[Peace-discussion] Re: Peace-discussion digest, Vol 1 #190 - 1 msg

[Drew]

Yes, Bernie Sanders is a socialist and a progressive, but before we
fall all over ourselves Barak Obama DID campaign for him!!!!  So keep
your eyes open.  Maybe Sanders will have a positive impact on Obama?!?!
 

Here's an article from Sander's web site about one such event:
http://bernie.org/?p=162

In Joy!

Drew


Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 06:43:06 -0800 (PST)
From: "Henry D." <henryduke2004@yahoo.com>
To: peacetalkbham@yahoogroups.com, alabamaprogressives@yahoogroups.com,
  Change-links@yahoogroups.com,
  gpax discussion <peace-discussion@lists.gp-us.org>
Subject: [Peace-discussion] Re: A socialist in the Senate!

The Green Party welcomes Vermont Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders and 
notes he is not with the Democratic Party of Barak Obama. 
   
  We encourage him to evaluate and consider joining our party as we run

elections to provide a values not corporate profits agenda.
   
  Congratulations. We await Ned Lamont, Barbara Lee, Cynthia McKinney, 
and even Dennis Kucinich.
   
  Unconditional support for a lesser evil as in Al "death penalty Gore 
and blaming Nader for what democrats and republicans in power did, is 
blaming the victim.
   
  Us non-corporate funded movements have a right to run in all 
elections, and the country is following and moving with us.
   
  The Democrats are actually moving to the right: witnessing their 
"victory in Iraq -- no matter the #'s killed", their opposition to Roe
v 
Wade, and especially Hillary Clinton and Dianne Feinsteins bill in the 
senate to immediately add 80,000 more troops into our armed forces.
  [Have they no shame?] 
   
  Hillary Clinton even recently commented that is was not practical to 
get universal health insurance for children!!!!!
   
  I will finally be officially joining the Social Democratic movement, 
and now find that, for me, never was there a better time to precisely 
describe my political values of supporting democratic socialization of 
our worlds resourses.
   
  Solidarity,
  Henry H Duke

Frank Llewellyn <"Democratic SocialistsofAmerica"@smtp6.icpbounce.com> 
  http://www.dsausa.org 
     DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA
  November 7, 2006                  News From DSA 
A Report from DSA's National Office                             
Contents
    
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  First Socialist Elected to U.S.
  Senate!
  

  Voters Send A
  Message to Republicans, Lame-Duck President.



  
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    News From DSA 
  is now published in a new format; we hope that it will be more 
interesting and more readable. You can help DSA build its electronic
list by 
making good use of the "forward to a friend" button at the bottom of 
this message.
  

 
    
  SANDERS ELECTED TO SENATE
   
  Today, history was made when Vermont Congressman Bernie Sanders 
became the first self-identified socialist elected to the United States

Senate. His election is a tribute to his long-standing determination to

serve the citizens of Vermont—a service he has performed admirably for 
more than 20 years—without sacrificing his political and socialist 
principals. Bernie Sanders’ political career and campaign are models
for 
progressive electoral work and effective coalition building. 
   
  Much will be made, no doubt, of the “novelty” of Senator-elect 
Sanders’ faith in socialist values and the progressive economic and
social 
policies he espouses. We believe that it is precisely those values that

enabled him to be so successful. Seeing those values working in tandem 
with a capacity for leadership and public service is why we supported 
him in this campaign. 
   
  DSA members throughout the nation are proud of the support they 
organized for the Sanders election. The grassroots fundraising efforts
that 
our political action committee spearheaded forwarded some $56,000 in 
contributions, most of them $100 or less, to the Sanders’ Senatorial 
race. 
   
  Added to our satisfaction with Bernie’s victory is seeing the 
Congressional defeat the American people inflicted on the Bush
Administration 
and the Republican Party. That political defeat, administered to the 
most reactionary U.S. administration in more than a century at the
hands 
of the American electorate, sends a clear and needed message. Voters 
want:
    
     a new, sane policy leading to a prompt exit from Iraq; 
  
     an end to economic policies that favor the rich and large 
corporations at the expense of the poor, working families and the
middle class;
  
     an end to the legal graft that allows lobbyists, politicians and 
their relatives, and corporate interests to line their pockets at the 
public’s expense. 

   
  The incoming Congress and the lame-duck president must not ignore 
this message.
   
  We in DSA look forward to organizing grassroots support for the 
political program to which  Senator-elect Sanders and other
progressives 
will soon rally the country. Elements of the program include: raising
the 
minimum wage, ending unfair tax breaks for the corporations and the 
richest one percent of Americans, restoring workers’ rights to join 
unions, moving toward sustainable development and energy independence, 
enacting immigration reform, and, of course, bringing the troops home
now. 
   
  Frank Llewellyn
  National Director
   
   
        Paid for by Democratic Socialists of America PAC, 75 Maiden 
Lane, Suite 505, NY, NY 10038; not approved by any candidate or 
candidate's committee.


This message was sent from Frank Llewellyn to henryduke2004@yahoo.com.



 
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