September
25,
2015 [UPDATED 9/27 WITH YARD SIGN IMAGES - BELOW]
Feelin' the Bern in La Crescent, 9/20 (photo by Kendra) |
WHAT'S
COMING UP IN OUR AREA!
[Note:
if ever a sign up link doesn't work, just go to
berniesanders.com/events and search by zip code 54601.]
Ongoing
Tabling
Need
one or two people on the following dates:
SATURDAY
MORNINGS – tomorrow, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24 and 10/31 any time before
1 p.m. (like 11 to 1) AND
FRIDAY
10/30 any time it's light! Sign
up at tinyurl.com/LaXTable4Bernie.
Everything
provided. If
you want some training before you sign up, have trouble using the
sign up site, or have any questions, please email Cathy.
MARCH
4 BERNIE - OKTOBERFEST TORCHLIGHT PARADE
Thursday, October 1 from
about 6:30 to 9 p.m. March with the La Crosse County Democratic
Party. Lighted signs and shirts will be a bonus! Sign up here: http://bit.ly/1FpQ2Qr
MARCH 4 BERNIE - OKTOBERFEST MAPLE LEAF PARADE - Saturday, October 3 from about 9:30 to about 1 p.m. March with the La Crosse County Democrats. This is BIG. Bring your own candy if you want to hand that out (along with your Bernie flyers - provided!) Sign up here: http://bit.ly/1L170H9
DEBATE
WATCH PARTY!
Tuesday,
October 13, time and location TBA.
Let's make
this July 29 x 10! Invite your friends and neighbors! Seeking
large room with wifi that is not expensive. If you know of someplace,
please email Cathy! RSVP
here: http://bit.ly/1QrfWnK
LETTER
TO EDITOR TEAM
Ongoing
Write a letter to the editor in support of Bernie! Join the team to
help others write their letters, write template letters for others to
use, or get writing or editing advice from team members. Email
bernieletterslax@gmail.com
to join the team or send you draft letter for editing help!
OTHER
HELP BERNIE EVENTS/ACTIVITIES
IOWA
ACTION WEEKEND
October 2-4. Sign up here http://bit.ly/1iCW2vg
to travel to Iowa for lit drops, canvassing, helping with organizing,
making signs, setting up debate watching parties and more. I believe
housing (probably a couch or living room floor) and possibly food
will be provided.
PHONE
BANKING FOR BERNIE
Residents of NEW YORK must be registered as Democrats in order to
vote for Bernie in their primary and they must register
by October 9. It's critical to get a big Bernie turnout in NY because
they have so many delegates to the nominating convention. THIS
IS VERY IMPORTANT! If
you can help, go
here to get
info, instructions, and numbers: http://teambernieny.org/call/
One side is blue |
One side is white |
VOTER
REGISTRATION TRAINING Get
trained to register voters in the City of La Crosse at
a two hour session on October 20 at 5:30
p.m. in the third floor conference room at La Crosse City Hall (400
La Crosse Street). YOU MUST REGISTER BY
calling
Teri Lehrke, City Clerk, at 789-7556. Voter registration is a
non-partisan activity, but the more people registering people to
vote, the better.
THE COUNTY
DEMOCRATIC PARTY will elect new officers
later this year. Some of us are party members and some are not. If you aren't but
would like to be, now is the time to join and help elect the candidates who understand what needs to change. www.laxdems.com/
REPORTS
ON LACROSSE4BERNIE EVENTS
HMONG
NEW YEAR (9/19-9/20)
Thanks to John, James, Cathy and Cathy for tabling at Hmong New Year
last weekend. Thanks to Obbie and Roz Z for working with Dr. Bee to
translate some materials. Thanks, too, to donors who made the tabling
and translations possible! We made several connections at this event including a couple of Hmong newspaper publishers.
KING
APPLE PARADE (9/20)
from
Kendra We
had a beautiful day for marching in the King Apple Parade on Sunday
with the Houston Co DFL. We ended up with eight locals and seven more
carpooling from Rochester, MN. The Rochester bunch brought a great
big Bernie banner and a unicyclist - really great attention grabber!
Two
suggestions for others doing local parades is to have some succinct
chants worked out ahead of time and a set number of times to repeat
them
(4-5 is good). We didn't have much candy to hand out, but stickers
were a big hit. I printed sheets of address labels with the Bernie
logo- had had 200 and could have used twice that at least. Our most
enthusiastic parade-going supporters were high school/college kids,
our group was asked to pose with our signs for several queen floats
and a marching band trombonist. Our DFL hosts seemed more at ease
with our number of supporters when a few volunteers offered to hold a
local politician's sign as well or put their stickers on our shirts.
We had a few folks ask if we had extra shirts/signs/anything for sale
that day and several folks who needed paper handouts as they are not
on the web at all.
LETTER
TO THE EDITOR WRITING WORKSHOP (9/24)
Five writers attended our first workshop. At least three and a half
letters were written! We discussed scheduling and coordinating
submissions, teaming up to encourage and help more letter writers,
submitting letters to other regional publications, and holding future
workshops. If
you are planning to write a letter, want help writing one, want to
join the team to help others or have any LttE writing questions,
please email bernieletterslax@gmail.com.
Get tips from the shared drive: http://bit.ly/1Lc6Mgt
HELP
LAX4BERNIE GROW!
Do you know people in our area who want to help elect Bernie Sanders?
Please have them email couleeprogressive@hotmail.com to be put on the
mailing list and get information about local activities and
opportunities to help or forward this newsletter to them.
SEEKING A COUPLE OF CO-ORGANIZERS! It would be very helpful if two or three people could help keep our activities organized - participate in state conference calls, help set up events, help put together this newsletter, keep track of our local mailing list, etc. Having a team will help if someone is ill or otherwise unable to maintain the local organizing. If you have a few hours a week to spare on one or more of these or other organizing tasks, please email Cathy.
COOLEST
BERNIE SITE OF THE WEEK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iKvK9OXcFE
If
you missed Bernie on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, you should
watch it. But this INTRO by Colbert is hilarious.
GOOD
PLACES FOR BERNIE NEWS UPDATES:
*
Daily Kos Bernie News Roundup (search BNR at dailykos.com)
*
Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident
*
Bernie's site www.berniesanders.com
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