Report on the first Progressive Values Study Group Meeting and Heartland Presidential Forum

Written by: Edwin Rutsch on Dec 4, 2007 5:15 PM EST

We held the first meeting of the What Are Progressive Values? Study Group, preceding the El Cerrito Democratic Club meeting on November 27. This was a brainstorming session and the next meeting will be January 27, 2008. You can find out more information about the Study Group at the http://ProgressiveSpirit.com website.

You can see a 10 minute video clip of the meeting at http://youtube.com/group/ProgressiveValues
and the clip is entitled

"Progressive Values? Study Group First Meeting 11/27/07."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=mWf4wrUlCFg

The first meeting's goal was to brainstorm and to prepare for the launch of the group in January. Eight members attended and as the El Cerrito Democratic Cub President Hilary Cosby said, "That was a great turn out for a first meeting." The discussions were both lively and engaging.

At this meeting everyone shared their insights and suggestions for the study group. Some of the best ideas that came up were; that we should try to liaison with George Lakoff's Rockridge Institute and to develop a format that other democratic clubs can use to create similar values study groups. The Study Group maintains a lively online discussion forum which we hope you will join. Our Progressive Values Video group on Youtube has 250 video clips related to the progressive values discussion. see:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProgressiveValues/

We hope you'll join us at the next meeting or online.

in addition

Community Values: Iowa Heartland Presidential Forum Videos

The Community Values: Iowa Heartland Presidential Forum was last
weekend, Dec 2, 2007. All the main democratic candidates gave talks there. They
were asked about Community Values. My hats off to the work of the;

Center For Community Change
Movement Vision Lab
http://www.movementvisionlab.org

This is a great start to the discussion about Progressive Values.
They had heartfelt personal stories from people that conveyed the
experience of people dealing with daily life. I wish I could have
been there. These stories conveyed the importance of 'we're all in this together' community.

You can see the videos from the event on our Progressive Values
Youtube site at:
http://youtube.com/group/ProgressiveValues
There are about 10 video clips and links to the entire event.

I'd be interested your impressions of the event.
Here are a couple of the clips from the event.

Kathy Hughes Opens the Heartland Presidential Forum
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BaUp-wZ6k94

Sen. Obama answers questions from community leaders pt. 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZjNqfM2ZpeA

Sen. Edwards answers questions from community leaders pt. 1
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fa74dxE2orc

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