via Andrew Sullivan, take a look at what Oakland has done:
500 Volunteer on a Sunday to Help Obama's Upcoming Oakland AppearanceOn just two days notice, close to 500 volunteers showed up in the Bay Area--not for a rally by Barack Obama--but to plan his upcoming appearance on March 17 in Oakland. Two separate meetings were held by organizers of the Obama campaign. The picture above is from the Oakland meeting.
There was enthusiasm in the room as veterans of past Democratic campaigns met many who were new to electoral politics.
As the meeting was about to begin, I spoke with Marie Houssni, who lives in the San Jose area and is a high school language teacher...
When asked if it wasn't early, she said "No. We need to start early. Last time, when it was the John Edwards campaign, I didn't get started until 3 months before the primary and that was too late. There's a large group of people that are very uninformed, because they are plugged into their I-pods and MTV. You know, we're busy. I'm a working mother. People have two and three jobs. They're leery of politics. They've been misled in the past, so the more you can get people on board that they are the citizenry. Its up to them to change things."
...When I told her that many pundits and others were predicting a heavy media campaign and asked her what she thought of that, she said: "I can tell you what I am going to be doing. I'll be working at the De Anza Flea market once a week, to regisater voters, sell bumper strips, and badges. We'll also be going to West Valley College once every two weeks to register new voters. Our big campaign is to get the younger kids, the younger people on board."
500 volunteers showed up to help plan a future event? That's insane.
This country has never seen a campaign like this. People power, people. People power.
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