dfa 50 state action plan

DFA 50 State Action PlanMay 18th, 2010

Welcome! Thanks for joining us! Tonight’s Agenda

Hear from Gov. Howard Dean Where we are - After HCR and 2010 Elections The Plan – DFA’s 50 State Action Plan for

2010 Next Steps – How you can organize in your

community

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Gov. Howard Dean Thanks for all your efforts on Health

Care Reform Over 1,345,000 petition signatures Over 50,000 phone calls to Congress Over 15,000 rally in Washington in June with Governor

Dean More than 3,150 congressional meetings and petition

deliveries

Importance of activism in all 50 states


DFA is about standing up when others tell you to sit down!



Where we are

Health Care fight continues to 2010 elections

DFA has doubled our organizing staff

Focus: Train activists, advocate issues, win elections




Update from the field

Jim Dean in Valley Forge, PA at Sestak election party




DFA Actions

Less meetings, more action

Monthly Actions Action Teams organize events around local

and national progressive issues

Local Action Teams Apply to lead a local Action Team Logistics, Recruitment, & Media roles




Regional Action Summits To develop DFA leadership in a region Organizing skills workshops Planning and issue strategy sessions National resources available to best local

campaign plans




More Campaign Academies Sign up for a 2010 Campaign Academy

June 5-6 Dallas, TX June 12-13 Burlington, VT June 12-13 Charleson, SC June 26-27 Brick, NJ July 10-11 San Bernadino, CA July 10-11 St. Louis, MO www.democracyforamerica.com/campaignacademy

Or Apply to help organize a training near you in 2011 www.democracyforamerica.com/trainingrequest


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New & Improved Night School New platform

Enhanced interactive capabilities

Topics scheduled for 2010: Developing a Winning Message Using Google Ads & Docs Organizing Veterans Much more coming soon

Let us know what you want to learn before November!




Better Democrats in 2010 Primaries Matter

From Joe Lieberman to Blanche Lincoln and beyond..

Heroes and Villians Rewarding the heroes from the health care fight and

punishing the villians

Grassroots All Stars You select the best grassroots challengers of 2010

50 State All Stars Help us endorse at least one progressive down ballot

race in every state




DFA Dean Corps Program DFA organizers placed on the key

progressive campaigns this September

Organizers hired from DFA Campaign Academy trainings

Will work to mobilize local DFA members around the campaign

Pilot program in Ohio and Arkansas this spring




Update from the field…

Arshad in Little Rock, AR at Bill Halter HQ




Coming up… DADT Petition Deliveries

Sign up to deliver!

Move Your Money Direct action against the ‘too big to fail’ banks Coalition with Huffpost, Michael Moore and

many others

Supporting Progressive Democrats in Primaries




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