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The Election is Over but Our Fight is NotBy Joan Duckenfield November 19, 2012 As Paul Krugman put it, “The looming prospect of spending cuts and tax increases isn’t a fiscal crisis. It is, instead, a political crisis brought on by the G.O.P.’s attempt to take the economy hostage.” Republicans are manufacturing this crisis to pressure Democrats to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and accept painful cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Unemployment Compensation, core programs that many Americans depend on!
The facts are that extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and shredding our social safety net will not reduce the deficit or improve the economy. (tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/PDF/0915taxesandeconomy.pdf) Creating jobs and putting people back to work will improve our economy and reduce the deficit. Letting the tax cuts for the top 2% expire will generate over $800 billion more revenue which can be used to generate jobs for the other 98%. This will grow our economy!... Read more...
Things we Can Do to Get Out the Vote for ObamaNovember 1, 2012 As we speak, the latest poll has Obama up by only 4% in PA. And that doesn't account for any votes we may lose because people feel too stressed to vote due to Sandy and its aftermath. So our work to get out the vote is more important than ever!
Fortunately we have many ways to help. If you want to phone, go door-to-door, motivate volunteers, hold up signs, put signs up at polling places, whatever . . . here’s the one stop shopping place for finding out what you can do, from the general to the very specific.... Read more...
We Could Have Two More Scalias on the Supreme CourtBy Stan Shapiro October 12, 2012 It’s clearer than ever that we’ve got a close election. Even in Pennsylvania, which many think is a lock for President Obama, some polls have shown it’s a two point race, and Senator Casey’s lead has been shrinking. If the President loses PA, it’s game over. If Casey loses, we can be sure Congress will be wall-to-wall Republican.
Neighborhood Networks is working through an innovative new alliance with the labor movement - called Workers’ Voice - to canvass undecided voters in our neighborhoods. Below you will find a list of those canvasses taking place in the next few weeks. But for some of you these Saturday canvasses are too far away or on inconvenient dates or times. So we’re also going to list some other ways for you to get involved in locking in Democratic votes.
First, here is the schedule of Workers’ Voice canvasses:
A) Oct 13: 9 am Sprinklerfitters 692; 14002 McNulty Rd (Northeast Philly)
B) Oct 13: 9 am Seafarers; 2604 S. 4th Street (South Philly)
C) Oct 20: 9 am Seafarers 2604 S. 4th Street (South Philly)
D) Oct 27: 9 am Sprinklerfitters 692; 14002 McNulty Rd (Northeast Philly)
E) Oct 27: 9 am Seafarers; 2604 S. 4th Street (South Philly)
F) Oct 27: 9 am Seafarers; 2604 S. 4th Street (South Philly)
Now here’s a list of Obama offices. Contact any of them for details on canvasses or phone banks, or just walk in to get the information you need:
A) 42 S. 15th Street 16th Floor
B) 322 W. Chelten Ave. 19144; 215-834-7125; Chelten@ofapa.com
C) 7171 Ogontz Ave.; Ogontz@ofapa.com
D) 8120 Old York Rd. #4, Elkins Park; OldYork@ofapa.com
E) 206 E. Girard Ave. #C; EastGirard@ofapa.com
F) 209 S. 52d Street; 52ndStreet@ofapa.com
G) 6841 Germantown Ave.; Germantown@ofapa.com
H) 5601 Vine Street
I) 1825 E. Passyunk Ave.; PassyunkAve@ofapa.com
J) 5706 N. 5th Street
K) 9173 Roosevelt Blvd; NorthPhilly@ofapa.com
L) 4663 Paul Street; Frankford@ofapa.com
M) 1737 South Street, Center City West
N) Center City West, organized by Steve Poses, steveposes.obama2012ccw@gmail.com... Read more...
Nine Specific Things YOU Can Do to Stop ItBy Gloria Gilman/Stan Shapiro August 23, 2012 You all know what's going on; the GOP is trying to take us all back to the 18th century, to have a country that literally is governed in the image of the founding fathers. Justice Scalia will fill in the details. To make it happen, they have to be sure the women, the people of color and the young, don't vote.
You don't like that idea? Then you have to keep reading. . .
THINGS YOU CAN DO NOW TO HELP VOTERS VOTE
1. Transport voters with the necessary documentation to PennDOT to obtain a Non-Drivers License Photo ID Card, stay with them and help them through the process and transport them back. Volunteer trainings will be scheduled at the Coalition office at 310 W. Chelten Ave. Call the Coalition office to get more info: 215-848-1283.
2. Volunteer with the Homeless Advocacy Project or the Senior Law Center (215-701-3201) clinics to help voters obtain birth certificates.
3. Take calls from voters with questions about the birth certificate process or other aspects of Voter ID requirements. Contact either of the organizations above.
4. Make calls to voters in your neighborhood to see if they have proper id. Jeff Garis of Pa. Voice is coordinating a calling blitz until 8/25 at the least. Contact him at jgaris@infoservicesgroup.net or 215-694-4783.
5. Contact the NAACP to help to assist with voter registration at a high volume location educate about Voter ID. Call to discuss with Gloria Gilman (215-568-4990; gmgilman@igc.org) and she’ll connect with the NAACP to try to set up a group, or contact them directly. Locations include Broad and Olney, Bridge & Pratt; Market East; FernRock; Frankford Transportation Center; 69th Street Terminal. NAACP coordinator is John Jordan: j715jordan@yahoo.com; 215-715-5681.
6. Canvas door to door (put on door hangers with needed info to targeted neighborhoods where it is believed that there are a lot of people without proper id); phone bank; do data entry; do packet assembly: daily. Shifts in morning, afternoon, evening, weekends daily. Call the Coalition office: 215-848-1283 or go there at 310 West Chelten Ave. It’s near the Chelten Avenue station on the Chestnut Hill line, and if you’re driving, there is free parking.
7. Get trained about Voter ID issues by the Coalition office and agree to do one or more speaking engagements. There are many unfilled requests for this. Contact Molly Morrill to arrange this: mmorrill@seventy.org; 215-557-3600. There is a lot of information and forms available online at the Committee of Seventy website.
8. Check the Coalition calendar to see what’s listed.
9. There is an app called the Cost of Freedom App widget detailing voter ID requirements in Pa and around the country which can be sent out to your email lists or social media contacts, especially to young people, or contact Faye Anderson at 215-995-5028 or costoffreedomproject@gmail.com about this.... Read more...
YOU Can Stop ItBy Stan Shapiro July 22, 2012 The power hungry Republican Party and its corporate sponsors have now put our very democracy at issue. It’s a flawed thing to begin with, given the makeup of the U.S. Senate, the electoral college, and here in Pennsylvania, the small, inconvenient window of time within to vote, and the heavy restrictions that have been imposed on absentee voting. But under Act 18, enacted a few months ago, PA democracy is threatened in an even more profound way. Fully 10% of theoretically eligible PA voters - an astounding 18% of those living in Philadelphia - may not be able to cast their votes at all in November’s election.
This is because Act 18 requires all voters, even those well known to election officials and who may have been voting for decades at the same polling place, must show a photo id when they come to vote. And not any photo id will do; it must be a Penndot issued id, military, student or passport id, or one of a very few other kinds. An estimated million or more people in our state don’t have them.
The overwhelming majority of those blocked from voting will be poor people, minorities, and young people. And, of course, most of these will be Democrats.... Read more...
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