CALL FOR ACTION: ELECTION 2004
With the most important presidential election of our lifetimes just days away, do you find yourself wondering what you can do to help with the effort? Don’t miss this opportunity to do your part! Here are some organizations seeking your help with Get-Out-The-Vote and Voter Protection programs:
America Coming Together (ACT) is seeking additional volunteers to help with their Get-Out-The-Vote efforts.
- Join ACT volunteers for the nightly phone bank from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at the ACT Field Office, 5585 Pershing Ave., Saint Louis, MO 63112. Sign up here or contact Lisa Young at 314-724-5347 for more details.
- Volunteer Precinct Leader Training happens on Wednesday, Oct 27th and Thursday, Oct 28th at 6:00 p.m. at the ACT Field Office, 5585 Pershing Ave., Saint Louis, MO 63112. Sign up here or contact Elizabeth Gaines at egaines@act4victory.org or at 314-361-1657.
- Attend ACT's Election Day GOTV Orientation and E-Day Team Formation on Saturday, October 30th, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., at any of these locations:
- Mid County - Clayton Schools' Family Center, 301 N. Gay Avenue in Clayton (one-half block east and one block north of Ladue Wild Oats)
- North County - Bentwood Town Homes, 5500 Eagle Valley Drive (Hwy 70 to Lucas & Hunt (North), take 1st right)
- South County - 107 Kenrick Plaza (On Watson Rd, East of Laclede Station Rd)
- South City - Carpenter Public Library, 3309 S. Grand Blvd (several blocks north of Gravois)
- ACT will also be working full time on Election Day to Get Out The Vote with their Election Day Action. ACT is also seeking volunteers to host ACT workers who will be coming to St. Louis from out-of-state. Contact Elizabeth Gaines at egaines@act4victory.org or at 314-361-1657.
- Attend the St. Louis Get Out the Vote Rally on Saturday, October 30th at 9:00 a.m. at The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard (just east of Skinker)
- Pick up the phone and call the MoveOn PAC office closest to you.
In St. Louis: 314-647-5785
In Kansas City: 816-531-2366 - Or sign up at MoveOn PAC's website and a local staffer will call you within 24 hours to get you started.
Join our Election 2004 bird-dogging campaign
Bird-dogging training and planning
Pilgrim Church
826 N. Union
Saturday, May 1st
9 - noon
The candidates are picked...
The rhetoric is flying...
The media are absorbed...
Our issues fall by the wayside...
What can we do?
As the election season nears we all know that the attention of the public and the media shifts to the electoral stage. The candidates focus on re-election and the media focus on them.
Meanwhile, our issues fall by the wayside. Instead of being left behind by the electoral season, learn how to use this shift to your own advantage and force your issue into the spotlight.
BIRD DOGGING allows the people to reclaim the media spotlight during the electoral season by forcing candidates to listen and respond to their issues. By continually engaging our candidates wherever they go, we can pressure them to answer our questions and address our demands. Let our candidates know we will be watching, and we won’t put up with their lies anymore.
Help bring democracy back to the grassroots level and join INSTEAD OF WAR!
If you have questions, please email richard@insteadofwar.org
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Got Questions about the Occupation of Iraq? Get Answers!
The 2004 working group of IOW is planning to launch a ‘bird dogging’ campaign of electoral candidates this summer. Bird dogging is a pressure tactic that forces the candidates to answer our questions and hopes to influence candidates by continually pressuring them about our issues. The 2004 working group is focusing on three main issues; the Patriot Act, Immigrant Rights, and the Occupation of Iraq. Please formulate any questions you have about any of these issues in a way that would be appropriate for candidates on the federal, state, and local level. Yes/No questions or questions about specific legislation are preferable, but you are free to decide the form of your question. Please send any questions to richard@insteadofwar.org This is our chance to make our politicians respond to us, please seize the opportunity.
2004 Working Group
The 2004 working group of IOW is a group of individuals and organizations dedicated to influencing the 2004 elections on a local, state and national level. We plan to help register, educate and encourage the St. Louis population to vote in order that they may better control the policy makers that affect their lives. We are currently discussing strategies for voter registration, education and participation. We are also working on a strategy to influence the politicians on issues of particular concern to us. Currently these include; civilian oversight of the police department, the Patriot Act, and immigrant’s rights. Please join us in our work so that we may work to reverse the policies enacted by the current President (s)elect and his administration.
For more information email Richard von Glahn richard@insteadofwar.org