If you vote in the March 2 primary (or during early voting), be sure to come back to your Mar. 2 voting location (not an early voting location) for your precinct convention.

Precinct conventions start at 7:15 PM, or after the last person in line has voted, and are a great place to educate others about issues you care about, and get resolutions on them approved and sent up to the Senate District (SD) conventions and the state convention, so they'll get noticed by a lot more people.

Go to our resolutions list http://paa-tx.org/resolutions and pick out resolutions of interest to you -- just click on the titles of any of them. Download the pdf versions that are formatted for printing, and bring several copies of each to your precinct convention. If you want to write your own resolution on a topic we did not cover, refer to our Resolution-Writing Guidelines (see link at http://paa-tx.org/resolutions ) for suggestions on how to write a good resolution that is likely to be passed.

Some additional resolutions are also on the Burnt Orange Report web site http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/10038/2010-tdp-resolutions-thread -- please see these too.

If you don't vote in the primary, you are eligible to sign petitions to help get the Green Party on the ballot in Texas this year. For at least one state-wide office (Comptroller), there's no Democrat on the ballot, so this is not even a conflict for any Dem. See http://hcgp.org for details.

A PETITION TO PRESIDENT OBAMA FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS ABOLITION

We're working with United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) and the Houston chapter of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) to help collect signatures across this country by January, to present to President Obama before the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferaton Treaty Review Conference. If you are reading this on the PAA home page, click on the "read the rest" link below, or the title of this article, for details and to download the petition.

Event Description:

See minutes here for Carol Christian's insightful tips for writing letters to the editor or guest editorials: http://www.paa-tx.org/node/3238

At the next PAA meeting, we can get some great tips and techniques for writing effective op eds and letters to the editors. Carol Christian, a Houston Chronicle reporter, has agreed to come help us learn more about how to write LTE and op eds that get published. Just bring the background information and data for an issue and some paper and pens and/or your laptop computer if you have one.

Event Sponsor:
Progressive Action Alliance

Lee Loe has finished putting together a "Palestine-Israel Notebook" -- an 8-page publication similar to the Iraq Notebooks http://paa-tx.org/node/670 we distributed a few years ago. It has stories and photos about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, Gaza, conscientious objectors in Israel as well as the US, and the world-wide peace movement for the middle east.

Tired of attending protests where the only people who see you are your fellow protestors?

Want to let the average Houstonian know that there are others who also want the US and Israel to stop their invasions and occupations in the Middle East?

Here's and easy and fun way for you and your signs to be seen by THOUSANDS of people during a weekday rush hour.  Join us as we hold up large signs and banners on one of the bridges over the Southwest Freeway and Gulf Freeway.  Short Videos   Photos   Photos on Indymedia   Houston Chronicle article