2 Forums on Cleaning Up Politics This Week

Here are the details for the Rockville/Aspen Hill MD Event:
Aspen Hill Montgomery County Library
4407 Aspen Hill Road Rockville, MD 20853
Wednesday, 5 May 2010, 6:45 PM 
(changed from 6:30 to give people time to get there)

Here are the details for the Columbia, MD Event:
Columbia Central Library
10375 Little Patuxent Pkwy Columbia, MD
Saturday, May 8th, 2010 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Host your own Community Forum or sign up for an event near you:  http://pol.moveon.org/event/2010townhall/103090

Progressives learned a sobering lesson in 2009: even with President Obama and Democratic majorities in Congress, it's incredibly difficult to make change in Washington. Giant corporations and their lobbyists who profit from the status quo have doubled down in the wake of last year's election, and they have massive amounts of money available to fight progressive legislation and leaders. Already, these corporations are getting ready to spend whatever it takes to repeal the health care reform bill in the courts or by taking back the Congress. And recent court decisions such as Citizens United have made their job easier and ours harder.

What we have is people-power. Our emergency Community Forums will bring our communities together to make sure we have a shared understanding of the problem and discuss how we use progressive people-power to block this corporate power grab and save American democracy before it's too late.

More about the Columbia, MD event:  "We’ll be discussing strategies to take action against the corporate money grubbers and to restore democracy and a voice to the hard-working people who make our country great. Featured speakers include Maria Allwine, Co-Chair of Maryland Green Party and Margaret Flowers, a National Spokesperson for the Physicians for a National Health Program. This event is co-sponsored by: Howard County MoveOn, Howard County Friends of Latin America, Network of Spiritual Progressives in Maryland, Howard County Coalition for Peace and Justice, Common Cause of Maryland, Progressive Working Group in Maryland, HoCo Health Care Now E-mail: moveonhocomd@gmail.com for additional info and to RSVP for the event. (RSVP is NOT necessary to attend)."