I registered people to vote today as I volunteered at my local Barack Obama for President campaign office.
I ran into some youth-two of them- who said to me, "I'm voting for McCain. He gone win anyway!"
I thought the first youth was joking with me but somehow I don't think she was. I urged her to change her mind and bid everyone inside the Laundromat farewell. Everyone else was voting for Obama anyway and said they'd give some thought to volunteering at their local office on Saturday.
I ran into another who said he was "voting for McCain" for the same reasons. Then he said he was joking.
Not that I think anything in this election cycle is a joking matter, I signed the young man up to vote in Indiana anyway, hoping that he really was joking.
I urged them as well to volunteer at the local Obama for President office.
None of the people in my age range 40s were laughing and joking about registering people to vote or volunteering and seemed to give my urgings to volunteer some serious thought.
There are barriers to volunteering.
First, you have to leave your home, your comfort zone and go talk to people you don't know.
People who overcome this, obviously know helping put Barack in the White House is way more important than our personal comfort--especially when volunteering begins and ends when you say it does--it's volunteer work!
Second, expenditures of personal time is an important decision.
Either there are children to attend to or work considerations that make one say either: yes, I will give up X number of hours on this day of this week or I will not. The easiest way is to donate an hour of your downtime after work.
If you workout for two hours, give one of those hours to Obama. If you go to the local tap for three hours, give one of those happy hours to Barack--then return to your normal schedule.
The benefits of volunteering is that you meet new people who can later become business contacts or friends. Another benefit is that you learn stuff when you talk to people who don't live or work with you.
Once you volunteer, you can talk to your friends about the experience--they may want to volunteer too.
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Saturday, September 20, 2008
The Chronicle, U.S.A. questions a Yahoo poll
Poll: Racial views steer some white Dems away from Obama-or as I like to call it, we need two Americas.(We don't really need two Americas but we do need to try to get along better and be understanding of each other and talk to each other and listen to each other, etc.--like what the Bible/Jesus says--"Love one another.")
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Friday, September 19, 2008
The Chronicle, U.S.A.
The Chronicle, U.S.A.
Homeless encampments dubbed "tent cities" are springing up across the US, partly in response to soaring numbers of home repossessions, the credit crunch and rising unemployment, according to a report.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
'Reporters Without Newsrooms' - How to Stay Afloat After Buyouts and Layoffs
A free afternoon seminar Sept. 24th sponsored by the Eric Friedheim Library at the National Press Club and the Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was issued today by the National Press Club:
WHY? Journalism is undergoing one of its biggest brain drains in history.
The Eric Friedheim Library at the National Press Club and the Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation want to help journalists who have faced, or are facing, buyouts or layoffs.
WHO? Reporters, editors, photographers, etc. are invited to a seminar in the NPC's new Broadcast Studio (fourth floor of the Press Club, 14th and F Sts. NW) from 1-5 p.m.
Hear practical how to advice from journalists who have made the transition to "encore" careers outside of newsrooms.
WHEN? Wednesday, Sept. 24 from 1-5 p.m.
WHERE? Broadcast studio, 4th floor, National Press Club, 14th and F Sts. NW
SIGN UP: There is no cost, but space is limited. Sign up at: jschoo@press.org, or phone (202) 662-7507.
Line-up for Journalism 2.0, the Sequel:
Session I
Eugene Meyer, writer and former Washington Post reporter - How to make a living as a freelance writer in Washington, D.C.
Margaret Engel, director of the Alicia Patterson Foundation - How to connect with fellowships, grants and writer's associations that provide assignments and group health/dental insurance
Cheryl Arvidson, Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers - How to get into association work
Susan Garland, Kiplinger Washington Editors - How to switch to newsletters
Session II
Jan Schaffer, executive director of the J-Lab, The Institute for Interactive Journalism, American University - Learning journalism's new technologies/the news biz in cyberspace
Don Bates, GW University Graduate School of Political Management - Making the switch to public relations
Gary Cohen, Orpheus, LLC - Making the switch to private investigative work
Session III
Joe Pichirallo - Breaking into the film business - How a former Washington Post investigative reporter became a Hollywood studio executive and film producer. Recent films, "Lakeview Terrace," a thriller with Sam Jackson and "The Secret Life of Bees," with Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys and Dakota Fanning. Joe is with The Gold Co., a Los Angeles-based film production company.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was issued today by the National Press Club:
WHY? Journalism is undergoing one of its biggest brain drains in history.
The Eric Friedheim Library at the National Press Club and the Alicia Patterson Journalism Foundation want to help journalists who have faced, or are facing, buyouts or layoffs.
WHO? Reporters, editors, photographers, etc. are invited to a seminar in the NPC's new Broadcast Studio (fourth floor of the Press Club, 14th and F Sts. NW) from 1-5 p.m.
Hear practical how to advice from journalists who have made the transition to "encore" careers outside of newsrooms.
WHEN? Wednesday, Sept. 24 from 1-5 p.m.
WHERE? Broadcast studio, 4th floor, National Press Club, 14th and F Sts. NW
SIGN UP: There is no cost, but space is limited. Sign up at: jschoo@press.org, or phone (202) 662-7507.
Line-up for Journalism 2.0, the Sequel:
Session I
Eugene Meyer, writer and former Washington Post reporter - How to make a living as a freelance writer in Washington, D.C.
Margaret Engel, director of the Alicia Patterson Foundation - How to connect with fellowships, grants and writer's associations that provide assignments and group health/dental insurance
Cheryl Arvidson, Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers - How to get into association work
Susan Garland, Kiplinger Washington Editors - How to switch to newsletters
Session II
Jan Schaffer, executive director of the J-Lab, The Institute for Interactive Journalism, American University - Learning journalism's new technologies/the news biz in cyberspace
Don Bates, GW University Graduate School of Political Management - Making the switch to public relations
Gary Cohen, Orpheus, LLC - Making the switch to private investigative work
Session III
Joe Pichirallo - Breaking into the film business - How a former Washington Post investigative reporter became a Hollywood studio executive and film producer. Recent films, "Lakeview Terrace," a thriller with Sam Jackson and "The Secret Life of Bees," with Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys and Dakota Fanning. Joe is with The Gold Co., a Los Angeles-based film production company.
Barack Live!
Help Barack Help You!
Democratic Presidential Nominee, Senator Barack Obama, speaks at a rally at Cashman Ballpark in Las Vegas, NV on Wednesday, September, 17, 2008. (David Katz/Obama for America)
Barack Live!
Live TV : Ustream
Let Barack work for You, America!
Democratic Presidential Nominee, Senator Barack Obama, speaks at a rally at Cashman Ballpark in Las Vegas, NV on Wednesday, September, 17, 2008. (David Katz/Obama for America)
Democratic Presidential Nominee, Senator Barack Obama, speaks at a rally at Cashman Ballpark in Las Vegas, NV on Wednesday, September, 17, 2008. (David Katz/Obama for America)
Barack Live!
Live TV : Ustream
Let Barack work for You, America!
Democratic Presidential Nominee, Senator Barack Obama, speaks at a rally at Cashman Ballpark in Las Vegas, NV on Wednesday, September, 17, 2008. (David Katz/Obama for America)
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell speaks out on "White Privilege"
"White privilege is when you can get pregnant at seventeen like Bristol Palin and everyone is quick to insist that your life and that of your family is a personal matter, and that no one has a right to judge you or your parents, because "every family has challenges," even as black and Latino families with similar "challenges" are regularly typified as irresponsible, pathological and arbiters of social decay."
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