Poverty Activism
Last updated January 17, 2005.
RESULTS and related pro-poor political activism.
Keeping track of this stuff helps remind me of my ability to change
the world...
2008
Met with 3 members and had 1 meeting with an aide.
- July 2008 - RESULTS annual conference - met senator Cantwell, representatives Reichert and Inslee, and an aid to representative Smith.
2007
- Sent 1 email to Tubbs-Jones
2006
Met with 1 member and had 7 meetings with aides.
- June 30, 2006 - meet aid to Regula in district
- July 2006 - RESULTS annual conference - met Regula and aides to deWine, Tubbs-Jones, Brown, Kaptor, Voinovich, Kucinich
2005
Sent a few letters:
2004
Sent 3-4 letters, mainly to the media. Forget the details.
2003
Sent a few letters and have had 8 meetings with aides.
- January 10, 2003 - letter to Eshoo - thanks for cosponsoring HR 192 microenterprise bill
- January 12, 2003 - fax to Boxer - consider introducing senate companion to HR 192 microenterprise bill
- January 24, 2003 - letter to Boxer - thanks for cosponsoring FY2003 appropriations SA 127 global AIDS
- January 28, 2003 - letter to Bush - thanks for Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
- January 29, 2003 - letter to Feinstein - uphold SA 127 global AIDS in FY2003 appropriations conference
- February 4, 2003 - email to Honda - Cosponsorship of the HR 192 microenterprise bill
- June 2003 - RESULTS annual conference - meet aides to Pelosi, Eshoo, Honda, Lantos, Lofgren, Stark, Boxer, Fiestein
2002
Sent a bunch of letters, and had a number of good meetings: 5 meetings
with house aides, 3 meetings with house members, 3 meetings with
senate aides.
- February 8, 2002 - meet John Ormsby (Boxer field rep.) organized by John Iverson - GFATM funding and TB thanks
- February 28, 2002 - meet Michele Senders (Fienstein field rep.) organized by Chris Gilbert - GFATM funding
- February 2002 - letter to Boxer - contact Konrad budget committee chair on HIV/AIDS and GFATM funding
- April 4, 2002 - meet Eshoo organized by Wynne - co-sponsor Roemer microcredit, contact Hyde IR chair on HR 1168 stop TB, testify Foreign Ops open witness $200m TB $200 microcredit that reaches poorest
- April 2002 - letter to Eshoo - co-sponsor HR 4073 Roemer microcredit
- May 1, 2002 - letter from Eshoo - sent letter to Hyde, sent letter to Foreign Ops $200m TB $200 microcredit
- June 12, 2002 - letter from Eshoo - co-sponsored and floor statement on HR 4073 Roemer microcredit
- June 2002 - RESULTS annual conference - meet aides to Eshoo, Honda, Lofgren, Stark, Fiestein, Ross (Arkansas); face to face meetings with Farr, Lee (briefly)
- June 2002 - letter to Boxer and Fienstein - contact Leahy Foreign Ops chair of Appropriations on FY2003 foreign aid spending
- July 2002 - signed on to Health Access open letter to Davis on CA budget
- December 5, 2002 - letter to Stark - thanks for letter to Zoellick on Doha
- December 12, 2002 - called Whitehouse - requested President adopt a Presidential Global AIDS Initiative
2001
Helped organize a press conference for World TB day, at which
congresswoman Zoe Lofgren spoke. Also took part in the RESULTS lobby
day, and had a bunch of meeting in Washington, but don't have good
records of them:
2000
What little I remember: