Haven't posted any new entries in a while, but I finished my first tabling event as Tabling Coordinator last week. International Women's Day certainly wasn't as loud or as rowdy as the Inauguration Day protest, but we did a fair bit of networking with people from many different organizations like Planned Parenthood, who are quite aware of the Democrats' recent retreats on abortion rights and the Welfare Rights Organizing Coalition, which is exactly the sort of group that the Greens need to attach ourselves to and precisely the sort of groups the Dems neglect.
So I'm very interesting in possibly doing some volunteer work with the WROC (
http://www.wroc.org) in the next year. A big part of networking and growing the Green Party is to join groups whose cause we champion, work our asses off for them and be openly Green.
And thew work ahead of us this year seems so big, but we have to tackle it head on. The Dems are abandoning alot of political terrain on worker's rights, consumer rights, gay rights and reproductive rights and we have to snatch it up. I'm going to fight to get the Greens to get a charter amendment on the ballot in Seattle to make it illegal to enforce the PATRIOT Act within the city.
This is something that has been successful in other cities and it would be a shoo-in in a liberal oasis like Seattle. And a victory like that for the Greens will not only energize our membership and grow our volunteer base, it would be a textbook case of having a real impact on a national issue from a local perspective.
So to start, I've been sprucing up the tabling fare, which means alot of art projects to keep myself busy for a while. My next trick will be to translate the Green Party's positions on issues and their contrast with the Democratic and Republican Parties to a big sandwich board for display. Basing it off of this official site:
http://www.therealdifference.org/ I'll take some pics when I finish it.
Have a paper to write this weekend for my final project for my "Philosophy of Human Rights" class. I'm going to writing on how marriage equality should be extended to same sex couples. I'll post it here when I finish it.
Wish me luck!
And in other news, I'm now addicted to the show "Firefly" and am retroactively pissed at FOX for cancelling it. If you haven't seen it, it's a sci-fi show with a western twist with excellent writing, brilliant dialogue, great characterization and a wonderful cast. Pick up the Complete Series DVD set if you can.
You'll thank me.