We had a very successful event today at the Mary Nelson Barbecue! It was the hottest day of the summer and people were hot on healthcare reform as well! We secured lots of signatures pledging support to President Obama's principles and encouraged others to contact their members of Congress to promote healthcare reform.
Thank-you especially to Phil who made sure we had water, John who served as our "mobile" ambassador, Chris, who made an emergency run to the library to photocopy blank pledge sheets, and Rachel who provided the much needed sunscreen! Ruth showed up in the nick of time when I was working alone and needed some coverage! Thank-you also to anyone who worked on the back pack distribution/preparation. The heat was blistering but our enthusiasm held strong.
Mary Nelson should be an inspiration to us all! She started the project on her own 8 years ago and has shown us what one person's effort can turn into! By one person doing their own small part, an idea can snowball into results! There is no end to what can be accomplished!
Keep cool & committed everyone!
Angela
President Obama always said that the campaign was not about getting someone elected and it wasn't about him. It was about creating change in our country. Come down to the DeWitt Communtiy Library this Saturday April 11th at 1pm and hear how you can help President Obama enact that change and help our nation recover from the current economic crisis. RSVP at one of the below events on facebook or MyBo.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gptw7d
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=158638970175
Hope you can make it!
John
I hope Senator Obama doesn't mind this post here - I'm $65.00 from my fundraising goal and I NEED YOUR HELP!
On Saturday, May 3rd, I'll be running in the 2nd annual "Walk for Wishes" in memory of Tiffany Heitkamp. Tiffany was the daughter of very good friends of mine and lost her life tragically in July of 2006.Tiffany Heitkamp had an insatiable love for children and passion for life. She believed in living life to the fullest each day. The Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Central New York is proud to honor Tiffany’s life and legacy by naming the Walk for Wishes in her memory.If each of my Barack Obama friends donated JUST ONE DOLLAR, we can help make wishes come true for so many children. Please take a step by helping me reach my personal fund-raising goal by visiting www.karlsterling.net!Thanks so much!Karl Sterlingwww.karlsterling.net
Check out this video and be inspired, as I was:
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This may not be the appropriate place to do this, but I think Senator Obama would approve, (I hope).
“Hope is a duty, not just a nicety. Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality.
Happy those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them become true.”
L.J. Cardinal Suenens
Nov. 1970
Sitting around the TV last night, my parents and I witnessed an incredibly inspiring speech by Senator Obama as we celebrated the campaign’s ninth consecutive victory. After the speech was over, my mother told me about an inspiring quote about hope that she remembered from her childhood. She memorized this quote from her church bulletin thirty five years ago and Senator Obama’s speech brought her back to that moment where she knew the inspirational power of hope to bring about change.
“So Ashley finishes her story and then goes around the room and asks everyone else why they’re supporting the campaign. They all have different stories and reasons. Many bring up a specific issue. And finally they come to this elderly black man who’s been sitting there quietly the entire time. And Ashley asks him why he’s there. And he does not bring up a specific issue. He does not say health care or the economy. He does not say education or the war. He does not say that he was there because of Barack Obama. Or that he’s proud of the possibility of the first African-American presidet. He simply says to everyone in the room, ‘I am here because of Ashley.’ I am here because of this young girl, and the fact that she is willing to fight for what she believes in and that reminds me that I still have some fight left in me, and I’m going to stand up for what I believe in.”
Senator Barack Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf0x_TpDris
Wow did this take a long time to get posted, but I'm a newbie in video editing, and have no guidance. Nearly everybody on the video is new since the Iowa caucus. Enjoy.
(Couldn't embed the player here follow link to watch the video.)
Hit http://www.myspace.com/wnymathguy and look for the Purple player in the About me section.
I don’t know why I didn’t hear about it from David Plouffe first, but it is great.
http://factcheck.barackobama.com/
Enjoy,
Michael Rupp
aka:WNYmathGuy
Hey San Antonio!
The day has come! "Barack the Mic," is going down tonight. It is going to be quite an event! Great music, great people--and of course, some fundraising. Here's all the info:
When: Friday, November 9th, from 9:00pm until 2:00amWhere: The Venue - 800 Lexington Avenue - San Antonio, TX 78212Cost: $5 Entrance FeeAge: 18+-There will be a voter registration table and donation table-
**Also, we need your help! Please let me know if you are interested in volunteering tonight--we need people to man the voter reg table and donations table, as well people to walk around the club and make sure that attendees fill out a donation form so that their cover charge can be contributed to the campaign.**
Feel free to send me a message with any questions you have about the show, or if you are interested in volunteering. You can also email me at jennifer.stewart528@gmail.com.
Thanks! Can't wait to see everyone tonight!
~Jenn
One more day! "Barack the Mic," is going down tomorrow, November 9th. It is going to be quite an event! Great music, great people--and of course, some fundraising. Here's all the info:
**Also, we need your help! Please let me know if you are interested in volunteering tomorrow night--we need people to man the voter reg table and donations table, as well people to walk around the club and make sure that attendees fill out a donation form so that their cover charge can be contributed to the campaign.**
If you haven't already RSVP'd, you can do so here:http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/4vm2b
You can reply to this email with any questions you have about the show, or if you are interested in volunteering.
Thanks! Can't wait to see everyone tomorrow!
Not a huge deal, but kind of annoying--has anyone else had a problem with some of their "activism points" suddenly disappearing? I updated my profile, and bam--200 points were just gone. Just wondering if anyone else had this happen to them, and if so, if you know of a tech support email for this site.
Thanks,
Jenn
The documents subsequently linked below should be redistributed to any Obama Supporter you know. The documents are the official rules for delegate selection and petitioning in New York State. This is vital to getting our favorite on the ticket for the primary race.
“The Guide to Becoming a Delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention is at
http://www.geocities.com/wnymathguy/GuideToDelegate08DNC.pdf
“Overview of Becoming a Delegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention is at
and “A Fact Sheet about the 2008 Delegate Selection Plan” is at
http://www.geocities.com/wnymathguy/2008delegateFactSheet.pdf
I noticed this final version of the rules isn’t so long and lawyerly as the proposal was.
Enjoy and good luck to you.
Sincerely,
a.k.a. WNYmathGuy
"I wouldn't be on this stage if, throughout our history, America had not made the right choice over the easy choice, the ambitious choice over the cautious choice. I wouldn't be here if I didn't think we were ready to move past the fights of the 1960s and the 1990s. I wouldn't be here if, time and again, the torch had not been passed to a new generation – to unite this country at home, to show a new face of this country to the world." ---Barack Obama, A New Beginning (10/2/07 at DePaul University)
"President Kennedy once said – 'the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war – and frequently the words of the pursuer fall on deaf ears.' In the fall of 2002, those deaf ears were in Washington. They belonged to a President who didn't tell the whole truth to the American people; who disdained diplomacy and bullied allies; and who squandered our unity and the support of the world after 9/11."
"Let's be clear: without that vote, there would be no war….When we have a debate about experience, we can't just talk about who fought yesterday's battles – we have to focus on who can face the challenges and seize the opportunities of tomorrow."
"Just look at our history. Kennedy had a direct line to Khrushchev. Nixon met with Mao. Carter did the hard work of negotiating the Camp David Accords. Reagan was negotiating arms agreements with Gorbachev even as he called on him to 'tear down this wall.'"
"In the 21st century, we cannot stand up before the world and say that there's one set of rules for America and another for everyone else. To lead the world, we must lead by example."
This was an action packed week for Students for Barack Obama featuring a 24,000 person rally with Senator Obama, a convocation address, a Walk for Change, and the many many other efforts of students on campuses across the country.
On Thursday, Senator Obama spoke in Washington Square Park, smack dab in the middle of New York University’s campus. Syracuse University alumnus Ericka Mitton was in attendance:
“Obama walked on stage to Kanye West’s “Touch The Sky,” and immediately made his political agenda clear. He painted the landscape of his platform and the masses cheered to hear a leader that shared their ideals.”
Senator Obama also paid a visit to Howard University to deliver an address for convocation. He called upon the students to not just reflect on a history of action, but to work with urgency for equality for all students and all people across the country.
Students from Howard joined with their peers from American, George Washington and Georgetown and members of DC for Obama for a 8-hour bus ride to South Carolina this weekend.
Bharat Krishnan, an American University freshman, said that the trip opened his eyes to a part of the country previously foreign to him:
I realized just how different South Carolina is compared to northern Virginia. I came across a 5-year-old girl who informed us we couldn’t talk to her daddy because he was in jail. I came across an old grandma who had never heard of Barack Obama, but said that elections were important to her and she wanted to know more. Surprisingly, a lot of people had never heard of Barack Obama.
More people across the country will be hearing about him as we continue to Walk for Change and as we all come together to support Barack Obama.
And now...
Featured Student of the Week: Sara Haile-Mariam
Sara Haile-Mariam, a junior at NYU, has found hope in Barack Obama:
“I think that my generation is often underestimated,” said Sara. “We see the hypocrisy of Washington and I feel like the majority of us would argue that if a little bit of reason was applied to the issues plaguing our country, our world- we could collectively move towards concrete resolutions.”
She was not satisfied sitting on the sidelines of the campaign. Sara picked up a pen and crafted a poem about what she could do with a five dollar donation and started to think what could be accomplished if all Obama supporters simply made a donation of $5. After setting up a fundraising page using My.BarackObama.com, Sara got creative in her efforts and created a YouTube ad to promote her five buck campaign. Thus far Sara has raised over $1300:
My message to the Students for Barack Obama is this -- don't let the media, the skeptics, the pundits -- disillusion you. There are so many of us rallying together -- if each one of us was to step up and do something extraordinary, to act on our hope, then perhaps those skeptical voices would quiet.
Also in the news:
Missouri University’s Barack-a-queUSC’s Barack the Vote concert UMass canvasses NHSouthern Illinois University offers a class on Obama's RiseSenator Obama draws support from HBCUs
