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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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SPRING,
2005 - VOLUME 26
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Feeling
Purple: A Mixed State of Hope and Despair
For all the red state/blue state talk, progressives
in the West had remarkable successes in November 2004,
even in states that show up bright red on the traditional
maps. Virtually every group Western States Center
worked with exceeded their mobilization goals, registering
and turning out tens of thousands of voters from historically
under-represented constituencies and conducting compelling
and effective voter education efforts in the process. |
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Nicole
LeFavour: Idaho's First Lesbian Elected Official
Western States Center board member Nicole LeFavour,
Idaho's first openly lesbian state legislator, is
elected. Says LeFavour, "Everywhere I go, people want
to shake my hand, give me a hug, thank me for running.
They say I'm the one bright spot in the election." |
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Spadework:
Results of the Western States’ VOTE Project
In 2004, VOTE Project participant groups demonstrated
how reaching out to new people can strengthen organizations
and begin to create an expanded base of political
power. |
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Blue
Organizing in Red States: Voices from Wyoming, Idaho
& Montana
National election results don't reveal an accurate
picture of progressive organizing in so-called “red
states.” To debunk some of the prevailing myths, Views
spoke with Tom Throop from Wyoming’s Equality State
Policy Center; Jim Hansen with United Vision for Idaho;
and Judy Smith of WORD (Women’s Opportunity and Resource
Development) in Montana. |
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Voter-Owned
Elections: A Level Playing Field
This article explores the organizing behind Portland’s
City Council enactment of the very first system in
the country to provide full public financing for municipal
elections. |
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Voting
Our Values: Using Surveys as an Organizing Tool
In this era of five-second sound bites shaping the
public debate on everything from tax policy to war
and peace, progressive organizers need to understand
how our constituencies think about the issues, and
how those issues right track. Volunteer-driven surveys
provide an opportunity for community members to
talk to each other, giving volunteer activists a
clearer understanding of how voters perceive specific
issues, and in turn, how to move those voters towards
progressive electoral outcomes. |
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Organizer’s
Index
Welcome to Kalpana Krishnamurthy and Lucilene Lira,
Goodbye to Tarso Luis Ramos, David Rogers and Selena
Mason. |
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A
Personal Journey: Lessons from the Liberation Movements
of Brazil
“Longing to explore the world,” in 1987 Lucilene Lira
left her native Brazil on a trek across South and
Central America that took her to the United States.
Since taking up residence in the U.S., Lucilene says
she has “tried to identify what role social change
should play from inside the imperial walls of this
country, and what lessons to draw from its very rich
history of social and civil rights movements.” This
article presents Lucilene's personal account of the
liberation struggles she lived through in Brazil. |
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Marriage:
A Right-Wing World View
During the 2004 election cycle, some progressives
painted the right wing as hypocritical for simultaneously
promoting and banning marriage. Others saw the gay
marriage debate as a cynical strategy to distract
the country from more important issues. The right’s
agenda on gay marriage is neither hypocritical nor
a distraction. Rather, it is a key strategy for moving
a coherent and dangerous worldview — one that links
rights and resources to the ideal of a white, middle-class,
heterosexual, male-dominated family based in fundamentalist
Christian values. |
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