Last week’s Friday Power Lunch, the special monthly national program, explored building community as one of the core values of grassroots work. It was quite a special show with much good advice and action items to inspire you in building and maintaining your communities. I hope you’ll check it out.
Our opening music video was Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5” in honor of our guest, Ellen Cassedy, who wrote the book that inspired the movie.
As Women’s History Month comes to a close, Katherine White and Finale Norton proudly shared that our own Andrea Miller, President of the National Women’s Political Caucus of Virginia and Founding Board Member of Center for Common Ground, was featured on The View. Click here to watch the video of Andrea Miller.
Susan Wagner from the Grassroots Collaboration Project joined show hosts Katherine White & Finale Norton.
Watch the recording of the entire show here.
ELLEN CASSEDY, Activist and author of Working 9 to 5: A Women’s Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Moviewas interviewed by SUSAN WAGNER. Ellen’s stories resonated with those of us who remember trying to deal with workplace challenges half a century ago. Ellen and Susan spoke about how in 1973, women won rights and respect at the office and changed workplaces throughout America. Ellen reflected on how their lessons learned can help our work today but reminded us to persevere – that the work is never done and we need to keep doing it over and over again. Watch this segment
There are many postcard programs but none receives more positive feedback than the year-round program of NEAZ Native Democrats! JENNIFER STOKELY EIS, their out-of-State Director, and ELIZABETH REINGOLD, Leadership Team of the Markers for Democracy, were interviewed by FINALE NORTON. They discussed how this program lives its Democratic values every day, speaks the language of the people they connect with, and focuses on building a community of voters instead of promoting campaigns or candidates. Particularly interesting was that the local organizer and their phone number were on every postcard.
One story they told that demonstrated how care in building community transfers positive responses from one communication mode to another was about a phone bank they ran last year. Of the 200 people called, 190 were happy to hear from them. Such a positive response to being called is rare. Volunteers were delighted to be part of this effort, a testament to what the NE Arizona Native Democrats are doing right. Watch this segment
JUDY KINCAID, North Carolina Activist and Founder of Leaflet Every Door, was interviewed by KATHERINE WHITE. They spoke about how and why Judy started this program of handing out leaflets which revitalized her local precinct and connects regularly with voters, not just around elections. They spoke about thinking of a precinct as your neighborhood and the fact that the 2024 target is to reach voters who are left-leaning but not always voting. Judy reminded folks about Simon Rosenberg’s advice: Democrats need to get loud. Watch this segment
Download copies of her 2024 leaflets below and encourage your groups to make your own!
PREVIEW OF THIS WEEK’S SHOW
This Friday we are going to go behind the curtain and discuss how the legislative sausage is made in the General Assembly. Our guests will include:
- Michael Pope – Founder & Host, Pod Virginia
- Delegate Sam Rasoul – HD38, Roanoke, Virginia
- Delegate Jackie Glass – HD93, Norfolk, Virginia
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