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whometense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 10:57 AM
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Drinking Liberally
Edited on Sun Mar-13-05 10:57 AM by whometense
Check it out: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/13/progressive_drinkers/

    Politics and barrooms, Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine knew, can be a dangerous brew. ''I don't like disturbances in my place," Blaine said in ''Casablanca," breaking up a fight between French and German soldiers. ''Either lay off politics or get out."

    But for Drinking Liberally, a weekly gathering of pub-loving progressives in Boston and Cambridge, political debate and drinking go together like gin and tonic or beer and pretzels. Without a dram of teetotaling political correctness, the drinking club proclaims to promote ''democracy one pint at a time" by distilling beer-fueled camaraderie into grass-roots activism.

    At a time when many on the left are feeling left out and disillusioned with contemporary politics, Drinking Liberally's heady blend of socializing and strategizing with like-minded 20- and 30-somethings has helped drown out the bitter aftertaste of November's presidential election. (more...)
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whometense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 11:03 AM
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1. If anyone's interested,
here's their main website: http://drinkingliberally.org/
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