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October 25, 2005

Two important volunteer opportunities

Progressive Dane is looking for volunteers to help with 2 initiatives we recently signed onto; The Healthy Families, Healthy City Campaign and the Bring Our Troops Home Campaign.

The former will seek to enact an ordinance requiring that all employees in the city of Madison have access to sick leave. The latter will send the sense of the community (along with other Wisconsin communities!) that our troops should be brought home from Iraq immediately.

There are concrete ways to help these two important efforts.

The Healthy Families, Healthy City Campaign will be going door-top-door in swing alder districts to build support on Thursdays evenings, Saturdays and Sundays. At this point, we are seeking interested folks to help with details to follow. Two door to door canvasses are planned: one on Saturday, November 5th and the other on Sunday, November 13. Please contact Progressive Dane to volunteer.

The Bring Our Troops Home campaign is canvassing to collect petition signatures to put the question of withdrawal to a local referendum on the April ballot. At this point, there are just a couple of weeks and 4-5000 signatures that are still needed. Now that the big summer/fall outside events are behind us, we can most effectively collect the needed signatures at the door. One volunteer noted that she was getting 75% of the folks she visited to sign.

There are canvas routes available west, near west, and east (district 15) areas that are currently being canvassed. The best way to hookup with this effort is to attend the canvas sendoff from EVP Coffee (orange building on the corner of Baldwin and E Wash) on Sunday the 23rd and Sunday the 30th, from 10 am to noon to get materials and training. More details are available by clicking here.

Posted by prodane at October 25, 2005 05:16 AM