Fellow Progressive Democrats,

This year, more voters than ever before plan to attend their precinct
conventions. In addition to caucusing for their chosen presidential
candidate, voters can introduce resolutions for the other convention
attendees to vote on. Resolutions help voters shape a party platform
that support issues people care about. Resolutions can also inform
people about important issues.

Here is a link to some printable, ready-to-submit resolutions on the
most important issues facing Americans today. Please go to
http://paa-tx.org and click on "Resolutions for your March 4 Precinct
Convention" to learn more about the resolution and precinct
convention process.

If you are ready to choose your resolutions, just go to
http://paa-tx.org/resolutions and click on the titles you are
interested in, and read the resolution. If you want to print out a
suitably formatted copy, click on the file ending in "pdf" in the
attachment box at the bottom of the page for each individual
resolution.

If you decide you like them all, use the link to a zip file on
http://paa-tx.org/resolutions that will download all the files for
you at once, and then you can print them out. Take at least three
copies of each resolution that you want to submit to your precinct
convention.

Please forward this note to others who may be interested in helping
to promote progressive issues, and who want to help build a more
progressive Democratic Party in Texas.

We want to thank all the people in the Progressive Action Alliance
and other groups who sent us resolutions and who helped edit ones we
developed previously.

Here's a list of the resolutions we have so far:

* Abolish the Death Penalty in Texas
* Banking, Credit Card, and Bankruptcy Reform
* Change Party Rules to Give Platform & Resolutions Committees Time to Meet
* Clean Skies/Clean Energy - Toward Energy Efficient/ Renewable
Energy Economy in Texas
* Climate Protection Measures for Texas
* Corporate Personhood
* Department Of Peace: A Renewed Commitment To Peace And Diplomacy
* Disabilities Civil Rights
* End U.S. Intervention Overseas
* Environmental Initiative Resolutions:
* Ambient Air Quality Needs to be the Basis for Emissions from
Industrial Plants
* Energy-Transportation & Public Health Policy
* Exemption of Diesel Truck Emissions Test
* Exemption of Roads from Air Monitoring
* Public Health Measures for Air Pollution Enforcement Program
* Regional Water & Transportation Management Plans
* Science-Based Standards for Safer Air to Breathe
* Free Quality Education from Pre-K through College
* GLBT Rights
* Health Care Coverage for Employees and Associates within Texas
* Immigration Reform and Immigrants' Rights
* Impeach Bush and Cheney
* Living Wage
* Needle Exchange
* No Border Wall in Texas
* Promote the Preamble to the US Constitution
* Proportional Allocation of Texas Presidential Electoral Votes
* Protect Reproductive Rights
* Reform Drug Policy to Decrease Harm and Increase Public Safety
* Reform the Media & Restore the Fairness Doctrine
* Reform U. S. Energy Policy
* Repeal NAFTA, CAFTA & Withdraw From WTO
* Repeal the USA PATRIOT Act
* Require Verifiable Voting
* Resolve the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
* Restitution to Innocent Iraqi War Victims
* Restore Rural Communities & Family Farms
* Restore the U.S. Constitution
* Social Security and Pension Protection
* State Income Tax
* Strengthen Environmental Safeguards
* Strengthen Public Education in Texas
* Texas Public Campaign Financing (Clean Elections)
* Universal Single-payer, Not-for-profit Health Care
* Voter Confidence Resolution (Comprehensive verifiable voting resolution)
* Withdraw from Iraq Now
* Workers' Rights are Human Rights

Check out http://paa-tx.org for events and information you may find
interesting.

Thanks, everyone. Please forward this to other progressives whom you know.

Bill Crosier and Kathleen Kain
co-chairs, Progressive Action Alliance
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