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The Center's affiliate organization,
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State Strategies, is continuing our traditional work
on campaign finance reform, supporting voter-owned elections
and promoting a more transparent election system that
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Help Western States Center
support and grow the progressive movement in the West! |
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The Center turns 21! |
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To celebrate we are collecting your stories and greetings. Go to www.TheCenters21stBirthday.org to submit yours. Tell us your most memorable Western States Center story, and if we have influenced your life, tell us how we have done that. See what others are saying. We want to hear from you!
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CSTI 2008 |
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While the temperature was cool, ideas and exchanges were hot! Thanks to all the 416 of you who came to the Reed College campus and made CSTI 2008 a success.
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2008/2009 VOTE Project
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The Voter Organizing, Training and Empowerment (VOTE) 2008/2009 Project will work with 6 Oregon groups and 4-6 groups in the region to boost their capacity to involve members in defining, shaping and leading policy issues critical to their constituencies and advancing their missions. The VOTE project will support groups who aim to register and educate voters on the issues important to their communities. The project makes the connections between public policy arenas from the legislature to the ballot box and grassroots organizing.
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Base Building in Communities of Color |
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Building off of the success of the first Base Building Project, which worked with six community based organizations in Oregon and Washington for over 18 months, in June 2007 the RACE program began its work with another seven community based organizations led by and serving communities of color in Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. Participating Organizations include: Center for Intercultural Organizing (Portland, OR), Native American Youth and Family Center (Portland, OR), Oregon Action (Portland, OR), Seattle Young People’s Project (Seattle, WA), Unete (Medford, OR), VOZ Workers Rights Education Project (Portland, OR), and Wind River Alliance (Ethete, WY). |
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