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What is the Backbone Campaign?
The Backbone Campaign is a grassroots effort to embolden citizens and elected officials to stand up for progressive values. We are expanding the political dialogue by providing creative tools for citizens and the progressive movement. The backbone symbolizes an interlocking agenda, a coalition, and the personal courage necessary to fight for a future worthy of our children.Creative Tactics for Land & Sea
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Backbone Campaign has received a $50,000 grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation to co-produce 7 regional Artful Activism Summits in 2010. (YEAH! - Thanks NCF!)
We now will be able to bring artists and trainers to help YOUR local campaigns. These festive summits will result in spectacle tools like giant puppets, banners and props that will remain with the lucky seven host communities/organizations/campuses in order to support their ongoing work and eventual victory!
*IMPORTANT* IF you would like to apply to host an Artful Activism Summit in your area, PLEASE contact our office ASAP. Email info@backbonecampaign.org or call 206-408-8058 for more details.
Mark to Market Pentagon Style02/07/2010 Chuck Spinney
... The latest scam in the Military - Industrial - Congressional Complex (MICC) is the so-called "Buy to Budget" formula for the hugely expensive and deeply troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. This formula was just gleefully endorsed in the attached email recently sent to the F-35's Stakeholders...
We Need Government Funded Media
02/07/2010 David Swanson
What it would have cost us to publicly fund independent media that would have prevented the invasion of Iraq wouldn't amount, in a year, to what we spend on a month of occupying that country.
JSF as a Metaphor for Defense Meltdown
02/02/2010 Chuck Spinney
The recent publication of the 2010 QDR reveals once again, in typically leaden and mind-numbing prose, how the Pentagon is incapable of coming to grips with the mismatches among strategy, programs, and resources
Reflections on Change, Leadership and the Opportunity of this Moment
02/02/2010 Bill Moyer
The silver lining in the Supreme Court cloud of Corporate Free Speech and Personhood is that the offensive and until this moment obscure notion of corporate personhood has been illuminated.
Blocking War Funding Just Got Easier
02/01/2010 David Swanson
Last June we were handed an opportunity to block the funding of our illegal, murderous, counterproductive, catastrophic, and hated wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The president insisted on an off-the-books "emergency supplemental" bill, and the Senate added an IMF bailout to the bill, leading all the Republicans in the House to commit what for years they'd called treason: they all voted No on war money.
Rep Delahunt Backs War to Please Obama
02/01/2010 David Swanson
Add Congressman Bill Delahunt to the list of misrepresentatives who claim to oppose wars when a Republican is president but agree to support them when a Democrat moves into the White House.
Now We Impeach Jay Bybee
01/30/2010 David Swanson
No one disputes that Jay Bybee's name is at the bottom of memos that were, and to some extent still are, treated as laws which legalized aggressive war at the pleasure of a president and a variety of acts of torture. For many months the House Judiciary Committee has had two excuses for not impeaching Judge Bybee, even while proceeding with the impeachments of a judge for groping and another judge for petty corruption.
WHEN: Saturday Dec. 12th, from 3:00-5:00
WHERE: Vashon's Village Green
WHY:The Vashon Greenmap edition #1 is IN PRINT, and we're ready to celebrate!
Come dance to local music and see Where's Green, at the Vashon Greenmap Community Release Celebration!
Arrive early to join a Mini-Procession with Backbone's Earth Ball, Windmills, and Snowflake. Then feast your eyes on the Electric Vehicle Showcase, and pick up your very own Vashon Greenmap - the one and only community-created map!
This party is for YOU, the Vashon community, who are the real creators, shapers, and users of this community document, that celebrates the Natural, Cultural, and Green Living resources here on Vashon.
The Island is on fire with dozens of projects and initiatives, from getting Vashon and Washington State off coal power, to empowering Vashonites to grow more of our own food, to building our own electric cars, and this party shows you WHERE the action is and HOW you can get involved!
The Backbone Campaign P.O. Box 278, Vashon, WA 98070 206-408-8058 ©2007 Backbone Campaign