Our next get-together will be Friday , November 9, at 7 p.m., at the Café Hirondelle, rue du Marais Vert, in Strasbourg (next to the Bookworm, facing Place des Halles). Meet like-minded people and share a drink to Al Gore's Nobel Prize. We'll have information for you on voter registration and next year's elections. For more information, contact svaillant@evc.net.

 

The Eastern region chapter was founded in 2004 and continues to grow, with members living or around Strasbourg as well as surrounding areas in Alsace, Lorraine and Franche-Comté/Territoire de Belfort.  

Helping all Democrats in our region to register and vote in all federal elections (every two years!) is a major focus but we also organize events to deepen awareness of the political issues at home and abroad.  

Most of our events are open to the French and other nationalities.  We also participate in cross-border get-togethers with DA members from other Southern Rhine Valley chapters in Germany and Switzerland.   All of our events are announced via e-mail, on this web page or in the local press.  

Since we launched our chapter, speakers have included actress Betsy Blair; documentary film director Joan Sekler ("Unprecedented"); screenwriter Norma Barzman; Democrats Abroad Executive Emeritus Tom Fina ("Letter from Washington");   veteran Life and NYTimes picture editor John Morris ("Get the Picture");  progressive journalist Heather Wokusch... In 2007, NY cellist Annabel Gordon played a benefit concert of Irish music and Bach. 

We have screened MANY documentaries, including The Corporation: Unprecedented (the 2000 election); The Big Buy - How Tom DeLay Stole Congress; Iraq for Sale...These always spark lively discussions. 

We welcome speakers—- politicians, journalists, artists—- on current issues and are happy to offer hospitality, bed and board in the "Capital of Europe."    Please get in touch !    Contact Susan Vaillant at 03 88 20 54 83 or
Rebecca Bowen at 03 88 84 86 39.

DA membership is open to all American citizens of voting age who subscribe to the ideals and principles of the Democratic Party of the U.S. and who reside in France. There are no membership dues.      We welcome new members and new ideas - please do not hesitate to phone or email. 

The Strasbourg held a benefit concert this summer at which Annabel Gordon, a New York-based cellist, played a program of Bach, Telemann and Irish traditional music. Some of the funds collected were used to purchase colorful cotton t-shirts for wounded soldiers in Landstuhl Military Hospital. Along with
the t-shirts, the chapter sent personal letters and a selection of recent movies on DVD and video.

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