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The Center's affiliate organization,
Western
State Strategies, is continuing our traditional work
on campaign finance reform, supporting voter-owned elections
and promoting a more transparent election system that
expands democracy. |
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Help Western States Center
support and grow the progressive movement in the West! |
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FALL,
2002 - VOLUME 23
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The
State of the LGBT Movement: Are We About Justice or
Just Us?
As the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force brings
its annual Creating Change Conference to the Northwest
for the first time, Views examines the current state
of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT)
movement. |
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From
the Director, Dan Petegorsy
In the days following September 11th, President Bush
used mythologized images of frontier justice from
the American West to garner support for retribution
against the attackers. More recently, the Administration's
policies sound less like a bad Spaghetti Western and
more like another staple of popular culture: the cop
show. |
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"My
Butt Today, Your Butt Tomorrow" - African Americans
Mobilizing for LGBT Rights
As Views went to press, voters in Tacoma, Washington
were being asked to decide whether sexual orientation
and gender identity should be kept in the city’s anti-discrimination
ordinance. Ten years ago, a majority answered "no."
This year, the leading voice urging voters to continue
to deny lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights
belongs to the Tacoma Ministerial Alliance, a powerful
assemblage of the city’s African-American clergy.
The fight over Initiative 1, according to Tacoma Brother
to Brother Executive Director Howard Russell, "looks
like a black and white issue." The situation
in Tacoma prompted Views to look back to 1992 in Oregon,
when African Americans Voting No on 9 changed the
terms of the gay rights debate. |
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WALOP
Packs a Punch: Building a Progressive LGBT Movement
in Washington State
WALOP is the Washington Lesbian Organizing Project,
a punchpacking program of the Seattle-based Pride
Foundation. At a time when so few queer groups prioritize
organizing, WALOP has developed the leadership of
lesbian, bisexual and transgender women leaders from
all corners of Washington State. WALOP presents a
model that could answer the question: Who will provide
leadership for an authentically progressive LGBT movement? |
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Idaho
Latino Vote 2002: Developing the Next Generation of
Leaders
In September, when Maria Gonzalez Mabbutt queried
the crowd at the Idaho Hispanic Issues Conference,
she got the answer she was hoping for. "How many
of you are under 30 years old?" she asked. An
astounding two-thirds of the audience stood up, fulfilling
her personal mission as the Director of Idaho Latino
Vote 2002. |
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Taking
Back the Ballot: Preventing – Not Just Defeating –
Regressive Measures
Voters around the country faced fewer citizen initiatives
this November than in the past 16 years. Only forty-nine
initiatives were on the ballot this year: a 30% decrease
from 2000. Why? Defensively speaking, progressives
have gotten savvier earlier in the process by organizing
legal and educational efforts to prevent harmful initiatives
from getting on the ballot. Preventing these highly
contested and expensive-to-defeat campaigns saves
time, money and energy that can be devoted to moving
positive change forward. |
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Finding
a Political Voice: Reclaiming Voting Rights for Ex-Felons
The last twenty years of "get tough on crime"
laws have resulted in an explosion in the US prison
population. Between 1985 and 1995, incarceration rates
doubled. One consequence has been to strip a large
group citizens of one of the most basic civil liberties:
the right to political representation. The Voter Organizing
for Increased Civic Engagement (VOICE) Project, a
program of the Western Prison Project, is providing
training and voting rights information to community-based
organizations in Oregon, Washington, Utah and Nevada
who wish to reach out to ex-offenders and their families
and help them engage in the democratic process. |
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Seasons
of Change: Organizational Life Cycles
Non-profit organizations experience distinct stages
as they develop. These stages, like the seasons of
the year, can repeat themselves in a cyclical process.
Exploring these cycles offers a concrete tool to help
you: deepen understanding of your group's current
or historical problems and successes; think ahead
of the curve and prevent problems before they start;
depersonalize tensions and provide a larger context
for why conflict exists; and recognize that your current
organizational challenges are not unique. |
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Northwest
Organizers Attend Second National People of Color
Environmental Leadership Summit
As Views goes to press, environmental justice organizers
from around the country are preparing to gather October
23 – 27 in Washington DC. In this article two Northwest
participants address the history of the gathering
and the goals of Summit II. |
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Leadership
Development: Everyone's Got a Role to Play
From community organizations to statewide advocacy
coalitions, any organization working for change needs
to create programs to deepen the skills, analysis,
and capacity for leaders to emerge and carry on the
work for justice. Yet as crucial as leadership development
is, it often gets neglected in the face of what can
feel like more immediate demands. |
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Listen
Up
In this issue, Views introduces a new feature. In
a variation on "Nightstand," our book review
column, two recent CDs are profiled - The Coup: Party
Music and Sleater-Kinney: One Beat. |
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