Our national DL Team has requested submissions for the following. Olympia has a large history of progressive politics--I'm just not sure what it is, but I would sure like to find out! I'm not sure about nominating the Tumwater Valley Bar and Grill, it's a great place with great staff, but as a liberal "hotspot:--that is open for debate!
Feel free to comment on this post --or come to the next meeting--we will be talking about this!
An interesting and exciting opportunity has come up for us to
contribute stories and ideas to a new book being published by The
Nation magazine.
They are producing "The Nation's Guide to the Nation," a
coast-to-coast guide to progressive America. In addition to
highlighting different organizations (including Drinking Liberally!),
they want to write about quirky liberal stories and secrets from
across America.
What type of submissions? Really, whatever you think is right...but
below, I've included notes from one of the researchers that may help
guide you.
Thanks! They'd love these ideas in the next week or so. Don't worry
about making them thorough -- just help whet their appetite.
- justin
>From the folks at The Nation:
"The book will identify all manner of unique, offbeat things:
Chicago's finest political saloons and San Francisco's neighborly
coffee houses; where to find fair-traded coffee beans; green markets,
slow foods and anti-fast-food activists; humane-raised meats; radical,
feminist, gay and African-American bookshops and clubs; feminist
erotica, consenting-adult sex clubs and singles clubs for politically
committed people; music stores, festivals and venues; progressive
summer camps and play groups; anti-sweatshop organizations and
non-exploitive clothing makers; progressive realtors, therapists,
ministers, rabbis, undertakers and cemeteries; community radio
stations, liberal commentators and talk shows; a Left-Thumbed Guide to
the Blogosphere; writers rooms, writers unions, writers programs and
writers retreats; alternate energy sources, and cohousing
developments; activist churches, mosques and temples; real alternative
weeklies, socially zines; left history tours and tourists.
"Being that we're talking to Drinking Liberally, it would also be good
to get people to nominate their meeting place for our social section,
but they would need to justify why their bar should be included above
and beyond the fact that DL meets there X nights a month -- for
instance: the bartender/owner is an vet with anti-Bush views and
every local protest march ends here, or it's rumored that Dylan
stopped in for a drink on his way to play the cotton fields of
Mississippi, or this is the first bar to host integrated music nights,
or some storied bit of liberal folklore, you get the point."
Feel free to comment on this post --or come to the next meeting--we will be talking about this!
An interesting and exciting opportunity has come up for us to
contribute stories and ideas to a new book being published by The
Nation magazine.
They are producing "The Nation's Guide to the Nation," a
coast-to-coast guide to progressive America. In addition to
highlighting different organizations (including Drinking Liberally!),
they want to write about quirky liberal stories and secrets from
across America.
What type of submissions? Really, whatever you think is right...but
below, I've included notes from one of the researchers that may help
guide you.
Thanks! They'd love these ideas in the next week or so. Don't worry
about making them thorough -- just help whet their appetite.
- justin
>From the folks at The Nation:
"The book will identify all manner of unique, offbeat things:
Chicago's finest political saloons and San Francisco's neighborly
coffee houses; where to find fair-traded coffee beans; green markets,
slow foods and anti-fast-food activists; humane-raised meats; radical,
feminist, gay and African-American bookshops and clubs; feminist
erotica, consenting-adult sex clubs and singles clubs for politically
committed people; music stores, festivals and venues; progressive
summer camps and play groups; anti-sweatshop organizations and
non-exploitive clothing makers; progressive realtors, therapists,
ministers, rabbis, undertakers and cemeteries; community radio
stations, liberal commentators and talk shows; a Left-Thumbed Guide to
the Blogosphere; writers rooms, writers unions, writers programs and
writers retreats; alternate energy sources, and cohousing
developments; activist churches, mosques and temples; real alternative
weeklies, socially zines; left history tours and tourists.
"Being that we're talking to Drinking Liberally, it would also be good
to get people to nominate their meeting place for our social section,
but they would need to justify why their bar should be included above
and beyond the fact that DL meets there X nights a month -- for
instance: the bartender/owner is an vet with anti-Bush views and
every local protest march ends here, or it's rumored that Dylan
stopped in for a drink on his way to play the cotton fields of
Mississippi, or this is the first bar to host integrated music nights,
or some storied bit of liberal folklore, you get the point."
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