OFA at First Friday + “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” Letter to Speaker Pelosi

Posted by admin on July 3rd, 2009 | Categorized as Ward 5

Happy 4th of July Weekend!

OFA at First Friday (Health Care Organizing Event)

Yesterday at a town hall meeting in VA, the President answered the last question from an SEIU member: “What can we do to help you with your reform plan?” by saying: “Get educated, and educate your neighbors”. So our CenterCityEast/Ward5-OFA team will have a table with Health Care Reform information: we will ask people to sign “Declaration of Support of the President plan”, write down their health care stories and collect information.

Prizes: Obama button for each health care story, and a chance to win one of our new team T-shirt!

Time: Friday, July 3 from 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Host: Christiane Geisler
Contact Phone: 202 997 3373
Location:
100 N. block of 2d Street (Philadelphia, PA)
Corner of 2d and Church

Please RSVP @ http://bit.ly/bVTOn

“Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” Letter to Speaker Pelosi

On Tuesday, a military board told Lt. Dan Choi — an Iraq War veteran and Arabic linguist — that it was recommending his discharge from the Army for “moral and professional dereliction” under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

Despite this setback, Lt. Choi is not giving up. Bolstered by more than 300,000 signatures to letters of support calling for the repeal of DADT, Dan is now taking his fight to repeal the discriminatory “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy to Congress.

Dan needs your help as soon as possible. The sooner DADT is repealed, the sooner he can return to service.

We need Speaker Pelosi to take leadership now and speak out publicly in favor of current legislation in Congress that would repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

More than 70,000 people, including me, have signed Lt. Choi’s letter in less than 24 hours. Will you join me in signing it and urge your friends to do the same? Just click on the link below to add your name: The letter is being launched on Lt. Choi’s behalf by the Courage Campaign, Knights Out and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network.

Sign the letter @ http://bit.ly/17e8ZY