Month: April 2005

May Day will Certainly SUCK!! Honestly, I’ve never been a fan of May Day in any of its forms. I’ve mearly participated as a viewer. It has been a spectacle for me, but a spectacle that I appreciated for what I think everyone took it for: whatever you make of it. No one person or…

May Day Will Suck Or that is what I expect. After hitting high water marks in 2000 and 2001, the yearly rebellion fest has slowly petered out to the point that it is really super lame. I used to get ramped up by this point, all worried about what might happen. But, I’m not even…

Kari tracked this down for us: “I just spoke face to face with Scott Heiferman. Scott hosts the NY Technology MeetUp at the Apple Store in Downtown Manhattan where I’m sitting right now. I asked Scott, point blank, if the $9 was instituted to help them from going out of business. Basically, he said that…

Lots of discussion going on at the Dem Meetup Hosts yahoo group right now. Plug into that and you’ll get a good dose of how we might be able to reach past meetup.com. The most hopeful email I’ve gotten today was from Ralph Miller: To: DemMeetupHosts@yahoogroups.comFrom: “Ralph Miller”Subject: [DemMeetupHosts] DNC and MeetUpsI understand that there…

With meetup.com probably going bankrupt, its time for the DNC to step up to the plate. http://www.democrats.org/contact/ The Democratic Party needs to come up with a similar, grassroots tool like meetup. There are more people than we know that want to get involved in the party, but county and local party meetings are not the…

Some replies to my DailyKos offering on Dem Meetups: Raising your own money is one of the most important organizing tools that a local organization can do. If you like what meetups are doing for you, raise the money and do it yourself. That’s how political power is made. Don’t ask the DNC or anyone…

I posted this at Kicking Ass, the DNC blog: At the Democratic Party meetup in Olympia WA, we’ve been passing the hat every month to cover our rooms costs, and this month we passed the hat some more to cover the $9 meetup.com fee. For those who don’t know, meetup.com used to be a free…

I’ve been posting over at Westerndemocrat.com, and been meaning to cross post this entry here. Its about David Kemmis and “This Sovereign Land,” one of my new most favorite books: In the last chapter of “This Sovereign Land,” Daniel Kemmis makes the observation that Western Republicans have the inside track on the issue that will…

Over at blatherWatch, they’re having a discussion on who could be some local talent competition on 1090 AM. In the tradition of Pat Cashman, sort of, I’m going to nominate John Keister. He already has an infrequent spot on KCTS Connects and tons of history on Almost Live and the John Report with Bob. We…