(David reduces the Montana session to its essence and explains how it's analogous to a lot of larger struggles. - promoted by Matt Singer)
For the last four months, I have been quietly reporting on the Montana legislature for my upcoming book in 2008. My book is not about the Montana legislature in specific, but instead uses the legislature as one of many examples that show just how movements are being built and in specific how movements operate in the shadowy world of state politics - a world that arguably impacts more Americans daily lives than federal politics, but a world nonetheless that most national political observers ignore in favor of obsessive focus on Washington, D.C. In the following story, let me tell you a little bit about what I've found - and how it tells the larger story of what's going on all over the country.
Please join the Progressive States Network, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, Montana State Senator Jim Elliott and others Friday 3/16 at 1pm EST for this important conference call about the national state-based campaign to stop President Bush's request to reauthorize "fast track" trade authority - the authority that allows presidents to strip "free" trade deals of all labor, human rights and environmental standards. As you may have heard, a new ad campaign has launched in Montana against fast track in the wake of the Montana Senate's powerful anti-fast track resolution. This fight is just starting to heat up across the country. The call-in info is in the extended entry in the media advisory sent out by the Progressive States Network today.
