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We
now publish the PartyBuilder weekly.
Our aim is to consolidate the communications you get from the national
office into one weekly format, and to keep our focus on the activity
and work of the clubs.
The party-builder will not add to your “to do” list – rather, it aims
to keep you up to date on our political focus -- the elections – and
provide food for thought with articles on the experience, what works
and what doesn’t, of the Party organization, especially the clubs.
In this Issue:
 Oregon club
keeps on rollin’
The relatively new club
in Salem, Oregon continues to be a pace-setter. Active in the labor,
peace and other movement, the club has steadily added new members,
gotten new subscribers to the PWW (more than 15 at last count). A good
percentage of the members are already enrolled in the automatic
sustainer program. Below are excerpts from an update received from Bob
Rossi, club chair:
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“This weekend a group of us participated in the
Portland antiwar rally. We had a tent and we distributed about 150 PWWs
and several boxes of literature. This was the first time in many, many
years that there was a Communist Party presence at a Portland antiwar
rally. See our blog for photos. Most of the people who stopped were
young people.
“Next comes the Salem antiwar vigil, and the Cesar Chavez voter
registration car caravan, then a group are going to the Job with
Justice conference … we’re also holding benefits for candidates, local
and national. Two weeks ago our blog had over 1200 hits in one week.
“We did an ad in Street Roots newspaper advertising our group and took
out an ad at the Oregon State University student paper advertising us
and the YCL.” |
Check out their blog http://willamettereds.blogspot.com.
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 Fresh "Agitprop"
We're currently working on the
following materials for the Party website, clubs, and broader people's
movements:
- (Pamphlet) Election 2008:
Our take on this historic election
- (DVD) Elections 2008: A
Gigantic Battle – with Spanish narration; titles
in English, for use in bi-lingual settings.
- (Flyer) PWW Weekly Flyers:
Weekly one-page flyer with the best of the week’s PWW election
coverage or analysis. We will email this and post it on the pww.org
website.
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 2008
Electoral Policy and more....
This has been a busy week over at the CPUSA
Internet Department. For starters, check out a new video
featuring
long-time party member Danny Rubin making the case, citing
not-widely-known evidence and his own personal experiences, that the
Party played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement.
Also, check out:
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 National Committee
meeting
March 29-30
The National Committee will meet next week at the Unity Center in NYC
(check out this video tour
of the Communist Party USA's new national office)
The first day will be devoted to a discussion of the election struggle.
On Sunday, there will be a report and discussion on the environmental
crisis. The report, prepared by Marc Brodine and other environmental
activists, is a major step for the Party, towards engaging on this
critical question. Over the next year, clubs will be encouraged to hold
educational discussions on the issue – stay tuned.
There will also be short reports on Party and press building, our
internet work, and finances.
We will be filming this NC meeting and posting clips from it on the
Party's website.
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Top Ten
Reasons To Vote
A
week before primary day a Connecticut CPUSA club showing of the
powerpoint "The Gigantic Battle of 2008 -- Labor and the People v. the
Ultra Right" resulted in the group writing, on the spot, a flyer "Top
Ten Reasons You and Your Friends Should Vote."
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Be a Part of
the People's Upsurge for Change
Top Ten Reasons Why
You and Your Friends Should Vote:
- To build up our power as
working people
- To change direction and end Bush policies
- To bring all our troops home from Iraq
- To win health care for everyone
- To win the right to organize into unions
- To stop the foreclosures on our homes
- To stop racism and bigotry
- To stand up against corporate greed
- To preserve our civil
liberties
- To uphold our hard won right to vote |
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Elena Mora
National Organizing Director
Communist Party USA
emora *_at* cpusa {d0t_} org
212-989-4994
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