The Lib Schtick

10/24/2004

Event Rundown

Monday: 5:15 pm, Lib Dinner, Pepe's

Monday: 7:30 pm, SSS 114, YPU, Peter Diamond, R: Social Secuirty should not be privatized.

Wednesday: Hippolytic-Sponsored debate on Iraq Policy: Profs. Benhabib and Hill

Friday: Lib NY Trip! RSVP to Yassmin@yale.edu

~~Your Weekly Dose of Cynicism~~

Top 10 Reasons Why John Kerry Won't Win on Tuesday:

10. He offended the Polish-Americans.

9. All the liberals moved to Canada four years ago. (Right?)

8. He's doing worse amongst women than Gore did.

7. He's doing worse amongst African-Americans than Gore did.

6. Zogby finally has Kerry behind.

5. The Swift Boat Veterans for Bush have brainwashed all of Ohio.

4. electoral-vote.com has Kerry trailing Bush in the electoral college...with Florida in limbo.

3. It's really hard to explain health care and tax cut policy in 90 seconds.

2. The absentee ballots, which the 527s are pushing on elderly voters, are absurdly complicated.

1. New voters are the most likely to make ballot errors.

Just trying to prepare everyone for the worst.

--Jade

P.S. Congratulations to libs Greg Ablavsky, Gisele Roget, and Eric Kafka on their awesome speeches at the Austin Carlos Gormley prize debate last week!

~~In the Libs~~

Monday, October 25, 5:15 pm

Lib Dinner, Pepe's

We'll be moving out of Commons this week. Pepe's is one of New Haven's famous pizzerias. It takes about 20-25 minutes to walk to there, so meet us at Phelps Gate at 5:15 so that we can walk over together. We'll return to campus in time for YPU.

Monday, October 25, 7:30 pm

YPU Debate, SSS 114

Guest: Peter Diamond

Resolved: Social Security should not be privatized.

Peter Diamond is the first in the upcoming parade of liberal speakers at the PU. He is an economist at MIT, and one of the leading experts on Social Security. If you're interested in speaking on the topic, e-mail sophia.brill@yale.edu, the FLL--or, if you will, the FLLPIP (Floor Leader of the Left Part of the Independent Party).

There are four YPU meetings left to qualify for membership at this semester, three of which have liberal guests and the other of which is a student debate. In order to qualify for the YPU, you need to sign in with the Libs at three meetings and buy a year-long membership for $15 from the teller before a YPU meeting this semester. Part of the money comes back to the Libs, and the membership allows you to vote at the end of the semester.

Wednesday, October 27, 7 pm

Hippolytic Presents: The US in Iraq: A Discussion of Policy and Theory

Davies Auditorium

Professor Charles Hill and Professor Seyla Benhabib will be debating the US's Iraq policy. The Yale Chaplain, Rev. Frederick Streets, will moderate. The Hippolytic is a student-published leftist magazine on campus.

We hope that Libs will attend this event in lieu of a Lib Debate this week.

Friday, October 29

Lib NY Trip

Every semester, the Liberal Party goes to New York to meet liberal-thinking guests. E-mail yassmin@yale.edu by Wednesday if you're interested in going. Here's the schedule:

7:15: Meet at Phelps Gate to go to the train station

10:30: Meeting withGail Collins, Editorial Page Editor for the New York Times.

Gail Collins Biography:

http://www.nytco.com/company-executives-gcollins.html

12:00: Lunch

2:00: Meeting with Adam Aronson, Staff Attorney for Lambda Legal

Lambda Legal is the largest and oldest national legal organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered people and those with HIV or AIDS.

Adam Aronson Biography:

http://www.lambdalegal.org/cgi-bin/iowa/about/staffmem.html?record=21

4:00: Meeting with Gloria Feldt, the President of Planned Parenthood

Gloria Feldt Biography:

http://www.klru.org/texasmonthlytalks/archives/feldt/bio.asp

5:30: Meeting withJameel Jaffer, Staff Attorney for the ACLU

Jameel Jaffer Biography:

http://www.nycarchivists.org/mtg.html

Typically, a group of us stay in the city for dinner and possibly some later activity; others return to Yale for whatever may be going on in New Haven that evening.

~~Links~~

Electoral Vote Counter

www.electoral-vote.com

Peter Diamond's Papers

http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/?prof_id=pdiamond&type=paper

Jon Stewart on Crossfire

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/15/cf.01.html

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2652831

New Democratic Party

www.ndp.ca

Ms. Magazine