Colorado State Open Thread, Christmas Day, 2016
Seasons Greetings, everyone.I need to return to my family and so I’ll let you discuss if you care to share on this day.
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, January 1, 2017
This first day of the year is ripe for all sorts of discussion in all sorts of direction — what is on your minds this day? Are you the type to come up with resolutions? Do you follow through with...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: We have a new Governor
WELCOME TO THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR SUNDAY, january 1st, 2017 This is the 85th Weekly Edition.This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers...
View ArticleMichigan Kos: 1/21 March, Lansing; 2/4 DNC, Detroit; Meetups/Action UPDATE:...
If you keep in touch with any local organizing at all, you know that events take place nearly daily now, all across Michigan. The best I can do is point you to other sources of updated information.If...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, January 8, 2017
We placed my mother in the ground yesterday. Did you know that the process is called an “inurment” when it’s putting an urn into its final resting place? So sayeth the funeral home. My family has...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, January 15, 2017
Headed back home to Colorado today, if the ice permits. I’ve been in Kansas for a couple weeks helping my father with some issues after the passing of my mother. There are many things that I could...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: Rally in Raleigh Today
WELCOME TO THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR SUNDAY, JANUARY 15TH, 2017 This is the 87th Weekly Edition. We published early today so our friends in and near Raleigh could get a head’s up if they...
View ArticleMichigan Kos: Get Ready. Be Ready. Actions and Events for This Momentous Week.
This week, Michigan people and events are in the news again. The excitement of the North American Auto Show does not suffice to outweigh the bad political news, as usual, Tricky Ricky Snyder delivered...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, 1/22/2017
Colorado’s state capitol gleaming gold in the sunshine I’ve seen lots of estimates of over 100K, at least one of 200K. People were flowing and it was tough to see if they were going round and round...
View ArticleMichigan Kos: We Belong in the Streets, in Dem Meetings, and in Resistance....
Nothing like the crisis of a generation, or maybe of a century, to get people engaged. You feel that urgency, too?I’d welcome photos here of Sister Marches you attended anywhere in Michigan, along with...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, January 29, 2017
Caffeinating Liberally was a very crowded place yesterday morning. It reminded me a bit of the Women’s March in Denver — when I arrived it was very crowded, it grew to about a couple dozen people and...
View ArticleMotor City Kossacks: Meet Chris Reeves (and me) at the DNC Future Forum, Sat....
MOTOR CITY KOSSACKS meet-up! NOTE TIME CHANGE: Saturday, February 4, noon location TBD (but near Wayne State University in Detroit)If you want to meet me, let me know in the comments, send me a...
View ArticleMichigan Kos: Meetup Last Saturday, MDP Convention This Saturday 2/11
Two major items to report on this week: the DNC Future Forum — and a meetup! — last Saturday, and the Michigan Democratic Party Spring Convention this coming Saturday. (Sheesh, I could use a real...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: Moral March Raleigh
WELCOME TO THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR monday, FEBRUARY 13th, 2017 This is the 91st Weekly Edition. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, 2/12/2017
I’m not sure where to find all of the various protests and rallies, but one place I found was “Together We Will” at www.facebook.com/…. Now I don’t have a facebook account, so I’m sure I’m missing...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: HB2 damage piling up with no end in sight
WELCOME TO THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR monday, FEBRUARY 19th, 2017 92nd Weekly Edition. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread: A new Democratic Party
WELCOME TO THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR monday, FEBRUARY 26th, 2017. 93rd Weekly Edition. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers...
View ArticleColorado State Open Thread, February 27, 2017
As always, if someone wishes to write one of these Open Threads, I would be delighted to either step aside or help coordinate material if you would like to take something from another diary you write...
View ArticleMI Kos: Action Items -- Protest Nestlé Water Grab by Fri.; Walberg (MI-7)...
Michigan is definitely in a best of/worst of loop lately, isn’t it? Let’s start with two important time-sensitive events: the March 3rd deadline for public comments against Nestle’s theft of...
View ArticleNorth Carolina Open Thread
WELCOME TO THE NORTH CAROLINA OPEN THREAD FOR Sunday, March 5th, 2017. 94th Weekly Edition. This is a weekly feature of North Carolina Blue. We hope this regular platform will give readers interested...
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