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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (3810)	2/4/2001 7:22:35 PM
From: YlangYlangBreeze	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6089

Well first I think we would need to come to some sort of consensus about what issue we would "sponsor." Please, everybody, pipe in here with suggested agenda. Woman's right to choose seems like a biggie to me and apparently to a lot of people. Influencing selection of USSC justice replacements would be another suggestion. I think we need to start in advance on that one, letting Everybody know our stand before they even start tossing names at us. But let's say we select Choice. To garner as much support and cooperation as possible, I think we should try to be as inclusive as possible: "Let us not let a woman's existing right to choose be eroded." That way you don't have to be in favor of abortion, or advancing issues, just in favor of maintaining a woman's right to choose. I don't think we have to narrow our agenda. Rather let it be as inclusive as possible. Individuals might opt to emphasize or pass up certain actions. Having selected an issue to sponsor Post pertinent articles, info, links, and events. Dates of pertinent decisions, cases... Online petitions, Back up contact your senator days when there are decisions and or appointments pending. Perhaps let out leaders know that we will not permit stacking of USSC that might threaten Roe V. Wade Post links to printable pro-choice pamphlets, art, bumper stickers. These are just ideas I am tossing out in order to flesh out a concept. We might select another project, but this seems more productive than arguing with individuals whose minds are just as set as our own. Let's holler louder to those who are in power. Let's find something important we agree on, then use our voices concertedly. (EDIT: While I think that we should selct the issue here, I think that the movement may need, gulp, another thread, so that it will not be a partisan effort. I think that most liberals/LW/Dems, lots of Libertarians, some RW/Repubs and plenty of unaffiliated or "third party" persons may want to join in on an issue like Choice.)