[Mb-civic] An Alternative SOTU ~ from The Nation

[Barbara Siomos]

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Sent: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:13:52 -0800
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Subject: An Alternative SOTU

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After George W. Bush delivers his fifth State of the Union address
this Tuesday, the President's partisans will try to persuade Americans
that even while his extremist agenda runs aground, there is no
alternative. It's a spin that has worked in the past, with too much of
the media and too many Americans convinced that a hapless and
incoherent Democratic leadership is unprepared to take the country in
a new direction.

That spin stops here. In a new special issue of The Nation, twenty
members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus take on the daunting
foreign and domestic policy challenges facing the United States in
year six of the Bush/Cheney Administration. They offer road maps to
renewal that are both principled and pragmatic. Check out
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clicking below. http://lists.thenation.com/t?ctl=1BBD:56B75

And, if you're in the Washington, DC area on the morning of Tuesday,
Jan. 31, you can see Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel
and members of the CPC in a series of discussions laying out policy
alternatives on a range of issues. http://lists.thenation.com/t?ctl=1BBF:56B75

When: Tuesday, January 31, 9:00 to 11:30 am Where: Democratic National
Committee Headquarters,Wasserman Conference Room, 430 S. Capitol
Street, SE, Washington, DC

And don't miss vanden Heuvel on CNN's Larry King Live at midnight on
Tuesday in a special roundtable on Bush's SOTU.

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Thursday, January 26, 7:00 Barnes & Noble, 2289 Broadway at W. 82nd
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And click below for more info on the Dictionary of Republicanisms.
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Speaking of Bush's SOTU, in a re-post from Robert Scheer's terrific
new site, TruthDig, Gore Vidal says we deserve a rest from the
fundamentalist presidency of G.W. Bush, whose guiding principles are
antithetical to democracy and will only accelerate our
decline.http://lists.thenation.com/t?ctl=1BBC:56B75

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