We can do this, New York... Let's get charged up and get everyone we know involved. Check out the link below to Huffinton Post's great article on the Pledge Project.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/18/obama-urges-door-to-door_n_176278.html
Some key quotes from Huffington Post:
"...Getting similar levels of involvement for a budget fight is a much more difficult battle - one that proved elusive during the stimulus debate - and it should provide an interesting insight into the extent of the emotional investment of Obama supporters." "I'm asking you to head outside this Saturday to knock on some doors, talk to some neighbors, and let people know how important this budget is to our future," the president says. "And that is why I'm asking you to stay involved in the days ahead."
Hello:My name is Allie Feldman, and I'm helping Ben Baruch with Organizing for America here in New York. We just wanted to make sure everyone sees the email and video below discussing OFA's next nationwide initiative -- the Pledge Project. Please feel free to contact me or Ben if you have any questions or concerns.Stay tuned for more updates coming by the end of the week!Thanks,Allie--Allie FeldmanVolunteer Organizing for America | New Yorkallie.feldman@gmail.com 908-370-2689
Ben BaruchVolunteer LiaisonOrganizing for America | New York
bennett.baruch@obamaalumni.com
Just over a week ago, President Obama submitted his first budget and made it clear he was ready for the fight to come.The President isn't alone. We're ready for that fight too -- it's what you built this movement for.Watch a video I recorded announcing our new initiative, the Organizing for America Pledge Project:Americans are ready for the bold new direction this plan offers. It's what they voted for in November, and it's needed now more than ever as we continue to face an unprecedented economic crisis.But the special interests and old ways of Washington won't go away easily. In fact, they'll only fight back harder.It's up to you to organize support for President Obama's plan throughout the country. It's the only way we'll get the change this country needs.Take the next step now in our fight to bring change:http://my.barackobama.com/pledgeprojectThanks,MitchMitch StewartDirectorOrganizing for America
Hello New Yorkers for Obama:
I hope you are as fired up as I am after President Obama’s address to congress the other night! Across the country and here in New York we are inspired by the President’s message and motivated to organize for change.
I wanted to introduce myself to those of you who I don’t yet know. My name is Bennett Baruch and I worked as a grassroots organizer on the Obama campaign. Just like many of you, I knocked on doors, made phone calls and held organizing meetings with teams of volunteers. Together we won this election.
I am excited to serve as New York’s Volunteer Liaison to Organizing for America and I'm thrilled to tell you that Organizing for America is up and running! OFA’s mission is to mobilize our grassroots movement in support of President Obama’s policies for change and to build on and strengthen that grassroots organization we have all built together. I am an unpaid volunteer (not an official OFA staffer) who has been asked to help coordinate our efforts here in New York with OFA’s national office.
I know that many of you are already utilizing the Obama network to organize in your communities. In New York, we held 198 house parties and collected 1,578 stories around the economic crisis. Your efforts helped pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act and your involvement will be critical to its success.
You can act today to support our economic recovery. We've put together an easy to use online tool to look up the phone numbers of your representatives who voted in favor of the economic recovery plan -- take a few minutes today to thank them for doing what's right.
Take a minute to thank the Senators and Representatives who supported the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and encourage them to continue working with President Obama to lift America out of this economic crisis. When you're done, report back to us about the calls you made.
Throughout the next weeks and months, I look forward to working with all of you to ensure that Organizing for America is successful here in New York. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or ideas as we continue to organize for change. Many thanks,Ben-- Bennett BaruchVolunteer LiaisonOrganizing for America | New YorkRespect. Empower. Include.
This post is for the 'hearts and minds', and the visceral of the people in Afghanistan in aid of 'friendship and mutual understanding';for the cost of a few bombs, drop instead millions of objects similar in size and focus to 'packs of cards'. Create content and good quality of manufacture to increase retention;
Decks of Masterpieces of Painting from Giotto and the Modern Western School that is a deprivation not to knowCollected Fragments of American Transcendental Literature: Emerson, Whitman, Lincoln that is a deprivation not to knowGroups of Images from the Hudson River School; Americans painting Godthat is a deprivation not to knowSets of fine Numbers; and Typography for people who have not relented to Helveticathat is a deprivation not to know ArchitecturesPacks of Masterpieces from Herat, the 'Florence' of the painting of Islamthat is a deprivation the locals have lost knowing ofDrop the medicine of Education, tons of these beautiful weapons to divert attention to all-sort of ready-made dialectic that is a deprivation...
Thank you.
‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder‘ : ‘it depends on whether I like or not‘.
Considering any work of art; the faster a person explains judgment using this language, often the less will be known about the subject by this person.
Without context, bias can run wilder than the bunny in a meadow who has seen big bird aloft, and can hide too defying further rationalism or objectivity. Preference for a sunset on velvet than the real thing.
In this personal-centric view, Nature itself is subject to variable ‘likes and dislikes’, and beauty as near meaningless as a choice can be; a whim.
The conceited laying trashy garlands at the stoop of the house of art is one thing, but subjective attitude to ‘beauty’ has proved dangerous folly now looking at climate change.
Beauty is what we are, and in the relations of the constructions of the eye ‘of the beholder’, but it is what one is looking at always - organizing outside the eye.
Leonardo’s figure squared in a circle is all ‘golden rule or mean or section or proportion' and beauty exists in this same proportional relationship, dynamic and not-fleeting.
Remember it has gone nowhere, it must keep up with itself is all, like a transorma machine. Count on much practical benefit from a flip of this little switch.
President Abraham Lincoln’s Postmaster General, Montgomery Blair is credited with founding the notion for what became the ‘Universal Postal Union‘, one of two international organizations to survive both world wars of the following century. The other, ‘Telecommunications’, was largely sister to the UPU.
How is it that this brilliant idea, large and characteristic of the (postmaster) President is ascribed to a fairly uncooperative cabinet member who could not have this authority by himself.
The packet ship, 'Trent', has left Havana, Cuba, for London, soon after Civil War hostilities begin. Union Navy captures it off the Carolinas. President Lincoln’s intelligence has it a foil and pretext for that government to join the conflict on the side of Secession; but Lincoln instructs for the ‘mail’ not to be molested. And then setting his Postmaster General to check-see if foreign governments too might create agreement so nations can pass mail (for payment) and respect each others’ Posts...
The world might be happy to join U.S. representation 'at this moment'; for the increase of justice in the 200th birthday Proclamations and Commemorations of the great man.
Hi.
This is just a quick post to direct all to recent blog posts on the best electoral reform site bar none:
http://www.fairvote.org/blog/
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One has a menial, mundane, fair paying job five, maybe five and a half days a week. Is there a way that this person may have 3 days at decent wage, which allows another (who has no job) a similar opportunity to have then four days off a labor that is not their favorite? I believe part of this idea is that with those 4 days a person will be able to work something constructive and possibly arrive at an entrepreneurial situation or productive function: all sorts of arts and sciences to increase happiness and the general social peace and welfare.
I am visual artist writing far outside field, but will post this in change.gov anyway. Thank you.
On Meet the Press Dec 7 Pres.-Elect Obama chuckled as he spoke to involvement in the Senate appointments. I was surprised to hear he be having any 'trouble'. On Dec 8, the Illinois Gov. speaks of protection in a sunshine column. The 9th, a crime in progress is stopped, and the 'trouble' had its context. But this exchange has been recalled not at all as I can tell, over a week later, while on and on go silly suppositions wasting time...
MR. BROKAW: You still have some appointments to make coming up, and there's also a good deal of consideration here in Illinois about who will replace you in the Senate. But in New York this weekend the big buzz is Caroline Kennedy in the United States Senate, perhaps as the appointment to fill the seat that Hillary Clinton is expected to vacate if she gets confirmed as secretary of state. PRES.-ELECT OBAMA: And?MR. BROKAW: Is that a good idea?PRES.-ELECT OBAMA: Well, let me tell you this. Caroline Kennedy has become one of my dearest friends and is just a, a wonderful American, a wonderful person. But the last thing I want to do is get involved in New York politics. I've got enough trouble in terms of Illinois politics. But just in terms of our appointments, I am very proud of the speed with which we have started to put together our...
Text: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28097635/page/4 (and about 40 minutes into the Video).
To laughingly volunteer information, with a ludicrous back-story suggests having 'no concern'. The Pres.-Elect does not work to guile to corrupt, and does not want it in others. He could not have liked the idea of Fed money going through the Office of the Governor because, as Lizz Winstead said on Joe Scar. yesterday; "Blogo's hair has roots like redwood trees that disallow good decision making".
Re: No Car Bail Out Now!
Dear Senator Schumer:
No Bailout!
I just read an economist who said that a bailout now would be a complete waste of time and money. Nothing would be accomplished. It will have to be done all over again at a later time.To me this makes a great deal of sense.We all know that restructuring and rethinking the automobile industry is needed.We need to make a different kind of car; more fuel efficient.The auto makers need to make fewer models. We need many fewer dealerships.A limit needs to be put on executive pay – either a compensation cap or a limit ofso many times the average worker’s pay. All of this needs to happen for the industry to survive. If congress approves a bailout now; it will only allow the industry to put off reforms that have to be done sooner or later. Hold back the money now. Give it much later when it will really help, not hinder the industry.
Bankruptcy -- then Reform and restructure --then financial assistance.
Thank you,
Ken Mochel
Columnist Charles Blow wrote his reaction: People Wept
Then I wrote mine in part to his column, in part to the history being made around us!
We can still believe in miracles. We can still believe in hope. We can still believe that humanity can call forth our better nature, that we can become those people that the Scriptures of all our traditions say that we can, say that we must become.
If one generation not so long ago has been called “the greatest,” and indeed their stand for liberty merits such designation, here today we have a new contender for the title. Today we’ve earned the right to compete for the title. How we grow, how we honor the trust, how we change, will prove in the future whether or not we can claim it.
As much as President-elect Obama is the result of hope, of dreams, of miracles, he is there for at least as much, if not more so the result of hard work, of dedication, of the commitments of time, money, energy by many Americans who together took the spirit of “we shall overcome” and rendered the verdict, “Yes, we can.”
Savor this moment. Note it well as what hopefully will be a watershed in our national discourse and for the benefit of the world. And when the body is tired from crying, when the body is exhausted from hollering and shouting praise of gratitude for what seemed so long to be impossible, pause in the silence. That place of dreams where all things have form that can be given life on this physical plane.
Then roll up the sleeves, we all have a lot of work to do! But let us do so looking at each other equally in the eye, looking to make real all the promise that this moment carries with it. The dawn of the new day is here. Smile.
This is it!
We're coming down to the final stretch and Barack Obama needs your help now, more than ever before!
Please bring your cell phone, a charger and a few fun friends who care about change and join with thousands of your neighbors in the largest ever-attempted phone bank effort in New York state history. The Obama campaign is hosting several of these "mega call centers" all over New York, so invite your friends and family to make calls to voters in key battleground states and change America for years to come.
Visit http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/nylastcall to find a location near you.
