This comes from someone I know from IND who has been tireless in working with Democrats in Pennsylvania first to get Obama elected, and then to get healthcare reform passed. I urge anyone who can to join in on this important road trip:

Please join me in canvassing Easton, Pennsylvania for health care reform on Saturday, October 17th. We’ll be showing our strength and urging fellow Democrats to support for President Obama’s principles of reform.

The next several weeks will find us at a critical crossroad for the future of health care in America, a crossroad for the economic future and stability of American families for generations to come. Last year we got on the bus to fight for the right to make it to this pivotal place. But our work is not done. Here’s how you can help.

Please join me in Easton, PA on October 17th. Please, Get BACK on the Bus for Health Care!  read more »

During last year's election, a friend of mine from IND organized an amazing number of bus trips to Pennsylvania to campaign for Obama. I have no doubt that his efforts made a difference.

But it takes a particularly amazing organizer to KEEP organizing even after you win an election. And he is continuing his organizing efforts, this time on behalf of healthcare reform. We all complain that we wish Obama and the Democrats were fighing harder for healthcare reform. Well, the same applies to us. We have to fight for healthcare reform as well because so far the right wing extremists and their media pals at Fox News are dominating the discussion. Here is your chance to help seize the initiative for healthcare reform. This comes from an email from Tom:

We’re going back to Pennsylvania to campaign for health care reform.

Last year we were called to turn back the reactionary forces that had gripped our country for too long, and to win an election. I often told people that it was a war fought house by house, block by block. We won that war. But now we must win the peace, and that’s the hardest part.  read more »

Harlem4Obama Election Day Volunteer Bootcamp
Saturday Morning at 10AM - October 25 at the H4O Headquarters

Bring Your Cell and Charger
WE MUST MAKE CONTACTS IN BATTLEGROUND STATES FOR BARACK TO WIN!
Cell Phone Banking and Postcard Writing (Phone Bank)
Please come to the Harlem4Obama office for a convenient, friendly place for cell phone banking or postcard-writing.
(If you get tired of doing either activity, we also have some data entry.)

Postcard writers will be writing short, personal messages to voters in North-Central Florida. This postcard campaign has already made an impact on voters there, and in Ohio and Washington State.

Phone bankers will be calling Indiana and North-Central Florida, reaching out to undecided and unmotivated voters, getting much-needed votes at the polls on Election Day.

Harlem4Obama trip to Philadelphia! (Drive for Change) Come join us on our trip to Philadelphia to GET OUT THE VOTE, Saturday Oct 25. We have a bus reserved that will leave from our office, at the corner of 133rd and 8th Ave, 7 AM and return in the evening between 9 and 10 PM.  read more »

It's coming down to the wire. We have only a few more weeks to make history and to restore hope to an America bogged down in an economic crisis, the Iraq Quagmire, and an energy crisis. A few hours or a few days of your time could be critical in determining the course of the next decade. We must elect Barack Obama and make gains in the Senate and House to really effect change. Here are things you can do, either by phone at home or by taking a road trip.  read more »

It's crunch time. One month until the election and your help is still appreciated for voter outreach in Pennsylvania. From a fellow Independent Neighborhood Democrats member:

Please join me Saturday, October 4th for a day of canvassing Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. It is here that the battle for Pennsylvania will be decided, where it is literally being fought house by house, door by door.

In this Thursday night's Vice Presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, we will hear A LOT from Sarah Palin. It is up to us, through our hard work, to see that after November 4th we will see THE LAST of Sarah Palin. I never thought we'd have a Republican Vice Presidential nominee who scared me more than Dick Cheney, or embarrassed me more than Dan Quayle. But the world recently is full of surprises. From the stunning collapse of our global economic system to the high-jacking of the Justice Department by neoconservatives and religious zealots, the time for enjoying the comforts of home and hearth must wait. We have work to do in Pennsylvania, and October 4th is time again to "Get on the Bus."  read more »