgender bathroom bans to VA and legally define what a "man" and "woman" is in VA Grey Fox has issued a correction as of 03:39 on Jan 5, 2017 |
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Qwazes posted:Hey, I'm in western MA for college most of the year, but I'm in Cambridge for the next couple weeks. Considering that I'm almost certainly going to leave the region for grad school by the summer, what can I do? Leaving the region as a whole? Any idea where for? You could always try to get involved with an activist group rather than the party machine, many have a national presence. Or if you know where you plan on going get ahold of people there now and start figuring out who's who. If you want to go the activist route there are several national level single issue groups like NORML, that might be a good place to start.
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Received this email from the CT Dems, was glad that they're doing something apparently proactive, was more interested if anyone thinks someone like this would be effective.quote:In just over two weeks, Donald Trump will be sworn in as President, but this is no time to sit around feeling sad. Instead, let’s stand up and do something! Nothing affects people more than good local government, and over 160 Connecticut towns will go to the polls in 2017. That’s over 160 opportunities to fight for our schools, our neighborhoods, and our environment. Progress is still on the ballot!
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If you're in Williamson and were planning on going to the Young Dems meeting tomorrow, don't go. It's been cancelled for this month, and they're looking to change venues to attract more people than just the Austin area. I decided to nominate myself for the Brushy Creek Regional Chair for the Western Wilco Democratic Club, so I'm now officially a dues-paying member of that club, and next Thursday I'll also be the precinct chair for my voting precinct. I really hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew with this, but gently caress it, if no one else is gonna do it, I sure as hell am.
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Jan 5, 2017 05:13
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become precinct chairs in your districts, run socialists as local candidates for small/unopposed positions, build connections and help mobilize people to vote in these small things because turnout is extremely small a lot of times. don't waste time helping shitbag bad dems just because they have a D next to their name. only work with the dem party if you think you can get something out of it because it's a really terrible thing full of terrible people generally speaking. help get real progressives elected and help kick bad dems the gently caress out of office. get involved with your local leftist orgs and organize outside the party because you really can't fix it from within. oftentimes there will be more politically active people scattered across the left groups working on good stuff than in the dem party. the dem party is full of sad centrist idiots and they are very disheartening to work with most of the time. but if you get involved in the political left you will meet people that are actually passionate about change and can build strong connections as long as you don't get too hung up on sectarianism or start hanging out with trots.
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Jan 5, 2017 05:26
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jarofpiss posted:become precinct chairs in your districts, run socialists as local candidates for small/unopposed positions, build connections and help mobilize people to vote in these small things because turnout is extremely small a lot of times. don't waste time helping shitbag bad dems just because they have a D next to their name. only work with the dem party if you think you can get something out of it because it's a really terrible thing full of terrible people generally speaking. help get real progressives elected and help kick bad dems the gently caress out of office. If enough people showed up you could very easily take over the Democratic party from within. It means you have to get involved in non-election years though. There are so few people involved and they only try to recruit people to show up to phone bank + knock on doors. The party is extremely vulnerable to a bunch of motivated leftists showing up.
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I'm not going to the NKD meeting tomorrow because I've got a board game night and I haven't participated with my group for a while, but do show up if you're in Brooklyn or are interested in importing a similar group to another borough. Queens already has an NKD-like group, the Bronx is sorely in need of one, and while I don't know anything about the Manhattan Democratic Party, I can't imagine that it's a good situation there.
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get that OUT of my face posted:I'm not going to the NKD meeting tomorrow because I've got a board game night and I haven't participated with my group for a while, but do show up if you're in Brooklyn or are interested in importing a similar group to another borough. Queens already has an NKD-like group, the Bronx is sorely in need of one, and while I don't know anything about the Manhattan Democratic Party, I can't imagine that it's a good situation there. Brooklyn has a very active branch of the NYC DSA chapter, and Bronx/Upper Manhattan and Queens are building out branches now. It's not quite the same as NKD/NQD, but I know at least the Brooklyn branch has just formed an electoral committee, so that may be of interest too.
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What exactly do precinct chairs/captains do? Not opposed to jumping in but I'm not gonna pull a Trump and sign up for a job I have no clue about.
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OAquinas posted:What exactly do precinct chairs/captains do? Not opposed to jumping in but I'm not gonna pull a Trump and sign up for a job I have no clue about. Generally, it's up to you how much involvement you want to have, here's what I'd suggest based on my experience in Arizona. I'd say at the minimum, you should be able to do the following: Attend most meetings, because you'll be counting against the quorum. Not openly support republicans in elections If you're asked to volunteer in your own neighborhood, either by canvassing with a candidate, or doing voter registration, you should probably say yes. If you end up getting in over your head, you're always allowed to resign. Now, there's a lot more you can do, above and beyond. It's harder in an apartment complex, but if new people move into your area, you should try to find out if they're democrats, welcome them, and let them know when the meetings are. You should try to volunteer at events that are organized in your area, handing out flyers or just sitting at a table. The sky is the limit! Just do it!
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OAquinas posted:What exactly do precinct chairs/captains do? Not opposed to jumping in but I'm not gonna pull a Trump and sign up for a job I have no clue about. From what I've been told, precinct chairs are really what you make of it. A lot of chairs tend to be empty, and even of the filled ones sometimes the person really just doesn't do much of anything. The expectations of the precinct chair in my county seems primarily to primarily be to go to meetings and vote, and to try to increase voter turnout in your precinct.
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OAquinas posted:What exactly do precinct chairs/captains do? Not opposed to jumping in but I'm not gonna pull a Trump and sign up for a job I have no clue about. As much as you want/can to bring people in, organize them, and get them active. Hold yourself some small meetings and poo poo, tell people to tell their friends. Show up for the big meetings.
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Jan 5, 2017 22:26
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unbutthurtable posted:Brooklyn has a very active branch of the NYC DSA chapter, and Bronx/Upper Manhattan and Queens are building out branches now. It's not quite the same as NKD/NQD, but I know at least the Brooklyn branch has just formed an electoral committee, so that may be of interest too.
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Jan 6, 2017 08:55
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get that OUT of my face posted:Yeah, I definitely want to get involved with them too. I have a friend who's been in the DSA since college so I can ask her to keep me posted, and they're also hosting an event on further action against an armory that's planned to be turned into expensive apartments with some "affordable" housing units on the 14th. That's not the worst thing that can be done with an armory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Armory
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I have no intention of actually joining the DSA but I figure the people who go might know of the other more relevand and effective local orgs if they exist. Like how back in the day you went to the SDS to discover JOIN and from there work your way into the Goodfellows. I dont know if that will actually work or if those better orgs exist, mind you
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GlyphGryph posted:I have no intention of actually joining the DSA but I figure the people who go might know of the other more relevand and effective local orgs if they exist. Like how back in the day you went to the SDS to discover JOIN and from there work your way into the Goodfellows. Just out of curiosity, what would those better orgs look like to you? I only ask because DSA is pretty malleable, in my experience. If they're not doing something you think they should be doing, you should just be able to bring it up and do it.
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yeah good luck going down the left group rabbit hole and attending the 18th international of the people's revolutionary communist settlers resistance party which consists of one guy with a ponytail in his apartment
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if you're a Bernie supporting socialist you probably aren't going to find too many active groups outside of the dsa and the cpusa that agree with you
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unbutthurtable posted:Just out of curiosity, what would those better orgs look like to you? I don't have the slightest idea what the current political landscape looks like for the DSA. I did give a specific comparison example of what that would look like in the bit you quoted, SDS vs JOIN. Maybe the DSA does everything inhouse instead of spinning off locally controlled affiliate groups, I don't know. I will figure that out I guess.
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GlyphGryph posted:I don't have the slightest idea what the current political landscape looks like for the DSA. I did give a specific comparison example of what that would look like in the bit you quoted, SDS vs JOIN. Maybe the DSA does everything inhouse instead of spinning off locally controlled affiliate groups, I don't know. I will figure that out I guess. DSA has local chapters that people join after signing up with central. From there they network out.
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Trip report: went to the Palm Beach DEC meeting. Roughly 150-200 people there. Inducting new precinct people, congratulating on the county-wide wins. From the speeches it sounds like PBC is one of the healthier and active DECs in the whole state, which isn't hard to believe. 4 out of 5 of the (declared) FDP chair candidates were there. In the lobby there were copies of an open letter stating that Bittel (Ellison's supported candidate over Bernie's Bullard) wasn't eligible because the miami group did an improper procedure end-run to give him a prerequisite job posting for his candidacy. It was an interesting case as presented, honestly. That said, listening to him he at least knows the right words to speak--emphasis was on bottom up, money alone can't fix poo poo, 100%. Then Alan Clendenin spoke. He's been a trench-fighter for years, been screaming about needing to focus on downballot since 2010. Lisa King: She's from Jacksonville. No mention of downballot focus, but instead spoke more about her ability to bring together Bernie and Hilldawg people and make them work together. Bullard came in last/late. He's in the state government, and spoke of his being on "the front lines" of fighting for progressive causes. Said we can't afford to have a FDP head being in the background anymore. Since Leah Carius wasn't there, there was no Q&A. So at least the FDP chair candidates all seemed to talk a good game. Next up was an impressive powerpoint on the election postmortem: spoiler: boomers continued their streak of loving america by breaking for trump, along with people feeling economically stressed. White men are also terrible people, but women didn't break as hard for Hillary as anticipated---basically stuff we all know here, but probably new news for some people in the room. Picked up a DEC volunteer form and will be doing some research.
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Thanks for the trip report, that's pretty interesting. Florida seems like a place that really should be more likely to go Dem than it is considering how much damage the Rs seem to do and how terrible they are, and whose ongoing victory seems to be on the back of a really sad Dem apparatus in the state (or at least that's what I've heard as an outsider), so hopefully the party can get organized enough to fight back and take it.
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That's the thing: most County DECs are far worse off. I'm in an outlier pocket, apparently. And previous chairs haven't done anything to mitigate/reverse that. Just a guess, but I suspect thats a national trend.
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Quoting myself from other thread Lemming posted:Yo if anybody happens to be in California, there are elections for assembly district delegates happening tomorrow and Sunday. Use http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov to check what assembly district you're in, then go to http://www.cadem.org/our-party/adem/assembly-district-meetings and click your district (male or female is fine) to see when/where it is. Assembly district delegates get to vote in state level conventions and get to choose positions on things and candidates for different races, and do make a district.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I'll definitely be at this one. Anyone else? I'd need a more exact place/time, but if I can, I'll be there.
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My next local (Duval County, FL) Democratic Party meeting is going to be held at a rum bar/Latin dance club, which... owns? Or not, since it'll likely be noisy and disorganized? Either way, I plan to drink and yell about Bernie. Also Reagan Youth is playing a show at that same bar a week before the meeting, which has to be a sign of something.
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Does Ryan Washington have a chance DFA asked for money but is phone bank if there's a chance
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I was afraid I'd missed the CA Assembly District vote for my district today because I've been sick this week with a head cold that's only just now cleared up, but my district vote happens tomorrow so I'll actually be able to attend. Yay. I didn't put my own name forward because I don't even know if I'm still going to be living here in two years and also because there's three or four candidates on the slate already whose blurbs basically say everything I think.
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Balls. I lost by 4 votes, I was the second runner up on mine (also ADEM election in California). On the plus side, the slate I put together got 5 people elected and 2 runner ups. We lost the e-board by one vote. I'm going to see if I can leverage my runner up ness into a delegate appointment from one of the local people who have them It's crazy though, we kicked some people off the board endorsed by the local establishment with our outsider slate, and the runner up on the women's side lost by literally one vote. You can absolutely make a huge difference by showing up
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Oh Hell No posted:My next local (Duval County, FL) Democratic Party meeting is going to be held at a rum bar/Latin dance club, which... owns? Or not, since it'll likely be noisy and disorganized? Either way, I plan to drink and yell about Bernie. drat, wish I had a chance to go while I was there for the holidays. Oh well.
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Lemming posted:Balls. I lost by 4 votes, I was the second runner up on mine (also ADEM election in California). On the plus side, the slate I put together got 5 people elected and 2 runner ups. We lost the e-board by one vote. I'm going to see if I can leverage my runner up ness into a delegate appointment from one of the local people who have them Awesome job!
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Lemming posted:Balls. I lost by 4 votes I want to congratulate you for having the guts to try.
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Hey I figured setting up a discord room would be cool if anyone is interested. https://discord.gg/XApyeSJ GlyphGryph has issued a correction as of 20:45 on Jan 9, 2017 |
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GlyphGryph posted:Hey I figured setting up a discord room would be cool if anyone is interested. The link is broken.
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Oops, forgot to set it to "never expire" Here's the new one: https://discord.gg/XApyeSJ
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News is trickling in from the California ADEM elections and it's looking pretty good. Candidates on progressive slates won: - All 14 seats and the election board seat in the 9th District: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalRevolutionCA/comments/5ms1vy/we_won_1414_seats_and_eboard_in_the_9th_district/ - All 14 seats in the 29th District: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalRevolutionCA/comments/5mo5bc/bernie_democrats_will_all_the_delegate_seats_for/ https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalRevolutionCA/comments/5mre2e/29th_district_tally/ - The entire progressive slate (13 seats) won in the 68th District, unseating 20-year Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalRevolutionCA/comments/5mojgk/today_was_a_great_day_for_progressives/ - No tallies made public yet, but apparently progressives won majorities in the 26th, 32nd, and 34th Districts in the Central Valley: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalRevolutionCA/comments/5mwkfj/progressives_win_big_in_ad_26_32_and_34/ - 6/14 seats and the election board seat in the 17th District: https://twitter.com/SFyimby/status/818380262790705152 - All 14 seats and the election board seat in the 78th District: https://twitter.com/theguessworker/status/818440847028948992 - All 14 seats in the San Luis Obispo Count Dem committee: https://twitter.com/jonathantasini/status/817895581859213312 - This guy is tweeting about statewide ADEM results: https://twitter.com/jonathantasini Progressives won roughly 500/1120 delegate seats, with 15-20x the normal turnout in many districts We won't know the full official tallies until around next week, but it's great to see increased activism already starting to pay off in practical ways.
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I volunteered to help with the AD 19 election. It was pretty nuts. There were 706 votes, double the previous record turnout, despite the fact that it was taking place during a pretty gnarly storm. Progressive candidates swept it.
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