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Marching in a 4th of July Parade in Sierra Madre

I woke up very early on the 4th and got out some sign making equipment (butcher paper, wide brush, blue ink), and made two large signs -- one that said Obama and another that said Warner -- for Russ Warner, the Democratic challenger for the CA-26 Congressional seat. Searched around the garage to see if schtuff that's kept "around here somewhere, hope it comes in handy someday" would work as a rigid backing/handle for the sign. Voila! Leftover wooden battens from a venetian blind (buy full lengt… Continue

Added by Susan Kitchens on July 6, 2008 at 3:57pm — 3 Comments

Obama HQ Blogger: The Education of an Organizer

Good reference worth reading. [Hat tip to Oona in The Field comments]
The importance of narrative and personal connections is something that Barack learned early on in his career as as community organizer. A recent Los Angeles Times article takes a look at the origins of some of these concepts, and the c
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Added by Susan Kitchens on June 23, 2008 at 10:46am — 5 Comments

Rural Votes' Tracy Russo gets in a good McCain dig in Politico post "The Google"

Ben Smith: The Google covers a Personal Democracy Forum panel session where John McCain's internet savviness is taking a hit. McCain campaign aide Mark Soohoo is on the hot seat, and Russo gets in a good one:
Soohoo is getting beat up a bit before what isn't exactly a McCain audience at the tech conference. Pressed again on McCain's tech savvy, he defends his candidate. "You don’t actually have to use a compu
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Added by Susan Kitchens on June 23, 2008 at 10:16am — No Comments

Michelle Obama: Meeting Barack, Barack as community organizer

[and an experiment in embedding YouTube movies in Ning. Easy to do. Just copy the "embed" code that appears at the end of a YouTube movie and paste it in the Entry Text Box] Found this in a Daily Kos diary about Michelle Obama Community organizing, as she describes it, is looking at the world as it is and the world as it should be, and bringing those two things closer together. Continue

Added by Susan Kitchens on June 18, 2008 at 7:55am — 1 Comment

The Campaign and the Internets. Changing the Game. Destabilizing old Hierarchies

I read a cluster of posts today that relate to and draw on that video of Obama addressing his Chicago organization that Al Giordano embedded in his Organizer in Chief post. These posts address Obama's use of the web and social software to build a movement and work his campaign. (Conversely, McCain's lack of computer savvy is mentioned by Tracy at The Back Forty.) I wish to draw your a… Continue

Added by Susan Kitchens on June 9, 2008 at 10:01pm — 3 Comments

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