You don’t have to don muffler and gloves and go out in the snow…
You don’t have to battle the holiday shopping crowds…
You don’t even have to gift-wrap it…unless you want to…
And you’ll be sending a monthly gift, January through December, twelve big newsletters, crammed with news, comment and analysis on the issues that concern us all.
If you’ve already guessed we’re suggesting a year’s gift membership in PSARA for someone close to you – aren’t you the quick study!
Talk about easy holiday shopping! Just clip the coupon on the inside back page of this newsletter, enter the name and address of that friend, neighbor, relative or workmate. Then send the coupon with your $15 check to PSARA, Room 208, 1800 First Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121
By good old US Mail – long may it flourish!.
You’ll do that person a great favor. You’ll be adding to PSARA’s political muscle as we enter a critical Election Year.
And how proud you’ll be, as you sit there, sipping your holiday eggnog!
Showing posts with label membership. Show all posts
Showing posts with label membership. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
We are the 99%
One reason the Occupy Movement continues to inspire people and gain support in this country and around the world is that it’s based on truth.
There’s a vast gulf between the 1% who control the world’s wealth and the 99% who produce it.
Even if we’ve never studied political economy, we feel instinctively that we’re part of the 99% and we want to stand with them.
And even if we, personally, can’t camp out in Westlake Plaza or Zucotti Park, we can “occupy” where we actually are – our jobs, our unions, our community centers, our churches – and speak out for our needs, the needs of the 99%.
We have plenty of work that needs doing in this country and millions looking for full-time work. We could use the money being made on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms across the country to put people back to work, and to strengthen our social safety net for those who can’t work or have retired.
The Retiree Advocate has a role to play. Every month we provide news and hard-hitting analysis to clarify the needs of the 99% and expose the machinations of the 1%.
Will you help us?
If you’re not yet a PSARA member, please join us! Help us give PSARA a strong voice.
If you are a member, please renew your membership. And invite your neighbors and friends to join us as well.
After all, we are the 99%. If we’re informed and organized, no one can stop us.
There’s a vast gulf between the 1% who control the world’s wealth and the 99% who produce it.
Even if we’ve never studied political economy, we feel instinctively that we’re part of the 99% and we want to stand with them.
And even if we, personally, can’t camp out in Westlake Plaza or Zucotti Park, we can “occupy” where we actually are – our jobs, our unions, our community centers, our churches – and speak out for our needs, the needs of the 99%.
We have plenty of work that needs doing in this country and millions looking for full-time work. We could use the money being made on Wall Street and in corporate boardrooms across the country to put people back to work, and to strengthen our social safety net for those who can’t work or have retired.
The Retiree Advocate has a role to play. Every month we provide news and hard-hitting analysis to clarify the needs of the 99% and expose the machinations of the 1%.
Will you help us?
If you’re not yet a PSARA member, please join us! Help us give PSARA a strong voice.
If you are a member, please renew your membership. And invite your neighbors and friends to join us as well.
After all, we are the 99%. If we’re informed and organized, no one can stop us.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
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.
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.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Over the top in December!
One month to go: One month to reach and exceed our goal of 250 new members in 2010!
As this is written, we’re at 220, tantalizingly close to victory. One final burst of activity can bring us over the top.
It’s a happy coincidence that December is the season of gift-giving. There’s no better time to give a year’s membership, and with it twelve lively issues of The Retiree Advocate. It’s the gift that keeps on giving, month after eventful month, all year long.
To encourage that final surge, your editor has earmarked $75 from his December Social Security check for gift memberships for five dear friends. Do the math: Five new memberships brings us 2% closer to our goal!
Whether it’s a brother, a sister, a cousin, a grandchild or an aunt, a union brother or sister, a neighbor or someone who shares your religious faith – someone close to you will welcome this year-long gift of news, analysis and commentary.
As this is written, we’re at 220, tantalizingly close to victory. One final burst of activity can bring us over the top.
It’s a happy coincidence that December is the season of gift-giving. There’s no better time to give a year’s membership, and with it twelve lively issues of The Retiree Advocate. It’s the gift that keeps on giving, month after eventful month, all year long.
To encourage that final surge, your editor has earmarked $75 from his December Social Security check for gift memberships for five dear friends. Do the math: Five new memberships brings us 2% closer to our goal!
Whether it’s a brother, a sister, a cousin, a grandchild or an aunt, a union brother or sister, a neighbor or someone who shares your religious faith – someone close to you will welcome this year-long gift of news, analysis and commentary.
Friday, September 3, 2010
We’re nearing the home stretch
It’s not quite the last of the ninth inning, but we’re entering the home stretch and it’s time for the team to drive for the winning touchdown.
Translating today’s sorry bouquet of mixed sports metaphors, we’re looking at September, October, November and December to reach (and exceed) our goal of 250 new members in 2010.
We have now signed up 165 new members since January 1, 2010. PSARA has never in its history grown that fast. We can be proud of that growth. But not so cocky that we get tackled short of the goal line. Here’s what we propose.
Many of our members have responded to our monthly appeals in these pages. Some have come through for us time and again. We salute them. But a majority of our 900 members have yet to sign up their first recruit or send in their first gift membership. We appeal to these good members: Identify a friend, relative, neighbor or workmate right now. Introduce that person to The Retiree Advocate. Sign that person up. If need be, offer to give her or him an introductory year’s membership.
Let every member help pick up the pace as we near the finish line. Make September a victorious month!
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Translating today’s sorry bouquet of mixed sports metaphors, we’re looking at September, October, November and December to reach (and exceed) our goal of 250 new members in 2010.
We have now signed up 165 new members since January 1, 2010. PSARA has never in its history grown that fast. We can be proud of that growth. But not so cocky that we get tackled short of the goal line. Here’s what we propose.
Many of our members have responded to our monthly appeals in these pages. Some have come through for us time and again. We salute them. But a majority of our 900 members have yet to sign up their first recruit or send in their first gift membership. We appeal to these good members: Identify a friend, relative, neighbor or workmate right now. Introduce that person to The Retiree Advocate. Sign that person up. If need be, offer to give her or him an introductory year’s membership.
Let every member help pick up the pace as we near the finish line. Make September a victorious month!
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Friday, July 30, 2010
Don’t leave home without it
The problem: You’d love to spread the good word about the Puget Sound Alliance and the Retiree Advocate, but you hate to give away your copy of the newsletter.
The two-step solution: First, order two to ten extra copies of the Retiree Advocate mailed to your home. Second, don’t leave home without a copy of the newsletter for that person you meet on the bus, at the coffee shop, at church, or in your exercise class.
Just as you don’t forget to carry house keys, bus fare, cell phone, lipstick, comb, handkerchief, shopping bag, purse or wallet, don’t forget to take a copy of our newsletter. And don’t forget to use it! Each time you hand out a copy, be sure to call attention to the coupon on the inside back page and invite the person to become a member.
We’re moving steadily toward our goal of 250 new members in 2010. Use the Retiree Advocate. It’s a great introduction to our livewire organization. Why not contact us right now at (206) 448-9646 or president@psara.org to arrange for those extra copies?
The two-step solution: First, order two to ten extra copies of the Retiree Advocate mailed to your home. Second, don’t leave home without a copy of the newsletter for that person you meet on the bus, at the coffee shop, at church, or in your exercise class.
Just as you don’t forget to carry house keys, bus fare, cell phone, lipstick, comb, handkerchief, shopping bag, purse or wallet, don’t forget to take a copy of our newsletter. And don’t forget to use it! Each time you hand out a copy, be sure to call attention to the coupon on the inside back page and invite the person to become a member.
We’re moving steadily toward our goal of 250 new members in 2010. Use the Retiree Advocate. It’s a great introduction to our livewire organization. Why not contact us right now at (206) 448-9646 or president@psara.org to arrange for those extra copies?
Sunday, June 6, 2010
What you WON’T get from PSARA
In our campaign for 250 new members in 2010, we feel impelled to list some of the things retirees and boomers will NOT get with their $15 membership in the Puget Sound Alliance for Retired Americans.
They will not get a glossy 70-page magazine with a couple hundred short feature articles and hundreds of splashy photos and drawings, lightly seasoned with about 1.2% of social content.
They will not get features on youthfully aging glamour queens and other celebrities.
They will not get tips on adventurous travel to destinations they probably can’t afford anyway.
They won’t get multiple pitches for insurance or pharmaceutical products. In fact, they won’t get any paid advertising at all.
What they WILL get is The Retiree Advocate, month after month, in the tradition of Mother Jones setting crowds afire with her passion, and of Tom Paine writing furiously on the drumhead.
Our country and our people – including our millions of retirees and boomers – confront problems that are real and substantive. They can’t be addressed, much less resolved, with brightly illustrated diversionary froth.
Help your friends and neighbors keep focused on today’s realities. Use the coupon on page 7.
Think of us as today’s Mother Jones, today’s Tom Paine, rousing the countryside to address today’s crisis. Let your heart quicken as you join us in responding to today’s challenges. Strengthen our ranks, strengthen our voice. Add that new member. Today!
They will not get a glossy 70-page magazine with a couple hundred short feature articles and hundreds of splashy photos and drawings, lightly seasoned with about 1.2% of social content.
They will not get features on youthfully aging glamour queens and other celebrities.
They will not get tips on adventurous travel to destinations they probably can’t afford anyway.
They won’t get multiple pitches for insurance or pharmaceutical products. In fact, they won’t get any paid advertising at all.
What they WILL get is The Retiree Advocate, month after month, in the tradition of Mother Jones setting crowds afire with her passion, and of Tom Paine writing furiously on the drumhead.
Our country and our people – including our millions of retirees and boomers – confront problems that are real and substantive. They can’t be addressed, much less resolved, with brightly illustrated diversionary froth.
Help your friends and neighbors keep focused on today’s realities. Use the coupon on page 7.
Think of us as today’s Mother Jones, today’s Tom Paine, rousing the countryside to address today’s crisis. Let your heart quicken as you join us in responding to today’s challenges. Strengthen our ranks, strengthen our voice. Add that new member. Today!
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