No details yet, but it seems that Rep Barbara Lee, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and founder of a new caucus, the Up from Poverty Caucus in the House, is coming to Arizona! see www.pdamerica.org See other coverage there of the weekend’s activities including th3e lobbying day yesterday. Sounds like a great time was had by all – even to a Code Pink "street theater protest in the atrium of the Hart Senate office building, with unfurled banners and streamers and “Stop the Funding" chanting and conga-line." tres cool.
At the bottom of a Jan 30 article on the PDA homepage titled AntiWar Activists Transform the Halls of Congress, please let me quote: “All day long, PDA members, leaders and staffers pushed Democratic Congressional offices to bring our troops home and move toward a cutoff of funds – by supporting H.R. 508, and by rejecting the upcoming White House request for $100 billion more in supplemental appropriation for Iraq war-making. We met with a number of Congress members personally, including Reps. Ed Markey (D-MA), Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Bob Filner (D-CA).
The day ended with 15 state and national PDA leaders (from Maine and Massachusetts to South Carolina to Arizona, Utah and California) gathering for a special “thank-you” meeting with our board member Barbara Lee, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. PDA activists thanked Rep. Lee for her courageous leadership -- not just on ending the war, but on other progressive measures from single-payer national health insurance to poverty.
Lee recently formed the Up from Poverty Caucus in the House. Lee, in turn, thanked PDA for building grassroots activism in support of Congressional progressives; she’ll be featured at an upcoming PDA event in Arizona and will be joining with PDA in San Diego in April at the California Democratic Convention. “
Let’s make sure that Arizona includes Tucson!
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