SAVE THE DATE!
Cheshire County Summit
Sunday November 11th - Keene High School 43 Arch St. Keene from 1:00 until 4:00
The Cheshire County Democratic Committee invites you to their County Summit!
Join us to chart our county’s course for 2008!
Shape the county’s grassroots action plan!
Learn about the tools it will take to win!
Work with other activists to ensure victory in all Cheshire County towns !
Stay tuned for more details…
E-mail Ann Heffernon at akheff@gmail.com for more information
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Cheshire County Democrats Book Club
For November, we are reading Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, by Alexandra Fuller. It's a memoir of a childhood in apartheid Africa. We will meet on Tuesday, November 13, at 6:30 PM, in the Green room at the Keene Public Library.
We hope you can join us.
Linda
From Publishers WeeklyA classic is born in this tender, intensely moving and even delightful journey through a white African girl's childhood. Fuller was conceived and bred on African soil during the Rhodesian civil war (1971-1979), a world where children over five "learn how to load an FN rifle magazine, strip and clean all the guns in the house, and ultimately, shoot-to-kill." With a unique and subtle sensitivity to racial issues, Fuller describes her parents' racism and the wartime relationships between blacks and whites through a child's watchful eyes. Curfews and war, mosquitoes, land mines, ambushes and "an abundance of leopards" are the stuff of this childhood. "Dad has to go out into the bush... and find terrorists and fight them"; Mum saves the family from an Egyptian spitting cobra; they both fight "to keep one country in Africa white-run." The "A" schools ("with the best teachers and facilities") are for white children; "B" schools serve "children who are neither black nor white"; and "C" schools are for black children. Fuller's world is marked by sudden, drastic changes: the farm is taken away for "land redistribution"; one term at school, five white students are "left in the boarding house... among two hundred African students"; three of her four siblings die in infancy; the family constantly sets up house in hostile, desolate environments as they move from Rhodesia to Zambia to Malawi and back to Zambia. But Fuller's remarkable affection for her parents (who are racists) and her homeland (brutal under white and black rule) shines through. This affection, in spite of its subjects' prominent flaws, reveals their humanity and allows the reader direct entry into her world. Fuller's book has the promise of being widely read and remaining of interest for years to come.
We hope you can join us.
Linda
From Publishers WeeklyA classic is born in this tender, intensely moving and even delightful journey through a white African girl's childhood. Fuller was conceived and bred on African soil during the Rhodesian civil war (1971-1979), a world where children over five "learn how to load an FN rifle magazine, strip and clean all the guns in the house, and ultimately, shoot-to-kill." With a unique and subtle sensitivity to racial issues, Fuller describes her parents' racism and the wartime relationships between blacks and whites through a child's watchful eyes. Curfews and war, mosquitoes, land mines, ambushes and "an abundance of leopards" are the stuff of this childhood. "Dad has to go out into the bush... and find terrorists and fight them"; Mum saves the family from an Egyptian spitting cobra; they both fight "to keep one country in Africa white-run." The "A" schools ("with the best teachers and facilities") are for white children; "B" schools serve "children who are neither black nor white"; and "C" schools are for black children. Fuller's world is marked by sudden, drastic changes: the farm is taken away for "land redistribution"; one term at school, five white students are "left in the boarding house... among two hundred African students"; three of her four siblings die in infancy; the family constantly sets up house in hostile, desolate environments as they move from Rhodesia to Zambia to Malawi and back to Zambia. But Fuller's remarkable affection for her parents (who are racists) and her homeland (brutal under white and black rule) shines through. This affection, in spite of its subjects' prominent flaws, reveals their humanity and allows the reader direct entry into her world. Fuller's book has the promise of being widely read and remaining of interest for years to come.
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Cheshire County Democrats Spaghetti Dinner-SAVE THE DATE!!!!
CHESHIRE COUNTY DEMOCRATS HOLD ANNUAL SPAGHETTI DINNER
Senator Christopher Dodd Will Speak
Senator Chris Dodd will be the featured speaker at the Cheshire County Democrats Annual Spaghetti Dinner on Saturday, November 3, 2007 at Keene High School. Dodd, who is U. S. Senator from Connecticut, is running for President of the United States. The Cheshire County Annual Spaghetti Dinner provides the opportunity for Democrats and other like minded individuals to gather for good food and company and to raise money in support of local Democratic candidates.
The Cheshire County Spaghetti Dinner has a long tradition of attracting prominent national political candidates. Past speakers include Al Gore, Bill Bradley, John Edwards, Richard Gephardt, and Howard Dean. This year the event promises to attract another capacity crowd as political interest is high during this early presidential primary season. All Democratic presidential campaigns will have a presence at the Dinner with informational tables about their candidates.
The Dinner is scheduled for between 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. at the Keene High School Cafeteria located on 43 Arch Street in Keene. The doors open at 6:00 pm. The Dinner is open to the general public, but tickets must be purchased in advance. Tickets are $20.00, and can be purchased from your local state representative, your town or city Democratic chair, or call Eddie Albert at 352-4050 or Linda Cates at 827-3839.
A Pre-Dinner Cocktail Reception will be held at the home of Delmar and Nancy Burridge at 7 Starlight Drive, Keene from 5:00 p.m. until 6 p.m. Tickets for the Cocktail Reception are $35.00 a person.
Senator Christopher Dodd Will Speak
Senator Chris Dodd will be the featured speaker at the Cheshire County Democrats Annual Spaghetti Dinner on Saturday, November 3, 2007 at Keene High School. Dodd, who is U. S. Senator from Connecticut, is running for President of the United States. The Cheshire County Annual Spaghetti Dinner provides the opportunity for Democrats and other like minded individuals to gather for good food and company and to raise money in support of local Democratic candidates.
The Cheshire County Spaghetti Dinner has a long tradition of attracting prominent national political candidates. Past speakers include Al Gore, Bill Bradley, John Edwards, Richard Gephardt, and Howard Dean. This year the event promises to attract another capacity crowd as political interest is high during this early presidential primary season. All Democratic presidential campaigns will have a presence at the Dinner with informational tables about their candidates.
The Dinner is scheduled for between 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. at the Keene High School Cafeteria located on 43 Arch Street in Keene. The doors open at 6:00 pm. The Dinner is open to the general public, but tickets must be purchased in advance. Tickets are $20.00, and can be purchased from your local state representative, your town or city Democratic chair, or call Eddie Albert at 352-4050 or Linda Cates at 827-3839.
A Pre-Dinner Cocktail Reception will be held at the home of Delmar and Nancy Burridge at 7 Starlight Drive, Keene from 5:00 p.m. until 6 p.m. Tickets for the Cocktail Reception are $35.00 a person.
Cheshire County Democrats Monthly Meeting
The Cheshire County Democrats monthly meeting will be held on Sunday October 14th this month because of Columbus Day weekend falls on the first Sunday of the month. Please join us then at 5:30 PM at our headquarters located at 2 Eagle Court behind The Works in Keene.
We look forward to seeing you-
Ann Heffernon
We look forward to seeing you-
Ann Heffernon
SCHIP Rally
Wednesday, October 3rd, President Bush VETOES Funding for Children’s Health Care
Thursday, October 4th, Keene Area Rally calling out President Bush and Senator Gregg’s misdirected priorities for America’s Children and calling on the US Congress to override the Bush Veto
WHAT: HEALTH CARE RALLY FOR AMERICA’S CHILDREN!
WHERE
WHEN
Keene Central Square
Main Street, Keene, NH 03431
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Last week members in the United States Congress voted to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Today the president vetoed this important funding for children’s health care. SCHIP, a program that has effectively worked for 10 years funds Healthy Kids Silver in NH, which makes health insurance affordable for working families whose jobs do not provide benefits; parents pay premiums on a sliding scale.
The legislation the president vetoed today was a bipartisan agreement struck by House and Senate negotiators to bring health coverage to nearly ten million children in need. The legislation would preserve coverage for all 6.6 million children currently covered by CHIP, and reaching millions more low-income, uninsured American children in the next five years. SCHIP has been effective for 10 years and is strongly supported by forty-five Republicans and almost every Democrat in the House of Representatives; Republican Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley from Iowa, Conservative Senator Orrin Hatch, more than a dozen other Republican Senators and every single Democrat in the Senate; 43 Governors, including the conservative Governor of Georgia, Sunny Purdue; and over 250 grassroots organizations all across the country have come out in favor of SCHIP.
Despite this incredible unity – President Bush and Senator Gregg have determined that voting against and vetoing SCHIP is going to be their legacy to our children.
Over 7,000 children in New Hampshire rely upon Healthy Kids Silver for health care coverage; the legislation the president vetoed today would have made coverage affordable for the families of another several thousand children in New Hampshire who need it.
SCHIP has reduced the number of uninsured children in working families by 35 percent. Focusing on preventive health care, many of the 6.6 million children covered by the program are now getting regular checkups. And their primary care comes from a family doctor, not from an expensive and inefficient emergency room.
Examples of this success can be found in every single state and study after study shows: Our youth enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program are much more likely to have regular doctor and dental care; They report lower rates of unmet need for care; The quality of care they receive is far better than it was before; School performance improves; The plan is helping to close the disparity in care for minority children; And the Children’s Health Insurance Program has become a major source of care for rural children.
Here in NH, important programs that offer affordable health care to children from low-income families, like NH Healthy Kids, are threatened because they rely on SCHIP funds!
This program makes health care affordable for hundreds of thousands of working families in America. We need to send a message to our Senators that children’s health care is our priority!
Please join faith leaders, elected officials, human service providers, citizens and NH Healthy Kids recipients as we call on President Bush and Senator Gregg to stand with our working families and
Please bring your cell phone and we will be calling Senator Gregg’s Office and writing him letters at the event.
State Senator Molly Kelly will be attending and Governor Lynch has been invited.
For more information please call Ellen Clement, 603-399-4923
Or Jaime Contois at 603-504-2906
Jaime Contois
NH Organizer
Working Families Win
603-504-2906 (cell)
Jaime@wfwin.org
www.workingfamilieswin.org
Thursday, October 4th, Keene Area Rally calling out President Bush and Senator Gregg’s misdirected priorities for America’s Children and calling on the US Congress to override the Bush Veto
WHAT: HEALTH CARE RALLY FOR AMERICA’S CHILDREN!
WHERE
WHEN
Keene Central Square
Main Street, Keene, NH 03431
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Last week members in the United States Congress voted to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Today the president vetoed this important funding for children’s health care. SCHIP, a program that has effectively worked for 10 years funds Healthy Kids Silver in NH, which makes health insurance affordable for working families whose jobs do not provide benefits; parents pay premiums on a sliding scale.
The legislation the president vetoed today was a bipartisan agreement struck by House and Senate negotiators to bring health coverage to nearly ten million children in need. The legislation would preserve coverage for all 6.6 million children currently covered by CHIP, and reaching millions more low-income, uninsured American children in the next five years. SCHIP has been effective for 10 years and is strongly supported by forty-five Republicans and almost every Democrat in the House of Representatives; Republican Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley from Iowa, Conservative Senator Orrin Hatch, more than a dozen other Republican Senators and every single Democrat in the Senate; 43 Governors, including the conservative Governor of Georgia, Sunny Purdue; and over 250 grassroots organizations all across the country have come out in favor of SCHIP.
Despite this incredible unity – President Bush and Senator Gregg have determined that voting against and vetoing SCHIP is going to be their legacy to our children.
Over 7,000 children in New Hampshire rely upon Healthy Kids Silver for health care coverage; the legislation the president vetoed today would have made coverage affordable for the families of another several thousand children in New Hampshire who need it.
SCHIP has reduced the number of uninsured children in working families by 35 percent. Focusing on preventive health care, many of the 6.6 million children covered by the program are now getting regular checkups. And their primary care comes from a family doctor, not from an expensive and inefficient emergency room.
Examples of this success can be found in every single state and study after study shows: Our youth enrolled in the Children’s Health Insurance Program are much more likely to have regular doctor and dental care; They report lower rates of unmet need for care; The quality of care they receive is far better than it was before; School performance improves; The plan is helping to close the disparity in care for minority children; And the Children’s Health Insurance Program has become a major source of care for rural children.
Here in NH, important programs that offer affordable health care to children from low-income families, like NH Healthy Kids, are threatened because they rely on SCHIP funds!
This program makes health care affordable for hundreds of thousands of working families in America. We need to send a message to our Senators that children’s health care is our priority!
Please join faith leaders, elected officials, human service providers, citizens and NH Healthy Kids recipients as we call on President Bush and Senator Gregg to stand with our working families and
Please bring your cell phone and we will be calling Senator Gregg’s Office and writing him letters at the event.
State Senator Molly Kelly will be attending and Governor Lynch has been invited.
For more information please call Ellen Clement, 603-399-4923
Or Jaime Contois at 603-504-2906
Jaime Contois
NH Organizer
Working Families Win
603-504-2906 (cell)
Jaime@wfwin.org
www.workingfamilieswin.org
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