29 Days until the Election…
…It’s the 10th hour. The presidential and vice-presidential candidates are finally going head-to-head in debates, so we can compare apples to onions and the grassroots are gearing up for Get Out The Vote. Political signs are popping up like mushrooms along the highways and neighborhood byways, and we’re hearing about some dirty tricks that are being pulled by campaigns at all levels.
While negative campaigning may "work" - mostly to get voters to stay home on Election Day, the essence of grassroots is the people-to-people movement. It’s about making real connections with voters to shore up the base, swing the undecideds and most importantly bring out infrequent and non-voters. No push poll or whisper campaign or negative piece of direct mail can match the effectiveness of looking a voter straight in the eye with the full force of righteous conviction and saying why you support your candidate. This is GOTV. This is the essence of people-powered politics.
Last year, many of our readers experienced the power of grassroots politics during the long hot summer of the Howard Dean presidential campaign. The media lauded it as a “phenomenon”. It was declared a “movement”. The truth is there was nothing mystical about someone picking up a phone or sending a personal email or randomly speaking to someone in a grocery store.
The tactics are simple: wear your favorite candidate's button. It might initiate a conversation. Put a bumper sticker on your car. Plant a yard sign. Dare to have a conversation with a stranger about why you’re supporting a candidate. All of these things have a viral marketing effect and help undecided voters swing in the direction of the “winning team”. Most importantly, work with your local organizers and make sure every targeted voter in your home district is touched in these last few days - but not too many times!.
This is the power of people-to-people grassroots politics. You can make a difference. You have the power!
In this issue’s Tool Shed you will find some great talking points to help sway swing voters like seniors and women, two groups that have been heavily targeted by all candidates this year.
While all the national pundits and polls vary on the candidate horse race, one thing they all agree on is that voters care deeply about education. We have several helpful stories on the No Child Left Behind debate in News and Site Seeing sections. You’re also invited to Get Involved with a national Action Day on October 14 and as usual we have some wonderfully written independent opinion pieces in Inspiration Point.
We are proud to announce that Liane Allen has joined our team of regular contributing writers. She has been a great source of news from around the nation. You can find her latest story about a new web site launched by the 9-11 Commission that seeks to keep the public informed on their work to make our nation safer in News From The Roots.
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NEWS FROM THE ROOTS
9-11 Public Discourse Project
By Liane Allen, contributing writer
Under the banner of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project the members of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9-11 Commission) have initiated a nationwide public education campaign on the issue of terrorism and what can be done to make the country safer.
A 501(c)(3) organization, the 9/11 Public Discourse Project is reaching out to communities around the country, encouraging a bipartisan national conversation about terrorism and how best to make America safe. The perils of inaction are far too high, and the value of the Commission's findings too important for the work of the 9-11 Commission to come to an end due to the lack of continued federal funding.
To get the full scoop on the 9-11 Public Discourse Project, visit their Web site, write or e-mail:
Web: http://www.9-11pdp.org
9/11 Public Discourse Project
One DuPont Circle
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036
e-mail: info-at-9-11pdp.org
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New Site Reflects Concern About "Disconnect" in NCLB Debate
Local Stories of NCLB Woes No Longer Will Get Lost at National Level.
By Nicole Johns, contributing writer
The Civil Society Institute recently launched a powerful new web site to help national policymakers and the news media understand how the school reforms mandated by the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law are not working and why they have sparked such widespread local opposition. NCLBgrassroots.org features 8 key NCLB topic areas including:
In addition, the site also provides more than 500 current local newspaper articles that can be researched by state. It also offers a variety of grassroots action items that local citizens can undertake in their communities. Further discussion of these activities can be found in our Site Seeing Section below.
The mission of the Civil Society Institute is to serve as a catalyst for change by creating problem-solving interactions among people, and between communities, government and business, that can help to improve society.
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Unconstitutional Premiers
Grassroots Theatre Network™ Debuts
By Joe Magid, Executive Director, Grassroots for America
Thanks to the tremendous leadership of GFA Board Chair, Sandy Martin, the Grassroots Theatre Network™ took flight on September 14th in Bethel, CT, Larkspur, CA, Philadelphia, PA and Salt Lake City, UT with premier showings of Robert Greenwald's latest effort, Unconstitutional.
Co-sponsored with the ACLU, the events were an unqualified success as hundreds of grassroots activists came together to view this important expose on the USA Patriot Act and its impact on civil rights in America.
Following up on the success of this initial round of events, a hardy group braved the remnants of hurricane Jeanne to attend a special Grassroots Theatre Network™ screening of There's Something About W and Hijacking Catastrophe in Silver Spring, MD on September 28th. The group was rewarded for their bravery with a discussion led by Mel Goodman and Larry Johnson on the Bush Administration's treatment of terror and the war. Mel appears in Uncovered and Larry appears in Outfoxed so their presence was a great coup for the local GTN organizer, Rachael Holstine.
The next GTN event is set for October 20th with a screening of Hijacking Catastrophe and Bush's Brain in Bethel, CT. Additional late October events are in the works as well, including a Silver Spring, MD showing of Unconstitutional and Northern CA screening of Hijacking Catastrophe and Bush's Brain.
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NEW GROUPS TAKE ROOT
Republicans For Kerry 04
By Mark Brownell, guest writer
George W. Bush does not represent mainstream Republican values: the values of Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt -- inclusiveness, fiscal responsibility, environmental awareness, prudence in foreign policy, respect for individual rights. That is the conclusion that a group of lifelong Republicans reached in the spring of 2004. Organizing initially as a Yahoo discussion board, RepublicansForKerry04, they decided to place "country before party" and take the unusual step of supporting the Democratic candidate for president, John Kerry.
It quickly became clear that there were many Republicans from across the political spectrum, who felt, to paraphrase Ronald Reagan, that their party had left them. The group's membership rapidly expanded, and by summer there were more than 700 members.
In June the group established its web site (RepublicansForKerry04.org) to provide a forum for Republicans to explore, expound and identify those issues we are most concerned about. The issues are explored from the perspective of what the Bush administration has done against what Kerry will do. Operations in the swing states began in August, and now include Arizona, Nevada, Florida, Missouri, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Washington.
Our members research issues and present perspectives that counter the administration’s well-financed attack machine. We will continue reaching out to as many Republicans as possible by writing letters to the editor, speaking to family and friends, and providing interviews to mainstream media.
After the election we hope to focus our efforts on returning the party to its roots so that it may once again represent the mainstream of Republican thinking.
You can find Republicans for Kerry 04 on the Web at http://www.republicansforkerry04.org, join their on-line forum at http://www.republicansforkerry04.org/phpBB2/ and their Yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/republicansforkerry04/
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A New Voice in Virginia
By Eric Graves, Director, Virginia Grassroots Coalition
EDITOR’S NOTE: We were impressed by the organizational thinking demonstrated by this group and thought other regional grassroots teams might benefit from a first person account of how they are transitioning from an electoral campaign organization to one that will make a difference in years to come.
Virginia Grassroots Coalition (VGC), a new group in grassroots politics, is evidence of the new wave of Progressive grassroots activism in the Mid-Atlantic region. We began as the Alexandria Dean for America Meetup community. That group was the Dean campaign within the Alexandria city limits. As early as last Thanksgiving, a core group of Dean supporters discussed carrying the energy and commitment of this group beyond the Presidential campaign and into a permanent role in the community. When the Dean candidacy ended sooner than expected, we lost little time in implementing that plan.
Several questions loomed as the campaign began its tailspin in Iowa. Do we remain Dean for America? Will Dean create a new organization ? (This was two months before Democracy for America arrived) What should our sphere of operations be? Should we have a formal structure? What WAS clear to us, even in the heat of the campaign, was that our local community was more politically aware than the national norm. That gave us a head start. We started with the idea of having a network of local groups able to work as a team on regional and national races but governed as individual ‘chapters’. We eventually settled on the statewide effort so that we saved each community from forming its own management team. That pushed more of our energy onto the streets where it belonged.
Structurally, Virginia Grassroots Coalition is an all-volunteer citizen organization. By eschewing a formal financial structure, we’re able to partner with anyone and respond rapidly to events without worrying about FEC regulations. We’ve scarcely any infrastructure and have, over time, cobbled together a collection of free Internet tools to get our message out. We post to geographically-focused email lists created on the DFA and America Coming Togethers' Act Here sites. We use a free Yahoo Group for a discussion forum. Email was, until early September, sent through a single personal account. We’re finally, after 6 months, getting a web site of our own (www.vagrassroots.org) and have leveraged volunteers and open source software to run our 1600 person email list. Total cost of the system? About $60.00.
Our mission is evolving but is focuses on using the knowledge, skills, and energy of our list serve members to drive change in the community. We’re careful not to duplicate efforts and prefer to build partnerships with other organizations to achieve our goals. By leveraging resources of existing groups, we do more with less.
Once we get through November, we’ll begin doing long-term work in the community to increase civic involvement, enhance political and media literacy, and advance progressive values. Education will play a major role in these efforts. We have grown from a single monthly Meetup to five monthly meetings that serve our original outreach efforts as well as those of our new GLBTS and Latino outreach groups. We have a strong outreach presence in the Northern third of the state and look forward to building our network in the rest of the state over the coming year.
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GET INVOLVED
Call to Action Day: Oct. 14
October 14th is a Call to Action Day, a chance for kids to speak out about public education. Policy makers, educators and parents are encouraged to listen to kids and enable them to advocate for a better, more equal education for all American children.
Go to ResultsForAmerica.org to find tools for kid's actions, like inviting policy makers to your school, helping kids write op-ed pieces for local papers, and visits to your representatives. Additional information about the Results For America project can be found in the Site Seeing section below.
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ACORN planting the seeds of social change
By Max Gordon, contributing writer
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community organization of low and moderate-income families, with over 150,000 member families organized into 800 neighborhood chapters in 65 cities across the country. By charter a nonpartisan group, ACORN's priorities echo our own in many areas: better housing for first-time homebuyers and tenants, living wages for low-wage workers, more investment in low-income communities from banks and governments, and better public schools. ACORN's grassroots approach concentrates on building organization in low-income communities to win changes—through direct action, negotiation, legislation and voter participation—and foster true social change from the ground up.
In the most recent election cycle, ACORN registered over 200,000 new voters, and made over 1 million nonpartisan contacts to infrequent voters encouraging them to vote. Since its inception in 1970, ACORN has had scores of successes on the local and national level, like these:
While the group isn't focused on the November presidential election per se, the current administration's lack of concern for most of ACORN's agenda items suggest that connecting up with the closest chapter will help efforts in more ways than one. Go to http://acorn.org/ for more information, to donate, or to volunteer.
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Global Health Watch
By Liane Allen, guest writer
The Global Health Council is a grassroots organization that originally sprouted in Vermont in 1972, and has since grown into a networking and information source for organizations and volunteers worldwide. Its mission is to "ensure that all who strive for improvement and equity in global health have the information and resources they need to succeed."
Global Health Council provides information for self-education on global issues related to health; provide information on how to get involved; list jobs, internships, and volunteer opportunities; host international conferences; and run a first-class web portal.
Anyone who has a passion for international health with an interest in promoting the importance of global health policy among local communities and policy makers in the U.S. can volunteer. Advocates must be willing to support the Council's position on specific international health policies that relate to one of Council's five areas of focus: Child Survival, Maternal Health and Survival, Reproductive Health and Family Planning, HIV/AIDS, Infectious Disease.
For more information, go to: http://www.globalhealth.org
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CANDIDATES WE'RE ROOTING FOR
Allyson Schwartz for Congress
Pennsylvania 13th District
By Bert Caradine, contributing writer
The accomplishments of Congressional candidate Allyson Schwartz (PA – 13th) during 14 years in the State Senate gained her national recognition as a leader on healthcare policy. “Even though everyone told me it couldn’t be done, I knew that we could do better for working families. Over a decade ago, I stood up and led the fight in the Pennsylvania State Senate to provide working and middle class families with affordable health insurance coverage through the creation of CHIP,” she said in a press release. “It’s simply outrageous that parents working full time jobs – or multiple part time jobs – cannot afford to cover their kids with health coverage or have to live in fear of losing their health benefits. In Washington, I’ll finish the job and make sure every child has access to affordable health insurance.”
“We need to elect someone who not only has a detailed plan for the economy and job growth, but someone who has the leadership and legislative experience needed to go to Washington and get things done,” she said in another release announcing just such a plan. The plan’s major points include:
Schwartz is running for the seat in Philadelphia’s northeastern suburbs that Joe Hoeffel is leaving to run for the U. S. Senate. Philadelphia’s suburbs, which Newsday identifies as the keystone to the entire Keystone State, tend to be evenly split between Republicans and Democrats. A recent poll shows Schwartz leading her opponent, Dr. Melissa Brown, by 45% to 32%, but with many voters still undecided. Brown’s major issue in her 2002 campaign against Hoeffel was a call for limits on low-income section 8 housing that the Philadelphia Tribune referred to as “blatantly racist.” Today she continues to emphasize that issue while also calling for greater homeland security preparedness at the local level and for preservation of the Bush tax cuts.
In addition to being a member of the final Dean Dozen, Schwartz has the endorsements of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO and 18 individual unions, along with Business and Professional Women, PA Association of Social Workers/NASW, PA Association of Nurses and Allied Professionals, PA Federation of Teachers/AFT, and PA State Education Association/NEA.
To learn more about Allyson and her campaign, visit http://www.allysonschwartz.com/welcome.cfm.
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INSPIRATION POINT
Signs of Encouragement
By Bert Caradine, contributing writer
As a politically engaged gay man, it is heartening to know our future generations will, for the most part, no longer allow intolerance to fester, and divide us. By way of technology, young adults under the age of 30 have been exposed and educated, but more importantly, not prohibited from discovering disparate cultures. Therefore, an acceptance and understanding of others has been forged, unlike any other generation that has gone before them.
Two recent events triggered this understanding in my mind, and it bodes well for those of us who wished such a time had come a lot sooner.
In a television interview, President Bill Clinton predicted that for only the second time in history, a majority of 18 - 21 age voters would cast ballots in the November General Election. The only other time that has happened? 1992, when Clinton was elected our 42nd President.
The other day, I happened to be strolling the mall of my little progressive suburban Chicago village, and was soon approached by two fresh faces, clipboard wielding young adults with DNC name tags! They were canvassing for the Grassroots Campaigns organization, yet another entity born out of a revitalized Liberal movement.
After I quickly assured them I was already an active member of the choir, they enthusiastically responded to my questions about their generation’s involvement in the political process. This was the perfect summer paying gig, seeing that both were politically engaged in college. I found them to be quite opposite of the growing negative image of American youth I’d formed from television and music videos. They were well informed and forthright in their beliefs.
Which begs the question – what can we do to raise more young adults like this?
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A layman's look at economy
By Joe in OKC, guest writer
Recently a Republican lady told me she had never known a poor man to give anyone a job.
Being a Democratic gentleman, I made no contradictory reply. I should have ask: "Have you ever known a rich man to give anyone a job without expecting a return on his investment?"
I grew up during the depression of the 1930s. It was a very harsh time, a time of despair, hopelessness, and helplessness.
Many men who loved their families, could not face the pain of not being able to take care of their families. Many just disappeared one day to never be seen again. These lost men lived in "hobo jungles" and "rode the rails" from one city to city. My wife's father was killed riding on a freight train when she was three years old.
I lived with my mother, stepfather (my father died in 1934, I was eight years old) and brother behind a sign board on a highway, in a chicken coop, an open field, and a one room apartment. We ate out of old coffee cans. We survived but it was not living.
Historians give the major causes of the depression as isolation and over production. Over production was not a problem. It was under consumption. Had the people had money to make purchases, there would have been no overproduction.
After the World War (at that time there was no WW2), the Republican Senate refused to join the League of Nations and decided on isolation. After all we had two large oceans to protect us. In today's world of modern communication and transportation, we cannot be isolated. We must work together with industry to make it profitable to manufacture in the US. How can the rest of the industrialized countries provide health care for all their citizens and still make a fair profit?
All of my working life, I repaired things. The most important method of repair is to trace the series of events that take place and find where it fails. This can be very complex as there can be many branches to the chain of events.
I compared economics to an electronic oscillator. In an oscillator, some of the output of an amplifier is fed back into the input. That signal chases it self around the loop. One example of an oscillator everyone is familiar with is acoustic feedback from an amplifier in an auditorium. This is an uncontrolled oscillator. With proper controls the oscillator can make music, is a clock for your computer, carrier wave for TV and radio, and many other very useful purposes.
One feedback in economics is salaries. Henry Ford paid his employees an unheard of salary of $5.00 dollars a day. Ford said the only way he could sell cars if his employees could afford to purchase them. Other economic feedbacks are Social Security, public works on infrastructure, police, firemen, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, overtime, and many other things that place money in the hands of people. But these things require taxes.
A simple example: when a single mother uses her welfare to purchase bread, milk, and diapers, she helps the economy. When she buys Wheaties, the grocery store hires more employees and orders more Wheaties. General Foods hires more employees to meet the demand. The new employees purchase automobiles and refrigerators. Safeway, General Foods, General Motors, and General Electric all make a profit.
If we reverse the process, then the economic system falls apart. The single mother cannot purchase Wheaties, Safeway lays off employees, and cancels orders for Wheaties. General Electric lays off employees. All these employees quit buying cars and refrigerators. General Motors and General Electric lay off employees. All these layoffs reduce the number of purchases and more layoff must be made. This becomes a downward spiral.
An English economist, Sir John Maynard Keynes, had a similar economic theory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Bush administration is isolating us from the rest of the world. England will get rid of Tony Blair and we will no longer have any allies.
The Bush administration and his rubber stamp Congress are rewarding industries to move overseas.
The Department of Homeland Defense is not spending any money on first responders, fire departments and policeman, where it would help the economy. The money is going instead to a big bloated bureaucracy.
Bush has already shifted the tax burden from the wealthy to working people, from taxes on unearned income onto earned income (wages) increasing the concentration of more wealth in fewer hands.
Bush and the right wing are working toward destroying Medicare and Social Security. They have plans to abolish all social and entitlement programs. Veteran programs and civil service are targeted. The religious right is after the public school system.
The Bush and religious right programs will destroy the middle class and purchasing power of the citizens of the USA. If this is not halted and reversed soon, our country is headed for another great depression. This one will probably be much worse as today we face war and a huge national debt. It will take decades to recover.
When Bush said he is working hard to hurt our country and our people, he was telling the truth for the first time.
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SITE SEEING
NCLBgrassroots.org
NCLBgrassroots.org provides a catalog of how individual states are responding to the No Child Left Behind federal law. The site is constantly updated with new NCLB news from all over the nation. You can search by state, to see what's happening in your area.
NCLBgrassroots.org is a companion to the Results for America web site, which provides information and action steps on the issues of education, healthcare, the environment and security. Results for America is a special project of the Civil Society Institute.
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Retro vs. Metro: New Fashioned Politics
With tongue firmly planted in cheek, a new web site, www.retrovsmetro.org, puts a pop-fashion spin on politics. While levity may be their approach the considerable dollars the group has invested in banner advertising shows how serious they are about driving the national dialogue.
Use of the fashion-esque lingo is an attempt to re-frame the politics in more consumer-friendly terms with an emphasis of the under-35 age group. At the very least, it’s worth a visit and you might find the terminology as infectious as we did.
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THE TOOL SHED
Talking Points Part I - Swing Women Voters
Onevotefilm.com provides a 6 minute non-partisan film about women and voting. Women from all walks of life talk about why voting is important to them. You can view and/or download the video and audio clips of the content from our Grassroots Fertilizer Audio/Video page. The film can be viewed, downloaded, and purchased on VHS or DVD from the OneVote site. The audio and video are intended to be used as a tool for voter registration, education and mobilization.
22 million single women didn't vote in 2000, and if they voted in the same numbers as married women - that would mean 6 million more votes. As we all know, Florida was decide by 527 votes in 2000, so every vote really does count, especially in close elections like this one.
Talking Points Part II - Paint The Vote With People of Color
Two dozen Get Out The Vote (GOTV) radio public service announcements (PSAs) have been produced in eleven languages by award winning sound designer Peter B. Lewis in association with Grassroots for America Board Member, Ralph Miller.
The spots were produced in partnership with five non-partisan Latino/Hispanic and Asia/Pacific organizations including Latinos for America Women's Caucus, SheVotes.org, Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APIA), National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, and the Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute, to broaden the usefulness of the package of PSAs. Distribution to 200 key radio stations in swing states begins this week through the Fast Channel Network.
All the spots can be downloaded from www.OneVoteRadio.org for distribution to broadcasters as well as national and regional GOTV groups.
The messages of these non-partisan spots are simple and direct. "One vote makes a difference," "Don't trust touch screen machines, vote by mail," and "In order for your vote to count, you have to vote." "Be part of the controversy, Vote November 2nd."
The PSA's are in the following languages: English, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Tagalog, Hindi, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Hmong and Korean.
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GOTV for Your Grandparents
Grannyvoter.org is a 'non-partisan effort to help grandparents share their voice, pool their power, and use their vote to give their grandchildren the gift of a lifetime - a safe, sane, thriving America.' The group encourages grandparents to register and vote, and make sure friends and family vote.
Grandparents are encouraged to contact candidates to find out their long term plans for the future- ten and twenty years down the line. Special action is being organized for Grandparents Day - September 12th - with picnics and parties.
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Outsourcers
The AFL-CIO today debuted "Job Tracker," a Web-based tool that tracks U.S. companies that are exporting jobs overseas and laying off workers. Visitors to the site can enter a Zip Code, company name or industry and find out what companies have exported jobs and how much the CEO of the corporation earned this year.
The tool can be found at www.workingamerica.org. Among other publicly available sources, the creators of the database used Trade Adjustment Assistance Certifications, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification notices, company annual reports and SEC 10-K fillings for the database. The site includes data starting from January 2001. The labor organization said it found more than 200,000 U.S. companies and subsidiaries that have reported exporting jobs or laying off workers in that time period.
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Grassroots Calendar
Oct 5 | Sarasota, FL -- Emily's List WOMEN VOTE! Reception. |
Oct 9 | Denver, CO -- Latinos for America GOTV Training. |
Oct 10 | Santa Fe, NM -- Latinos for America GOTV Training. |
Oct 14 | Philadelphia, PA -- Emily's List WOMEN VOTE! Briefing with EMILY's List's CEO Joe Solmonese. |
Oct 16 | El Paso, TX -- Latinos for America GOTV Training. |
Oct 17 | Austin, TX -- Latinos for America GOTV Training. |
Oct 20 | Bethel Cinema, Bethel, CT -- Grassroots Theatre Network™, 7:00 PM double feature, 6:15 PM reception - Hijacking Catastrophe and Bush's Brain - send a blank e-mail to theatretickets-at-grassrootsforamerica.us for ticket information. |
Oct 21 | Tampa, FL -- Latinos for America GOTV Training. |
Oct 22 | Orlando, FL -- Latinos for America GOTV Training. |
Oct 23 | Palm Beach, FL -- Latinos for America GOTV Training. |
Oct 24 | Miami, FL -- Latinos for America GOTV Training. |
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