Posts with the tag Change We Need

Change This! Gramma Willi's Wish List for Making Change

Gramma Willi — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:08:53 EDT

Original Title: Change This! My Wish List for Accomplishing the Changes We Need By Gramma Willi

Note: I am re-posting this because someone deleted the old one.

It is wonderful to have a chance to reach you. I am known in some circles as a legendary activist. This means that many of you will not have heard of me; to those who have, I pray that you find good ways to share truths, good analysis and facts with the next generation of legendary activists.

Here's my wish list for accomplishing the changes we need:

1. Find a way to value the contributions of legendary activists. It is not enough to solicit our ideas and opinions and simply run away with them, to apply without the benefit of proper context and analysis. Activists are not enemies - they tend to be wise, giving and in need of a thank you every so often... a nice contract now and again would be even better.

2. Place the long term health of the people and the natural environment that we depend on at the top of all priority lists. Long term means the next 7 generations.

3. Always plan for peace - including economic plans. We have to get away from war economies.

4. Move away from reliance on fulltime staff as decision makers for social institutions. They poison social programs because their main priority becomes their personal financial health and not the success of the programs. The best staff will include putting themselves out of a job as their main priority, because this will mean that the goals have been accomplished. The best staff will never undermine volunteer Boards of Directors or Citizen Task Forces.

5. Fire the architects of the failed economic system and their cronies. Replace them with the people who have been predicting the collapse and offer well-thought out constructs for designing our emerging social economy.

6. Find ways to value legendary activists - you will find the best friends of humanity among their number.

All My Relations, Gramma Willi

Change This! My Wish List for Accomplishing the Changes We Need

Gramma Willi — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:56:49 EST

It is wonderful to have a chance to reach you. I am known in some circles as a legendary activist. This means that many of you will not have heard of me; to those who have, I pray that you find good ways to share truths, good analysis and facts with the next generation of legendary activists.

Here's my wish list for accomplishing the changes we need:

1. Find a way to value the contributions of legendary activists. It is not enough to solicit our ideas and opinions and simply run away with them, to apply without the benefit of proper context and analysis.
Activists are not enemies - they tend to be wise, giving and in need of a thank you every so often... a nice contract now and again would be even better.

2. Place the long term health of the people and the natural environment that we depend on at the top of all priority lists. Long term means the next 7 generations.

3. Always plan for peace - including economic plans. We have to get away from war economies.

4. Move away from reliance on fulltime staff as decision makers for social institutions. They poison social programs because their main priority becomes their personal financial health and not the success of the programs. The best staff will include putting themselves out of a job as their main priority, because this will mean that the goals have been accomplished. The best staff will never undermine volunteer Boards of Directors or Citizen Task Forces.

5. Fire the architects of the failed economic system and their cronies. Replace them with the people who have been predicting the collapse and offer well-thought out constructs for designing our emerging social economy.

1. Find ways to value legendary activists - you will find the best friends of humanity among their number.

All My Relations, Gramma Willi

YOUR Two Cents... For some "Change"

AbsoluTILLY — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:08:09 EST

Hello everyone,

I'm a Canadian and though this website may not really be my 'rightful place', I nonetheless very much appreciate the fact you (and myself) are herewith abled to voice our opinions and ideas in this format - How incredibly refreshing!! How genial! A collection of ideas!! A massive Brainstorm! I love it, I absolutely do! I find this brilliant!

I just wanted to voice my thoughts about a few things your fine new President uttered, during his inauguration, last January (2009)...

President Obama spoke of Change, encouraging ALL to participate, to bring forth their bravest ideas... I just wanted to add the following words to his brilliant speech:

One doesn't have to be Mother Theresa or a millionnaire or necessarily anyone in power in order to participate to actual Change.

In a sense, Change is very much like a raging forest fire, where all that is required to start an unstoppable and quite contagious fever is but a single spark!

EACH OF YOU has this power to ignite, to enrapture, to actually be at the very beginning of an enormous - and long-overdue - movement!

Take your pick! What would YOU like to see change in YOUR world?

Make a list!

Seriously, make one and just post THAT somewhere here and wait for someone to come up with an idea, if you don't currently have one!

In doing so, YOU could be that very Spark! The one that ignites a passionate and quite determined fire, so to speak.

You could be the initiator, the Pioneer (and this, without even having tried to do anything at all), of some radical and way overdue change in our world.

Though I would prefer you add your ideas here, where your Fantastic Leader will be able to see these, I would also much appreciate it if you could also come on over to my Facebook page (Here: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=546186670&ref=name#/group.php?gid=11023222663) and copy your ideas there as well, be it only to fuel others into doing the same there, as well for, the USA is not the ONLY country requiring Change...

We could ALL, globally, come to benefit from American ideas and ideals.

Awaiting your valuable Input and with warm regards, I leave you with the 4 L's:

Life, Light, Laughter and Love

xox

AbsoluTILLY

Change the Tax Code Now

Thaddeus from Jacksonville, FL — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:51:28 EST

Dear President Obama, With all the problems your nominees are have it is plain to see that our Tax Code is an abomination and should be changed for the good of our country. Those who like it seem to be the ones who wish to avoid taxes altogether. In any case too much time and money is spent complying with its provisions. Regards, Thaddeus Porembski

What is Democracy

Vera (Grassroots Democracy Group) from Jamaica, NY — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:46:16 EST

What is “Democracy”? The literature postulates that ancient Athens, Magna Carta, The English Bill of Rights, The Mayflower Compact, and John Locke are the sources of the US constitution. Moreover, the British philosopher, John Locke (1632-1704), among other notables, has postulate that people are the driving force of nations, not the rulers. He contended that people are born with inalienable rights, such as “life, liberty and property.” How is it then that government and others are allowed to oppose or challenge said rights of consensual beings? Although I object to the comparison of humanity (i.e., Slavery or The Holocaust, and the right that all people exist in equality of other beings), the rights of consensual adults to choose their mates is simply that…their right to do so. Don’t we have pressing issues to tend to in our Nation???? Let’s pursuit the “Change” our nation so desperately needs with a vengeance, and stay out of the bedrooms and lives of others. -The Grassroots Democracy Group - Vera

Change We Need Meeting

DanR — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:13:53 EST

Our first Change We Need meeting was held on 12/14 and it was a great success. We have a blog with the minutes from the meeting and our potential community projects here: www.northforknetwork.com.

Change? No, Looks Like More of the Same

SkyMarshal — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:06:49 EST

I agree with this Bloomberg article, so far Obama is bringing on board many of the exact same people who either created the financial crisis or have been involved some kind of corporate fraud or another. This is NOT the change we want. There are plenty of good, innovative candidates for Treasury and other financial posts - Luis Zingales at Chicago GSB, Nassim Taleb, Nouriel Roubini, Janet Tavakoli, for example. Why are the people who foresaw and understand the financial crisis being ignored in favor of those who either created it, or failed to foresee it and still don't understand it??? C'mon Obama, we didn't work so hard the past 2yrs to get you elected for this, we expect better.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aNCFKvAMUQ6w&refer=home

Obama's Bailout Bunch Brings Us More of the Same: Jonathan Weil

Commentary by Jonathan Weil

Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- It's hard to believe Barack Obama would even think of calling this change.

Take a good look at some of the 17 people our nation's president-elect chose last week for his Transition Economic Advisory Board. And then try saying with a straight face that these are the leaders who should be advising him on how to navigate through the worst financial crisis in modern history.

First, there's former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. Not only was he chairman of Citigroup Inc.'s executive committee when the bank pushedbogus analyst research, helped Enron Corp. cook its books, and got caught baking its own. He was a director from 2000 to 2006 at Ford Motor Co., which also committed accounting fouls and now is begging Uncle Sam for Citigroup- style bailout cash.

Two other Citigroup directors received spots on the Obama board: Xerox Corp. Chief Executive Officer Anne Mulcahy and Time Warner Inc. ChairmanRichard Parsons. Xerox and Time Warner got pinched years ago by the Securities and Exchange Commission for accounting frauds that occurred while Mulcahy and Parsons held lesser executive posts at their respective companies.

Mulcahy and Parsons also once were directors at Fannie Mae when that company was breaking accounting rules. So was another member of Obama's new economic board, former Commerce Secretary William Daley. He's now a member of the executive committee at JPMorgan Chase & Co., which, like Citigroup, is among the nine large banks that just got $125 billion of Treasury's bailout budget.

There's More

Obama's economic crew might as well be called the Bailout Bunch. Another slot went to former White House economic adviser Laura Tyson. She's been a director for about a decade at Morgan Stanley, which in 2004 got slapped for accounting violations by the SEC and a month ago got $10 billion from Treasury.

That's not all. There's Penny Pritzker, the Obama campaign's national finance chairwoman. She was on the board of the holding company for subprime lender Superior Bank FSB. The Chicago-area thrift, in which her family held a 50 percent stake, was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2001. The thrift's owners agreed to pay the government $460 million over 15 years to help cover the FDIC's losses.

Even some of the brighter lights on Obama's board, like Warren Buffettand former SEC Chairman William Donaldson, come with asterisks. Buffett was on the audit committee of Coca-Cola Co.'s board when the SEC found the soft-drink maker had misled investors about its earnings. Donaldson was on the audit committee from 1998 to 2001 at a provider of free e-mail services called Mail.com Inc. Just before he left the SEC, in 2005, the agency disciplined the company over accounting violations that had occurred on his watch.

Telling Stories

So, by my tally, almost half the people on Obama's economic advisory board have held fiduciary positions at companies that, to one degree or another, either fried their financial statements, helped send the world into an economic tailspin, or both. Do you think any of that came up in the vetting?

Let's say we give Buffett a pass -- smart move he made, skipping the group photo-op last week in Chicago. What about the rest of them? Donaldson, for one, was chairman when the SEC voted in 2004 to let the big Wall Street banks, including Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bear Stearns Cos., lever up their balance sheets like drunks. Talk about blowing it.

And whom did Obama tap for White House chief of staff? Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois congressman who was a director at Freddie Mac in 2000 and 2001 while it was committing accounting fraud.

Ideally, this job would go to someone who can't be easily fooled. Think about it: Of all the people Obama could have chosen as his chief of staff, couldn't he have found someone who wasn't once on the board of Freddie Mac?

Renewed Confidence

The president-elect needs some new advisers -- fast. We are in a crisis of confidence in American capitalism. These aren't the right people to re-instill its sense of honor.

Many of them should be getting subpoenas as material witnesses right about now, not places in Obama's inner circle. Did Obama learn nothing from the ill-fated choice of James Johnson, the former Fannie Mae boss, to lead his vice- presidential search committee?

Does he think people like Robert Rubin or Richard Parsons will offer any helpful advice on how to stop crooked bankers or sleep-walking directors from sinking our economy? Or that they won't mistake the nation's needs for their own corporate interests? Or that the people who helped get us into our long financial nightmare have any clue how to get us out?

Obama has created hope that our nation can stand for all that is good in the world again. It's not too late to change course.

Start by scrapping this board.

NEW IDEAS TO HELP AMERICA NOW

Ed from Fort Lauderdale, FL — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:43:41 EST

Congrats, even my 80 year old mother in Indiana voted for you which was no small feat.
I am a college professor in Fort Lauderdale and I made sure all my students went out and voted but I want to tell you, I admire your managerial skills, more than anything. One of the main things is getting people involved, when a person believes what they are doing is their idea or benefit to them, they always perform much better. Never before have I seen this applied enmasse as you did with our volunteers and donaters, which brings me to my point.

As a professor, I have noted that you already have a majority of the young people in college with you and now feeling part of our success. They are involved in your presidency and a year ago they did not even know who the vice president was. It is a entire new attitude from the young people, I love it. I have never seen this in 25 years of teaching.

My suggestion.. .offer a scholarship competition for the best energy efficient vehicle design,energy use in building and interior design, new energy sources and so on and so forth. Allow it developed at the university level in team effort so cross over skills in various programs can be utilized. Whenever ideas are exchanged between different majors thats when innovative new ideas occur Have a top 3-5 winner range,reward all members of the TEAM , faculty involved and school and do it annually.

You have a fired up base, students as well as educators. The minds are here to help America solve our energy crisis, competition always leads to perfection,drive and purpose. The reward increases all of these.

I am working in holographic technology we have already took 200 dollars worth of equipment and a couple months ago made a HD TV display the objects as holographs in front of you. This technology would decrease the need to travel by virtually putting someone in a conference room with complete interactivity without being there. If you watched CNN on election night they did this with an alternative method of broadcasting a live person.

This is here and it is available now.

Anyway, all America needs is a push in the educational system to develop it cheaply and enmasse.

If new jobs and new energy is what we need, we need new inovations and lets put our young minds in this manhanttan project and become the technology leaders of the world.

Regardless of Barack's change of mind and the public's indefference, support partial public financing of presidential campaigns

WallyStuart — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 21:25:08 EDT

October 30, 2008

Campaign Finance Not On the Radar of Americans

http://www.gallup.com/video/111628/Campaign-Finance-Americans-Radar.aspx

While I support Barack and his success, I do not believe we need nor we should support the change Barack chose to bring to his campaign last July. Do you remember his announcement that he was "declaring indepencence" from his past support for accepting matching funds from tax payers who chose to allocate on their IRS 1040 form $3. to go the presidential campaign fund. I'm hoping to believe that you and I can influence fellow tax payers to check that box on their federal income tax form to contribute to the public pool of campaign funds. This money is clean of special influences, available to willing and qualifying candidates for president, and limits the (excessive) spending of participating presidential candidates.

Vote for Barack, check that box on your 1040, and tell future pres. candidates (including Barack) you expect them to take that public money and spending limits!

Change We Need

Khaidji — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:46:54 EDT

We kept repeating the same mistakes and believing in the same lame excuses. It seems like we are prone to repeat our failings and although we know that we are headed over a cliff, we walk like proverbial lemmings. Then, a once in a life time opportunity is before us in the likeness of a giant mirror, reflecting an image of ourselves that if foreign to us. Barack Obama shows us how we can see our future selves. He teaches a politic of change and makes clear the Change We Need.

Change We Need

Caught in a war that never should be

Having multiple strains on our economy

And the last 8 years lost in direction

Now Wall Street has the country facing depression

Government corruption with misdirected loyalty

Ear marks and pork barrel spending on frivolities

Washington owned by big business

Every decision controlled by the lobbyist

Now we have this great opportunity

Election Day we can control our destiny

Exercise your part and vote, a single deed

Democrat Barack will ensure the Change We Need!

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Why I Want Barack to Win

helena — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:33:44 EDT

I am thirty years old and this election is the first one I’ve truly become invested in. There is one reason and one reason only for this change of heart – Barack Obama.

The first time I heard Barack Obama speak, I felt like shouting, “Finally! Finally someone is speaking my language. Finally, someone is making some sense. Finally, someone is telling me like it is.” I don’t know exactly how to describe it except to say his words hit me at my core; at my truth. He didn’t offer empty promises; he didn’t tell me he could fix my problems. What he offered, instead, was hope and a plan to make things better. I’m not talking about the connotations the word “hope” often mistakenly incurs like “head in the clouds,” “wishful thinking” and “naiveté.” I’m talking about real hope. Real hope that begins with, and is rooted in, an acceptance of where we are. Real hope that is not looking at the world through rose-colored glasses, but rather with a knowing that no matter where we begin, we can get wherever we want to go. It may not be easy, we may encounter obstacles and, at times, it may seem like we’ll never get there. But, if we have a good plan, a good leader, and we work hard and work together, then the sky is the limit.

In order to achieve our goals, we need to start putting our differences aside and working together again, and we all need to do our own part. To quote Barack, “Success will not come from Washington – it must come from the dynamism, determination and ingenuity of the American people.” But Washington must act as the “catalyst” for this change and for that, we need a leader with vision and with a practical plan to achieve this vision. Barack has both. The cornerstones of Barack’s vision and plan to lead America back into greatness in this brand new millennium are: energy independence, education reform, healthcare reform, infrastructure improvement and innovation investment. I agree with Barack when he says, “…we also have to recognize that we’re failing to put ourselves in a position to compete in the global economy.” I also agree that these five areas (in order) are the best avenues in which to invest our money and efforts in order to compete on that global stage. If we fail to do this, we will soon find our economy and our security in grave danger.

In these troubling economic times, it is normal to be scared of spending any money at all. Our reaction is quite naturally to hold on to whatever we’ve got. I think it is important to make the distinction between investing and spending. Any business advisor worth his/her salt would tell you that the worst thing you could do if your business is flailing is to stop investing in it. Yes, you need to control spending and cut back where you can. But your business will never grow if you don’t invest in it. Barack’s plans are an investment in our future, without which we risk that very future, the future of our children, and the future of the American dream.

I truly believe we, the American people, are standing at a precipice, a crossroads. I truly believe this is a defining moment in our history. Not because we stand poised to elect either a black president or a female vice president for the first time, but because we have a distinct choice in this election. We can either continue down the road we are presently on or we can change course and change direction. It is time to end the divisive and fear based politics that has plagued this country for far too long. And I’m not talking about just the last eight years – it’s been going on long before that. (We can’t blame George W for everything.) The smallness of our politics, the use of fear to garner votes, the lobbying, the special interests – these need to go. Considering the magnitude of the challenges we face today, I believe it is time to call on that part of ourselves that operates not out of fear, but out of hope. The part of us that believes in our ability to effect real change.

Most of us fear change. We are slow to embrace it, in our own individual lives as well as on the national stage. We fear it will be too hard. To that, I ask you, is it easy now? At least if we take the leap of faith, we have the possibility of things getting better.

We fear we won’t succeed. To that I say, look at our history. Every single “impossible” thing Americans have set out to achieve has been successful – from our inception, to the end of slavery, to civil rights, to the Industrial revolution, to landing on the moon. It may not be easy going, we may have a string of failures on our road to success, and that road to success may seem at the outset like a very long road indeed. But all this is true of every single American success story.

When you’re all by yourself in that ballot booth, casting your vote for the next president of the United States of America, I ask you only this. I ask you to “listen not to your doubts or your fears but to your greatest hopes and highest aspirations.” (Barack Obama, 6/3/08)

“I’m asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about change in Washington… I’m asking you to believe in yours.” Barack Obama

CHANGE

Jeannie from Pineville, KY — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:09:52 EDT

I can't wait for the changes to come from Barack Obama he will lead us out of this mess were in, for once I feel we have a chance, so my hats off to you and many thanks.

"You deserve better than you've been delievered the last eight years"

Xavier Lopez-Ayala — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:45:39 EDT

Yesterday, Iron Range gave the type of hometown welcome its famous for when nearly 5000 people welcomed Senator Hillary Clinton to Hibbing.

Folks started lining up as early as 3 o'clock for their chance to hear Hillary outline Barack's vision for the kind of change Minnesota needs.

As Hillary looked out at the audience in the Hibbing Memorial Arena, she noted that the folks gathered there were "people who have been at the core of making America safe and making America work."

Just as the iron ore that made the steel enabled us to win these conflicts, Minnesota's Iron Range casts the votes that made the difference in statewide campaigns that elected John F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale.

You have given more than your iron ore, your steel, and your votes. You have sacrificed for America... Northeastern Minnesota had the highest per capita enlistment rate in WWII, one of the highest in other conflicts after the Great War, and many of you, your children, and loved ones have served and proudly serve today. Our nation owes you a great gratitude. The working men and women of Northeastern Minnesota--the miners, the loggers, the building trades, the steelworkers, the teachers, the laborers--people who have worked for yourselves and your family, your community, and your country.

And you deserve better than what you've been delivered the last eight years by the Republican leadership in Washington.

Among the veterans in the crowd was retired U.S. Marine Breanna Osterhoudt, who wants to see change in the veterans benefits.

"We'll, I'm here because I'm a strong supporter of Hillary Clinton and Obama. I served four years in the United States Marine Corps, and I think we need a change.

Barack has a plan to help our veterans. The Obama-Biden plan will strengthen VA care by fully funding the VA and improving care for polytrauma vision impairment, prosthetics, spinal cord injury, aging, and women's health. Learn more about the Obama-Biden plan for veterans here.

Hillary spoke of the important role the next thirteen days play in determining whether the country continues down the same course or charts a new course in a new direction:

In these next days, people will be reaching a decision that will impact America for years to come. This is truly a fight for the future and its a fight we must win, and its a fight we have waged and won before.

Yes, times may be tough, but we're tougher than the times and you need to look no further than the hardworking, nation-serving, patriotic people of the Iron Range and Northern Minnesota.

With such a short time left, we need everyone to get involved and make phone calls, and canvass as part of our grassroots campaign for change.

As Hillary said last night, "So my friends, this is our moment, this is our time... Let's go win the election and change America!"

Change We Need Rallly with Joe Biden

Shayne Adamski — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:21:20 EDT

Change We Need Rally with Joe Biden

Please join us Friday, October 17th, for a rally with Joe Biden in Mesilla:

The Historic Mesilla Plaza
Calle de Guadeloupe and Calle de Parian
Mesilla, NM

Friday, October 17th
Doors Open: 11:30 a.m.
Program Begins: 1:30 p.m.

The event is free and open to the public; tickets are not required but an RSVP is encouraged.

Preferred viewing tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis at one of the ticket distribution locations listed below.

For security reasons, do not bring bags or umbrellas. Please limit personal belongings. No signs or banners permitted.

Limited Parking near site in public lots. Carpooling strongly encouraged.

Ticket distribution locations:

Tickets will be available at the following locations Thursday, October 16th, from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Campaign for Change - Anthony Office
880 Anthony Drive, Suite 13
Anthony, NM 88021
575-805-1276

Campaign for Change - Las Cruces Office
255 East Lohman Ave
Las Cruces, NM 88001
575-915-0614

Campaign for Change - Deming Office
501 East Spruce Street, Suite B
Deming, NM 88030
575-915-2449

Campaign for Change - Alamogordo Office
1517A 10th Street
Alamogordo, NM 88310
575-434-8388

Alliance for Retired Americans Endorses Obama

Zachary Scott Edwards — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:21:37 EDT

Citing his strong support for Social Security in a time of economic anxiety, the national Alliance for Retired Americans today endorsed Senator Barack Obama for President.

“Retirees are more worried than ever,” said Alliance President George J. Kourpias, adding, “not only are they concerned about their own retirement security, but they worry about what lies ahead for their children and grandchildren.”

Iowa Alliance members marked the endorsement with an event this morning in Des Moines. U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) was the featured speaker.

“Barack Obama opposes Social Security privatization, because he knows that we can’t gamble away our savings on Wall Street. He will fix our health care mess, lower the cost of prescription drugs, and do away with income taxes for seniors earning less than $50,000. We are proud to support the Obama-Biden ticket,” Kourpias said.

In contrast, Kourpias noted, John McCain fully embraces President Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security, having voted three times to take money out of the Social Security Trust Fund and create private accounts tied to the roulette wheel of the stock market.

“George Bush and John McCain must be the only two people left who think Wall Street is good place for Social Security,” said Don Rowen, President of the Iowa Alliance for Retired Americans, which represents 30,000 members. According to the Congressional Budget Office, Americans’ retirement accounts have lost up to $2 trillion in the past 15 months.

Rowen said that retirees were “deeply offended” this summer when John McCain, who receives $23,000 in annual benefits, said it was “an absolute disgrace” that younger workers must pay for current Social Security beneficiaries. “Over 500,000 Iowa residents receive Social Security – they are our elderly, our widows and widowers, and our young children who have seen a parent die. Helping them is not a disgrace,” Rowen said.

According to the October 6 Wall Street Journal, Senator McCain would pay for his health care plan by cutting $1.3 trillion in Medicare and Medicaid over ten years. Kourpias said the McCain health care plan, which would lead many companies to eliminate retiree health benefits, would be “paid for on the backs of millions of senior citizens.” Under our increasingly privatized Medicare program, Kourpias added, “many seniors are paying more and getting less” for their medical bills and prescription drugs.

The 3.5 million member Alliance has paid staff and grassroots activists in key states and congressional districts. It is also running paid advertising to educate and mobilize retirees on Senator McCain’s record on Social Security.

To join thousands of other seniors across Iowa looking for the change we need, click here to join Iowa Seniors for Obama.

Change can't come fast enough!

pridevoter — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:30:31 EDT

We wait and watch as our investments, our savings, our lives are being reduced to nothing. The election and transfer of power can not come fast enough! We are ready for a leader that protects the middle class and makes things right. We are hopeful the first thing to come from our new president Barack Obama is the removal of the 140 billion dollars in pork added to the bailout/rescue, followed by an absolute re-assesment of govt spending. There has always been a disproportionate line between rich and middle class that is now being redefined as extremely wealthy and poor. Barack will inherit the worse of our days and somehow needs to make it all better. It will not be a time for baby steps, real change needs to be implemented. Starting with equality and same sex partner rights. we need to be able to protect and share what little we have left, we need the tax breaks and other rights afforded to heterosexual married couples. We are not advocating marriage or the change in definition, we just want recognized national rights, we need them.

Biden Back in Action in the Buckeye State

Michael in Ohio — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:29:35 EDT

Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate Senator Joe Biden will return to the Buckeye State on Wednesday to kick off a two-day bus trip across northern Ohio. The tour includes Change We Need Rallies in Maumee and Wooster on Wednesday, and in Canton on Thursday, with details of additional events in the Akron and Youngstown areas to be announced later.

Click the events below to RSVP online!

Wednesday, September 17

CHANGE WE NEED RALLY WITH JOE BIDEN
Uptown Maumee at the 100 Block of West Wayne Street
Between Conant and Allen Streets
Maumee, OH

Doors Open: 7:30 AM
Event Begins: 9:30 AM

Tickets NOT required, but RSVP is strongly encouraged.

CHANGE WE NEED RALLY WITH JOE BIDEN
College of Wooster
Kauke Hall, South Lawn
Public Entrance: Corner of East University and Beall Ave.
Wooster, OH

Gates Open: 4:00 PM

Tickets ARE required--RSVP here and pick up tickets at the locations below:

Ticket Distribution Locations

Farmer Boy Restaurant
2558 Cleveland Rd
Wooster, OH 44691

Available: Tuesday from 7:00am - 9:00pm, and Wednesday from 7:00am - 3:00pm

Kropf, Wagner, Hohenberger & Lutz, L.L.P.
100 N Vine Street
Orrville, OH 44667
Available: Wednesday from 9:00am-3:00pm

Further details to be announced as they become available.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18

CHANGE WE NEED RALLY WITH JOE BIDEN
Pro Football Hall of Fame
2121 George Halas Drive NW

Doors Open: 8:00 AM
Program Begins: 9:30 AM

The event is free and open to the public. There is no RSVP, but members of the public are invited to pick up their free tickets at the locations and times listed below.

(For more information call the Canton Campaign for Change Office: 330-452-4746)

Ticket Distribution Locations

***Free tickets are available Tuesday, September 16, and Wednesday, September 17, between 9:00AM and 9:00PM on a first-come, first-serve basis ***

Canton Campaign for Change Office
111 2nd St NW
Canton, OH 44702

Canton Democratic Party Office
(Corner of 2nd and Market - Enter on Market)
4220 12th St. NW
Canton, OH 44708

Massillon Campaign for Change Office
35 Erie St North
Massillon, OH 44646

Alliance Campaign for Change Office
15 S. Arch Ave.
Alliance, OH 44601

Minerva Campaign for Change Office
215 N. Market St.
Minerva, OH 44657

Further details to be announced as they become available.

Barack Obama to Hold a "Change We Need" Rally in Espanola on Thursday

Shayne Adamski — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:23:18 EDT

Barack will return to New Mexico on Thursday, September 18 and host a Change We Need Rally at the Plaza Española in Española, New Mexico.

        CHANGE WE NEED RALLY WITH BARACK OBAMA
        Plaza de Española
        706 Bond St
        Española, NM 87532

        Doors Open: 10:30 am

The event is free and open to the public; however, a ticket is required. To access a ticket online, please visit http://nm.barackobama.com/espanolachange, or visit one of our ticket distribution locations listed below.

TICKET DISTRIBUTION LOCATIONS

** Tickets will be available on Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 am to 9 pm. **

Santa Fe Campaign for Change Office (St. Michaels)
720 St. Michaels Drive 2-N
Santa Fe NM 87505

Sante Fe Campaign for Change Office (Zafarano)
3494 Zafarano Drive Suite B
Santa Fe, NM 87507

Raton Campaign for Change Office
101 N. 3rd St.
Raton, NM 87740

Los Almos Campaign for Change Office
2610 Trinity Drive Suite 22
Los Alamos, NM 87544

Taos Campaign for Change Office
729 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur Unit A
Taos, NM 87571

Las Vegas Campaign for Change Office
213 Plaza St.
Las Vegas, NM 87701

Espanola Campaign for Change Office
209 N. Riverside Drive, Suite C
Espanola, NM 87532

Catalyst For Change Blog

Patrick from Westmoreland, NH — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:36:00 EDT

Be a Catalyst For Change! I support Barack Obama and Joe Biden and am excited to see them in Manchester, NH tomorrow at the "Change We Need" rally. I am an artist who has created a new design to encourage the change movement initiated by Obama called Cat-A-Lyst For Change which depicts a cat running to emphasize the race to the White House. The design is available at my website on a number of items such as t-shirts, mugs, tote bags, magnets, notecards, and much more! Please take a look at www.cafepress.com/shopforcatoons.

UPDATE: Senator Obama's trip to New Hampshire Friday and Saturday

Brian - NH HQ — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:23:18 EDT

United States Senator Barack Obama will be coming to New Hampshire this Friday and Saturday to rally Granite State voters and discuss the Obama/Biden blueprint for change.

“We are excited to welcome back Senator Obama to discuss his commitment to helping working Granite Staters and bringing the change we need to Washington, D.C.,” said Sandra Abrevaya, New Hampshire Communications Director. “Senator Obama will deliver real change by ending the Bush policy of showering big corporations with tax giveaways and ending the politics that are rigged against working New Hampshire families.”

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

Concord, NH

“Change We Need” Rally with Barack Obama

       New Hampshire Technical Institute
       Goldie Crocker Wellness Center
       31 College Drive
       Concord, NH 03301

Doors Open at 4:30pm
Program Begins at 6:00pm

This event is free and open to the public. Free tickets are available at the locations listed below. Tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Ticket Distribution Locations:
Distribution times: Thursday, September 11th 12pm-9pm

       Campaign for Change - Concord
       4a Eagle Square
       Concord, NH 03301
       (603) 223-0387

       Campaign for Change - Manchester
       359 Elm Street
       Manchester, NH 03101
       (603) 668-2008

***For security reasons, do not bring bags. Please limit personal items. No signs or banners allowed.***

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13

Manchester, NH

Details TBA - Visit http://NH.barackobama.com for updates.

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