Action Alerts

Hi All,

Just a reminder...if you were looking for a last minute gift for someone, why not give the gift of Progressive Christianity. I serve as a board member and occasional writer for the The Progressive Christian. I would really encourage people to get a subscription for yourself, your minister, a family member or friend.

http://tpcmagazine.org/subscription.html

Faith Leader Letter to Congress
Action: Sign and promote the Faith Leader Letter to Congress for $10 in 2010 federal minimum wage.
Our 2007 letter to Congress, signed by faith leaders across the country, helped win the first minimum wage increase in a decade. With your support, our new letter to Congress will have thousands of signatures, representing every congressional district. Please promote the Faith Leader Letter to Congress through your networks.
http://www.letjusticeroll.org/faithletter.html

Please interpret faith leader broadly to include Reverend, Rabbi, Imam, Director of faith-based program, Religious Social Action Committee Chair, and so on.

General Public Sign On for $10 in 2010
Action: If you are not a faith leader, please sign here to support $10 in 2010.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2139/t/4561/signUp.jsp?key=3525

If you have any questions or want to help promote the letter to Congress, please contact Karen Spradlin, kspradlin@letjusticeroll.org or phone 405-213-3282.

The is groundbreaking Catholic organization seeking the ordination of women to the priesthood. As a favor to this courageous group I am posting the following help wanted request:

WOC seeks Executive Director

~ please forward widely. Job announcement online at http://www.womensordination.org/content/view/9/35/ ~

Position Title: Executive Director Reports to: Board of Directors

Organizational Description: Women's Ordination Conference is a national non-profit organization that works to ordain women as priests, deacons, and bishops into an inclusive Catholic church.

Position Summary: To give direction and leadership toward the achievement of the organization's philosophy, mission, strategy, and its annual goals and objectives.

Major Functions:
Program and Service Delivery - Oversees design, performance, implementation and quality of programs and services to members and other interested organizations.

Media and Public Relations - Assures the organization and its mission, programs and services are consistently presented in strong, positive image to relevant stakeholders

TORTURE IS A MORAL ISSUE

Dear Friend:

In less than three years NRCAT has become an important organization in the effort to end U.S.-sponsored torture. That would not have been possible except for the work of people like you.

NRCAT has more than 38,000 people of faith across the country who participate in its work, more than 240 religious organizations that are NRCAT members, and an office on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. with six staff members who are assisted by interns and volunteers. With all of us working together, we are very proud of what we've been able to do. Highlights of NRCAT's work can be found below our names.

The 2008 election has provided a crucial opportunity to make our goals a reality:
A Presidential Executive Order banning torture;
The codification of the elements of an Executive Order into law;
A Select Committee of Congress or a commission to investigate torture policies and practices since 9/11;
Growing the moral consensus that torture is always wrong.

The Institute for Progressive Christianity (IPC), recently received its tax exempt status from the IRS (501c3 designation). This means that donations made, both past and present are tax deductible this year.

We've launched a facebook cause to support IPC and other Progressive Christian institutions.
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/49560?m=6bb60a8b&recruiter_id=2297088

Subject: Tell the Senate Democrats: Strip Joe Lieberman of his chairmanship.

Dear Friend,

Senator Lieberman has supported a war in Iraq that has, by nearly all accounts, weakened our security rather than strengthened it. He has stood idly by and allowed the Bush Administration to spy on Americans and torture innocent human beings.

I've had enough of Senator Lieberman squandering his power to aid the likes of President Bush - so I just signed a petition asking my senator to vote to strip Lieberman of his chairmanship. I hope you will, too.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/no_chair_for_lieberman/?r_by=-191927...

Please have a look and take action.

Thanks!
Jim Ramelis

An Appeal from Alternet, if you go to the link, be sure and check the video out:

Dear Friend,

To put it mildly, ACORN is under attack.

The attack on ACORN (The Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now) is shaping up to be the most vicious of the 2008 election. The problem is, we will have to suffer the consequences long after the election is over. We need your help, and we need it now:
http://www.alternet.org/acorn_takeaction_102808

ACORN is accustomed to opposition. We've been educating, organizing, and empowering low-income communities for nearly 40 years. I can tell you that when you advocate with and for poor people against policies and practices that discriminate and keep communities from thriving, you make some enemies. But we've never seen anything like this.

When John McCain's presidential campaign began sinking in the polls, they looked for a scapegoat. They picked ACORN. And now, in the past few weeks alone, ACORN staffers have received death threats in Ohio and Rhode Island, and offices have been vandalized in Washington and Massachusetts. Numerous threatening and racist phone calls have been made to ACORN offices across the country.

Progressive Secretary circulated this suggested letter on Friday. It's significant because it's based on an analysis by one of the premier establishment national security oriented think tanks, the RAND Corporation. And this analytical report is being disseminated by the Quakers -- the Friends Committee on National Legislation. That's an unusual combination of military contractor and pacifist advocate.

The letter, and sign on, are at: http://www.progsec.org/DynMenu/DynMenu.php?Table=lettercontrol&Page=Focu...

The RAND report, How Terrorist Groups End: Implications for Countering al Qa'ida, is at: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9351/index1.html

Abstract: How do terrorist groups end? The evidence since 1968 indicates that terrorist groups rarely cease to exist as a result of winning or losing a military campaign. Rather, most groups end because of operations carried out by local police or intelligence agencies or because they join the political process. This suggests that the United States should pursue a counterterrorism strategy against al Qa'ida that emphasizes policing and intelligence gathering rather than a “war on terrorism” approach that relies heavily on military force.

The letter is addressed to the President, VP, and your Congresspeople. I think it would be a good idea to sent it to the Obama and McCain campaigns, too:

Great lead in to our petition. Be sure to sign it: http://www.crossleft.org/node/6557