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Holiday Fundraiser – This Weekend!

Jeff Schwartz - 0
Culver City Democratic ClubPop-Up FundraiserSaturday, December 2 & Sunday, December 3Village Well Books & CoffeeWhat a great way to do some holiday shoppingand support the CCDC at the same time! Here’s How It WorksWhen you purchase any in-stock merchandise or café item in the store or online, inform the staff that you are supporting the Culver City Democratic Club and Village Well will donate 20%...
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A Jewish Case for an End to the War

Bubba Fish - 0
I recently came to realize just how many core memories from my upbringing center around my Judaism. I remember beaming on the bimah as I became a Bar Mitzvah, speaking at religious school graduation, being awarded a college scholarship from my temple, and traveling to Washington D.C. with hundreds of young congregants to advocate for climate action and LGBTQ+ rights. I remember my three...

Paula Amezola de Herrera on the CADEM Convention

Club Life Paula Amezola de Herrera - 0
This past weekend of November 17, I attended the State Democratic Party Endorsing Convention in Sacramento as elected delegate Shannon Theus’s proxy.  I had planned to go without my husband or son, but a week before the convention, the call went out for two...

No End to the Fight for Democracy

President's message Jeff Schwartz - 0
Shortly after the November 2022 election, in which unprecedented spending by billionaire developer and landlord Michael Hackman flipped a Culver City Council seat and created a conservative majority, I was listening to some friends. One was despairing about the outcome, and the other said:...

Solidarity from Under the Bus

Op-Eds Danny Young - 0
“Laid off due to company-wide reduction in workforce” was the euphemism I received when I finally got canned from my VFX job in October. I had already survived a springtime massacre that happened as a result of cuts in spending from the big distributors....

Club Members Cheer Supervisor Holly Mitchell’s Re-election Bid

Greater Los Angeles Cynthia Hart - 0
On November 1 Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell announced her run for re-election to represent the roughly 2 million voters of the 2nd District surrounded by cheering supporters.  Officials of the Sierra Club were among those on hand who cited her work in phasing out oil...

Book Recommendations from CCDC Members

Book Review Julie Bernard, Alex Fisch, Jeff Schwartz, Leah Pressman, Tad Daley, Jeanne Black, Haifaa Al-Moammar - 0
Since the Club is having a fundraiser at the Village Well bookstore in Culver City this weekend, we asked our members to recommend political books they think their friends and/or fellow members would like. Here they are. We hope to get a good turnout...

LACDP Central Committee Candidate Statements

Endorsements Vilma Dawson and Jeff Schwartz - 0
Vilma Dawson: Assembly District 55 Delegate, March 5, 2024, Presidential Primary Election, Los Angeles County Democratic Party Central Committee I am currently an appointed delegate representing Assembly District 55 of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party Central Committee selected by the Delegation to succeed the late...

Why Culver City Needs a Bond on the March Ballot to Fix Our Schools’ Infrastructure

Op-Eds Mila Moraga - 0
CCUSD had a third-party Facility Condition Assessment done in 2019, which found major problems, including ongoing flood damage in Linwood Howe and la Ballona, exterior and interior architectural and finish work in most facilities requiring immediate attention, HVAC, plumbing, and electrical systems reaching end...

Workers Need the PRO Act

Legislation Cynthia Hart - 0
The PRO Act (S.567), that passed the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee last summer, protects the right to organize and collectively bargain in the workplace.  It revises the definitions of employee, supervisor, and employer to broaden the scope of individuals covered by the...

LA County DA George Gascón on His First Term

Club Life Jeff Schwartz - 0
DA Gascón visited our November 8 meeting to discuss his progress in office and take our questions. https://youtu.be/EIGAq0olGCA

Legislative Status Update November 2023

Legislation Leah Pressman - 0
Of the 32 legislative endorsements our club made this year, thirteen bills have been signed into law, one proposed constitutional amendments qualified for the November 2024 ballot, four bills were vetoed, and 12 didn’t make it to the Governor’s desk. Some bills died in...

Culver City Council Majority Paves the Way to Remove Dissenting Voices from City Committees

Op-Eds Bubba Fish - 0
At the October 23 City Council meeting, a seismic shift in city governance occurred, though if you blinked, you may have missed it. Buried inside a list of seemingly mundane proposed changes to the city’s committees, boards and commissions...

How It Started – How It’s Going

President's message Jeff Schwartz - 0
Fellow Democrats,      We are approaching the end of another year, and of my third term as President. We will form a nominating committee at this month’s meeting, charged with recruiting a slate of officer candidates to present in January. Nominations from the floor, including self-nominations,...

Biden for President/Lee for Senate

Endorsements Jeff Schwartz - 0
PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CULVER CITY DEMOCRATS ENDORSE BIDEN AND LEE Culver City, CA - The Culver City Democratic Club launched their endorsement process for the March 2024 Primary Election last week, voting on the two Federal offices on the ballot.      President Joe Biden handily...

Big Daddy

President's message Jeff Schwartz - 0
Act One:     Caption: “The University of Southern California, 1947.” Closeup of the Tommy Trojan statue. As the camera pulls back, we hear then see a young man addressing a crowd: “FDR gave us the GI Bill because we put our lives on the line to...

Professor Yvette Lindgren on Abortion Law After Dobbs

Club Life Jeff Schwartz - 0
At our September 13, 2023 General Meeting, the Culver City Democratic Club welcomed Yvette Lindgren, a professor in the University of Missouri-Kansas City law school and currently a visiting scholar at Hastings. Dr. Lindgren specializes in reproductive rights - her publications can be read...

Institutionalized

President's message Jeff Schwartz - 0
Fellow Democrats,      It has become increasingly common to reflect on the unsavory origins and histories of our institutions and for those institutions to take steps to reckon with their pasts, to align their practices with their values.      The United States is foremost among these institutions, as...

Workers Need a Democratic Congress

Rapid Response Cynthia Hart - 0
Workers need the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2023 (S.567 and H.R.20) According to the AFL-CIO, “The purposes of the PRO Act are simple: Ensure workers can push for the changes we want to see at our jobs without...

For Oppenheimer, a World Government was the Only Way to Save Us from Ourselves

Op-Eds Tad Daley and Jane Shevtsov - 0
Blink and you’ll miss it. In a scene in the new Oppenheimer film set right after the successful 1949 atomic bomb test by the USSR, there is a brief exchange between the film’s two main antagonists. Lewis Strauss, chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, asks...

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