Just print out your volunteer card and bring it to any of the following great Brooklyn bars:

The Obama campaign is trying something that has never been done before. The campaign will have all of its volunteers in battleground states going door-to-door to talk to voters in person. They will not make any reminder phone calls. Instead, the campaign has outsourced the calling program to blue states like New York. Every single reminder phone call to an Obama supporter in a battleground state like Pennsylvania or Ohio will come from a blue state like New York.

Repeat: Every single reminder phone call to an Obama supporter in a battleground state will come from a state like New York.

That means that we’re counting on you, Brooklyn, in a way that no Presidential campaign up to this point has. Those reminder phone calls are an essential part of the get out the vote operation in battleground states. We MUST make these phone calls, and every phone call that goes unmade hurts our chance to win this election. In these last days, we need to make literally millions of phone calls from New York.

Brooklyn alone is responsible for making close to a million calls.

We need 10,000 volunteers from Brooklyn to meet our call goal. So, we’ll need every single person on this email list to make a couple of hours sometime between now and 8 PM on Tuesday evening, get three or four friends together and come down to one of the following locations with your cell phones and chargers to make some reminder calls. The calls are very simple. You won’t be calling any undecided voters. You’ll just be calling supporters and reminding them to vote in the election on Tuesday.

And don’t forget: all phone bank volunteers get 2-for-1 drinks on election night!!!

(We also need people who can help flyer. So, if you can’t make calls but you still want to help, please email amandat [at] brooklynforbarack.org and we’ll put you on a street team.)

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BRING YOUR CELL PHONE AND CHARGER

LOCATIONS AND START TIMES:

South Slope:
GRAND PROSPECT HALL
263 Prospect Ave (btwn 5th Ave/6th Ave)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 10am I TUE 9am

Clinton Hill:
BROOKLYN MASONIC TEMPLE
317 Clermont Ave (at Lafayette Ave)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 10am I TUE 9am

Fort Greene:
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC – BAM CAFÉ
30 Lafayette Ave (at Ashland Pl)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 10am I TUE 1pm

Brownsville:
POLY LOUNGE CAFÉ
530 Sutter Ave (btwn Hinsdale St/Williams)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 4pm I TUE 9am

Park Slope:
BROOKLYN LYCEUM
227 Fourth Ave (at Union St)
MON 10am I TUE 9am

Bed-Stuy
THE LAB
1424 Fulton St (at Brooklyn Ave)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 10am I TUE 9am

Bushwick:
3RD WARD
195 Morgan Ave (at Stagg St)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 10am I TUE 9am

Canarsie:
SALLY’S RESTAURANT
1574 Ralph Ave (btwn Foster Ave/Farragut)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 10am I TUE 9am

Flatbush:
CAFÉ OMAR
1744 Nostrand Ave (at Avenue D)
SAT 10am I SUN 12pm I MON 10am I TUE 9am

Nov. 4 (3 buses): leave 5:45 a.m., return to Brooklyn by 6 p.m.; leave 7:45 a.m, return to Brooklyn by 8 p.m., leave 10:45 a.m., return to Brooklyn by 11 p.m.
To buy your tickets for the buses for Philly on Nov. 4, go to: http://www.cbidems.org/bus-trips-to-philly
Questions: email Jeanne Heifetz Jeanne@brooklynforbarack.org

Want to bring our neighboring swing state home for Obama? Making sure everyone in PA is registered to vote is a great way to help! We will work with the amazing field staff in NW/North Philly, in a combination of door-to-door canvass and voter-reg. hot spots to find and register voters, recruit local volunteers, and lay the groundwork for get-out-the-vote efforts in November.

We will be traveling from Brooklyn in a combination of cars and a chartered bus. I will get back in touch with you about travel options.

To go on this trip, you MUST email me:

• your name
• your cellphone number
• your neighborhood
• if you have a car and can give rides (how many?)
• if you need a ride

If you are signing up for more than one person, please include all requested info for each volunteer.

Email: jeanne@brooklynforbarack.org

Unless I get that information from you, I cannot add you to the list. Please put “Oct.5 trip” in the subject line. Thanks!

Jeanne Heifetz

jeanne@brooklynforbarack.org

Here in New York the national campaign has chosen three larger events – July 22nd in Queens, July 23rd in Manhattan, and July 29th in Brooklyn – to film for inclusion in their presentation of the platform. Brooklyn for Barack will be helping to host the Brooklyn event.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
4:30pm – 9:00pm
Medgar Evers College
Founders’ Auditorium, Bedford Building
1650 Bedford Avenue @ Crown Street
Subways: 2/3, Franklin and President Street.

This is your chance to share your views, ideas, and suggestions, or just to hear what your fellow New Yorkers think is important for New York and for the country. The results of these Platform Meetings will be incorporated into the formal process that culminates in the adoption of the platform at the Democratic Convention in August. A few participants may even be invited to appear and testify at the National Hearing and at the Convention.

To RSVP or submit a written statement prior to the event (strongly encouraged), or for more information about the Queens and Manhattan events, please go to:

http://www.nyobama.com/platform

Or feel free to contact us at info@brooklynforbarack.org with questions.

We registered voters at 7 events last week. The organizers of AfroPunk were gracious enough to offer us a table, and we registered voters at 5 days of the AfroPunk music festival. We also registered voters at the Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket, and the St. Marks (b/w Classon & Grand) Block Party (pictured).

Brooklyn for Barack is hosting a watch party at Brooklyn Tavern. 8pm.

31 3rd Avenue in Brooklyn (b/w Atlantic & State) About 2 blocks from the Atlantic/Pacific St stop

or

ObamaNYC is hosting a watch party at Dewey’s Flatiron Bar & Grill 7pm.
210 5th Ave in Manhattan (b/w 25th & 26th)

If you are interested in assisting with voter registration, please contact info@brooklynforbarack.org or check back soon for more information.