Social Justice Magazine
On Tuesday, June 8th, Marcy Winograd, a progressive Democrat, will face off against a corporate Democrat Jane Harman. We know Harman is worried -- and should be. Thanks to you, my race has become national news, and I have been able to broadcast my message - "JOBS, NOT WARS" to the people of my district.Americans throughout the country are pushing back AGAINST big Pharma and Wall Street, … [Read more...]
Congressional Candidate Marcy Winograd (CA-36) questions why her opponent Jane Harman chooses to remain silent in the aftermath of an Israeli assault on the Free Gaza flotilla carrying 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid to over a million Palestinians imprisoned in Gaza.Says Winograd, “My opponent’s shameful silence only reinforces the status quo, which in this case involves Israeli aggression … [Read more...]
We need fighters in Congress, not people who are going to roll over when the going gets tough. Not someone who's going to rubber stamp perpetual war, social security cuts, or Wall Street welfare.I'm congressional candidate Marcy Winograd, challenging corporate Democrat Jane Harman in California's 36th congressional district.This week hundreds of Democratic leaders throughout the state … [Read more...]
Autism is one of life’s many mysteries that leaves children, later adults, often enclosed in a world of their own. A cousin of mine is autistic. He can paint huge watercolor canvasses and audit classes at Harvard, but he cannot talk to you, nor look you in the eye, nor hold the woman he longs to love.Derived from the Greek word autos, meaning self, autism is characterized by a withdrawal … [Read more...]
In the aftermath of a U.S Supreme Court decision in favor of unlimited corporate campaign expenditures, Congressional Candidate Marcy Winograd (CA-36) calls on her opponent Jane Harman to agree to end the corruption now by refusing money from corporate political action committees (PACS). Specifically, Winograd challenges her opponent Jane Harman to return the $34,000 she has accepted from … [Read more...]
On January 3, 2010, congressional candidate Marcy Winograd wrote an open letter to Congressman Henry Waxman regarding his endorsement of Jane Harman. Ms. Winograd is a progressive democrat running against Jane Harman for the 36th congressional seat in California.Here is what she wrote:Dear Congressman Waxman:I write this as an open letter in response to a letter you sent … [Read more...]
We need a Green New Deal that would fund jobs both in the public and private sector to:• develop renewables in solar and wind • build light rail in all the major metropolitan areas, particularly sprawling Los Angeles • repair our aging infrastructure: ports, bridges, water & sewage treatment facilities.Google “Top Ten Green Jobs of the Future” and you’ll read about the … [Read more...]
My Blue Dog opponent refuses to debate me. I am ready and willing - and I have a question for Jane Harman: Why did you side with Republicans to defeat a mortgage-relief amendment to the financial overhaul bill? With several thousand people in our district (CA-36) facing foreclosure, we’re looking at neighborhoods from West Los Angeles to San Pedro turning from beauty to blight.It behooves … [Read more...]
Marcy Winograd, 36th congressional district candidate, expressed deep disappointment in President Obama’s imminent decision to send an additional 30,000 - 40,000 US troops to Afghanistan, to join 68,000 other American soldiers, as well as 60,000 military contractors operating outside the scope of U.S. military law.“Our presence as an occupying power in Afghanistan only creates new enemies … [Read more...]
Participating in 350 Day, October 24, members of Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains and Los Angeles spell out 3-5-0 with their bicycles before riding from Santa Monica to Manhattan Beach with Congressional candidate, Marcy Winograd (CA-CD36). PDA chapters participated in a worldwide day of action to stop global warming and support the upcoming climate conference in Copenhagen … [Read more...]
Let’s thank Congressman Anthony Weiner, our single-payer champ, for taking to the streets of New York again, this time to protest the Social Security Administration’s policy decision to freeze the cost of living adjustment (COLA) on Social Security benefits. Unlike last year, when seniors and the disabled received a 5.8% increase in their monthly benefit checks, Social Security checks in 2010 … [Read more...]
President Obama recently announced that he will not make decisions about troop levels in Afghanistan ‘without having absolute clarity about what the strategy is going to be’. It has also been reported that a leaked assessment memo by General Stanley McChrystal is urging more troops be sent to Afghanistan.We all want to feel safe and secure, and know that our taxpayer dollars are not being … [Read more...]
One of the many frustrations for advocates of single-payer health care is the relentless drive to marginalize us, not only by conservatives but also by members of our own party.Case in point: the accounting arm of Congress, the Congressional Budget Office, has yet to perform a financial analysis of the cost of implementing single payer, a system whereby taxpayers—businesses and … [Read more...]
After the near comatose nod to escalation of US troops in Afghanistan, passage of H.R. 2346, the 97-billion Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009, is in doubt in the House – not because of the strength of the anti-war movement, which morphed into the elect-Obama-movement, nor due to the high suicide rate amongst veterans, but because the GOP is miffed the bill contains billions to increase the … [Read more...]
My name is Marcy Winograd and WE are running for Congress.Thank you, all, for joining me today for the historic kick-off of the Winograd for Congress 2010 campaign to unseat Jane Harman in the 36th congressional district.We stand here today just miles from the neighborhoods of West LA and Mar Vista, Playa Vista, Inglewood, and Westchester; We stand in Venice, the home of the arts, set … [Read more...]
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