Welcome, Fellow Progressive Seekers!

The Group is a Book Discussion and Progressive Review Club. The club started as a book club only but is during the 2009 and 2010 period reforming its needs and reassessing its future. As a result, we read books, take time to discuss them, but also work to utilize the skills and ideas these books provide. We seek out others who are making their path and wanting to share with us their journey as well as assist us in making our journey forward stronger. Please feel free to share your thoughts and actions.

We are often seeking answers from questions in life which appear to have no answers. As a group, we are seeking to improve our knowledge, debate with character and share ideas that provide us a chance to grow. This group works closely to provide the skills and capabilities to take action where you wish, follow your path, and take time to really understand the political process.

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state" - a thought that's perhaps more true today than when Noam Chomsky wrote it. If you think it would be fun to get together once in a while with some other free thinkers and read stuff that has more democracy and less propaganda - this could be the group for you. Academics like Chomsky and Zinn, works like Common Sense and the Federalist Papers, and more news-oriented authors like Greg Palast and Amy Goodman would all be interesting options to read and share ideas about. Hopefully this group will help us inform ourselves about some of the ideas and information that are shaping the progressive side of the debate, in a fun and lively way.

Founded
May 22, 2007
Location
Vancouver, WA 45.65-122.66 98663US
Meetups
34 so far
Rating
Liberal and Progressive Club to Promote Discussions 4.50 4.5012
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Our next MeetupDiscussions and Forums

Where?
Not chosen yet
Who’s coming?
6 Yes / 1 Maybe

Want to attend?

This is the meeting tentative date.. Please give me an idea if you can make it or if we need to bring it to the 5th of December.. Micheil

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  • Nov 21
    • Val Eisman started a new discussion.
      Hi, I've been gone a while. Can someone please tell me what book we are on so I can get it and start reading? Thanks, Val
  • Nov 9
    • Dori Matsen joined Liberal and Progressive Club to Promote Discussions
      “I read a lot, but mostly fiction. I do enjoy nonfiction when I have people to discuss the ideas with. Sounds like fun.”
  • Nov 7
    • susanith started a new discussion.
      This book (The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, by Jane Mayer) might be good discussion up the road. Susan
  • Oct 22
    • Sandy joined Liberal and Progressive Club to Promote Discussions
      “Meet like minded people!”
  • Oct 14
    • Donna joined Liberal and Progressive Club to Promote Discussions
      “To expand my thinking and learning”
  • Oct 5
    • Micheil started a new discussion.
      CFI Portland Meetup Group We invite you to join our community of secular humanists and other people who love life and reason. Here, you can exchange ideas and experiences, make new friends and contribute...
  • Sep 30
    • Diane Garcia joined Liberal and Progressive Club to Promote Discussions
      “this is the perfect group for me.”
  • Sep 29
    • Justin Delacour joined Liberal and Progressive Club to Promote Discussions
      “I'm interested in discussing the theories of the Italian leftist Antonio Gramsci as a means to develop sound political strategies for progressives in the United States. I'm particularly interested in discussing Gramsci's Prison Notebooks.”
  • Sep 23
    • nancy joined Liberal and Progressive Club to Promote Discussions
      “I am fairly new to the area and looking to meet liked minded people.”
  • Sep 22
    • Mary Priem started a new discussion.
      Anybody interested in going to this? Chomsky is the keynote speaker for the eConvergence conference, 7 p.m. Friday, October 2, at First Unitarian in downtown Portland. Tickets (a little spendy, but they...
  • Sep 18
    • Richard Mohley joined Liberal and Progressive Club to Promote Discussions
      “I am a Nazi/communiist/fascist follower of Lars Larsen and...just kidding. I have been a delegate to the Oregon Democratic conventions for years and would just like to chat with others about it all.”

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