Meet 10:00 a.m. at the upper parking lot of the La Canada Congregational Church (next to the Caltrans lot on Foothill, opposite Memorial Park). Remember to wear red, white, and blue or one of our club t-shirts! The parade starts at 10:30.
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Candidate for U. S. Representative, 27th Congressional District
Candidate for State Senate 2012, District 25
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Los Angeles County Democratic Party Approved Regions 2012
Our guest speaker in January was Amanda Hollis-Bursky, Ph.D., from Pomona College. She led a discussion on Tea Party, sharing her academic research and an analysis of how tensions within the movement are revealed in the current GOP Primary contest.
Hollis-Bursky began with her talk by explaining “the Tea Party is not a monolithic movement” but rather, two distinct factions. One is the Tea Party voters, and the other are Tea Party power brokers; which she describes as elite organizations well known in political circles. Those organizations provide the major funding for national rallies and conservative candidates. Two of the most influential are Dick Armey’s Freedom Works and the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity, which has donated more than a hundred million dollars to right-wing causes, according to her research.
According to Hollis-Bursky, these organizations have co-opted the Tea Party label, “to promote an agenda that does not necessarily line-up with what the grassroots Tea Party voters believe.” An example she gave was that Freedom Works and Americans for Prosperity have lobbied to privatize Social Security and Medicare for years. In contrast, recent research shows that Tea Partiers are not uniformly opposed to government social programs. Older tea partiers, in particular, are anxious about the future of Social Security and Medicare.
After the presentation, the club honored long time supporter Assemblymember Anthony Portantino with cake and a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday.”
submitted by Nalini Lasiewicz, CCDC
Guest speaker, Amanda Hollis-Bursky with Nalini Lasiewicz, Vicki Hays, Chris Hayes, Janet Petersen and Louisa Caucia.
CD29/31 Organizing for America Regional Volunteer Training
Mar 11, 2012 at 2:30 PM
Calling all Obama supporters in CD29/31: old and new volunteers, team members, and friends! Join us to learn about volunteer opportunities to help re-elect President Obama and other democrats. Get ready to be fired up and ready to go– let’s win 2012! Questions? Email ofa.glendale@gmail.com
Glendale Community College
Student Conference Room 212
1500 North Verdugo Road
Glendale, CA91208
First elected in 2002, Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff represents the 29th District, which, as a result of redistricting, now includes La Cañada Flintridge and La Crescenta. Schiff serves on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and is a senior member of the House Intelligence Committee. Patricia Horton will speak on his behalf about his legislative accomplishments, agenda and his campaign for reelection.
Danette Meyers, a Deputy District Attorney of Los Angeles County, has been a prosecutor for 26 years. She is a native of Los Angeles and has been named Prosecutor of the Year twice and recognized as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California. She was the first female African American president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. She will be speaking on her plans to reform the juvenile justice system, to crack down on environmental crimes and her work on prosecuting violent crime.
Parking Info: Turn in at the brick driveway and continue to drive all the way down to the end of the circular driveway. Do not park on Shields.
Agenda:
2:45 Meet and Greet
3:00 Call to Order: Guest Presentation, Patricia Horton
3:30 Guest Presentation, Danette Meyers
Club business and discussion follow the presentations.
For more information: messages taken at 818 249-9691.
General Membership Meeting
Sunday, February 26, 2012
3:00-5:00PM
If you’ve ever wondered what the Occupy movement is all about, or how its week-to-week objectives are planned by its dedicated participants, this is a terrific opportunity. Meet those on the front lines of a movement which has captured support, and criticism, from virtually all points along the political spectrum.
Following the standing room only turnout at last month’s meeting, board member Gar Byrum has arranged another fascinating presentation. He is bringing activists and supporters of Occupy Claremont, which launched in November 2011 at Pitzer College and has since moved off campus and includes members of the community. The movement began as Occupy Wall Street in New York, with occupations springing up around the country, inspiring grassroots activism on a variety of economic and social issues.
We will meet student activist Emma French and one of the tent occupiers, Gregory Toliver, who is also a graduate of Carnegie Mellon. Both will share their experiences of what how the encampment works and the wide range of actions they have been involved in. Occupy activists address local and national issues and have pioneered their own unique system of General Assembly and democratic decision making processes.
Joining the presentation is Daniel Segal, Professor of Anthropology, Professor of History and Directors of the Munroe Center for Social Inquiry at Pitzer College. Prof. Segal will offer his perspective on Occupy, in the context of the uprisings and movements towards democracies in the Middle East and U.S. electoral politics.
Location:
Home of Elisa and Eric Callow
1210 Journey’s End Drive
La Canada Flintridge, CA
Schedule:
2:45 pm – meet and greet.
3:00 pm – Guest Speaker and discussion.
Club business follows the presentation.
Occupy Claremont
General Membership Meeting
Sunday, January 29, 2012
3:00-5:00PM
Guest Speaker: Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Pomona College professor
Learn about the potential impact on we-the-people if the conservative legal movement achieves it’s intended interpretation of the U. S. Constitution.
Amanda Hollis-Brusky is Assistant Professor of Politics at Pomona College, where she teaches courses on American Politics, Constitutional Law and the intersection of Law and Politics. Before to coming to Pomona College, she had a post-doctoral research appointment at the Center for the Study of Law and Society (CSLS) at Berkeley Law School.
Her publications in this area include a well-received review of the conservative legal movement in the journal Law and Social Inquiry and an analysis of the intellectual origins and transformation of the Unitary Executive Theory in Denver University Law Review. Her current research projects include a book manuscript based on her dissertation work (“Ideas With Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution in the Law”); a co-authored analysis of “conscience clause” exemptions in state legislation covering access to contraceptives; and a co-authored project on the Christian Conservative Legal Movement and the implications of reframing “law as a calling” for Christian lawyers.
Location:
Savery-Black Residence
Schedule:
2:45 pm – meet and greet.
3:00 pm – Guest Speaker and discussion.
Club business follows the presentation..
General Membership Meeting
Sunday, Novemer 20, 2011
3:00-5:00PM
Come hear Pomona College political professor Susan McWilliams speak on the issues facing the Democratic Party, now and in the future.
Location
Home of Michael Davis and Mary Alice Freeman
Susan McWilliams teaches in the politics department at Pomona College, where she received the Wig Distinguished Professor Award in 2009. At Pomona, her courses include “American Democracy in Theory and Practice”, “Dangerous Books,” and “Politics and Literature.” McWilliams has recently completed a book manuscript entitled Traveling Back: Political Theory in an Age of Globalization, and she is working on a volume that explores the political thought of James Baldwin. She is the co-editor, with Patrick Deneen, of Wilson Carey McWilliams’ recently released books The Democratic Soul and Redeeming Democracy in America. McWilliams received her BA in Russian and political science from Amherst College and her MA and PhD in politics from Princeton University. McWilliams grew up in New Jersey but is a fifth-generation Californian who now lives in Claremont, California.
Come hear UCLA professor Dr. James Gelvin speak on the topic of the Arab spring.
James L. Gelvin is professor of modern Middle Eastern history at UCLA. He was graduated from Columbia University (A.B.), the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University (M.I.A.), and Harvard University (Ph.D.). He has taught at Boston College, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the American University in Beirut. A specialist in the modern social and cultural history of the Arab East, he is author of Divided Loyalties: Nationalism and Mass Politics in Syria at the Close of Empire (University of California Press, 1998), The Modern Middle East: A History (Oxford University Press, 2004, 2007, 2011), The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War (Cambridge University Press, 2005, 2007), along with numerous articles and chapters in edited volumes. His most recent book is The Arab Uprisings: What Everyone Needs to Know, which will be published by Oxford University Press shortly.
