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.

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.

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."

Pennsylvania is one of this year's swing states. I think where goes Pennsylvania, there the election will go. Obama has been CONSISTENTLY ahead in Pennsylvania, but it is always close. Those who live in NYC or nearby can help get out the vote for Obama in Pennsylvania. This comes from a fellow member of the Independent Neighborhood Democrats:

If you're anything like me, it's been a long road to these final five weeks of the most important election of our time. Maybe it began for you in the spring or summer of 2007, with a crowded primary field and an unclear path to the finish. Or maybe it began on the plains of Iowa or in the snows of New Hampshire, in the streets of New York, or the byways of Pennsylvania. Maybe it's only come clear in the last two momentous weeks, as our way of life has been threatened, the gross mismanagement of our financial system has come into stark focus, and the infrastructure we depend upon government to protect has begun to unravel before our very eyes.

If you want to help make sure Barack Obama wins in November, take some time on the next few weekends before the election to do voter outreach in a swing state.

I plan to be in Phillie every Saturday from now through election day. I went 2 weeks ago and the work was easy but powerful. All you do is go door to door and talk to people to see if they are registered. If not, you can register them immediately.

I was able to register an 18 year old girl who will be voting for the first time in November - kind of cool, huh?

Check out the Moveon or Obama websites for move information.

Let's make sure Obama wins in November.

Many New Yorkers do not have any competitive races in their districts. Yet, particularly with the Iraq Quagmire, the Banking Fiasco and the Wall Street meltdown hitting us all hard, New Yorkers want to help defeat Bush and the Republicans. What can you do? I want to present several things you can do either as a weekend day trip or right from your home. These actions focus on Pennsylvania (a day trip for voter outreach in what I believe is a must-win state for Obama), North Carolina (virtual phone banking to help Obama and an excellent Senate candidate whose chances of winning are about 50/50 right now) and Nevada (virtual phone banking to help an excellent Congressional candidate in a Presidential swing state).

PENNSYLVANIA: Get on the Bus: Sept. 27th Obama Campaign Bus Trip -- NYC to the Lehigh Valley, PA

This comes from a fellow member of the Independent Neighborhood Democrats who has led several very successful voter registration and voter outreach trips to Pennsylvania. Current polling shows Obama ahead in Pennsylvania 47% to 45%...we need that margin to be more comfortable.

My fellow Indenpendent Neighborhood Democrats board member, Tom, has been doing wonderful work organizing voter registration events in Pennsylvania. His last effort sounds particularly successful. We all were inspired by Obama's speech at the Convention, (note...the republican convention really seems a bust, doesn't it?). If you want to help bring the dream to a reality, you can join his next effort on September 13th. Here is Tom's latest message:

Dear Friends,

Two weeks ago I asked you to, "Get on the Bus" to Pennsylvania for Barack Obama. Guess what? So many of you responded, Trans-Bridge Bus Lines, which services Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, had to give us a second bus.

Here's what you did this past Saturday in the Easton area:

You knocked on 2,166 doors
You spoke to 732 people
You registered 114 new voters

In 62 days Americans will decide what kind of country and what kind of world we want for ourselves and our children. I want each of you to look to the left, look to the right, grab whoever you see. Tell them to wake up. Tell them it's time. Sixty-two days. If they ask you what time it is, tell them the time is NOW. Tell them:

Another voter registration trip to Pennsylvania organized by a fellow IND member. Hope lots of people can help out!

Recent polling shows this race is neck and neck, and we have a scant 8 weeks to expand the electorate in key states through voter registration.

This Saturday, August 9th, we are traveling to Bethlehem, PA to register voters attending the 25th annual Musikfest in Bethlehem, PA. Bethlehem lies at the heart of the Lehigh Valley, a critical area that will spell victory or defeat in this must win swing state.

We will depart from Port Authority Bus Terminal (South Terminal, 8th Ave. btwn 40th & 41st St.), Saturday, August 9th, 8:00 am, aboard Trans-Bridge Bus Lines. The bus to South Bethlehem should depart from Gate 4 or 6. Please arrive early to purchase your ticket on the South Terminal main floor and make your way downstairs to the gate. Bus tickets are $39.45 round trip. Buses return at 5:35 pm and 7:40 pm, arriving back in New York at 8:00 pm and 10:05 pm, respectively.

Forgot to send this out earlier! Hopefully someone out there can join in last minute: (From a fellow IND member)

I'm happy to report that our voter registration initiative in
Pennsylvania is in full swing, with our first trip to North
Philadelphia a great success. At the direction of Pennsylvania ACORN,
we deployed up and down the Broad Street subway line, registering
voters in the street and transportation hubs.

Our next trip is scheduled for Saturday, July 26th. This time we are
invited to Easton, Pennsylvania as they celebrate African American
Heritage Day. Easton is a Delaware River town with an industrial past
and a challenging economic present. This area of the Lehigh Valley is
fortunate, however, to have some talented, enthusiastic Obama
organizers, and they are excited to host and direct our efforts on the
ground.

We will depart from Port Authority Bus Terminal (South Terminal, 8th
Ave. btwn 40th & 41st St.), Saturday, July 26th, 9:00 am, aboard
Trans-Bridge Bus Lines. The bus to Easton should depart from Gate 4
or 6. Please arrive early to purchase your ticket on the South

It is time to gear up for November with some serious voter registration, Effort now can win big in November. There are already voter reg efforts in nearby states. This comes from someone at Independent Neighborhood Democrats:

Dear Friends,

I'm excited to announce that our first voter registration trip to Philadelphia will take place Saturday, July 5th. I'm very pleased that we are partnering with Pennsylvania ACORN. Upon arrival in Philadelphia, we will report to their office for a brief training session, after which we will be dispatched to the streets crawling with unregistered voters eager for our assistance.

Pennsylvania has been a pivotal swing state over the last several presidential election cycles. Indeed, Republican strategists have made no secret that they view Pennsylvania as a key target in 2008. We must make sure that Pennsylvania is firmly in the Obama column. At stake is not only the White House, but most certainly the Supreme Court, where 88 year old John Paul Stevens holds the deciding vote on issues such as a woman's right to choose, Affirmative Action, right to trial, and a host of other civil liberties.