A National Day of Service - Jan 19, 2009

We are at a “defining moment” in our movement. Andy Grove, in his great book on business management, Only the Paranoid Survive, describes it as an inflection point:



We have traveled a successful arc that took us to this point but “now what?” Do we ride the curve back down as we let what we built disassemble or do we take this opportunity to redefine ourselves and begin a new trajectory upward? The choice is ours but the time is now.

President Obama is calling on his grassroots supporters to participate in a national day of service on January 19th, 2009. As the Regional Field Organizer for the campaign in congressional districts 1 and 6, I am asking our group to rise to the President-Elect's request.

The Obama team wants to vet the project ideas by January 2nd so a few of our volunteer organizers are reaching out to local housing, food and poverty groups to see what opportunities exist. If you have any ideas, please let us know either by posting to our Google discussion group or by leaving a comment on this blog.

It doesn’t have to be a monumental project but it does need to make a difference in your community. We are “community organizers”, are we not?

Yes we can!