[DFLEF)] IdeaNews - March 2007

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IdeaNews - March 2007

an occasional publication of The DFL Education Foundation



Discussion Groups:  You can listen even if you can't come.

We're learning to use 21st century communications!   For years we  
have tried to find ways to share what we learn in our discussion  
groups with those who because of time or distance cannot come.  Some  
are now recorded as audio podcasts.   Click on the link below to listen.

http://dfleducationfoundation.blogs.com/dfl_education_foundation/ 
2007/03/learning_to_org.html

Those already posted are:

Learning to organize in South Dakota by Sarah Stoesz  of Planned  
Parenthood, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota.  How South  
Dakotans were first persuaded, and then organized to defeat South  
Dakota’s total ban on abortion.

The Guantanamo Bay Challenge:  Finding the Balance between Our  
Nation's Security and Our Nation's Ideals by Jim Dorsey and Nicole  
Moen, attorneys who represent a Guantanamo detainee.

Philanthropy, Non-profits and Public Policy by John Cowles, Jr.

Funding Education by Mary Cecconi of Parents United for Public Schools

Raising Taxes Fairly by Joel Kramer of Growth & Justice.


For these and others to be posted later

-           Go to our web site, http://www.dfleducationfoundation.org
-           Click on the invitation to visit our BLOG
-           Read the very short description for a podcast that  
interests you.
-           Click on the download instruction.

OR
-           Click on the link given after the first paragraph above.

Are these useful?  Do you have suggestions for improvement?  Please  
respond by replying to this email or posting on the BLOG

DVDs - Now available:  Joel Kramer, Fairer Taxes / Wiser Investments  
A forum exploring a more equitable state tax system and investing in  
real prosperity,  2/7/07. Price:  $9.35 + $0.65 sales tax, Total,  
$10.00.
Please make checks payable to The DFL Education Foundation and mail  
orders to Vici Oshiro, 2800 Highland Drive, Burnsville, MN  55337.   
Questions:  vicio at vici.com/
  Since we seem to be getting into the business of making DVDs of our  
events available, we needed to determine costs and set a standard  
price.  Until further notice we will sell those DVDs for price quoted  
above..

  When DVDs become available we'll announce that in IdeaNews and on  
web site.


DFL History


Former Foundation president and political science professor Don  
Ostrom divides DFL history into five layers.  These are reflected in  
the plans for our history series.

Layer One - 1944-52:  Merger and HHH elected to senate.

On March 18 Al Eisele talked about his interviews with many of the  
principals of that era some of whom were in the audience that day.   
The dialogue and stories that evolved during the Q and A greatly  
enriched the whole program.

Layer Two - 1954-64:
             Triumph and Conflict - The DFL Party in the 1950s

  featuring

Honorable Walter F. Mondale

  Honorable Gerald W. Heaney

Don and Arvonne Fraser

Jack Puterbaugh

  Sunday, April 29 – 7 to 9 PM

Ukranian Event Center  -  301 Main Street NE - Minneapolis

  On Sunday,  June 10,  we'll change our focus from elections and  
party development to crucial issues which inspired the founders and  
shaped the DFL agenda including civil rights.  The program is still  
taking shape, but mark your calendars for Sunday, June 10 – 7 to 9 PM  
- also at the Ukranian Event Center.

In the fall we'll have three events which focus on Layer Three -  
1966-1972 and Layer Four - 1974-1976.  The first two events will  
focus on elections and the party.  The third on our impact on  
important issues including the Vietnam War.

Layer Five covers 1978 to the present.  We've not yet decided whether  
we will develop a program on this era or wait until its history has  
seasoned a bit.

These history events are being recorded.



YOU and DFL History

We'd like to include YOU in our history.  Please email us anecdotes  
which you think others will enjoy.  We'll include most if not all in  
future issues of IdeaNews and are seeking a way to archive them for  
future generations.  Will this motivate some of you younger folk to  
interview your elders?  Email as a reply to this email or send  
directly to vicio at visi.com.

Issues

The Economic Policy Institute has undertaken a program, The Agenda  
for Shared Prosperity, in order to advance a comprehensive,  
understandable, and workable economic program.  Their papers are  
available at http://www.sharedprosperity.org.  Seven reports released  
so far include health care, globalization, rights of workers,  
immigration and A New Social Contract.  Good fodder for healthy debate.

http://www.dfleducationfoundation.org


About the Foundation
The DFL Education Foundation began in 1985 with an endowment from  
Barney Allen, the Democratic Farmer Labor Party's first candidate for  
governor in 1944. The foundation's goal is to promote informed  
participation in politics, through citizen education, leadership  
development, and public discussion of political issues. Nearly all  
the work is accomplished by volunteers and supported by individual  
contributions. We are grateful for any contribution you have sent or  
can send. They are tax deductible and can be mailed to our treasurer,  
Brian Hanninen, 2213 Milwaukee Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55404.

Vici Oshiro, Editor

  
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