Yes We Can! LI’s Goals for 2010

Admittedly confounded, frustrated and angry, I just don’t know where to begin . . . or end.  This has been a most depressing week.  So I’ll be brief.

• Healthcare reform: It cannot go away.  Passage of reform legislation is a must.  If it’s the Senate bill, swallow hard and let it be.

• Campaign finance reform. Bush v. Gore was a most horrendous decision.  Yesterday the Supreme Court may have exceeded all expectations for its ugly, partisan decision.  It should not take a legal scholar to recognize that five of nine justices are clearly wrong. Corporations, by law, are entities that enjoy rights that enable them to make profits (and to lose huge sums as well).  In response, public-financed elections, minimally at the national level, must become the public mandate. Nothing less can save democracy as most have come to understand and believe in it.

• Job Creation. Regardless of what Congress does in the coming months, this must become and remain its greatest priority. What else needs to be said?

• Energy/Environment. Most recent reports identify this past decade as the warmest in recorded history tells the story.

At our Board meeting, it was decided that YWC!LI will focus on these four goals throughout 2010.  They are the most widely supported priorities cited in the membership survey that so many of you have returned for our consideration. The top four goals identified (those indicated as #1 or #2 priorities by our members) are:

Jobs/Deficit Reduction/Financial Regulation (98%)

Health Care Reform (84%)

Environment/Climate Change (58%)

Campaign Finance Reform (46%)

Other goals cited, including reducing/withdrawing troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, received highly favorable responses.  The Board committed to those matters to which it feels it make a meaningful contribution.

Our initial event, a convention focusing on one of our goals will be announced shortly.  YWC!LI’s effectiveness will continue to rely upon growing our membership.

I’ll be writing to you about this in the coming days. — Marvin

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