Make Sense of the World: Join PSARA in 2011

By Dina Burstein


Thanks to all our amazing members, we have achieved our goal of 250 new members in 2010! Our Executive Board has set a goal of 250 new members in 2011. We can do it! But only if every PSARA member makes it happen.

We have lived through triumphs and disappointment in 2010. We saw the voters of Washington state vote to cut state and municipal services that these voters desperately need. Towns in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Alabama and Rhode Island slouch toward bankruptcy, unable to pay for police, firefighters, parks, snowplows…the services that make our communjties work.

How do we make sense of the policies that have resulted in such terrible outcomes? Our daily newspapers, TV, radio, even our friends tell us backwards facts: federal employee salaries too high, state employee pensions too high, Social Security benefits and retirement age unaffordable…How do we keep going in the face of this blast of poisonous “wrong is right” misinformation?

We tell our people to join PSARA! We tell our family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, union friends, religious-faith-sharers: Join PSARA! Get a year-long nurturing diet of news, analysis and commentary that actually makes sense of world events! Become part of the fun crowd at PSARA discussions, vigils, demonstrations, potlucks. At $15 a year, give your people a membership gift. Or just talk them into it. Sign them up! Together make sense, not nonsense, of the world.