Top 5 political organizations

[jocapo]

that I should support with my time and money? I support DU and Move-On and will continue to do so. I've contributed to Dean's campaign and will continue to contribute to the Democratic Party's nominee. Today I received solicitations from:
DCCC - Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Sierra Club
Common Cause
ACT - America Coming Together
I agree with many of the causes that these and other similar groups are championing but I can't afford to support all of them (In fact I think it's a weakness that these groups have to independently seek their own funding and dilutes the causes' and the democratic parties' resources.) So which ones should I support? What is your Top 5 list?

Please post your choices and an explanation at-will......

[GreyV]

1. Greens...

Go for Green, because the difference is not nearly enough.

http://www.therealdifference.org/issues.html

[sangh0]

2. And if you're tired of Green propoganda

http://www.damnedbigdifference.org/

[GreyV]

3. This whole Iraqi debacle has....

This whole Iraqi debacle has proved beyond reasonable doubt that the "difference is not nearly enough".

[sangh0]

4. Tell that too the one-issue voters

and the Greens who, like that website, think Gore was against abortion

[GreyV]

6. "like that website"...

"like that website", obviously already shows, there is more than one issue here. I repeat, "difference is not nearly enough". It is reality.

[sangh0]

8. Read it again

There were two groups

1) One issue voters
2) Greens who think Gore was against abortion

You managed to conflate the two. Congratulations! You could also be President

I repeat, "difference is not nearly enough". It is reality

You left out "And Gore was against abortion. It is reality"

[GreyV]

9. I repeat...

I repeat, "difference is not nearly enough". It's plain and simple. Truth is sometimes like that.

[sangh0]

11. You left out

"Gore doesn't want to Increase Automobile fuel Efficiency" and all those other "realities"

[sangh0]

13. You also left out

"Gore doesn't want to Address Global Warming" - another one of your simple "truths"

[iamjoy]

5. Political Organizations

I support (or have sent money to) Planned Parenthood (although I don't think of it as political), NARAL, Sierra Club, ACLU, Emily's List, NOW, DNC and Democrats for America's Future.

Don't think I'd send money to DNC again, because I don't want a penny to go that DINO from Georgia (Zell Miller). I'll send to Democrats for America's Future and Emily's List which are about supporting liberal Democrats.

[jocapo]

10. ACT - America Coming Together

Is being run by the head of Emily's List but I don't know anything else about it. I'm VERY leery of all of the Democratic groups because their agendas seem to be very different. DNC, DCCC, DLC, etc. what do they stand for and where does the money go?

[MrsMatt]

7. my vote

Wellstone Action http://wellstoneaction.org/

[theoceansnerves]

12. also

natural resources defense council
human rights campaign

sierra club is good.. but i would wait until the results of their election to see if the right wing nutjob takeover happens.

[ldoolin]

16. There is no "right-wing nutjob takeover" at the Sierra Club

Paul Watson, Ben Zuckerman, and Doug LaFollette are about the furthest left members of the current Sierra Club Board of Directors, and David Pimentel is pretty far to the left too. David Pimentel is an entomologist who has long been respected as a campaigner against pesticides. Richard Lamm and Frank Morris are mainstream Democrats, Lamm having been governor of Colorado. Kim McCoy is an animal rights activist. Robert van de Hoek is a wetlands activist in California who was instrumental in saving several wetlands in the Los Angeles area. Doug LaFollette is Wisconsin's current Democratic secretary of state, and is a Wellstone/Feingold type liberal who also happens to be concerned about overpopulation.

Please explain how a few people running who have the backing of Paul Watson, none of whom come from a right-wing background and *especially* not Paul Watson, constitutes a right-wing nutjob takeover?

What is really going on is the Sierra Club's conservative old guard doesn't like the idea of more no-compromise environmentalists like Paul Watson, who was a founder of Greenpeace and then left to start the more radical Sea Shepherd group, having a voice on their board.

To which I say, "tough".

P.S. The Sea Shepherd Society's website is at www.seashepherd.org and they have the real scoop on the Sierra Club's election posted there.

P.P.S. Morris Dees has gone off the deep end with this one. He needs to take a long retirement.

[jocapo]

14. Please don't turn this into a Green v Democrat thread. TIA

I am trying to get some serious feedback about which groups I should support.

[anarchy1999]

15. www.truemajority.org or .com

check out this animation about our debt:

http://www.truemajority.org/fun/

also:

www.pantsonfire.net

Intro at site:

"Hi, I'm Ben Cohen-the ice cream guy-and I'd like to welcome you to TrueMajority.org.

I started TrueMajority in order to compound the power of all those who believe in social justice, giving children a decent start in life, protecting the environment, and America working in cooperation with the world community. TrueMajority is endorsed by all the organizations listed at the bottom of this page."

[ldoolin]

17. Top five?

Here are some groups where you will get the most bang for your buck.

1. www.wildpac.org - WildPAC. They donate to pro-environment candidates, almost entirely Democrats. They have also started a presidential campaign fund to defeat Dubya. The best of the pro-environment political action committees. Go WILD, beat Bush!

2. www.suwa.org - Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. Relatively small but this environmental group kicks you know what. They are working to get over 10 million acres of Utah desert protected as wilderness.

3. www.nisbco.org - Center on Conscience and War. Grassroots action against selective service and the draft! Another group running on a very tight budget. Send them a donation.

4. www.plannedparenthood.org - Planned Parenthood Foundation. They are big compared to most on this list, but send them a donation. Why? Because it pisses off the religious right to give them money :)

5. www.tdu.org - Teamsters for a Democratic Union. Worthy reform group.

Do not donate to the DNC because your money could just as easily wind up in the hands of Joe Biden or Zell Miller as it could deserving Democrats like Russ Feingold.

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