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Kamala’s Sister To Sister Event at 3pm Today

by WaterGirl|  August 26, 202012:39 pm| 29 Comments

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Click this link at 3pm or after to join the event: https://live.joebiden.com/c/0826_sts

What We Can Do: Sign Up Now for Kamala's Sister To Sister Event at 3pm Today

Sister to Sister Roundtable
in Michigan!
on Voter Mobilization

with Sen. Harris, Rep. Lawrence, Virgie Rollins, and Melanie Campbell
3pm today

 

Anne Laurie had a tweet about this event in her morning thread.
Love love love the photo of Kamala in the tweet below!

Kamala Harris is holding a virtual event on Wednesday aimed at increasing support among Black voters in Michigan — featuring speakers from Detroit and live-streamed on https://t.co/euzNBxgZH7. Via @tsspangler: https://t.co/W51VYwKuJt

— Matt Viser (@mviser) August 24, 2020

On Wednesday, August 26, Biden for President Michigan will hold a virtual Sister to Sister: Mobilizing in Action Roundtable with Senator Kamala Harris, Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence, DNC Black Caucus Chair Virgie Rollins, and Chairwoman of Sisters Lead, Sisters Vote Melanie Campbell to launch a nationwide voter engagement program for Black women.

Women leaders from across Michigan will join Harris and Campbell to discuss how the Biden-Harris agenda would benefit Black women, and how Black women can use the next 10 weeks to mobilize across the state of Michigan and the rest of the country.

The roundtable will be live-streamed on ESSENCE’s Facebook page and Twitter account on Wednesday, August 26, at 3 p.m. EST.

What we can do is sign up for this event, and share the signup link with everyone we know.

Sign up here to attend the 3pm event:  Sister to Sister MI Roundtable with Sen. Harris, Rep. Lawrence, Virgie Rollins, and Melanie Campbell

Here’s the link they send out when you register – it does not appear to be a unique link – but you can only click it starting at 3pm Eastern. If you click earlier, it will not pick up at 3 when they go live:

https://live.joebiden.com/c/0826_sts

I’ll put up a post for the event itself so that we can watch it together.

It will go up around 2:30 for the 3 pm event so that anyone who misses this morning post will have one more change to sign up before it starts.

We’ll just use this thread for the event itself.

 

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  1. 1.

    Elizabelle

    August 26, 2020 at 11:21 am

    Thank you, WaterGirl. Look forward to what the Sisters advise.

  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 26, 2020 at 11:40 am

    Love love love the photo of Kamala in the tweet below!

    I thought exactly the same thing when I saw that photo in AL’s morning thread. Kamala is adorable! Just so cute. And I don’t in any way mean to diminish or infantilise her with that observation, in case someone was getting ready to @ me.

    Looking forward to the Sisters’ Roundtable this afternoon.

  3. 3.

    TaMara (HFG)

    August 26, 2020 at 11:44 am

    @SiubhanDuinne: What you’re seeing is a radiance that comes from the inside and glows outward. She radiates joy, intelligence and integrity. Nothing wrong with noticing and commenting on that, considering how it’s lacking in so many on the right.

  4. 4.

    Yutsano

    August 26, 2020 at 11:45 am

    This sounds like a wonderful event! I will leave a place for someone else to sign up but I expect reports!

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 12:20 pm

    Guessing there is not the interest in this that I thought there would be!

  6. 6.

    TaMara (HFG)

    August 26, 2020 at 12:24 pm

    @WaterGirl: I think you should repost it – for some reason it didn’t show up in the RSS feed or twitter.

    I would have missed it if I hadn’t scrolled back down under David’s covid post to see something AL had posted earlier.

  7. 7.

    Yutsano

    August 26, 2020 at 12:34 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): It somehow didn’t show up for me until I happened to SD’s comment show up on the post! When I did the right click it jumped directly to the Mayhew post. So the blog be weird this morning…

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 12:38 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):   @Yutsano:

    Just reposted for 12:39, and the thread is at the top of the page.

  9. 9.

    zhena gogolia

    August 26, 2020 at 1:10 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    This is why I loved every minute of the DNC. Every person who appeared on camera was human.

  10. 10.

    Yutsano

    August 26, 2020 at 1:10 pm

    I wonder if everyone is just distracted right now…

  11. 11.

    piratedan

    August 26, 2020 at 1:29 pm

    its a messaging thing, not a helluva lot of time for the word to get out to the hinterlands of a nearly top 10,000 level blog and then for people to check their calendars and make themselves available to participate.  I have no doubts that the folks involved will have something meaningful to impart, but I fear that I’m not clued into the circles where this could have found me in a more timely manner.

  12. 12.

    SideshowBill because I can't use my real name for business reasons

    August 26, 2020 at 2:10 pm

    Long time lurker, occasional commenter with a question.

    What can be done to help people with limited communication options.  I teach at a local community college and one major issue with going virtual was the lack of internet and even simple chrome books for students.

  13. 13.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 2:15 pm

    @SideshowBill because I can’t use my real name for business reasons:

    It’s a real issue.  I think phones and tablets with cell service would work for places without WiFi.  Or phones and tablets used as hotspots for computers, where there is no WiFi.

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 2:20 pm

    I have added the link to the event up top.  Everyone appears to get the same link, so I *think* it will work if you haven’t signed up.  But they probably want your information anyway, so sign up if you can!

  15. 15.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 2:20 pm

    OT: Paging Adam Silverman… Teen, who was both a police cadet and reportedly had ties to right-wing militia groups, was arrested after two protestors in Kenosha, WI were shot dead last night. Video shows the police on scene letting him escape, as well as prior to the shooting thanking the militia members for being there and giving them water.

  16. 16.

    CaseyL

    August 26, 2020 at 2:21 pm

    I, alas, am at work – my one day per week in the actual office!

  17. 17.

    Kay

    August 26, 2020 at 2:26 pm

    Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting of three people ― two fatally ― during a third night of protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, county Sheriff David Beth told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
    The suspect, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse, was reportedly arrested in his hometown of Antioch, Illinois, and charged with first-degree murder on Wednesday. Police had been searching for him after a man holding a long gun was captured on video shooting several people during the protests and then fleeing the scene.

    Since all Democrats must address looting according to media rules, shouldn’t all Republicans have to address far Right violence at the protests?
    If Biden is the de facto looter then Trump must be the de facto shooter.

  18. 18.

    Sister Golden Bear

    August 26, 2020 at 2:27 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: Never mind. I reposted to the open thread that just started, to avoid distraction here.

  19. 19.

    Kay

    August 26, 2020 at 2:30 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    I’m surprised they arrested him. Someone must have gotten nervous knowing there’s video. It’s all fun and games and water bottles and high fiving their ideological allies until 2 people are dead.

    Great job, Kenosha Police. Just awesome work. They managed to take it from looting to shooting.

  20. 20.

    Kay

    August 26, 2020 at 2:31 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    Trump should have to give a speech addressing this violence. Or are those media-written rules just for Biden?

  21. 21.

    MisterForkbeard

    August 26, 2020 at 2:50 pm

    ETA: Just going to remove this comment and paste it into the OT for today instead, where people actually are. :)

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 3:14 pm

    Video is up at the link up top, though the program has not yet started.

    Now they are running a few short videos from the Democratic convention.

  23. 23.

    Elizabelle

    August 26, 2020 at 3:22 pm

    Got it up and listening.

  24. 24.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 3:26 pm

    @Elizabelle: Too much blah blah blah here.  I feel like they are wasting my time.  We signed up for a conversation, not a bunch of introductions.  Taking way too long to introduce.

  25. 25.

    RandyG

    August 26, 2020 at 3:31 pm

    @WaterGirl: Yup. And not starting until almost 20 after the hour; that also lost audience right up front. If you’re not ready to go with the main program within 5 minutes, at least have someone come on to greet the audience. Pretty amateurish so far.

  26. 26.

    Yutsano

    August 26, 2020 at 3:31 pm

    @WaterGirl: I’m in the GET ON WITH IT!!! stage.

  27. 27.

    Elizabelle

    August 26, 2020 at 3:32 pm

    @WaterGirl:   Agreed.  I hate this stuff.

    I think the artwork behind Ms. Campbell is by Kerry James Marshall, a hot painter of the moment.  (Has painting on the September Vogue cover; one of two versions.)  Disappointed to find out Kerry is male!

  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 3:36 pm

    @Yutsano:   Too much fluffing.  Kamala should come on, spend a minute introducing the other people, and then say “let’s get right to it.”

    They over promoted this for what it was, and it did come off as amateurish. It should have been a 10-minute recorded video and a bunch of people might have watched it.

    I turned it off when Kamala left. So Kamala was on for 10 minutes.

    it’s early days, hopefully they will figure it out VERY SOON.

  29. 29.

    WaterGirl

    August 26, 2020 at 3:45 pm

    I sent feedback in response to one of the “reminder” messages about this, and it didn’t get rejected, so hopefully someone will read what I wrote.

    I’m still excited that Kamala is our VP. She is a light that shines and I love her youthful energy. Smart and sharp, too.

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