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Zoom with Voces de la Frontera on Thursday at 7:30 pm ET (Open Thread)

by WaterGirl|  July 19, 20217:30 pm| 30 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Political Action, Political Fundraising 2021-22

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Katherine and Cassandra (from the above photo) will be on the zoom with to talk about growing up in the movement, Voces, and working in the 2020 campaign.  Fabi, Alejandra, and Alan – who we all met at the Ask Them Anything Voces post a month ago – will be on the zoom as well, but I wanted to highlight the new voices.  I’m excited to hear what they have to say!

If you’re interested, they can share opinions about Wisconsin politics and projections about the 2022 elections.

The Balloon Juice thermometer for Voces de la Frontera has been climbing up, and we hope to have some good news to share on Thursday’s zoom with Voces.

Goal: fund a field organizer coordinator position (45k) for Voces de la Frontera Action

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In case you want a little background before the zoom, here’s a link to a NYT article from a hundred years ago Sept 2020: What Will it Take to Vote in Milwaukee?

These BJ peeps RSVP’d for the previous zoom time, but now it is rescheduled for this Thursday, 7:30 pm blog time.  (aka Eastern time)

H. E. Wolf (no E on the end)
John Cole
Joy in FL
MomSense
Ruckus
Wolvesvalley

If you would like to attend, please chime in below and also send me email so I can send you the link to the zoom!

Otherwise, totally open thread.  There’s just no other way to announce anything but in a thread, but that doesn’t mean the thread has to be about this, other than to RSVP.

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30Comments

  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    July 19, 2021 at 7:55 pm

    Is this thing on?

  2. 2.

    Roger Moore

    July 19, 2021 at 7:59 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Nope. It’s impossible to comment right now. This comment is a figment of your imagination.

  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    July 19, 2021 at 8:02 pm

    @Roger Moore: I wonder what the lowest number of comments on a thread is.  This thread could be a contender!

  4. 4.

    MomSense

    July 19, 2021 at 8:07 pm

    Oh cool.  I’m glad we will be able to meet on Thursday.

  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    July 19, 2021 at 8:15 pm

    @MomSense: I think you in particular will be super pleased at something you will hear on Thursday.

  6. 6.

    Spanky

    July 19, 2021 at 8:16 pm

    @WaterGirl: Sadly, I think Dave’s AM posts occasionally top out at 0 or one lone comment.

  7. 7.

    H.E.Wolf

    July 19, 2021 at 8:19 pm

    Looking forward to Thursday!

    PS: I’m just a plain ordinary Wolf, not like them fancy folks with an “e”. :)

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    July 19, 2021 at 8:21 pm

    Open thread?

    Had I the means would love to track down those still living among these kids from 1966 and solicit their reactions today to their (many rather darkly tinted) prophecies then.

  9. 9.

    Another Scott

    July 19, 2021 at 8:29 pm

    Enjoy the Zoom! Looking forward to reading about it. :-)

    In other news, …

    For those curious about the internet economy – this vid got 15M views here, 28M on TikTok, 30M on an IG meme account.

    But I didn’t make a penny from any of it!

    Luckily I can back it up with production skills when brands come knocking. But lots of views basically means nothing. https://t.co/YavFKUqI9V— Kevin Parry (@kevinbparry) July 19, 2021

    He’s very talented.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  10. 10.

    phdesmond

    July 19, 2021 at 8:33 pm

    think i’ll attend the actual Zoom.

  11. 11.

    sab

    July 19, 2021 at 8:34 pm

    @Spanky: Dave has said he doesn’t care about few comments. He knows he has many devoted lurkers.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    July 19, 2021 at 8:37 pm

    @H.E.Wolf: oops!

    Not an ordinary wolf at all :-) but I will concede that you are better at spelling your name than I am.

  13. 13.

    Lapassionara

    July 19, 2021 at 8:39 pm

    I would like to attend, but what is blog time? Eastern Standard? Greenwich Mean?

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    July 19, 2021 at 8:39 pm

    @Another Scott: That is awesome.  I am saving it for the front page sometime this week.

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    July 19, 2021 at 8:40 pm

    @phdesmond: yay!  Can you send me an email message so I can reply with the zoom link once it’s set up?

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    July 19, 2021 at 8:40 pm

    @Lapassionara: Sorry, I thought everyone knew that blog time is Eastern time.  I’ll fix that up top.

  17. 17.

    WaterGirl

    July 19, 2021 at 8:42 pm

    @sab: Yeah, On the Road doesn’t get a ton of comments, either, but about 1,000 people view each OTR thread.

  18. 18.

    Another Scott

    July 19, 2021 at 8:42 pm

    @WaterGirl: It was via IamHappyToast

    He’s very talented too.

    Cheers,
    Sott.

  19. 19.

    sab

    July 19, 2021 at 8:48 pm

    @WaterGirl: I don’t zoom, but I did contribute a while back.

  20. 20.

    WaterGirl

    July 19, 2021 at 8:49 pm

    @sab: I appreciate that, and I know Voces does, too!  I do zoom without video, and a person could zoom by phone and listen in if desired.

  21. 21.

    NotMax

    July 19, 2021 at 8:59 pm

    @WaterGirl

    I do zoom without video

    There’s always the cat filter….

    ;)

  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    July 19, 2021 at 9:07 pm

    @Lapassionara: Can you send me an email so I have something to reply to with the zoom link?

  23. 23.

    H.E.Wolf

    July 19, 2021 at 9:42 pm

    @WaterGirl: ​
     
    Thanks for the fix!
    Maybe Wolvesvalley and I should start a band or something. :)

  24. 24.

    Torrey

    July 19, 2021 at 9:50 pm

    I’d like to attend, please.

    Also, I’m wondering whether it would be possible to do some kind of update on how Four Directions is doing at some point.

  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    July 19, 2021 at 9:55 pm

    @Torrey: Great!  Can you send me an email so I can reply with the zoom link once I have it?  my nym at balloon-juice.com

    Yes, we can certainly have an update from Four Directions at some point.  I just talked with them earlier this week.  Maybe we’ll get 3 under our belt, and then ask for updates ?

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    July 19, 2021 at 9:56 pm

    @H.E.Wolf: I believe she is (re) learning how to play the flute!

  27. 27.

    MomSense

    July 19, 2021 at 10:18 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Oh I hope this means we have a donor who will match contributions.  ??

  28. 28.

    something fabulous

    July 19, 2021 at 11:59 pm

    PRAISE THE [PASTA] LORD AND PASS THE [VOTING!!!] AMMUNITION, I may be WORKING [!!!!!] on Thursday afternoon my time, but if am free and home, would love to attend. If a “tentative” is ok, I will shoot you an email, WG. I mean, I will go ahead and do that anyway, and you can let me know from there! Wooty-wooty-woot.

    –SF, the lengthily-unemployed.

  29. 29.

    frosty

    July 20, 2021 at 1:07 am

    @H.E.Wolf:  A dance band! You could call it (wait for it …)

    Dances With Wolves!

  30. 30.

    WaterGirl

    July 20, 2021 at 7:42 am

    @something fabulous: Yay on joining the zoom, and triple-yay on working!!!

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