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"The Young Democrats of America (YDA) has been the official youth arm of the Democratic Party since 1932"

You couldn't tell that by coming here...

Several University Students are doing a study on the economy as it is associated with the two parties. They are interested in several factors: 1.The middle class size, the income average of the middleclass, and under what majority did it flurish, and what party was in the White House? 2. The lowest income size and average pay rate. Again, who was in the White House and what was the party of the Majority in congress and senate. 3. The employment rate and of what party was the President? Who was in the majority in Congress and Senate? Did the economy flurish? 4. The National debt size? Of each President since Roosevelt to the present President Bush? How much debt did each President add to the National debt and what were the Wars fought under each president and who was in the majority in Congress and Senate?
If any of the College students reading this want to add their study, please feel free? Our parents are convinced that only Democrats know how to handle the economy, employment, and pay down the National debt? Now is your chance to prove them wrong if you can?

I'm a 16 year old who is presenting a paper at a conference in October. The topic is "Youth and the Direction of Democracy". I am interested in finding out what everyone thinks are the 5 most important things the Democratic Party needs to do to cut through the lethargy of the electorate, the stiffness of the candidates and the eco-rebel rhetoric, in order to motivate young people enough so that they actually go out and vote. Metaphorically speaking, during the last two elections everyone "Rocked the Vote" so hard that they slept through election day. What would YOU do differently? I want to hear your ideas. Thanks! Chai

"HerbRiede" has a good point. There are no links from here to College Dems or Young Dems. Can those be included, please? Also, for what it's worth, the picture on the "Young People & Students" page has a number of senior citizens and middle-aged folks on it. Let's make this page very obviously youth and student oriented!

I believe that the young democrats need to start acting like democrats, and not are counter part; Republicans. We need to organize and prepare for the next step our nation is soon to take, and in my view even living in NYC, their is no great unity. A call to arms for all democrats for the young democrats can learn from the ones that have beeen around, for a while.

YOUNG DEMOCRATS.
My name is Sean. I live in upstate NY. I grew up here but spent the last 7 years in Orlando, FL. I couldn't handle living in a red state anymore so I moved back home to New York. I was VERY involved in John Kerry's campaign down in Florida and was heartbroken after he lost. However the one good thing that came out of spending all my time volunteering was I became very very passionate about being a Democrat. I would like to start an organization that targets the youth in colleges throughout the country. I believe through education...and helping the youth understand how vitally important it is that they vote and how drastically it will effect their future....will make a difference. I want to help educate them on WHY it is SO important to vote Democrat. I want them to understand how their future is being effected by George W. Bush and what they need to do to change that. More young people got out to vote this past election but STILL not nearly enough ! I'm posting this because I want other fellow Democrats opinions on this and I know we have Young Democratic organizations throughout the country...so instead of starting a new organization I think it might be more beneficial to just work with the existing ones. But something different needs to be done. We lost the last election, so we didn't do a GOOD ENOUGH job of educating our youth on why to vote democratic and why to vote period. We need to work so much harder these next few years so this doesn't happen again. I also want to know how do I contact my local politicans to get them to help with this. I think they would agree a nationwide effort to get more of the youth to vote Democrat would make a huge difference in upcoming elections. If anyone has any ideas please contact me. My email is nyseanfl@aol.com
I look forward to responses ! thanks everyone ! Sean. Oh and one more thing....we as Democrats have GOT to get out and make people understand that Karl Rove completely tricked them into thinking it was 'more' moral to vote for Bush than Kerry. Getting more youth to vote and making Americans understand they were tricked into believing a lie are two HUGE factors in the Democrats winning the next election I believe.
Sean

Young Democrats may find this letter to Dr. Dean of interest. It's about a Democratic, environmentally-friendly northern Arizona community poised to make it a crime for homeless people to sleep or camp outside.

Dear Dr. Dean,
I voted for you in the Arizona Democratic presidential primary. I was also thrilled when you became party chairman because you want Democrats to be Democrats again.
With this in mind, I hope you look into what is happening in Flagstaff, AZ. By a four to three vote, the City Council in this overwhelmingly Democratic community passed on first reading an anti-camping law that creates fines and jail terms for people -- including the homeless -- who sleep outside.
Sadly, Democrats cast three of the four votes backing this measure, which is slated to get a final reading on Oct. 4.
I'm particularly concerned by the vote of Democratic Councilwoman Karen Cooper, who votes progressively on environmental issues. After speaking with her by phone, I sent her an e-mail asking her to abstain from voting on issues affecting homeless people until the community decides whether it wants to create a detox center and shelter to offer homeless folks alternatives to the street or jail. I haven't gotten a response.
Surely anold-fashioned Democrat can delay casting the deciding vote on such a controversial measure until Flagstaff finalizes plans in connection with a detox center and homeless shelter.
Steve Schneider,
flagstaffpinetrees@yahoo.com

The following e-mail was sent to Democratic Councilwoman Karen Cooper, who supports an anti-camping ordinance in Flagstaff, AZ.

Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 04:23:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Steve Schneider"
Subject: Anti-Camping
To: kcooper@ci.flagstaff.az.us

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Hi Karen,

Thank you for speaking with me yesterday. This is what's on my mind based on our phone conversation:

1- I'm glad it's not your "intent" to jail homeless people who break the anti-camping law. Unfortunately, I didn't know this because the Daily Sun piece on the four to three vote did not quote you.

So, I'm glad you will state again before the next vote that you oppose jailing homeless people who break the anti-camping ordinance. Could you also insert words in the bill to make sure everyone else understands this?

2- I'm glad you want to "study" the need for a detox center and shelter in Flagstaff. Therefore, can you abstain from voting on issues affecting the homeless until you have completed your study and programs are in place to give our homeless neighbors alternatives to breaking the anti-camping law?

3- Can you enlist your retired minister husband David to round up religious leaders to see what they can do to confront the serious social problem of homelessness. As I mentioned yesterday, a religious organization in Hagerstown, MD., has for years gotten churches to house the homeless. The group now has a year-round shelter.

4- Could you ask the good folks at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Flag to sponsor a series of debates/discussions on issues affecting Flagstaff and the homeless? If not them, how about the League of Women Voters?

Thank you,

Steve Schneider,
in Hollywood, Florida, on business
(been through Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita)
(954) 920-5069

Fellow Democrats: The right to become and to become our potential is what we must plan and design into our future...and we must sustain it! ...with our freedom...our individuality...and our dedication to fair-play...our policies and our laws...must enable us healthy growth and development...the creativity to build this sustainability into our culture...our society...our dreams...dreams of what should be...what ought to be! We must do this with vigor and fortitude...this very day...everyday for tomorrow! ...We must create our individual and collective pathway into the future...a pathway and future that is sustainable. This pathway and this future must be non abusive to ourselves, our children, our air, our water, our land...our quality life-supporting environment that enables our cells their healthy growth and development...sustains our being! Therefore, consider the following foundation-tool as necessary and holistic for each of us for all of us: www.esdtoolkit.org
--CGE.

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Fellow Democrats: The right to become and to become our potential is what we must plan and design into our future...and we must sustain it! ...with our freedom...our individuality...and our dedication to fair-play...our policies and our laws...must enable us healthy growth and development...the creativity to build this sustainability into our culture...our society...our dreams...dreams of what should be...what ought to be! We must do this with vigor and fortitude...this very day...everyday for tomorrow! ...We must create our individual and collective pathway into the future...a pathway and future that is sustainable. This pathway and this future must be non abusive to ourselves, our children, our air, our water, our land...our quality life-supporting environment that enables our cells their healthy growth and development...sustains our being! Therefore, consider the following foundation-tool as necessary and holistic for each of us for all of us: www.esdtoolkit.org
--CGE.

I agree with scn26293 , in saying how important it is too put forth the effort to target the youth. I am a high school student, who has just resently become serious about the democratic way. One of the major things I realize in school, is the fact that most of the students don't know the difference between a democrat and a republican. I find this strangely odd mainly for the fact that, both campaigns are spending millions of dollars on an add campaign, and what would save thoudsands, is just to post something that could flat out tell you the goals of the democratic side, as well as the republican side, and then just let the individual decide what he/she is. I also see this problem facing most of middle aged people who are not serious, they just seem to vote for whoever. I feel I must point this out, because although so many young people are voting, if they are not educated then more than likely they voted the same way their parents voted, and those couple of votes could actually win the democrats a spot in the white house. Just a little tip from a young democrats aspect.
later,
Michael

Re: miko107 on October 2, 2005 at 03:14 PM

Hello Michael:

Voting the individual supporting human growth and development sustainability seem to me what we ought to do then. ...why not combine the monetary support of both parties into sustainable employment for a sustainable world, purpose, and goals therefore?

--MrCGE
03102005

To:Ms. Susan Turnbull and all TDA Members--I wish to share w/you the following:

What I believe:
Sustainability Continuously into the Future is Within the Potential, Purpose, and
Being Of Every Citizen of Democracy

Sustainability must begin with each of us from within our being, i.e., we must or ought to select the best way to enable our self to grow, develop, and be healthy at the same time. This growth and its sustainability…includes equal fitness or vigor for others, i.e., we need to connection and includes our pass…with those who have lived before us who, like us, were interested in improving the human condition…not to today’s evil of polluted air, polluted water, polluted food, polluted behavior, e.g., life in poverty, but to life’s goodness of quality and excellence…found today in the holistic knowledge and application-of-purpose for sustainable settlement development! This knowledge, we must collaborate with others!
The reason why we are here today…is because our education and its cause is so important to us…so important to others, today like yesterday…provides us the knowledge and goals to build our wisdom…makes available to us the way for our maturity and our skill to implement our wisdom and our knowledge into the world.
Fellow students…consider the voices of the past…those that still speak to us with validity and truth…showing why…how…and what we as individuals educated can and ought to become: A Life Force rising, teaching, developing each individual student how to determine, learn, and develop their truth to share with others… to develop holistically their world…their reason…their potential and their health ergo…sustains each ergo.
With knowledge and wisdom, individuals can exemplify good healthy growth and development…of themselves and the world. If constant, then healthy-holistic sustainability will creates a gyroscopic being with the Soul, Spirit, and Being of all men and all women…their means into the future ergo…will to be NON ABUSIVE and HOLISTIC IN TOTO. DEO GRATIAS!

--Mr. C. G. Essex
© 2005
Bibliography of Challenge

BALCH. (2000). Prescription for Nutritional Healing. 3rd ed.
The first voice: SOCRATES: “There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil,
Ignorance.” (vii) … Finding the truth in knowledge is in knowing how the think and critcally:

Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Matrix and language manipulation
... The philosophy of the Matrix, The Truman Show, artificial synchronicity, language manipulation, realities and Plato's Allegory of the Cave Artificial synchronicity, linguistic manipulation and the ....

Plato's Cave & The Matrix
... Glaucon, nor, I think, will the human race. (473c11-d6) III. Plato’s Cave and The Matrix There are no forms in The Matrix , and thus our epistemic and metaphysical ...

RAND, AYN. (2000). The Fountainhead. Author’s Introduction … to the 1968 Edition.
Found yet in the present voice for the future voice of Romanticism…the conceptual school of arts…shows in the words of Aristotle—how to find, create, develop, project, and sustain: “. . . things as they might be and ought to be.” (vii) …our potential actualized!

The following was sent today after the Democratic city of Flagstaff, AZ., passed a law threatening homeless people with jail for sleeping outside:

Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 07:47:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Steve Schneider" Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
Subject: Dear Fellow Flagstaff-area Democrats
To: rpeterson@azdailysun.com, yogi1@npgcable.com, "david McKell" , "Cynthia L Johnson" , "Charlotte Goodluck" , "Cathy Trotta (E-mail)" , "Bonnie Johnson" , "Bob Kampwerth" , "tina lawson" , "Ann Heitland" , "AnitaDon Howard" , "Karen Abata" , "Dorothy Boulton" , "Roslyn Rubidoux Clark" , "terra" , "Debbie Rusiski" , "Lorrie Twobears >" , "Becky Lewis" , "Bruce Kube" , "Cathy Fine" , "Christina Wenger" , "Dea Brasgalla" , "Debra Block" , "Diane Lenz" , "ginger hula" , "ian kaplan" , "jean hulme" , "jeane Spada Allgood" , "Kate Hill" , "Kathy Raynes-Newhouse" , "Marc Mucatel" , "Nancy Sutherland" , "RonCarla Brewster" , "Samantha Chapman" , "Val Malutin" , "Paul Beem" , "chuch Williams" , "Pat Mastroianni" , "johnortence Baker"

Dear Fellow local Democrats,

Will the Democratic majority on the Flagstaff City Council discipline City Manager Dave Wilcox for slandering "strange-looking people" (Daily Sun, Oct. 5) during a discussion this week about homelessness and the revised and toughened anti-camping ordinance?

If not, what kind of Democratic community is this?

And will local Democrats demand that Democratic Councilwoman Karen Cooper do more to prevent homeless people from freezing to death than offer them a jail cell under the amended anti-camping law?

If not, I'll be sad to call myself a Flagstaff Democrat.

Steve Schneider

Dear Ms. Susan Turnbull, et al.:

For Consideration: Your leadership is needed to rebuild New Orleans and other location in the United States and elsewhere with the following positive actions, e.g.:

Gaia University
Gaia University offers a unique approach to earning accredited Bachelors and Masters degrees, Certificates and Diplomas while developing your passions, visions and dreams. If you are ready to take positive action, linking your ideals with practical experience, we invite you to become an active world changer by working for planetary sustainability and regeneration, justice and peace.

--MrCGE.
09102005

Ref. http://www.gaiau.org/

The following letter to the editor appeared yesterday in the Daily Sun (Flagstaff, AZ.) It's about a Democratic, northern Arizona community that recently revised an anti-camping ordinance,thus threatening people with a $2,500 fine and six months in jail for sleeping outside.

Something to think about

10/10/2005

To the editor:

The Daily Sun quoted Democratic Councilwoman Karen Cooper and Republican Mayor Joe Donaldson in connection with their support for amending the anti-camping ordinance (Oct. 5, Oct. 6). The paper quoted Cooper first. She backed the measure, in part, because "I'm also concerned for the safety of the people who are sleeping outside" and might freeze to death.

A day later, the Daily Sun quoted Donaldson as saying, "There's just not an appetite for raising taxes." This comment explained why the Democratic majority on the City Council fails to offer our homeless neighbors alternatives to the street or a jail cell.

While not a lawyer, I wonder if the Democratic and Republican bookends of the anti-camping crowd have unwittingly given homeless-rights advocates grounds on which to sue the city.

After all, hasn't Democrat Cooper effectively vowed this amended ordinance will protect people from freezing to death? And hasn't her Republican teammate said, "Read my lips: No new taxes" to create a detox center or homeless shelter?

What's more, the paper quoted City Manager Dave Wilcox on Oct. 6 as fearing "strange-looking people" who fall under the embrace of the amended law. Can an attorney charge this comment shows fear, ignorance and possibly malice underlie the majority opposition to meeting the needs of homeless people in Flagstaff?

Only time will tell, but I'm thankful to the three Democratic Council members and their Republican mayor leader for giving this community something to think about as they take charge of the homeless issue.

STEVE SCHNEIDER

Flagstaff