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On the Ground Reporting from Organizations We Have Been Funding!

by WaterGirl|  August 10, 20226:27 pm| 16 Comments

This post is in: @Actual_Citizens, Open Threads, Political Action

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With just 3 months to go before the election, it’s time to get back to some of our collective work here on Balloon Juice.

I thought we would kick it off by hearing from the folks who literally have their feet on the ground, working hard every day, putting our good money to use!  Not the fundraising peeps, but hearing from the people who are involved in the day-to-day work.

We get enough spin and bullshit and negatively from the pundits and the traditional media – it’s time to hear from the people who are in the trenches and know what it feels like on the ground.

On Thursday 8/11 – tomorrow – we will zoom with Four Directions.  We’ll be talking with O.J. (the founder) and Bret (political director) and, fingers crossed, someone who has been very active in Nevada.

Next week – on 8/17 or 8/18 – we will hear from the folks at Voces de la Frontera!   We hope to have Fabi (political director) and some of the leaders and student leaders.

The following week – on 8/24 or 8/25 – we will hear from the folks at VAAC! aka Voting Access for All Coalition.  If you missed the first zoom with VAAC, here’s your chance to meet some amazing and impressive folks who were formerly incarcerated and are now leaders of this great organization.  I think I can speak for everyone who was at the first zoom when I say that we truly felt like we had met kindred spirits, in all the ways that count.

All times tentatively set at 7:30 pm Eastern.

So… who wants to join us for the zooms, and get the skinny from the folks who are out there?  That really does provide an entirely different perspective than we get from the pundits, the media, the polls, the twitter machine.

Let us know in the comments if you want to join the zooms, and please follow up with an email to me so I can send you the zoom links.

How nice is it to be having a good run these past few days?  It’s like a cool rain after being battered by the heat for days and weeks and months on end.

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16Comments

  1. 1.

    Leslie

    August 10, 2022 at 6:34 pm

    Sounds great! Would love to hear from the folks out there doing the work.

  2. 2.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 10, 2022 at 6:43 pm

    I’ll be there!

  3. 3.

    Joy in FL

    August 10, 2022 at 7:04 pm

    I would love to be present for all of them. I will email you to confirm as soon as I post this, because otherwise one of my cats will move and attract my attention, and I will forget to email you : )

  4. 4.

    scav

    August 10, 2022 at 7:18 pm

    Speaking of On The Ground Reporting, satellite images of a certain airbase in Crimea.  ( I’m also hoping that reports of how “All is Well!” from inside team orangemandius are equally factual.)

  5. 5.

    Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)

    August 10, 2022 at 7:33 pm

    I am looking forward to hearing about their progress, especially 4 Directions who I’ve been giving to monthly for quite a while now! Thanks,

  6. 6.

    AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue team

    August 10, 2022 at 7:52 pm

    This sounds awesome! I’m still getting back to full energy so can’t guarantee I’ll make it but will you post the times on here WG?

    Thanks for making this happen.

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    August 10, 2022 at 8:02 pm

    @AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue team: Duh!  Thank you.

    I added this up top.

    All times tentatively set at 7:30 pm Eastern.

  8. 8.

    Almost Retired

    August 10, 2022 at 8:12 pm

    This is awesome!  Can’t make tomorrow’s Zoom, but I’m keeping all prospective times for the Voces and VAAC Zooms open.

  9. 9.

    H.E.Wolf

    August 10, 2022 at 8:16 pm

    Thank you WaterGirl for arranging these updates! I’ve been wondering about exactly this, since “our” (= jackal-funded) organizations are working in so many swing states this year.

  10. 10.

    Madeleine

    August 10, 2022 at 9:41 pm

    I’d like to be there. What about Promote the Vote?

  11. 11.

    japa21

    August 10, 2022 at 9:57 pm

    Please send me the info.  Not sure if I can make them or not, but I’ll try to find a way.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    August 10, 2022 at 10:18 pm

    @japa21: Please send me an email and I will reply with the zoom link.  thank you!

  13. 13.

    Torrey

    August 10, 2022 at 10:38 pm

    I’d like to attend all three. Will send an email to confirm.

  14. 14.

    Origuy

    August 10, 2022 at 10:38 pm

    .@BetoORourke to a Greg Abbott supporter who laughed when the gubernatorial candidate mentioned the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas: “It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.” #txlege pic.twitter.com/EyT4UD72mw— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) August 11, 2022

  15. 15.

    Tenar Arha

    August 10, 2022 at 11:39 pm

    I’d like to try to come tomorrow to start. Sending email now.

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    August 11, 2022 at 8:15 am

    @Origuy: That was so great!

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