We need your help to furnish our campaign office.

We're still furnishing the office & setting it up, but we want to thank the oh so many of you that have dropped things off to us. After the Open House on Saturday, we will set things up for serious general election work and will better be able to tell what other items are needed. Meantime, just come to our OPEN HOUSE and enjoy yourself and see what important volunteer activities there are that you can enjoy!

Here's our WISH LIST for getting settled in the campaign office space. Thank you for your help!

You may start delivering items again on Monday, 8/4.

Office Equipment:
 Fax machines
 Copy machines
 Surge protectors (just need 1 or 2 more)
 Scanner
Office Furnishing:
 Stackable chairs
 Area Rugs (contact us with dimension first)
 Book cases
 Flip boards for think tanking
Office Supplies:
 Lots of paper
 Misc office supplies (pencils, pads of paper, paper clips, scissors, staplers, etc.)
Kitchen Equipment:
 Ground coffee & tea bags
 On-going deliveries of healthy snacks to bolster the staff's energy!

If you need transport assistance, please call Gaye.

Other Volunteer opportunities this coming weekend - Friday thru Sunday.

FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY...8/1-8/3
Volunteers needed at the Santa Fe County Fair (Rodeo Road) - Democratic Party Booth

SATURDAY...8/2 - Jemez Feast Day - Voter Registration Agents needed

Both activities are being coordinated through the Udall campaign. They have asked us to join them. Please call them for details or to sign up.

We've added new to the weblog links. Take a look.

In the right column if you scroll down [Note 1/2009: column no longer available, but links below are active], you'll find links we hope will be helpful and informative. We add new links from time to time. If you have suggested additions, please let us know. Take a look:

OBAMA SPEECHES, NEWS ARTICLES, ETC.
Berlin. That's all I have to say.

Barack will lead a new foreign policy based on restoring America's military strength and global respect, cooperating with allies, and reversing failed Bush policies

With all the questions about FISA, check out this blog on the Obama website that includes Discussion with Policy Staff.

Check out this video of Barack speaking to headquarters staff and volunteers in Chicago after winning the nomination. He's talking to us too! "What a magnificent position to find yourselves in, where the whole country is counting on you to change it for the better. These moments don't come along very often... So we've got to seize it."

This video was recommended by Harold Neal, one of our Grassrooters from Chicago. It's Barack on This Week with George Stephanopoulous on Mother's Day a year ago. Harold's description of the show is "it is sort of 'Obama Intro 101' very relaxed , wonderfully presented." See for yourself.

ISSUES
And, in a new category called ISSUES, you'll find a very informative article from The Nation that asks...How antichoice is John McCain? Let's leave the psychological tea leaves out of it and look at his record. Another thought provoking piece. (Disclaimer: the author is not related to Gaye Pollitt.)

[You can always revisit these (and other) videos and articles by clicking on their titles within their categories in the right column. Unfortunately, to come back to our weblog from one of these links, you must use the BACK button for your browser. ]

Neighborhood Leaders Orientation on Saturday, 7/26, from 10am- 6pm

Join us this Saturday and learn how you personally can help Barack win on November 4th! This is it folks! Grassroots at its best -- you talking to and organizing others in you neighborhood.

This program will cover the fundamentals of organizing for Grassroots teams within the same precincts who will work together in their neighborhood and organizing on a micro scale.

Neighborhood Leaders Orientation from 10am- 6pm.
LOCATION: NEA building, 2007 Botulph Road, Santa Fe
Signs will identify the building.

RSVP is encouraged.

If you can't make this training, just let us know; we will be having another training in future.

Santa Fe temporary campaign office on 2nd Street HAS BEEN CLOSED.

Until further notice, if you are volunteering, please report to Coordinated Campaign office of Congressman Udall/Democratric Party of Santa Fe County.

LOCATION: Saint Michael's & Pacheco
in the Smith's Shopping Center (next to the dry cleaners).

Or contact the Obama staffer who has recruited you.

Next Platform input group meeting today, Thursday, 7/24. Don't miss the opportunity!

We are postponing The Blue Print for Change Obama policy discussion groups originally scheduled for July 21st and 24th.

Instead, between July 19 and July 27, we're switching our focus and will participate in a special program entitled Listening to America: the Democratic Platform for Change. It was created by the national Obama campaign to help shape the Platform at the National Convention in August. We will meet to formulate the issues most important to each of us and what should be at the heart of the Democratic platform. Afterwards, our issues will be submitted to Listening to America.

You may have already received an email directly from the national campaign about this. We are merely facilitating this program in Santa Fe through our Discussion Groups.

Sign up to host or attend a Listening to America platform meeting in your neighborhood between July 19th & July 27th by using this link: (Link removed)

Or, if you want to attend a meeting already set up by members of our Discussion Groups, join
Jan Melendez, Thursday, July 24 at 7:00 - 9:00 PM

If you do decide to host a meeting, please contact Martha Romero or call her and we will help further publicize your event to Santa Fe Grassroots.

After July, we will resume our discussions on remaining topics from The Blue Print for Change depending upon interest levels of the group.

Obama Pride Happy Hour Saturday!

Meet other GLBTQ Obama supporters and find out how you can get involved! Join us this Saturday, July 19th at Max's, Santa Fe's hot new GLBT cafe, from 3-5pm. Max's is donating non-alcoholic beverages and appetizers.

What do you think is important to be included in the national Democratic platform? Barack wants to know and has asked us to forward all thoughts to his campaign.

But most of all, come and have fun while making a difference! Max's is located at 401 S. Guadalupe St., behind Willee's Blues Club. Call Cheri for additional information.
See you there!

SUNDAY, 7/13, 10am-Noon, Espanola Fiesta Parade. Join us!

We have a float in the Espanola Parade!

We're caravaning from Santa Fe. Gather at 7:15am in the parking lot at 519 Cerrillos Rd (same location where the Neighborhood Leaders Orientation is being held today) across from Hotel Santa Fe, next to Sage Bakery, where our winter Farmer's Market was held.

For more information, contact Gaye.

See you in the Hilton Ballroom Monday, 7/14, at 6 pm for our next meeting.

This is a meeting you do not want to miss. Grassroots Santa Fe and the Obama National Campaign Kickoff the General Election! With an incredibly special Native American Blessing Ceremony to begin our journey to the White House by Venus BrightStar of the Ma-Chis Lower Creek Tribe of Alabama!

Hilton Ballroom
100 Sandoval Street
6pm-8pm

Tell your friends & join us! And also please POST our flyer for Meetings on community bulletin boards if you get it in an email.

REMINDER! BE A STAR! TRY OUT FOR AN OBAMA TV COMMERCIAL TO BE SHOT MONDAY NIGHT 7/14

Blue Collar worker types (on a volunteer basis) needed for this campaign spot that will deal with the lack of jobs for American workers.

No acting required. Just good hard-working faces.

This will be filmed after our Monday meeting. If you would like to be in the spot, bring rain gear and go over to CLOUD CLIFF BAKERY on 2nd Street right after the meeting. Shooting will start about 8:45 pm.

If you need more info, please call Ron Bloomberg or email him.

WATCH OUR NUMBERS GROW - Santa Fe newly registered voters!

Our National Obama Campaign Regional Field Organizers along with many of Santa Fe Grassroots volunteers and the newly arrived Obama Fellows are registering new voters like crazy. Watch this tally grow:

TOTAL AS OF...
6/30 - 1,120
6/24 - 975
6/20 - 800
6/16 - 500
6/9 - 350
6/2 - 200

Feel left out? Want to join the fun? Contact NICK ROSA, our Obama Field Organizer now in charge of Voter Registration activities.

GLBTQ for Obama moves into high gear! Planning group needed.

Pride on the Plaza was a great success! Our group in the parade won third prize. Also, 17 volunteers signed up 54 new volunteers and registered 74 people to vote! Now, we are energized and moving forward. Our goal is to mobilize the GLBTQ community to get out and exercise their support for Barack. But we need your help.

We would like to form an organizing committee. In the coming weeks we will plan:

*A unity party

*A Listening to America party (giving our input on the Democratic Platform)

*A fundraiser for the regional office

*Getting the word out at monthly GLBTQ dances

*GLBTQ-sponsored voter drives and phone banking

*Getting GBLTQ-friendly businesses actively involved

We would love to hear your ideas. Join us in making this a successful campaign and electing Barack Obama as our next president. For more information please call Cheri or Sue.

Las Vegas fiesta

A small group of us marched for Obama in the Las Vegas fiesta parade on July 5. We all nearly had heatstroke, but it was a good time in one of New Mexico's most colorful towns.

Obama Grassroots & National Campaign - perfect together!

COORDINATED ACTIVITY SCHEDULE, week of 7/7:

7/8 Tuesday: Data Entry Training. Any 2 hours between 5 - 9 pm.
7/9 Wednesday: Phone Bank. 5 - 9 pm.
7/10 Thursday: Phone Bank. 5 - 9 pm.
All week: Voter Registration.

See anything listed here you want to do? Want information about location of an activity?
Contact Alex or John.

OBAMARAMA Art Event at Hahn-Ross Gallery 7/6 was HUGE & BIG success!

1,000 folks attended! 600 t-shirts sold!!!

The event was fantastic in all respects! The turnout

was shoulder to shoulder for more than 3 hours; the excitement was palpable; T-shirt sales were brisk; the live music was toe-tapping, and program very enjoyable. A much deserved congratulations to Tom Ross and all the folks who made this event possible and who ran it so smoothly!

Then at our big volunteer meeting on 7/14, the T-shirts were on display and available for sale. Once again, they were a big hit!

Not too late to order one for yourself or little people you know. Visit the Sprouts for Change website. Plus, there's a great documentary on YouTube showing and telling all about the Obamarama concept including interviews with the artists.

Obama General Election Campaign Kick-off Meeting, Monday, 7/14. See you there!

Our next meeting is soooooooooooo important & going to be soooooooooo exciting, you don't want to miss it!

Monday, July 14, 6:00 pm-7:30 pm...location to be announced.

Please save the date, tell your friends & join us! And also please POST our flyer for Meetings on community bulletin boards if you get it in an email.

This weekend...lots happening...Voter Registration...signing up new Obama supporters...Obamarama! Join the fun!

Want to join the fun this July 4th weekend? You have some great choices:

VOTER REGISTRATION
Pancakes on the Plaza - Friday
And wherever else Alex & John have events planned
Call Alex or John

SIGN-UP NEW OBAMA SUPPORTERS
Pancakes on the Plaza - Friday
Call Terry Rivera

OBAMARAMA GALLERY EVENT - Sunday
Hahn Ross Gallery. Call Tom Ross - See full details in post below.