Greeting Liberally

Greetings, Future Majority -- thanks, Mike, for inviting a few of us to post this week...and for creating such an important online space.

Since I'll be appearing a couple times this week, I wanted to start with an introduction -- my name is Justin Krebs, and I'm executive director of Living Liberally, a national network that creates social communities around progressive politics.

What is a liberal? We get asked that a lot -- and my somewhat dodge of an answer is that people know when they are one...around the country, the attendees of Drinking Liberally choose to identify as liberals -- I don't need to tell them what they are -- they can tell me what liberal is.

And our liberal libation-lifters around the country do. Dan Henry, from our Idaho Falls, has been working to create legal opportunities for youth to protest the war following an incident when several teens were arrested for defacing street signs in an anti-war action. In Denver, liberals took in a night of laughter, attending comedy shows together to promote their progressive identity. Our Springfield, Illinois, chapters believes that part of being liberal is playing host to special guests: candidates, advocates and psychedelic cowboy bands.

How are you liberal? If it's good, put it in the comments...maybe one of our chapters will follow your lead -- or maybe we'll highlight it over at our newly-relaunched Living Liberally blog, where we post reviews alongside rants, and amusements alongside analysis...because that's part of being liberal too.