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Campaign Resources
Here are some great resources that you can use on any campaign you're involved in. If you have any other suggestions or resources you think would be helpful then I encourage you to post them in the comments section.
DFA Night School Every month DFA provides over an hour of training by nationaly known experts in thier fields free of charge to the progressive community. Visit our Night School page for info on upcoming sessions or to go back and watch previous sessions from our website.
Democratic GAIN If you are looking for a campaign job, Democratic GAIN should be your first stop. You can search for campaigns and organizations that are hiring near you and you can also post your own resume online. Also, in case you missed our most recent Night School on 'Getting a Campaign Job' you can listen by clicking here: www.democracyforamerica.com/campaignjobs
Run for Office.org Thinking of running for office? Run for Office.org is a great website that has numerous resources for anyone thinking of running for a local office.
Think Precinct Our friends from Democracy for Colorado have produced an excellent resource manual for organizing your neighborhood. www.thinkprecinct.com
DFA Training Manual Files Here are links to .pdf copies of all the chapters included in the manual you recieved at the training. We'll be posting updated versions of these soon so stayed tuned!
Chapter 2: Developing a Field Plan
Chapter 3: Voter Contact & GOTV
Chapter 4: People: Building Your Volunteer Base
Chapter 5: Money: Finance & Fundraising
Chapter 6: Developing Your Campaign's Message
Chapter 7: Working with the Media
Chapter 8: Time: Campaign and Event Planning
Chapter 10: Neighbor to Neighbor Precinct Organizing
Chapter 12: Building Progressive Coalitions
Chapter 15: Running Better Meetings
Chapter 16: Homework Assingments & Appendix A: Field Organizing Sample Documents
Appendix B: Finance Sample Documents & Appendix C:Communications Sample Documents
Resources
Linked to groups: Democracy for Florida, DFA at Netroots Nation (formerly YearlyKos) July 17-20, DFA Tallahassee, Training Academy Alumni, Class of 2007, DFA Campaign Academy Alumni
Links you can use...
Democratic Gain Political Career Advice Resources
120 days in, SGA reviews the stimulus spending on transportation
Conservative Viral E-mail Checker
EMAIL the WHITE HOUSE ASAP for PUBLIC OPTION!!!
Linked to groups: DFA Campaign Academy Alumni
Everyone needs to put the heat on the White House. We need to flood their system. I know for a fact THEY are listening. Not so sure about Congress and Senate.
If everyone who voted for Obama would take a second and email the White House, they'd wake up really f_ing quick.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ <<<<<<<<Here's the link to the White House Email.]
quit bitching and do it.
PUBLIC OPTION IS NOT NEGOTIABLE!
ps forward this to everyone.
Jim in 2010? Not without your help!
Linked to groups: Georgia for Democracy, Jonesboro DFA, Henry County for Democracy, DFA Campaign Academy Alumni, Democracy for America - Georgia Chapter
Every day I go in to my job at UPS where I load trucks. I watch my co-workers show up to work at 3:45am and work hard for the next 4 hours. From there they go on to second jobs, schools, or home to try and raise their kids the best they can. They are doing their best to play by the rules, yet they continue to fall farther behind and they know it.
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Action Alerts
Linked to groups: DFA Tallahassee, Democracy for Florida, DFA at Netroots Nation (formerly YearlyKos) July 17-20, Training Academy Alumni, Class of 2007, Florida DFA
Donate money: Help Support Redistricting Reform (FDF)
Send an e-mail: Tell Obama to Protect the Gulf Coast (Oceana)
Send an e-mail: Tell NMFS to Protect Sea Turtles (Oceana)
Send an e-mail: Protect Your Drinking Water From Toxic Chemicals (EJ)
Send an e-mail: The USDA Must Stop Invasive Plants (UCS)
Action Alerts
Linked to groups: DFA Tallahassee, DFA at Netroots Nation (formerly YearlyKos) July 17-20, Florida DFA, Training Academy Alumni, Class of 2007, Democracy for Florida
Sign the petition: Download and Sign the Petitions for Fair Districts Florida (EF)
Send an e-mail: Urge Your Member of Congress to Support Clean Energy Economy Job Growth (PEW)
Send an e-mail: Protect Our Communities from Coal Ash (SC)
Send an e-mail: Tell Congress: Protect Whistleblowers and Taxpayers! (PC)
Send a fax: Save America's Dairy Farmers (Credo)
Ammunition
Linked to groups: Democracy for Florida, Florida DFA, Democracy for America Miami-Dade (DFAM), Training Academy Alumni, Class of 2007, DFA Tallahassee
The latest links to the information you need to counter right-wing spin...
Obama is not going to tell every company in America how much they can pay people
Bush Mirandized suspects in Afghanistan, too
Obama does not favor single-payer health care
Obama didn't take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Bush did
A NASA report did not prove that humans didn't cause global warming
Bush's Guantanamo policies did not keep us safe
Obama did not say that he wants the courts to do more redistribution
Resources
Linked to groups: DFA at Netroots Nation (formerly YearlyKos) July 17-20, Florida DFA, Democracy for Florida, DFA Campaign Academy Alumni, Training Academy Alumni, Class of 2007
Links you can use...
Learning from Obama’s Financial Steamroller: How to Raise Money Online
The Advocate's Top 15 Gay(ish) Blogs
How To Tell People They Sound Racist
Blend workshop: how to engage on the topic of race and LGBT civil rights
Media myths and falsehoods about the Supreme Court
Important Reading
Linked to groups: DFA Tallahassee, DFA Campaign Academy Alumni, Democracy for Florida, Training Academy Alumni, Class of 2007, Florida DFA
Good stuff you all should read from bloggers around the country... (Sorry this one is Open Left heavy, I accidentally left out my Open Left RSS feed the last time I did this round-up)
Open Left: A New Path To Progressive Power
Open Left: Please Play Hardball with Blue Dogs, Too
Progressive Historians: Obama, John Rawls, And A Defense Of The Unreasonable
Open Left: Healthcare Crisis Stifling Rural Independence
Open Left: Bogus Process Arguments
Open Left: The Fear Factor
Open Left: Obama and the Left, Part 432 (and counting)
Open Left: Pew Analysis Mostly Shows Obama Has Been A Successful President So Far
Open Left: Why Not A Progressive Foreign Policy? Part 2: The Whole Enchilada
Open Left: Why Not A Progressive Foreign Policy? Part 1: The Military
Action Alerts
Linked to groups: Florida DFA, DFA at Netroots Nation (formerly YearlyKos) July 17-20, Training Academy Alumni, Class of 2007, Democracy for America Miami-Dade (DFAM), Democracy for Florida
Send an e-mail: Ask your senators to support upcoming legislation to guarantee federal workers four weeks of paid parental leave for a new child, as a first step toward universal paid leave. (NOW)
Send an e-mail: Strengthen the clean energy bill (MO)
Send an e-mail: Tell President Obama to urge the Senate to ratify the Law of the Sea (NRDC)
Send an e-mail: Urge Your Representative to Support the American Clean Energy and Security Act (UCS)
Sign the petition: Will Dell & HP help China censor the Dalai Lama? (Credo)
Videos of some of the 64 House Healthcare Heroes standing strong for a public health insurance option
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver
Congressman Lloyd Dogget
Congressman Keith Ellison
Congressman Bob Filner
Congressman Phil Hare
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey
Congresswoman Maxine Waters
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