Obama’s First Year!
Dear Fellow Democrats,

Today is the first anniversary of Barack Obama’s election as President.

It was the most exciting day of my political life. I think we need a poet to capture what happened. As a friend of mine said, “50 million white Americans voted for a African-American man named Barack who had a Muslim father”. Awesome.

Healthcare reform and overseas Americans
The U.S. Senate Finance Committee passed the $829 billion America's Healthy Future Act this week, voting to send the bill to the Senate floor for a full debate. However, the bill still contains language which would cause great hardship on American citizens living outside the US.

Join our Constituency and Issue Groups!
As part of our efforts to support the President and his agenda, we are excited to announce the addition of Constituency and Issue Groups to the DA International website at .

Nothing formal – hey, it’s Amsterdam – this is just a ‘gezellig’ way for a bunch of American Democrats to get together on the 1st Saturday of every month, greet familiar faces and hopefully meet some new ones. You don’t even have to be a member of DANL. But if you’d like to join, we’d be happy to sign you up then and there.

Let's get together and watch President Obama as he accepts the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize! Hole in the Wall has a great big tv, and serves a mighty good lunch. Let us know if you?re planning to join us by RSVPing to bonnie@democratsabroad.nl.

Here’s where the Hagian-American Democrats meet and greet, discuss all things Den Haag and Washington and generally have a good time. It happens every 2nd Saturday of the month.

Employing first-person accounts, extensive research and telling clips gleaned from the nightly news, Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated social issue filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman shines a spotlight on the gritty reality of the last decade's most egregious incidents of U.S. electoral insecurity. 6 euros. Book online at www.boomchicago.nl.

Also on every last Saturday of the month, the very active Groningen group meets up for a great evening of chatting and fun.