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January 12 - Meeting Minutes

By Tim Chng - Jan 14th, 2008 at 12:00 pm EST

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Hello everyone!

    Many thanks to those who were able to attend the Baltimore Organizing meeting Saturday. Here are the minutes:

    1. The meeting started with a brief introduction on the history of the group followed by several members of the group sharing their Iowa caucusing experience and New Hampshire canvassing experience.

    2. The agenda was set up to plan the timeline of activities leading up until the MD primary in February.

    3. The Maryland Field team has a website where they summarize Maryland actions and events going on for Barack Obama.
    http://marylandforobama.us/
    The Field team is encouraging people to phone bank the early voting states. To phone bank, the easiest means is via the website on
    http://www.barackobama.com
    After logging in, go to the "making calls from home" and you will find instructions and a telephone script. With some practice one can use this new found comfort to help you in door to door canvassing.

    4. The following are the actions and the contact information for the individuals who are organizing events for this upcoming week. Please contact the individuals directly if you are interested in participating in the various canvassing initiatives.

    South Carolina trips:
    Contact: Linda Clarke
    781-962-7984
    lyclarke@earthlink.net

    Contact: Jordan Bradshaw
    410-442-4410
    Itsachuck87@yahoo.com

    Baltimore area activites:
    Monday, January 14 – Canvass York road
    Contact: Joyce and Tim Wheeler
    410-433-4923
    Greenerpastures21212@yahoo.com

    Saturday, January 19 – Canvass Fells Point at 10:00 AM
    Contact: Mike Mitchell
    443-928-8867
    mitchellhq@gmail.com

    Saturday, January 19 – Canvass Waverly (possibly the Farmer's Market)
    Contact: Ben Larson
    410-404-8796
    benbrorlarson@yahoo.com

    Sunday, January 20 – Canvass Govans
    Contact: Joyce and Tim Wheeler
    410-433-4923
    Greenerpastures21212@yahoo.com

    Monday, January 21 – Martin Luther King Parade
    Contact: Sharon Barolet
    410-882-0840
    thebarolets@comcast.net

    Contact: Craig Newton
    410-367-2920
    cwn61@juno.com
    Voter Registration Project – Targeting Baltimore City High Schools
    Contact: Irene Dandridge
    443-660-8661
    idandridge@hotmail.com

    5. $155.00 was collected in donations that will be used for purchasing the following campaign materials:
    - buttons
    - lapel stickers
    - signs
    As we are not getting any materials from the campaign, volunteers were also encouraged to go online and make additional purchases of campaign merchandise for use in our local canvassing efforts. Please notify the following materials & logistics coordinators of your purchase so that we can manage inventory.
    Materials and logistics
    Contact: Alyson Rice
    434-466-4845
    amrice66@earthlink.net

    Contact: Tim or Valerie Chng
    410-534-9228
    valandtim@yahoo.com

    6. Future meetings:
    Monday, January 21 – After the Martin Luther King Parade, we expect to have another meeting at 1724 Eastern Avenue (Fells Point) to plan for activities for the weekend of January 26-27.
    Saturday, February 2 – Next Baltimore organizing meeting
    This will be an important planning meeting to organize our actions for the weekend before the Maryland Primaries. Some ideas:
    February 11 – Street Corner visibility – Plan to go to key street corners in Baltimore and display signs for Barack.
    February 12 – Election day poll watching.

    7. Thanks to Craig Newton for setting up the window display

    The task to get Barack Obama as the next president of America seems like a monumental task, but with all our collective efforts participating in as many of these actions as we can, we know we will have contributed to the message which so many of us are inspired by.
    YES WE CAN !!!

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