What political organizations are you a member of?

[GoodEnoughForMe]

They can be parties (Dems/Reps/Green/Libertarian/etc.) or political advocacy groups (ACLU, NAACP, etc.). These are all American orgs but would love to hear from oversees peeps too. Curious to see how many here are regular volunteers, donators, card carrying members, etc., and of what.

 

[Perfection]

Not a one

 

[Synobun]

I generally find signing one's allegiances over to a political party to be creepy so I'm not a part of any. No real voting pattern either. I did vote Green in the last election though.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

They can be parties (Dems/Reps/Green/Libertarian/etc.) or political advocacy groups (ACLU, NAACP, etc.). These are all American orgs but would love to hear from oversees peeps too. Curious to see how many here are regular volunteers, donators, card carrying members, etc., and of what.

Unless you are physically located in Hawaii, Canada is not "overseas" from the U.S.

I have no formal memberships in any political party. I don't want to feel obligated to support a party if some issue comes up where I'm opposed to the party's position, or if the leader or someone else in the party should turn out to do or say something illegal, disgusting, or stupid. And given that the Reformacons could possibly get into power provincially here in Alberta (if Jason Kenney wins, it's irrelevant that the new merged party is the UCP; he'll turn it into the Alberta wing of the Reformacons) or federally in 2019, it's not a good idea to have one's name on an opposing party's membership list. That's an excellent way to get targeted for cutesy voter suppression tricks like robocalls or robocards, prevented from attending forums or rallies, as well as more of the same crap I had to put up with in 2015 with the special ballot ordeal I had.

I am on the mailing list for several political advocacy groups, and over the years I have attended several events sponsored by the Council of Canadians. I'm not a paid member of any of these, nor have I donated anything but time to listen and participate in discussions. Back in the '80s there was a local organization called People For Peace that I participated in (the name should make it obvious that it was an anti-war group).

In other words, my political affiliations are everything the provincial and federal right wings of this country abhor.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Let's see...

The Canadian Mental Health Association
Doctors Without Borders/MSF
The Canadian Red Cross
Various and sundry mental health groups, associations, and regulatory bodies
Mensa
No political parties or affiliations

I'm pretty dull, actually.

 

[Zkribbler]

Lifelong Democrat. As a young man, I always split my ticket, but for the past couple of decades, the GOP has gotten too bat-guano crazy.

For the last decade befor I retired, I donated 1% of my salary to AFSCME's lobbying organization. It did some things I'm really proud up. E.g. In most states the ratio of penitentiary inmates to religious clerics is 200:1. In California, it was .500:1. We fixed that. Every year, agricultural inspectors were fired for two weeks and then rehired. This let them be classified as temps, and denied benefits, like vacation time. We got them permanent status.

Lemon Merchant, "Doctors Without Borders." I am in awe of that group.

 

[Arwon]

I'm a paid and regularly donating member of the Australian Greens party and also of my union of course (if you are not in your workplace's union, join your damn union).

In terms of charities I make regular donations to Medecins Sans Frontiers, Oxfam, the UN High Commission for Refugees, and an indigenous scholarship foundation run by my favourite former footballer.

 

[Broken_Erika]

My I.Q. Exceeds the maximum intelligence permitted for entry into politics(Double Digit I.Q.'s are frowned upon, Triple digit I.Q.'s are banned outright). Therefore i am not a member of any political party.

 

[JollyRoger]

ACLU and NRA

 

[Oruc]

I'm in the CWU if that counts, used to be able to vote for the Labour leader but they changed the rules and now union members can't

 

[Quintillus]

In my state, you are technically considered part of a political party if you voted in their most recent primary - and cannot be considered part of it otherwise - which means that I am technically a Democrat. Which I'm okay with, since I'm more likely to vote Democrat than for any other party - but it's only a technicality that means I'm actually a member of the party in my state. I voted for candidates from 4 different parties in November, however. IMO it's best to vote based on the candidate, not the party.

I regularly donate to the EFF and ACLU, and occasionally to other groups. Generally my interests focus around civil liberties and environmental causes; in the latter area I switched to a wind power provider early this year.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

I realized I left out my own answer in the OP. Whoops. Anyways, I'm a dues paying member of the ACLU and the DSA. And I've also donated to the US Green Party in the past, although it's been at least 6 years on that.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I stay away from politics until it is time to vote (except on internet forums).

 

[Thorgalaeg]

None. I morally refuse to belong to any political association that will accept me as a member.

 

[luiz]

I never joined a party (nor will), but in the 2006 and 2010 elections in Brazil I was so desperate that I made a lot of donations to candidates better placed to stop the Workers' Party mafia. I failed, so didn't do the same afterwards.

In terms of charities, in my family we run some, and in the last couple years I've been more involved (financially). I prefer that to donating to large charities, not only because of their overhead, but because even the noblest ones (like MSF) occasionally do stuff I cannot support.

 

[Ryika]

I'm currently too young to join a political party, but I'm considering to join the APPG once I'm of age.

/edit: Link hidden by spoiler, because swear words.

Spoiler :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_Pogo_Party_of_Germany

 

[Thorgalaeg]

The APPD propagated the idea of a "youth pension", to replace the existing old-age pension. The idea was that people should enjoy life first, and work later.

I would rather go with child/youth forced labour, middle-age pension, and old-age Soylent Green.

 

[Commodore]

They can be parties (Dems/Reps/Green/Libertarian/etc.) or political advocacy groups (ACLU, NAACP, etc.). These are all American orgs but would love to hear from oversees peeps too. Curious to see how many here are regular volunteers, donators, card carrying members, etc., and of what.

VFW and DAV (Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans). Both are charities/advocacy groups for veterans. Political activities include lobbying for expansion of veterans' benefits or trying to stop the government from reducing veterans' benefits.

 

[The_J]

I'm a member of digitalcourage, a German privacy and digital rights organization (they're part of EDRi, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Digital_Rights ), but I'm not active, only supporting with money.
The otherwise most political thing I've done is supporting the pirate party for this year's federal election (they needed to have a minimum amount of supporters to be able to participate as a party in the coming elections).

 

[Manfred Belheim]

BNP and Combat 18