Obama Day of Action Stamford Oct. 21st

Connecticut Day of Action. On Sunday, October 21, 2007, over 100 Obama supporters and volunteers gathered at the Yerwood Community Center in the heart of downtown Stamford. It was a beautiful autumn day -- perfect for learning all about Barack Obama's movement to change this country.

Volunteers who have taken the lead in their local districts and towns came from all across Connecticut to learn the disciplines and principles of community organizing. After a rousing video of Barack Obama, there were several presentations and updates on what is going on around the state with Students for Barack Obama, Generation Obama, Faith-Action-Change. Damian Bednarz and David Glick drove down from New Hampshire to share with everyone all about the Campaign and activities going on in New Hampshire.


After the presentations, everyone participated in an interactive mini-Camp Obama. Participants learned about the principles, tools, techniques and disciplines of community organizing through a series of role playing exercises, sharing their own self-interests, identifying leadership within the community and more.

Participants then broke up into their local areas and discussed the next step in building their local grassroots organizations. A lot of plans were made and goals established. Here are some highlights of the next step in organizing Connecticut grassroots efforts.

• Connecticut/New Hampshire Exchange: Everyone is excited about going to New Hampshire. Over the past six months, many Connecticut volunteers have been going up to New Hampshire. To solidify our efforts, the CT/NH Exchange group is being formed. Be sure to watch for the link on MyBo, www.ctobama.org and Facebook.
  
• Obama Day of Action: The primary goal of this event is to provide interactive training of the tools, disciplines, techniques and principles of community organizing. There will be two more of these events -- one in New Haven and one in Hartford.
  
• Canvassing and Voter Registration: Each congressional district set dates for their next meeting and goals for canvassing, voter registration and building up support for New Hampshire.