Volunteer activities from Friday 8/22 thru Thursday 8/28

All events and activities are at the Santa Fe Obama Field Office on Saint Michaels & Pacheco, Suite N (unless noted otherwise).

Stop by the office any time to find out about volunteer activities. It's a busy, fun place!


Friday, August 22, 5pm-9pm, & Saturday, August 23, 9am-9pm:
Hispanic Community Leadership Training. Sign up (link removed) or contact your field organizer.

Camp Obama New Mexico Hispanic Community Leadership Training Alamosa Community Center 6900 Gonzales Rd, SW (Corner of Bridge and Coors) Albuquerque, NM 89102 Free.

Transportation provided. This two-day leadership training session is designed for supporters who want a more in-depth volunteer role in the campaign. Please plan to attend for the full training. The training is led by Marshall Ganz, professor of community organizing at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and former United Farm Workers organizer, along with national and local campaign staff.

All levels of experience accepted and all meals are included.

Saturday, August 23, & Sunday, August 24:
Door-to-door canvassing. Connect with your neighborhood team directly or visit the Santa Fe Obama headquarters for details.

Monday, August 25:
Beginning at 5:00 pm and beginning at 7:00 pm
New Volunteer Training - two separate training sessions

7:00 - 7:30 pm
Youth Meeting. All ages welcome. Send your kids!!

Tuesday, August 26:
5-6:30 pm: Women for Obama Phonebank. Come join women in calling other women to get them to support and volunteer for Obama!

5-6:30 pm: LGBTQ for Obama Weekly Phonebank. Come join other members of the LGBT community for a phonebank!

Both phonebanks on Tuesday followed at 6:30 pm by Potluck Convention Watch Party for Hillary Clinton's speech here in the campaign office. (See Watch Parties post for full details.)

Wednesday, August 27:
5-9 pm: Mamas for Obama Phonebank. Bring your kids to a phonebank, we'll have childcare and a play area! All others welcome as well!

Thursday, August 28:
5-6:30 pm: Phonebank. Get people on the phone and remind them of Barack's speech tonight! Come join us!
Followed at 6:30 pm by Potluck Convention Watch Party for Barack's speech with Ben Ray Lujan here in the campaign office. (See Watch Parties post for full details.)

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.

Voter registration - join the fun!

From now until 28 days before the General Election, Grassroots will be registering voters along side our Obama National Campaign Field Organizers -- Alex, John & Joe.

You can sign up for two-hour shifts (or longer):

• Weekdays between 10 am to 8 pm
• Saturdays 10 am to 5 pm
• Sundays Noon to 6 pm

And if you're not already an Voter Registration Agent, they will tell you how you can become one. Contact the Field team for more info.

200 new voters registered in Santa Fe

Our National Obama Campaign Field Organizers and 10 Santa Fe Grassroots volunteers registered 200 new voters during the week of May 26.

Want to join the fun? Contact the Field team.

Unofficial estimate -- at least 75 of you became certified Voter Registration Agents on Tuesday, 5/27.

The tradition lives on! You showed up in unexpected high numbers and displayed your usual amount of high energy! You impressed and delighted our Obama National Campaign Field Organizers, Alex & John, whose smiles expressed their appreciation even louder than their "thank yous."

The three officials from the New Mexico Secretary of State's office who were there on personal time to train the jam-packed room were extremely well organized and did a super job of conducting the evening. We thank them for their professionalism and interest.

If you were unable to attend last night but have any interest in registering new voters, you can still become a Voter Registration Agent and join Alex & John's well planned, vigorous registration drive in Santa Fe.

Call either of them for details on how to proceed & check back on this weblog for updates.

This is an especially powerful way to prepare for the General Election.

Send us your stories about the voter registering you do -- where you go, how it goes. If you have a digital camera, take photos and email them to Kristin and me if you can! (Our email addresses are in the CONTACT box on the right.)

Voter registration OUTREACH to pivotal Santa Fe communities

New Mexico is a swing state, and our outreach to pivotal communities could help Barack win New Mexico in November!

Our original list of communities has grown to include Native Americans, Hispanics, seniors, students and first-time voters, veterans, business leaders, the LGBT community, environmentalists, artists, educators, independent voters, and organized labor. And, as we progress, this list may grow, depending our your own special connections and interests.

Now's the time for us to get organized around this great idea with our voter registration efforts.

Recently, Yasmine Amir Moez volunteered to be the overall coordinator for the Outreach teams. She will recruit Grassroots volunteers to head up efforts within these specific communities and will also contact those who have expressed interest in being coordinators.

Please contact Yasmine directly if you want to join this effort.

We registered voters May 10th in Albuquerque. Santa Fe is next!

Saturday (May 10) a merry group of seven Santa Fe “Grassrooters” went to Albuquerque to be part of Obama’s 50-state kickoff in 100 major cities for the November general election. This VR drive is serious business and worth every trickle of effort we put into it. If we do it right, we will help Barack win New Mexico and, in concert with with our Grassroots counterparts across the country, we'll elect him to be our next POTUS (President of the United States)!

So, we joined about 50 other volunteers from Albuquerque for training at 9 am at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Hall. At 10 o’clock, we dispersed to various locations around the city. Over the next few hours, the volunteers registered approximately 150 people total. The Santa Fe contingent gained some valuable insights into the process and some ideas for how to organize our own upcoming voter registration days in Santa Fe.