Progress For All

Reclaiming Florida's Future For All!
2017-03-22 10:00 - 16:00 UTC | Florida State Capitol, 400 South Monroe Street, Tallahassee, FL, 32301, United States
Protect Our Water! Ban Fracking! Support Renewable Energy!
We’ve made a lot of progress on these issues, but we need YOU to help us push forward and educate our legislators this Spring!
Register here: https://goo.gl/forms/QBRZPduMJR8oSTqg2
We will be calling on our legislators to:
Ban Fracking in Florida: This extreme extraction method poses risks to our environment and does not benefit the people of Florida. We don’t want to see what happened in Naples happen anywhere in Florida again!
-Support Renewable Energy: Florida is the sunshine state, and through the Constitutional Amendment process, we’ve made great strides toward owning that name! Now we need the legislature to follow suit, through legislative action, including implementing Amendment 4.
-Protect Florida’s Waters: From the Panhandle to the Keys, Floridians demand clean water. Our springs, rivers, estuaries, lakes, bays and Everglades will continue to degrade, and threaten our health, quality of life, and economy, until decision-makers buy the land needed to restore and protect our watersheds.
We will provide transportation from several cities across the state and we will also provide training so you have the skills you need to effectively advocate!
Training will be offered the evening before (and on buses on the way to Tally), and a rally/ press conference will be held that morning!
https://goo.gl/forms/QBRZPduMJR8oSTqg2
and learn more information here: http://www.rethinkenergyflorida.org/reclaiming_florida_s_future

2017 Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida Conferenc
2017-03-19 09:00 - 12:00 | Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association, 3102 N. Habana Avenue, Tampa, FL, 33607, United States
Want to be part of reforming the Democratic Party following the staggering losses of 2016? Then join us in Tampa on March 18-19 for the 2017 Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida Annual Conference. Here’s our exciting agenda!
FRIDAY – Social at the host hotel
AGENDA
Sunday, March 19
9:00 – 10:00 — Training Session

“Budgets, Finance and Low Dollar Fundraising”
Nancy Hurlbert, Chair of the Lake County Democratic Executive Committee, Chair of the Political Committee of the Democratic Women’s Club of Florida, and DPCF member, will present a requested training session on simple budgeting, finances and fundraising for local clubs and caucus chapters.
10:00 – 12:00 — Leadership Panel Discussion
“Sharing Our DPC Stories: Successes and Challenges”
Moderated by Broward Chapter Board Member and DPCF Board Director Michael Calderin. Panelists: DPCF Vice President Tom Conboy and activist Star Fae (Palm Beach); activists Tomas Kennedy and Erika Groholski (Miami-Dade); Big Bend Chapter President Paul Stoic (Leon); Sarasota-Charlotte Chapter President Mike Shlasko, Polk Chapter President OnDrew Hartigan
This panel will discuss how we carry out the resistance as an “inside” organization. We’ll hear from Palm Beach County activists, who are organizing marches and protests against Trump on his home turf at Mar-a-Lago; Miami-Dade organizers who are leading the way in rapid response holding elected officials accountable; and Leon, Sarasota-Charlotte and Polk leaders on the challenges of organizing in geographically diverse Florida.

2017 Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida Conference
2017-03-18 08:00 - 17:00 | Hillsborough Classroom Teachers Association, 3102 N. Habana Avenue, Tampa, FL, 33607, United States
Want to be part of reforming the Democratic Party following the staggering losses of 2016? Then join us in Tampa on March 18-19 for the 2017 Democratic Progressive Caucus of Florida Annual Conference. Here’s our exciting agenda!
FRIDAY – Social at the host hotel
AGENDA
Saturday, March 18
9:00 – 11:30 AM — DPCF Business Meeting and Election
12:00 Noon — Lunch and Speaker (TBA)
12:45 PM — Panel Discussion

“Building Bridges: Expanding Issue Based Advocacy into New Collaborations”
Moderated by Tampa Bay Chapter President Jessica Vaughn. Panelists (tentative): Donna Davis (Black Lives Matter), Marcus Klebe (Action Together Tampa Bay), Marina Welch (Women’s March), Rev. Russell Meyer (Florida Council of Churches)
2:00 PM — Training Session
“Media In the Age of Trump: How To Be A Media Star”
Joel Silberman (Democracy Partners), one of the progressive movement’s premier media strategists and trainers will present an interactive and entertaining session that you don’t want to miss. Joel has trained U.S. Senators and Representatives including members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Joel’s media client’s include: CNN’s Van Jones, Daily Kos’ Markos Moulitsas, FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver, and The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel. He is the media trainer for the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University. DPCF member Vicki Roush will conduct the training with Joel.
3:45 — Breakouts

Press/Media in a Box – DPCF Communications Chair Brook Hines and Board Director Mario Piscatella
Legislative Session Update – DPCF member and State Representative Sean Shaw
Understanding the Structure of the Democratic Party – DPCF Board Director Nancy Jacobson

Water, Water, Everywhere, BUT is There Enough? Politics, Water, and What We Can Do
2017-03-15 18:00 - 20:00 | FL
Panel Discussion: Sierra Club and Broward Co. Environmental Projects.
Free and open to the public.

Contact Stephanie Pearson
(954) 328-5927 for more information

International Women's Strike Miami: Femmes Day of Resistance
2017-03-08 18:00 - 21:00 | Bayfront Park, 301 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL, 33132, United States
Feminist movements and the Women’s March have ignited resistance, internationally, that demand justice and liberation for all women. On International Women’s Day, women and femmes will enact “A Day Without a Woman” and other strikes, a international call to action!
HOW:
MIAMI intends to bring that same energy and resistance to our streets! On International Women’s Day we are taking the streets of Miami!
WHO:
We are in solidarity and partnership with the International Women’s Strike whose platform states:
“The International Women’s Strike on March 8th, 2017 is an international day of action, planned and organized by women in more than 30 different countries.
In the spirit of solidarity and internationalism, in the United States March 8th will be a day of action organized by and for women who have been marginalized and silenced by decades of neoliberalism directed towards working women, women of color, Native women, disabled women, immigrant women, Muslim women, lesbian, queer and trans women.
March 8th will be the beginning of a new international feminist movement that organizes resistance not just against Trump and his misogynist policies, but also against the conditions that produced Trump, namely the decades long economic inequality, racial and sexual violence, and imperial wars abroad.
We celebrate the diversity of the many social groups that have come together for the International Women’s Strike. We come from many political traditions but are united around the following
common principles.
We are the Miami Femmes Coalition, Peace, Justice, and Sustainability, and other local organizations in Miami Dade County coming together to protest!
WHAT:
Our demands:
– Miami-Dade to be Declared a Sanctuary County
– Environmental Justice
– Reproductive Justice
– End to Gender Violence
– Labor Rights
– Full Social Provisioning
– Anti-Racist, Anti-Imperialist Feminism
– Racial Justice
WE NEED AT LEAST 1,000 FOLXS TO ATTEND THIS EVENT!!
PLEASE SHARE AND INVITE!
Learn more here:
https://womenstrikeus.org/
http://www.globalwomenstrike.net/content/global-womens-strike-demands
Notice: There will be a preceeding Vigil after the protest. Here is more info:
https://www.facebook.com/events/428912374113923/

Awake the State - Miami
2017-03-07 14:00 - 15:00 | Stephen P. Clark Government Center, 111 NW 1st Street, Miami, FL, 33028, United States
Join us in Miami as we Awake The State on the first day of Florida’s legislative session! Governor Scott and his allies are irresponsibly squandering our tax dollars. Their giant corporate tax giveaways costing our state billions are unjust and uncalled for while critical needs in education, health care, the environment, and infrastructure remain urgent. It’s time to Awake The State and fight for a just budget that works for every Floridian.

Awake the State - Broward
2017-03-07 12:00 - 14:00 | Senator Pery Thurston Sr.’s Office, 2151 NW 6th St, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, 32311, United States
Join us in Fort Lauderdale as we Awake The State on the first day of Florida’s legislative session! Gov. Scott and his allies are irresponsibly squandering our tax dollars. Their giant corporate tax giveaways costing our state billions are unjust and uncalled for while critical needs in education, health care, the environment, and infrastructure remain urgent. It’s time to Awake The State and fight for a just budget that works for every Floridian.

Hollywood Democratic Club March Meeting
2017-03-02 19:00 - 21:00 | Hollywood Beach Culture & Community Center, 1301 S Ocean Drive, Hollywood, FL, 33019, United States
Speaker Tim Canova will discuss the long hard road back to redemption for the Democratic Party, building our progressive movement, and our efforts to stop the Sabal Trail “Sinkhole” Pipeline.

Tell Gimenez & the Commission: Miami is a Sanctuary County
2017-02-17 10:00 - 13:00 | Stephen P. Clark Government Center, 111 NW 1st Street, Miami, FL, 33028, United States
Chair Bovo has called a special meeting to discuss Gimenez’s (illegal) order to reverse the commission’s 2013 policy that protects undocumented immigrants from ICE detainers. Gimenez’s action came within hours of Trump’s unconstitutional executive order to punish Sanctuary cities. It’s Trump’s first step to fulfilling his campaign promise of deporting 11 million+ undocumented immigrants.
Tell Gimenez & the Commission: Miami-Dade is a Sanctuary County. Tell them we are a proud immigrant community and we need our local elected officials to stand with us, not Trump.
The meeting starts at 10am, but come early to make sure you get a seat inside.

Demand Bill Nelson’s Response
2017-02-14 12:00 - 13:00 | 2555 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Miami, FL 33134, 2555 Ponce de Leon Blvd, Miami, FL, 33134, United States
Join us, Miami-Dade Green Party, Progress for All, Progressive Alliance, South Florida Water Protectors and 350 South Florida as we come together on Tuesday to demand a response to our signed petition to stop the Sabal Trail Pipeline.
Senator Bill Nelson received our petition on December 29th, with over 98,000 signatures to stop the Sabal Trail pipeline. We have not heard back from Bill Nelson on this urgent petition and we are coming together to demand an answer to our petition. http://www.change.org/SabalPipeline
The Sabal Trail pipeline is a 500 mile long pipeline endangering Florida’s aquifers, the health of millions of people and wildlife. The joint venture between Spectra Energy Corp. NextEra Energy, Inc. and Duke Energy want to bring this pipeline in direct contact with Florida’s pristine water resources. Scientific studies have shown these pipelines always leak and there are hundreds of toxic chemicals flowing inside this pipeline besides natural gas.
Now more than ever our water is under attack and we most fight back for the sake of our health, our environment and our children’s future.
Senator Nelson was a critic of the Keystone XL pipeline and voted against it. We ask that Senator Nelson, as a democratic representative for the people, stand with the people against Florida’s Sabal Trail pipeline and it’s dangerous infrastructure.
Please join the alliance of oganizations coming together to protect our water by sending us a message on https://www.facebook.com/Progressiveall
