We are ALL Digby
Thu Jun 21, 2007 at 03:36:53 AM PDT
What Digby said:
The netroots – the progressive blogosphere – consists of a very lively and disparate group of citizens who are political observers, activists, readers, writers, entrepreneurs, communicating and organizing via the Internet.
We have opera-loving liberals from Georgia, NASCAR-loving progressives from Chicago, and Grateful Dead-loving Democrats from Florida. We are from everywhere, and our common tribal signifiers aren’t social status or professional authority or region.
We find each other in remote places and big cities alike, on the Internet, through our politics – period. In the blogosphere, nobody cares if you are a 70-year-old Chinese immigrant, or a 22-year-old Harvard student, or a stay-at-home blogger dad...
After Digby's speech on Tuesday, the following was posted to a new Facebook group called "We are ALL Digby".
Find out the mission of "We are ALL Digby" on the flip.
Protecting our Vote: DFA endorses Debra Bowen for CA Sec of State!
Wed Feb 22, 2006 at 02:05:43 PM PDT
This just in from Jim Dean and Democracy for America:
Dear Joe,
The survival of our democracy demands that every vote be counted accurately. That's why Democracy for America is endorsing Debra Bowen to be California's next Secretary of State. As a current State Senator and Chair of the Senate Elections Committee, Debra has made significant progress defending your right to a fair election, but this is crunch time. We must act now to ensure that our voting systems produce accurate and verifiable results every single time. Senator Bowen will work to ensure the integrity of your vote.
http://www.debrabowen.com
More from Jim and I on the flip...
Vogue calls Feingold the "man of the moment"
Wed Jan 25, 2006 at 08:46:13 PM PDT
A Madison.com article reports that the February issue of Vogue (yes, Vogue) magazine includes an in-depth profile of Russ Feingold that calls him the "man of the moment." Vogue author John Powers goes on to tag Feingold as "the most blogged-about Democrat since Howard Dean."
The Vogue content is not online, apparently, but a few choice excerpts are on the flip...
[UPDATED] Grover Greeted by Katrina 'Bathtub' Billboard; Kossacks -- where should it go next?
Wed Sep 21, 2005 at 03:06:20 PM PDT
The billboard created by
Working Assets and the League of Independent Voters -- and inspired and funded by
the DailyKos community -- landed on Grover Norquist's doorstep at 1920 L St. this morning just in time for his infamous weekly "Wednesday meeting" of the conservative elite.
And Raw Story was there to blog it.
So did the Center for American Progress via Campus Progress.
There's more on the flip side, including another pic and a request for your Kosmopolitan suggestions for our billboard driver in DC...
[UPDATED] Grover Norquist's Wednesday Meeting (Kossack-driven Katrina billboard action)
Tue Sep 20, 2005 at 03:38:09 PM PDT
Hurricane Katrina is not only a national tragedy, it is also a teachable moment on the devastating human consequences of the radical right's anti-government agenda.
So Working Assets is bringing the message home:
Conceived by the DailyKos community and designed by Kossack highacidity, the image above will be displayed on a mobile billboard outside of Grover Norquist's "Wednesday meeting" on WEDNESDAY MORNING (just hours from now). As many Kossacks know, the Wednesday meeting is a weekly DC confab for the conservative elite to drive the conservative agenda.
If you live or work in the DC area, please support the cause by showing up on WEDNESDAY MORNING, Sept 21st @ 8:45am (sharp!) at L & 20th St., when the League of Independent Voters and Working Assets park a truck-based mobile billboard outside the office of Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform.
[Update] Looks like Lincoln Property Management --- Norquist's landlord --- is getting a little concerned about this action due to Kossacks spreading the word!
Check out LPM's building security notice on the flip side...
BREAKING: Rumsfeld Denounces LeaveMyChildAlone.org!
Fri Sep 16, 2005 at 05:40:42 PM PDT
Recipe for Disaster: Katrina a la Bush (by Andrew Boyd, Billionaires for Bush)
Wed Sep 14, 2005 at 07:09:06 PM PDT
Andrew Boyd, a friend of mine and the co-founder of Billionaires for Bush, just posted this "recipe for disaster" at:
http://recipefordisaster.org/
It includes a link to highacidity's Grover Norquist poster...
Recipe for Disaster
KATRINA A LA BUSH
INGREDIENTS
1 - Great American City
1 - President on vacation
1 - Class-4 Hurricane
1 - Grover Norquist bathtub
PREPARATION
Take one great American city. Place in Grover Norquist's bathtub. Slowly stir in 2 & 1/2 centuries of racism and inequality, while defunding basic infrastructure. Ignore repeated calls to reinforce protective levees. Let sit until conditions ripen.
More below the fold...
Happy Mother's Day from Mainstreet Moms: The MMOB!
Sun May 08, 2005 at 07:05:37 PM PDT
NOTE: I'm not Megan Matson --- but I am a MMOBster!
This was just posted at DFA's blogforamerica.com...
Happy Mother's Day everyone!
I'm Megan Matson, mother of three, founder of Mainstreet Moms, and a Dean-powered citizen like you.
On this Mother's Day, I still believe what I believed when we launched The MMOB's Adopt-A-Swing-State voter registration campaign just one year ago.
It is the mothers who have a tangible, physical connection to a common future, because their children will be there. For all but the noodle-brains waiting for the Rapture (like Calgon) to take them away, policy based on looting and apocalypse just doesn't work for us. We didn't sign OUR children up for a nation-breaking fiscal debt, the end of science, the wrenching of truth, a government of meanies, and the beginning of planned perpetual war. These crackpots always go too far, which is a comfort. And the moms (and honorary moms) are pissed.
More below the fold, including a photo of Megan and the kids + a new MMOB action called Leave My Child Alone!...
MoveOn.org Joining DNC Chair Battle
Tue Jan 25, 2005 at 02:13:16 PM PDT
From a
Washington Post article ("Prominent Black DNC Members Back Dean for Chair"), 38 minutes ago:
In another development, MoveOn.org, a liberal advocacy group, announced plans to get involved in the race for DNC chair. The involvement of the group, which mounted an active Internet and grassroots effort during the presidential campaign, initially would seem to help Dean -- with the organization calling for election of a chair who will express "strong opposition to Republican extremism" -- though it also could help build opposition from the moderate wing of the party.
The battle has been joined. I don't think MoveOn would be getting involved if it didn't think Howard Dean needed a left flank.
Good move? Bad move?
For MoveOn? For Dean? For the Party?
What say you?
Howard Dean: "From the Ground Up"
Tue Jan 25, 2005 at 03:27:18 AM PDT
As Howard Dean draws closer to the distinct possibility of becoming DNC Chair, op-eds like this one from the Good Doctor remind us why we were so inspired to support him in the first place. I've read a lot of Dean stuff over the last few years, but this explication of his empowerment philosophy resonates with more power than ever before.
As he said to hundreds of supporters in Sacramento on Saturday, "I'm not much of a Zen guy, but I've learned that the best way to gain power is to give it away." Priceless. It's as if Dean has found his political/spiritual sweet spot --- the essential ethic that fuels our movement's campaign to revitalize and transform the Democratic Party and this country.
Read Dean's latest op-ed below the fold...
DNC Caucus: Dean's Fresh Horses & Hillary's Unknown Forces
Sun Jan 23, 2005 at 10:16:21 AM PDT
"Some of you in the DNC may see us as barbarians at the gate. Some of us see ourselves as the cavalry. The truth is, we are fresh horses." --- Miles Kurland, a grassroots DFA activist speaking directly to a large group of DNC members at the DNC Western Regional Caucus, 1/22/05
"I asked a DNC member I know personally, what he thought about Dean's chances. He said there is really one main impediment and gave a very simple, direct suggestion for activists. He said, 'you need to apply tremendous pressure to Hillary.' I asked, 'Are you saying she's in the way?' He replied: "Yes!" --- EmilyD, from DailyKos account of conversation at DNC Western Regional Caucus, 1/22/05
By now, many of you probably have read several eyewitness accounts of the DNC Caucus in Sacramento on Saturday. You may also know about the rumblings behind the scenes (and now in Newsweek) that Hillary Clinton MAY make a power play to derail Howard Dean.
I attended the caucus and I'd like to make a few hopefully salient observations as well as rally Dean Democrats to action as we enter the stretch run of this campaign.
More below the fold...
Howard who?: CA Dem Chair Art Torres Avoids Dean
Fri Jan 21, 2005 at 02:20:01 AM PDT
Art Torres, California Democratic Party Chair, goes a long way in the following
"Letter from the Chairman" in validating grassroots input expressed at last week's DNC member "listening tour" in Los Angeles.
But he also quite clearly makes a conscious choice NOT to mention the 800-pound grassroots gorilla in the room that day --- Howard Dean (not present) and his legion of supporters (who packed Patriotic Hall). We know this, because by all accounts (for example, this obviously unbiased source ;-), an overwhelming number of attendees at the event verbally endorsed Dean for DNC Chair, even if Torres predictably makes no mention of it in his latest "Letter from the Chairman".
More below the fold...
A Cure for Inauguration-itis
Fri Jan 21, 2005 at 12:10:33 AM PDT
On a day as unfortunate as this one, take a moment to watch the following in-depth trailer for "Wellstone!", a feature-length documentary on Paul and Sheila Wellstone.
For someone whose dedication to revitalizing progressive politics resumed the day Paul Wellstone died, this trailer brought tears to my eyes...
http://www.carryitforward.org/film.html
... and reminded me why, in Paul's words, "the future will not belong to those who sit on the sidelines. The future will not belong to the cynics. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
In the spirit of representing the "democratic wing of the Democratic Party," please consider attending the DNC Western Regional Caucus in Sacramento on Saturday (or in New York on 1/29). Info and breakfast tickets can be obtained at http://www.cdc-ca.org/ and car pools can be found at http://www.drivingvotes.org
UCBerk study: Election effected by Iraq, NOT by gay marriage
Tue Nov 30, 2004 at 05:20:47 PM PDT
Richard Perle shocked, I tell you (credit to RBH)
Wed Sep 22, 2004 at 01:40:26 AM PDT
This is a continuation of
RBH's diary on Richard Perle's comments one year ago today on behalf of the American Enterprise Institute. (I couldn't post more than 50 characters as a comment so my only option was another diary).
Blind arrogance, thy name is Perle:
And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated." - Richard Perle, 9/22/03
But there's also this extended quote by Richard Perle regarding Ahmed Chelabi...
Pentagon BLOCKS overseas voter registration
Tue Sep 21, 2004 at 01:45:15 AM PDT
Apologies if this has been posted already...
The International Herald Tribune is reporting that several foreign ISPs are being blocked from using the Federal Voting Assistance Program to protect the site from "hackers".
Hmmmm... think it has anything to do with the fact that Americans abroad heavily favor Kerry? This should be quite alarming, especially if the overseas vote is the difference in many swing states
Spread the word... but be sure to read the whole article first so you know the full context.
PARIS In a decision that could affect Americans abroad who are not yet registered to vote in the Nov. 2 presidential election, the Pentagon has begun restricting international access to the official Web site intended to help overseas absentee voters cast ballots.
Quick Quiz: Operation Liberal Freedom
Sun Sep 19, 2004 at 11:41:11 PM PDT
QUICK... who said the following in the summer of 2002?
"If we quickly succeed in a war against the weakened and depleted fourth-rate military of Iraq, and then quickly abandon that nation, as President Bush has quickly abandoned almost all of Afghanistan after defeating a fifth-rate military power there, then the resulting chaos in the aftermath of a military victory in Iraq could easily pose a far greater danger to the United States than we presently face from Saddam."
There's more...
Chomsky Voting for... Kerry? (w/ poll)
Sat Sep 18, 2004 at 03:38:45 AM PDT
If you choose to read only three paragraphs from this
excellent column by Norman Solomon (a former Nader supporter), on the media's recent non-coverage of the Supreme Court, read these three below. It's one of the most compelling cases I've read yet on the grounded reality of the "differences" between Bush and Kerry.
And it comes from Noam Chomsky of all people...
