This is the first post of my first PDNC blog. I've been a member for all of 5 minutes. When I saw this organization listed on an Internet search I was surprised. I honestly didn't think there were any progressive democrats in this state. I'm glad to know there are. I wish there was a chapter here in Catawba County where I could meet and work with like-minded folks (great platform, guys!), but unfortunately I don't think that will happen anytime soon. For now I'll be happy with my new blog. There are a lot of things I've been looking into politically, and they worry me.

2009 PDNC Convention Agenda

Confronting Corporatocracy
Saving Democracy

9:00 Registration

9:30 Welcome and Introduction – Heide Kober, PDNC President

9: 45 Sacrificial Poets

10:00 David Donnelly, The Selling Out of the Change Agenda in DC
11:00 break

11:15 PDNC Strategy Proposal – Jack Sanders

11:45 Small Groups discuss and evaluate proposal and formulate key questions.

12:15 Lunch - Sacrificial Poets

1:00 Gene Nichol – Money, Power, and Poverty

1:30 Bob Hall – How Raleigh Works and Winning Campaign Reform in NC

*Whereas, the North Carolina Democratic Party adopted a resolution at its
Convention on June 21, 2008, that called for the establishment of a
universal, single-payer health care system, including prescription drug
coverage, resembling Medicare or the health care system used by members of
Congress; and*

*Whereas, the currently proposed Public Option is already a compromise of
the kind of reform embraced by Democrats in North Carolina and represents,
therefore, the absolute minimum requirement to enact meaningful health care
reform; and *