Uniting One County At A Time

Posted by Yee Won Chong at Oct 01, 2009 01:55 PM | Permalink

We helped make rural Oregon a force for progressive change. An article by Mike Edera and Marcy Westerling in In These Times.

Westerling and Edera

Mike Edera and Marcy Westerling, a longtime couple in politics and life, live in Scappoose, OR. They wrote the first chapter of the 2008 book Lessons from the Field: Organizing in Rural Communities.

Ninety percent of success is showing up. And in many parts of America, progressives have failed to present themselves, allowing a demented style of politics to define rural culture.

The political influence of Sarah Palin continues to dismay and amaze. How could this loser Vice-Presidential candidate and failed Alaska governor reach into the current debate on healthcare reform and, by inventing Obama’s death panels—surely one of the most moronic, inane charges in U.S. political history—seem to tip the struggle for a public healthcare option in favor of the private insurance industry?

Click here to read the rest of the article in In These Times magazine.

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