Press
Brooklyn for Barack in the Press
February, 2008
Brooklyn for Barack founder Jordan Thomas is profiled in the New York Times. Here’s how is starts:
At 3 o’clock one morning last February, Jordan Thomas, a 37-year-old actor-turned-filmmaker, woke up in his Brooklyn apartment and headed for the computer. Inspired by Barack Obama’s star-making speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Mr. Thomas had been paying close attention to the Illinois senator, and was now eager to catch the online announcement about how to join his presidential effort.
September 2007
Brooklyn for Barack organizer Jackie Esposito talks with the New York Sun about the Washington Square Park rally:
A chairwoman of the grassroots political organization, Brooklyn for Barack, Jacqueline Esposito, said her organization has been trying for some time to convince Mr. Obama to hold a free rally in New York.
“The crowds that Barack Obama generates — it’s just unprecedented. Young people, older people, the people who come out for this candidate are just incredible,” she said. “It’s sort of that mentality: If you build it, they will come.”
June, 2007
The Times takes a look at grassroots Obama organizing in New York City:
It was just an organizational meeting for Senator Barack Obama’s New York volunteers, but the gathering this month jammed every pew of a church in the East Village, and the crowd spilled over into not one but two overflow rooms.
All told, 710 people showed up, even though the closest they would get to Mr. Obama, the Illinois Democrat and presidential candidate, that night would be to view a campaign screening of a biographical DVD. They cheered wildly anyway. Many had already formed their own volunteer groups in New York: Brooklyn for Barack, NYC4Obama, the Audacity of Park Slope. Quite a few already had Web sites, neatly designed logos, newsletters and regular meetings.
April, 2007
The Brooklyn Paper makes a visit to an early Brooklyn for Barack event:
[W]hat is most refreshing about Brooklyn’s budding Obamania is that it is not exclusively an affliction of young college kids (“Rally on the green!) and professional activists (“Make sure to grab a stack of petitions by the door!”).
There were about 100 people on hand — and the group itself was an inspiration, representing virtually all of Brooklyn (and there were even three guys from Staten Island who cursed their hometown as “locked up for Giuliani”) and uniting races and ethnic groups. A gorgeous mosaic, if you will.
