1. Attract and nurture the support and involvement of citizen participation from all sectors of society and all political affiliations.
2. Work to support President Barack Obama, the Blueprint for Change, and the current Agenda of his administration.
3. Follow President Obama's lead and example in project and event development.
4. Build and strengthen the spirit of community and civic engagement in local regions and across the USA.
"CAN is an independent nonpartisan grassroots group of volunteers
who wish to continue Obama's call for grassroots participation."
Click here for additional insight into USA.CAN organization
We're starting to build this network in the way we first envisioned -- from the ground up, working from the county level. We're creating a suite of tools designed to support organizers working at the county level -- including things like a bulletin board, a calendar of events, maps and statistics, local officials, media outlets, etc.
If you are a local organizer and might find this interesting, get in touch. We have to authorize you as an admin for your county, and once we do, you should be all set -- adding new members, posting events, sending broadcast emails to your group, adding new specialized groups, linking to other local groups around the USA in terms of the issues that are hot where you are.
"As challenging as they are, it's not the magnitude of our problems that concerns me the most. It's the smallness of our politics.
"America's faced big problems before. But today, our leaders in Washington seem incapable of working together in a practical, common sense way. Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions.
"And that's what we have to change first.
"We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.
"This won't happen by itself. A change in our politics can only come from you; from people across our country who believe there's a better way and are willing to work for it.”
- Senator Barack Obama, email broadcast, January 16, 2007, the day he announced his candidacy and my.barackobama.com went online
What we can do is watch the upcoming legislation closely and call out the Republicans every time they vote on some
"pork" like this project:
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/homeland-security/100295-time-to-pull-the-plug-on-the-joint-strike-fighter-alternative-engine-
(and watch this video: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/pentagon-chokes-pork-10714897)
I don't know if it is in the...
--- On Tue, Jul 27, 2010, in <a href=
"http://lightpages.net/lp/message.cfm?messageid=270531&ex=463443"
>msg270531</a>,
Sheila Canfield-Jones wrote ---
Glad to see the group back and talking. There is a lot out there we can do and keeping the
conversation
up about what we can do is important. Knowledge Empowers. I know there are many important
Primary
elections coming up and we wa...
Glad to see the group back and talking. There is a lot out there we can do and keeping the conversation
up about what we can do is important. Knowledge Empowers. I know there are many important Primary
elections coming up and we want to keep the seats we have to keep moving forward (not backwards). I
know Move On has launched their "Fight against Washington Corruption" But I think with th...
Ok, 2nd attempt. Some reactions to recent messages.
1. As mentioned before, I was pleased and surprised to see this forum reappear. I was beginning to
feel a little lonely--a local e-list of Obama folks had gotten quieter and quieter, and finally went
completely dark.
2. It seems to me that the left is going off one way, and the right is going...well, crazy. I'm concerned
that the left ...
I just posted a long message which disappeared when I tried to unwisely to change an option above. I
am sending this as a test before I bother trying to recompose it. BTW, all these options seem
unnecessarily confusing.
The begiinning of the message was my delight and surprise to see this forum reappear after such a long
absence.
Jud Lawrie
Raleigh
--- On Tue, Jul 27, 2010, in <a...
ASSETS / TOOLS FOR USERS
Image map of USA linking to every state - database details on state
Image map of state linking to every county - database details on county
Tools for organizing by state, county, city or zip-code
USA.CAN
