From John Debus

Hi Everyone,

A reminder of our event this Tuesday evening, 6:30pm to 8:30pm, 25 June 2013 at the

American Legion Post #40, 801 S US1, Fort Pierce, FL. 34950. Please use the front

entrance on US1. It is the large room on the right side of the entrance as you come

in the front door. Plenty of parking on the north side of the building.

It's movie night at TCPA with "Capitalism Hits the Fan" a documentary movie on

the economic meltdown from renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor

Richard Wolff. Come watch and listen to this film on the root causes of the economic crisis,

which was decades in the making and reflects seismic failures in our

American-style capitalist system. We should have plenty of time after the movie for a great

discussion which Kathy will moderate. 

Our events are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, so bring and/or invite friends and family.

Donations are welcome, but not necessary. Thanks to one of our loyal and dedicated

members, we will be giving sets of Occucards to all donations of $3.00 or more to our

brochure fund (they sell for $5.00 a set on line) . The set of 18 cards adress the top

progressive issues of our time with a colorful picture on front and information on that

issue on the back. This is a great gift for yourself or for others less informed. "May" turn Tea Party people into Progressive people. If you care to join and support our organization (not required) our membership fees are $15 per person and $20 per family annually. This helps maintain our programs and fund community outreaching, enabling us to inform friends and neighbors of pertinent ongoing issues that are in dire need of support. To join, see Erika at the Event or go to our web-site.

I received a request from one of our regular attending supporters, to have a protest/rally for

our dying Indian River Lagoon. A few of us were getting together that evening to discuss a

protest/rally for alternative energy and the Keystone pipeline, so I said we would discuss it.

According to the group, there is an article about the subject every day in the newspaper,

and a simple protest would not add a whole lot to the subject. We came out with the suggestion

to perhaps petition our elected officials to sign a pledge to work to protect and

restore the Indian River Lagoon. We could then have protest/rallies to collect signatures and

have other organizations also work on getting signatures. We would then take the petition to city and county meetings and request elected officials sign the pledge. We would need people

to volunteer to write-up and work on this petition. Please respond to this e-mail if you are

interested in forming a group/committee to work on this.

We also discussed an alternative energy and Keystone pipeline protest/rally. Our idea is to have

a couple electric cars, solar panel information, wind turbine info, etc. with the information about

the Keystone pipeline and gather signatures on a petition to President Obama and the State

Department to STOP the Keystone pipeline. We decided to meet again after some scheduled

training at the end of July and plan for the event in August when we need to put out the most

pressure. Again if anyone else interested in joining this committee, please respond to this

e-mail.

There will be a table set up for groups information, up coming events, and petitions at our event

Tuesday. All groups will also have 1-3 minutes at the beginning to tell us about yourself. You can

also contact Kathy or myself to have your events posted on our web-site.

Anyone needing to car pool to the event can contact me and I will do my best to get you a ride.

We have started to collect non-perishable foods to give to local food banks.

We are also taking a poll on having a fall picnic, please respond if interest in attending.

We will be having a board meeting in July, time and place will be announced.

"My Opinion" program is on going, choose a subject, limit it to 300 words or less and submit

it to be read at the end of our event. We want to know how you feel on issues and what you are

passionate about.

Erika, Jerry and I met with an AFL-CIO group on Saturday and discussed many issues. I'm hoping to get some of the other local union representatives together and have an event on labor issues in the near

future.

Our next Event in July will be on "NOW", National Organization for Woman.  Meredith Ockman,

Florida's Vice President of NOW, will be our speaker.

Please come out, we need your support to make a difference. We also welcome your feed-back

on our Events and Organization. So feel free to respond to this e-mail.

CHECK OUT OUR WEB-SITE; tcprogressivealliance.com

Take Care,

See you Tuesday,

John