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RUN GRANNY RUN

Run Granny Run is the inspirational story of Doris “Granny D” Haddock’s road from political activist to the Democratic candidate for US Senate in New Hampshire. The documentary initially was to focus on campaign finance reform, but director Marlo Poras instead found himself surprised to be in the middle of one of the most unusual political campaigns to ever happen in this country where a 94 year old woman with few resources but a lot of guts was facing off against a two time incumbent Senator with a load of cash.

Granny D narrates much of the movie, and in her own words: “When I was younger, I always tried to be active in my community but really, who has the time?…… And then when I turned 89, death came. Death took my husband and then my best friend and I thought I was next. I needed a reason to live. And I found that reason. It was my country.”

Two stories: First, a story on the potential votes of women and how they could effect all elections, and second, how military moms could effect the outcome of the next election.

Millions of Women Still Fail to Cast Ballots

By Jacqueline Lee
Women's eNews

Tuesday 07 August 2007

US women mark their 87th year of suffrage under the 19th Amendment on August 26. But millions of women remain stubbornly disenfranchised by factors such as under representation, social instability and culture gaps.

In "Election Day," a documentary about the experiences of voters in the 2004 election, an Ohio woman is shown having trouble casting her ballot. She had moved, and despite re-registering, went to three different poll locations because her name didn't appear on the books.

"The woman in Shaker Heights is carrying her small child in the morning and she had been getting the runaround and go-around, going from one polling place to the next," said Maggie Bowman, producer of "Election Day," released in March. "A lot of the challenges faced by working people in general are more extreme for working women."

EMILY'S List steps up efforts
Nation's largest political action committee seeks to persuade more women to run for political office.
By Peter Hecht - Bee Capitol Bureau | Published 12:00 am PDT Sunday, August 19, 2007

Cristina Uribe looks into the faces of 42 women in a hotel ballroom near San Francisco International Airport and sees the political future.

From this gathering of recent college graduates, lawyers, savvy business executives and other professional women, she envisions tomorrow's state lawmakers, members of Congress, maybe even a governor -- or a president.

But first, Uribe offers them a critical lesson: It can only happen if you "stay on message."

"If you're not sick of your message," declares the Western region director for the EMILY's List Political Opportunity Program, "you're not saying it enough."

Shaping the message is key on the training circuit for EMILY's List, the nation's largest political action committee and a potent force for luring women into politics.

Dear WDSC Members and Friends:

Please join us at our monthly meeting on Monday, August 20th.

Location: Sacramento City Teachers Association (SCTA) Building
5300 Elvas Avenue

Time: 6:30 p.m. (doors open @ 6:00 - come early for refreshments and socializing)

Program:
“Bead for Life: Eradicating Poverty One Bead at a Time”

A short video will explain this unique program. Beautiful jewelry will be available for purchase (cash or check).
Time: Monday, August 20, 2007 - 7:30pm PST

2nd Annual Women's Equality Day Parade

Our Votes = Our Voices
Help us Commemorate and
Reaffirm Women's Right to Vote!
Join us in the parade or come watch!
Saturday August 25, 2007

Parade starts at 9:30 AM at Southside Park
Sign-up at 7th & T Streets
Rally at 11 AM at the West Steps of the Capitol
Sacramento, CA

For parade contingent registration and info: www.womenequalityparade.com or call 707-636-2888 or 916-435-9760
Time: Saturday, August 25, 2007 - 10:30am PST

Event for National Women's Political Caucus 6/13

SESSION ESCAPE - Celebrating Diversity!
Wednesday, June 13th 5:30 - 7:30
Ambrosia Cafe (11th and K Street)

Join us in Honoring Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero and Assembly Majority Leader Karen Bass for breaking barriers and inspiring women to become leaders in public service. We will also award this year's 'Young Woman On Her Way' Scholarship.
Time: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 - 6:30pm PST

Latina - Reproductive Justice Training
LATINAS EMPOWERED FOR ACTION

JOIN US for this exciting reproductive justice training, led by
Latinas for Latinas!

Learn the Power of
*Policy and Advocacy
Time: Saturday, February 24, 2007 - 10:00am PST

2007 Planned Parenthood Capitol Education Day

Join 500 Planned Parenthood volunteers, activists, and staff from all over the state for a Day of Action at the Capitol in Sacramento. Join in the Planned Parenthood Education Faire, Talk with legislators about what’s important to you, and join hundreds of others to support reproductive health care for women in California!
Time: Wednesday, May 2, 2007 - 1:00pm PST

This coming Monday is the 34th anniversary of the pivitol Supreme Court decision Roe vs. Wade.
Check out this weeks edition of the Sacramento News & Review to see our annual Roe Signature Ad.
and if you are in the neigborhood come celebrate and inspire with Sacramento NOW after work....

Honk and Wave - sponsored by Sacramento NOW
Date: Monday, January 22, 2007
Location: State Capitol, intersection of L and 10th Streets
Time: 5 p.m.
Time: Monday, January 22, 2007 - 6:00pm PST

Two San Francisco Supervisors have authored a resolution asking that the CHP drop all charges regarding the unconstitutional arrests made during an anti-war vigil at the Golden Gate Bridge on New Year's Day.

CodePINK: Women For Peace
1248 Solano Ave Albany, CA 94706 510-524-2776 http://www.bayareacodepink.org
For Immediate Release: January 5, 2007
Contacts:Sam Joi, 510-524-2776, Janet Weil, 925-798-3831

"CODEPINK 10" ARRESTED NEW YEAR'S DAY AT PEACE VIGIL TO HONOR
3,000 US DEAD IN IRAQ REQUESTS APOLOGY AND CHARGES DROPPED

SAN FRANCISCO - CODEPINK today said it is asking the CHP to drop the
charges, apologize to those arrested, and to acknowledge the public's right
to walk across the bridge after 10 CODEPINKers were arrested on New Year's
Day at the Golden Gate Bridge as part of a vigil for the 3,000 US
servicemen and women killed in Iraq and for the hundreds of thousands of
Iraqis who have died since the US invasion and occupation.

Thanks Howard

Howard on the Daily Show

The Fifty State Strategy

"We cannot run 18-state campaigns. We've got to be everywhere. We've got to be in Mississippi. We've got to be in Oklahoma. We have to be organized. By the end of this year, we have a goal of having a Democrat in every precinct in America,

Below are profiles of Leader Nancy Pelosi from Washington Post and LA Times.

Washington Post: 10/21/06
The Woman Who Would Be Speaker
Uncompromising Pelosi Set to Seize Opportunity: By Lois Romano

On election night 2004, Nancy Pelosi faced a painful reality: Her party was again a big loser, failing to win the presidency and losing three more House seats. Pundits were suggesting Pelosi should accept her fate as the leader of a permanent House minority.

Local community members and students are confronting the nation's largest pesticide lawn-service company right here in Sacramento!

We need your support!

Sacramento Coalition Kicks Off Efforts to Refuse to Use TruGreen ChemLawn:

Groups Call for Reforms to Industry's Dangerous Pesticide Mix

What:
Concerned community members and students will gather with local supporters to kick off the Refuse to Use ChemLawn campaign and the newly formed Safer Lawns, Healthier Communities Coalition of California. The coalition is working to reduce the amount of dangerous lawn pesticides being used in our communities by raising awareness about the public health and environmental threats associated with the Sacramento Valley's growing lawn-care industry. Speakers and area residents will voice their concerns and demand that TruGreen ChemLawn, the industry leader, take immediate action to protect our families, pets and the environment from increased exposure to toxic chemicals by offering a safer, non-toxic alternative.

Charlie Brown, Democrat, to debate John Doolittle (R) in Rocklin tonight wednesday, October 11, 7:30pm to 9:30pm Local cable, channel 4 Starstream in Lincoln/Rocklin/Granite Bay/Loomis area.
Also to be live streamed on the web by newschannel 10, http://www.news10.net
Doolittle gave very short notice, don't miss this if possible.

...Kids

Bush Dismantles Child Care

By Ruth Rosen
TomPaine.com

Tuesday 03 October 2006

What kind of society have we become? Before members of Congress departed for recess, they gave President George W. Bush - hardly known for his wisdom or compassion - the right to define what constitutes torture and to suspend the constitutional right of habeas corpus. But our elected representatives couldn't find time to pass the Labor, Health and Human Service appropriations bill which, among things, funds child care.

The "Child Care Crisis" - the absence of anyone to care for America's children, elderly and disabled - has turned into the new millennium's version of the "Problem That Has No Name," It is the 800-pound elephant that sits in Congress, our homes and offices - gigantic, but ignored.

With exactly 4 weeks until Election Day...we wont be able to go back on Nov. 8th. If Prop 85 passes thousands of our most vulnerable teens will be hurt and the mean back door attack on reproductive rights would have succeeded. We cant easily un-amend the California Constitution.

Join our Statewide DAY OF ACTION
With exactly 4 weeks until Election Day...
There is ONE BIG opportunity to help Defeat Prop 85
Help Educated Voters and Get out the Progressive Vote in Davis!
Join us Planned Parenthood Advocates Mar Monte and No on 85 Campaign:

Saturday October 7th
9am to 3:30pm
Democratic Office - Behind Espresso Roma
231 E Street, Davis, CA
Who to Contact for more info: Hilary at 916-446-5037 x133
Time: Saturday, October 7, 2006 - 10:59am PST

A stand for women's rights
Marchers re-enact historic suffrage parade in
Sacramento

By MONICA KRAUTH/Democrat Staff Writer
Daily Democrat

It's been 93 years since women received the right to
vote in 1913, but hundreds of people, including Yolo
County residents, marched to the State Capitol on
Saturday morning to address issues affecting women
locally and world-wide.

WHAT: Women's Equality Day Commemorative Parade
WHEN: Saturday August 26th at 9:30 AM
WHERE: Southside Park, Sacramento (8th & T Street)
9:30 AM Parade staging area at Southside Park, Sacramento
11:00 AM Rally at West Steps State Capitol building, Sacramento

From Katharyn Mclearan...
The California Suffrage Parade Coalition is looking for 1,000 stout-hearted women to help them celebrate Women's Equality Day (August 26) dramatically in a parade similar to those that helped the suffragettes gain support for their movement.

"The vote is the emblem of your equality, women of America, the guarantee of your liberty. That vote of yours has cost millions of dollars and the lives of thousands of women." Carrie Chapman Catt
Time: Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 11:29am PST

Please show up at the hearing for SB 1056 tomorrow in Sacramento. If you can't,
please email a letter to your Legislator opposing this anti-democratic legislation
that makes it illegal for citizens to pass voter initiatives to protect themselves

People concerned about water quality in California's Central Valley to stop agribusiness from polluting our rivers and the Delta-Bay Estuary should attend the hearing in Rancho Cordova on June 22! Here's an action alert from environmental activist Bill Jennings: