alternative actions

1. join the Friday protests 5:00-6:00 at College and Ashby
2. eleenson2@gmail.com is looking for people to take shifts on campus for student GOTV for Prop 50
3. We have lawyer postcards. Let us know and we’ll put some in our Ridwell box for you.
4. Canvas your neighbors to make sure everyone is turning in their Prop 50 ballots. The sooner the better.
5. Voteforward (votefwd.org) has lots of suggestions. We can print letters for you if needed.
6. Encourage your friends to listen to and support Substack news including The Bulwark and The Contrarian.

Agenda includes: report from Andy about special elections, update on Virginia elections and discussion about how to keep the momentum going.

1. Call the California Democratic Party office and encourage those voting tomorrow for the new DNC leader to vote for Ben Wikler. The number is 916-442-5707. I said that he has broad support among the activist community in CA (which he does).
2. Put our next meeting on your calendars. Sunday Feb 9th 4:00-5:00. Postcarding for vital Wisconsin Supreme Court election, info about Virginia and much more.
3. MediasPlus communications has been getting under the skin of MAGA. Send them some love.
4. Finally, we are thinking of bringing back our Friday late afternoon protests at the corner of Ashby and College. They were fun and we need some fun. Stay tuned.

1. CALL Schiff’s office. TELL him to VOTE NO ON H.R. 9495: PROTECT NONPROFITS & COMMUNITIES. (202)224-3121. He voted yes on the first run and it is a bad bill.
2. To prep for Sunday’s meeting, watch this video from Indivisible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db-Pvqa5SQE
3. For thoughtful analysis on down ballot races from Sister District watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWumbR-v67c
4. Finally, please RSVP if you are coming on Sunday. All welcome so bring a friend.

We are opening our house today from 3:00-5:00 to finish off some remaining postcards and letters, review ballot curing options and do some phone banking. If you want to do phone banking or learn about ballot curing, please bring your computer. Last minutes donations will also be discussed.

Here are notes from our meeting. Share them with anyone who might have time on their hands and want to get involved.

First, as Emily explained, this group has lots of great activities curing ballots, researching voting, etc.      www.vopropros.com

This group uses Slack and has great trainers to get you on board with activities. Find the activities that interest you in the Monday email sent to everyone involved. Thanks Emily!

Second, here are two links for people who want to do text banking with Field Team 6. The first is to sign up for a training. Good news! They’ve added a training on Saturday, 10/19 at 11 am. The second link is their website. As Meredith, the trainer, told us Saturday: The sole mission is registering to vote. We don’t engage on issues, it’s about finding as many likely Dems as possible and getting them registered to vote. What this means in practical terms is that once you’re trained, your time commitment will be very low. And the training takes less than an hour. Thanks, Karen!

https://bit.ly/4dIXY03

https://www.fieldteam6.org

This Sunday will be out last postcard session (3:00-5:00 our place). We will discuss what to during the remaining weeks. PLUS Cooks Report shifted Montana 1 House Race with the wonderful Monica Tranel we are supporting from Likely Republican to Lean Republican, a big shift in the correct direction. We’ll talk about final donations on Sunday as well. Bring your pens and let’s, in Michelle’s words, DO SOMETHING!

we hope everyone reflects for a moment on all we have done. During our spring/summer meetings we brought joy into our politicking just as the Harris/Walz ticket is doing and while we were enjoying ourselves and feasting on champagne and brownies, we educated ourselves AND completed and mailed a staggering 1,300 postcards (!!!). We hope everyone enjoys watching the convention — we have postcards on our porch if anyone needs them and can always help with addresses. Let’s keep up the momentum!

Join us 3:00-5:00 pm for snacks, postcards, letter-writing if anyone wants, update on races and button making. We have 500 new buttons forms so can make lots of buttons! We can also talk about how to stay active until our next meeting. So much good news to celebrate.

Sunday July 28 3-5:00 pm, usual place. Harris buttons, postcards, snacks and report about Democratic roll-off.