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Cheshire County Summit
Saturday March 13
Keene Public Library - Kay Fox Room
1:30 PM - 5 PM
Summits from the other counties in New Hampshire have had terriffic break out sessions focused on local planning for the upcoming Fall Elections! With 2010 being a critical election year because of the Census and redistricting and far fewer resources available to us than in 2008, it is extremely important that we have solid local organizing and strategic planning.
We hope you will be able to join us and look forward to seeing you there!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Working Families Win
Creating the Economy of our Future
A Community Conversation
Join Working Families Win and New Hampshire's Citizen's Alliance towards building an economy of full employment and livable wages for New Hampshire workers
Wednesday, March 3 from 7:00-8:30, Keene Public Library, 60 Winter Street, Keene
Thursday, March 4 from 7:00-8:30, Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrott Avenue, Portsmouth
Monday, March 8 from 7:00-8:30, Manchester YWCA, 72 Concord Street
We are at an economic crossroad in the United States. Families in New Hampshire and across the nation are facing unemployment, additional layoffs, few job openings, at the same time unemployment benefits and cobra extensions are running out.
We will discuss the values and principals of a progressive job recovery and focus on proposals for creating jobs that have living wages, reduce energy waste and pollution, and focus on fair trade. Additional topics to be discussed include: Extending the lifeline to jobless workers, rebuilding America's schools, roads and energy systems, increasing aid to state and local governments to maintain vital services and jobs, and creating a climate where banks will begin lending to small and medium businesses so they can create local jobs.
Contact Jaime Contois for more information: Jaime@wfwin.org or 603-504-2906
A Community Conversation
Join Working Families Win and New Hampshire's Citizen's Alliance towards building an economy of full employment and livable wages for New Hampshire workers
Wednesday, March 3 from 7:00-8:30, Keene Public Library, 60 Winter Street, Keene
Thursday, March 4 from 7:00-8:30, Portsmouth Public Library, 175 Parrott Avenue, Portsmouth
Monday, March 8 from 7:00-8:30, Manchester YWCA, 72 Concord Street
We are at an economic crossroad in the United States. Families in New Hampshire and across the nation are facing unemployment, additional layoffs, few job openings, at the same time unemployment benefits and cobra extensions are running out.
We will discuss the values and principals of a progressive job recovery and focus on proposals for creating jobs that have living wages, reduce energy waste and pollution, and focus on fair trade. Additional topics to be discussed include: Extending the lifeline to jobless workers, rebuilding America's schools, roads and energy systems, increasing aid to state and local governments to maintain vital services and jobs, and creating a climate where banks will begin lending to small and medium businesses so they can create local jobs.
Contact Jaime Contois for more information: Jaime@wfwin.org or 603-504-2906
Cheshire County Democrats Book Club
Hello Everyone,
We had a great discussion of Game Change last week. What an interesting book. Thanks to all of you who were there for the discussion.
For March, we will be reading The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby. Susan Jacoby is the author of the Freethinkers: Secularism in America, which we read and enjoyed several years ago. I'm looking forward to her new book. We will meet on Wednesday evening, March 24, 6:30 in the food court at Colony Mill Marketplace.
Hope to see you there.
Linda Cates
From The New Yorker
Identifying herself as a "cultural conservationist" (but by no means a cultural conservative), Jacoby laments the decline of middlebrow American culture and presents a cogent defense of intellectualism. America, she believes, faces a "crisis of memory and knowledge," in which anti-intellectualism is not only tolerated but celebrated by those in politics and the media to whom we are all "just folks." The Internet, for all its promise, is too often "a highway to the far-flung regions of junk thought." Meanwhile, twenty-five per cent of high-school biology teachers believe that human beings and dinosaurs shared the earth, and more than a third of Americans can’t name a single First Amendment right. In such an environment, Jacoby argues, the secular left and the religious right can have no fruitful dialogue on issues like the separation of church and state. She offers little hope that the situation will improve, opining that, despite increasing levels of education, "Americans seem to know less and less."
We had a great discussion of Game Change last week. What an interesting book. Thanks to all of you who were there for the discussion.
For March, we will be reading The Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby. Susan Jacoby is the author of the Freethinkers: Secularism in America, which we read and enjoyed several years ago. I'm looking forward to her new book. We will meet on Wednesday evening, March 24, 6:30 in the food court at Colony Mill Marketplace.
Hope to see you there.
Linda Cates
From The New Yorker
Identifying herself as a "cultural conservationist" (but by no means a cultural conservative), Jacoby laments the decline of middlebrow American culture and presents a cogent defense of intellectualism. America, she believes, faces a "crisis of memory and knowledge," in which anti-intellectualism is not only tolerated but celebrated by those in politics and the media to whom we are all "just folks." The Internet, for all its promise, is too often "a highway to the far-flung regions of junk thought." Meanwhile, twenty-five per cent of high-school biology teachers believe that human beings and dinosaurs shared the earth, and more than a third of Americans can’t name a single First Amendment right. In such an environment, Jacoby argues, the secular left and the religious right can have no fruitful dialogue on issues like the separation of church and state. She offers little hope that the situation will improve, opining that, despite increasing levels of education, "Americans seem to know less and less."
Community Kitchen
Please join the Cheshire County Democrats on Wedesday March 3rd for our monthly volunteer service at the Keene COmmunity Kitchen.
This is a fun evening and provides an invaluble service to our community--not to mention a terriffic dinner!
4:30 P.M. until 7:15 P.M.
We hope to see you there!
This is a fun evening and provides an invaluble service to our community--not to mention a terriffic dinner!
4:30 P.M. until 7:15 P.M.
We hope to see you there!
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