Celebrate the great history, heritage and culture of the Sea Island community with us on Saturday, September 12th. The festival will feature food, fellowship, music (R & B, Jazz, Hip Hop, Rap and Gospel), health screening, voter registration information, Gullah storytelling and local artisans' handcrafted items. Sponsored by the Sea Island Revitalization Committee.
www.seaislandculturalartsfestival.com
info@seaislandculturalartsfestival.com
Join the Lowcountry Volunteers on March 21st and March 22nd for our first SC OFA 2.0 event! Build your community's support for President Obama’s approach to renewing and rebuilding America by knocking on doors and asking your neighbors to sign a pledge of support for the President's plan to revive the economy and create jobs by focusing on three key areas:
•Energy independence •Rising cost of health care •Ensuring a 21st century education for everyone. We'll meet at the ILA Hall and break into groups, going door to door and canvassing high traffic areas to get signatures from the community in support of our President's bold agenda. This is it, it's time to mobilize to make the change become a reality! Saturday, March 21st 11-2
Sunday, March 22nd 2-5
International Longshoremen's Hall parking lot 1142 Morrison Drive Charleston, SC 29403.
Special guests from the Obama campaign will canvass with us!
Sign up here:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gptbf2
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gptbfs
We encourage all Lowcountry friends who are going to the Inauguration to consider helping out at the National Day of Service event at RFK Stadium on Monday, January 19th. Kevin Puleo and Gillian Bergeron from our SC Primary Obama Lowcountry team are working with the Presidential Inaugural Committee on the National Day of Service project and will be on site for this event.
On Monday, January 19, 2009, to commemorate the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service and to honor his memory, you are invited to join Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and thousands of volunteers from across the country in assembling care packages for our Military. "A Day of Service for Our Military" will provide the opportunity for you to show your support to those who serve our country. Sign up now to volunteer for a shift, lasting approximately one hour, to assemble care packages. Care package assembly will take place inside a heated tent on the field of the historic Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, DC. Monday, January 19, 2009 from 10 am to 5 pm.
Take Metro to Stadium/Armory Metro Station–Orange and Blue Lines (Use of the Metro is strongly encouraged. Parking around the stadium will not be available.) Please be sure to sign up at http://www.usaservice.org/page/s/operationservice
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium
Corner of Independence Avenue and 22nd Street in Southeast Washington, DC 20003
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Today the Obama Transition Team released the review of Obama Transition staff contacts with Governor Blagojevich and his office. Download a PDF of the memo.
NOW IS THE TIME! The entire community will come together for a city-wide Prayer Gathering on January 2, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. at the Gaillard Municipal Auditorium at 77 Calhoun Street in Downtown Charleston, South Carolina.
As a New America is being birthed out, it is our moment to be instrumental in the rebuilding of our nation.
Join us on January 2, 2009 for the Healing of our Nation through prayer and praise!
For more information call (843) 722-9710
"From the porches of Charleston"
In Charleston, South Carolina on January 2, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. at the Gaillard Municipal Auditorium at 77 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC 29403 the entire community will come together for prayer and praise. The Mayor of Charleston, Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. is endorsing this event. A host of Pastors, churches, community leaders, political leaders, choirs, people of diverse nationalities have decided that the only way to HEAL OUR NATION is through Prayer & Praise. We desire to bridge the gap between race relations. Many of the people coming together also worked together during the campaign and have established wonderful relationships. Host: Pastor Kay Colleton Contact Phone: 843-722-9710 Friday, January 2 from 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Charleston, South Carolina Gaillard Municipal Auditorium 77 Calhoun Street Charleston, SC 29403 Sign up here: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gptxcl
With the economy in recession, many South Carolina residents are having to make adjustments in their lives to deal with layoffs, temporary furloughs, and pay cuts or small raises that don't cover their rising costs of living.
How are you coping? Let us know by sending an e-mail to Metro Editor Andy Lyons at alyons@postandcourier.com by 5 p.m. Dec. 16.
Lowcountry Continue To Change Action Group
Shea ONobama / 29412
Yes we did!
Attention all Campaign for Change volunteers! We worked hard for eighteen months and we turned Charleston County blue!
Let's celebrate our historic victory and make plans for change!
Join us for food and fellowship at a holiday get-together.
We'll discuss an exciting volunteer opportunity for the new year. Sunday, December 14th 5-8 PM Felix Pinckney Community Center 4790 Hassell Ave North Charleston, SC 29405-5169
Lowcountry for Change
http://lowcountryforchange.com http://blog.lowcountryforchange.com
Thank you for all you've done to elect Barack Obama to the Presidency. However, as Barack would say, we have more work to do. Please organize your friends, family, and neighbors to come to Georgia and get out the vote for Jim Martin, beginning Nov. 29th and running through Election Day, Tuesday, Dec. 2nd. Jim Martin is a strong Democrat who will help President-Elect Obama bring the change we need in Washington. His opponent, Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss, has promised to be a "firewall" to block as much of Barack's change agenda as he can. Turnout will be low (potentially only half of November 4th), so every vote you turn out counts twice as much as before. Volunteers are needed in the Atlanta metro area. The Martin campaign also has offices in Savannah, Augusta, and over a dozen other cities. Sign up here to volunteer: http://martinforsenate.com/cometoga.
If you would like to help but cannot travel, sign up here to make phone calls from home: http://martinforsenate.com/cometoga.
Attention all virtual phone bankers and volunteers! Our job is not yet done. The Georgia Campaign for Change needs your help to get out the vote for Jim Martin in the Senate runoff race against Saxby Chambliss! If you can make calls to voters in Georgia, or travel to Georgia, please follow the links below. From: Mike Schoengold Jim Martin's Campaign for Change mschoengold@martinvictory.com 941.518.4644Subject: Re: Virtual Phone Bankers Great speaking with you Charlie, here is the email I've been sending out to people in various networks. The main links to make sure people are aware of are the virtual call tool at : my.barackobama.com/call4martin <http://my.barackobama.com/call4martin> and the sign up sheet for paper lists at www.nationalfield.org/phonebank <http://www.nationalfield.org/phonebank> If anyone is interested in traveling, email us at volunteer@martinvictory.com First off, CONGRATULATIONS for being a part of the biggest political movement this country has ever seen. We're writing from the Georgia Campaign for Change headquarters to ask for your help to support Jim Martin's key Senate runoff race against Saxby Chambliss. We came within votes of winning on November 4, and with enough volunteer support we can win on December 2. We're asking you to <http://nationalfield.org/phonebank> organize phonebanks with your friends, neighbors, and teams to make calls into Georgia, and come here for Get Out The Vote, beginning Nov. 29th and running through Election Day, Tuesday, Dec. 2nd. <http://nationalfield.org/phonebank> <http://nationalfield.org/phonebank> Jim Martin is a strong Democrat who would give President-Elect Obama a chance to make change on day one. Senator Chambliss once told a group of supporters that homeland security would improve if the sheriff was able to "arrest every Muslim that crosses the state line" [1] and recently told a room full of Republican donors that "the other folks are voting this time." [2] The challenge is steep: many people here still don't even know there is a runoff. In order to pull this off, we need you to reach out to voters in Georgia, via phone and to come here for GOTV. Please enter your info into the webform: http://nationalfield.org/phonebank Thanks so much for your participation. Please help us elect Jim Martin, give President-Elect Obama a chance to make real change on day one, and show the world that the momentum for Democrats is mighty! Sincerely, The Out-of-State Volunteer Team, Georgia Campaign for Change volunteer@martinvictory.com http://www.martinvictory.com <http://www.martinvictory.com/> 1. http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=1235 , p. 128. 2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/31/chambliss-the-other-folks_n_139725.html Mike Schoengold Jim Martin's Campaign for Change mschoengold@martinvictory.com 941.518.4644
It has been months since I have blogged here....weeks since I even looked at my page.
I have missed it, and been blessed by more than a few messages that I have been missed.
Thank you.
While quiet here, I have campaigned. The person to person, neighbor to neighbor way.
A few uncomfortable exchanges. Some harsh words.
More smiles, agreements, sense of belonging.
After talks like that, calls across the country, emails, and blogs -
I do have hope.
I also watch too much news.
And from that...I gain fear...even when the news is good.
I am, one who can worry.
Sleep has been uncharacteristically hard for me this last week.
Focus at work wandering.
I wonder...will it all come true?
Will there be another, even worse wrenching loss.
Worse, might there be efforts to steal that work?
And what then for this nation? for this movement? for me and my spouse?
So, I needed a way to respond to that.
First I came back here.
Read.
Went through dozens of emails here and in my private account - reading words and thoughts and hopes
of friends I have made because of this effort.
And...
I donated.
Not a lot. But more than anyone would say is prudent for me to be donating at this time.
And that is what helped.
Looking around at people I know spending days on end on the phone, on the blogs, on the streets helping, working, trying, doing what they can, it became so clear that this is no time for prudence.
It is instead, a time for thoughtful abandon of normalcy, and a two day spasm of effort, built of hope, and fed by my belief that the better world I long for, that I wish for others, ALL others with no exceptions, will have its greatest likelihood, in a Barack Obama Presidency.
So I say to all of you, for all you have done and are yet to do, Thank You.
I say to all who fear and worry as I do, BREATHE, SMILE, HOPE and then ACT - it helps.
I say to the world watching us - hang on and be hopeful with us and for us. I believe we will get this right and then be better friends and neighbors again.
I say to all who may - VOTE.
I say upward and outward with all the sincere desire in my heart- Please.
John
