What issues are most important to your group?: Environment, particularly important in the upper delaware watershed which provides drinking water to 25 million people, and there are many threats including a gas drilling gold rush, pipeline and powerline expansions, loss of farm land and development.
Other issues include sustainable local agriculture, permaculture, energy production, education, healthcare, Supreme Court appointments, Cabinet level appointments (members of group are against Joel Klein for DOE), ineffectivenes and lack of participation in local democratic party, federal deficit. Who are your local officials and representatives? Does anyone in your group have connections to them?:The group encompasses people from two states and 4 counties (Delaware and Sullivan in NY and Pike and Wayne in PA). We have contacts with local reps. How will you build relationships with your representatives and let them know which issues are important to you?: We discussed infiltrating the local democratic committees. What are your local media outlets? Do you have any relationships with the local media?: We will contact the local newspapers including the River Reporter, Hancock Herald, Wayne Independent. We have relationships with them. How do you plan to publicize your actions and amplify your voices?: We will encourage members to invite new people to join. What will you do even before Barack Obama is President? Describe the service event your group has committed to before inauguration:
The group discussed two actions.
One involves publicising the existence of the local group as a conduit for communications of local issues to local representatives and the Obama organization. This entails distributing flyers, posters and links at local libraries to the group's blog and whatever other mechanism the Obama organization develops to funnel up communication. We encourage you to create such a system, through multiple online and offline media, to fulfill the promise of increased transparency and local democratic participation. The second event, potentially scheduled for 1/19 would be a celabaration of the innauguration in the courthouse square of Honesdale, the county seat of Wayne County.
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