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Organizer "Tabling Jumpstart" Kits

Organizer “Tabling Jumpstart” Kits

Since Bernie announced his candidacy, we’ve produced and distributed more than 5,000 pamphlets and close to 1,000 buttons—all quality materials that work really well for tabling. Needless to say, we don’t have the budget to stock every table in the city, so we’re now offering Jumpstart Kits. Here’s what you get: 10 Bernie fans 26 buttons – 13 white & 13 blue campaign-style, unless you request…

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Brand-New Civil Rights Pamphlet

Thanks to the fabulous resources now available at www.feelthebern.org, our legal-sized Sanders Civil Rights pamphlet has been completely rewritten, and now includes a good amount of information about Bernie’s voting record and policy proposals on Latino/immigration issues. It’s also consolidated into a single version (thank you AGAIN, feelthebern.org!), rather than branded and non-branded. The…

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Morningside, Chelsea and Washington Heights

We had a great time and a great turnout for our first of four scheduled Saturdays at the Morningside Greenmarket (West 110th & Manhattan Ave). Registered at least a dozen voters, talked to a couple hundred people, distributed more than 300 pamphlets and dozens of buttons and swag. Had to close up shop a little early because we ran out of literature—which means tonight’s meetup at Jake’s Saloon is…

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Brand-New "Stand With Bernie" Pamphlet!

Brand-New “Stand With Bernie” Pamphlet!

Many of you have been using our general Intro to Bernie and Sanders on Civil Rights pamphlets for your tabling events. We are very excited about this new pamphlet, created from the one-pager released by the campaign, adding a brief bio, list of currently sponsored bills, highlights from his voting record, NYS primary voting regulations and all of the bullet points from Bernie’s recently-released…

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Notes from the #Berning Field

What a great message to receive from one of our regular meetup members! And yes, what Michael is saying is 100% correct: attractive buttons and handouts really DO catch people’s attention, jump-starting conversations that might not otherwise happen: Hey Jackie, I thought I’d let you know that I’ve already been getting a great response from fellow New Yorkers when they see me wearing a Bernie…

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Did you say "housekeeping?"

Did you say “housekeeping?”

Oh yes, it’s all about breaking out the vacuum cleaner, mop & spare chairs to set up for tonight’s house party. We’ve got 20 RSVPs from the campaign and another ten or so invited in various ways—getting ready for a full house tonight! Look for photos tomorrow! We’re entering our fans in the most creative grassroots swag contest, just for fun. Everybody gets a fan and a button, there’s plenty of…

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Meetup, Swag & HOUSE PARTIES!

Last night’s meetup at Jake’s Saloon, was very small AND very productive: we assembled more than 50 Bernie snap-together buttons, folded several hundred brochures and broke down some postcard handouts. Didn’t the buttons come out great? There was a lot of talk about getting more organized, which we all surely need to do—the house parties this Wednesday will certainly help. It’s not too late to…

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How to Start a Meetup Group

The short answer is that you decide and then you do it. Not very helpful. Here’s what we’ve learned from recent experience: First pick a day and time, because knowing the when helps determine the where. Meeting at a local pub or coffee shop on a Monday is a whole other story than that same joint on Friday. Choose your time and scout your territory before sending out any invitations. Try to…

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#DNCcorruption Tweetstorm Hitlist

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz continues to obstruct scheduling of the Democratic debates, likely because her cowardly BFF Hillary is terrified of facing Senator Sanders in front of all the nation. Schultz, unsurprisingly for a fully-bought party hack, has no public Twitter account; many of her DNC compatriots/board members do. KEEP THE HEAT ON! hashtag #DNCcorruption sample tweet: why are you letting…

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Coders, Students, Hoboken, LI & More at Jake's!

Coders, Students, Hoboken, LI & More at Jake’s!

We had a lively group of about twenty people at last night’s meetup—despite the blistering humidity!—and interested passersby included an older gentleman on his way back to Burlington. We gave him a fan for the governor, whom he said he was enroute to meeting. Who knows? Who cares! There was a LOT of interest in the 7/29 house parties, along with a bit of frustration about the difficulty finding…

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Getting CONNECTED!

There’s a LOT more cross-communication among local groups this last week, amplified by the excitement over the almost-upon-us nationwide house parties for Bernie on 7/29; training calls for hosts are being held tonight and tomorrow. Tonight is NYC4Bernie’s weekly meetup at Jake’s Saloon; tomorrow night the Washington Heights meetup group is holding a conference call. On Wednesday night, Brooklyn…

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Working from Home for Bernie...

Working from Home for Bernie…

If you haven’t heard about the Netroots Nation town hall Tweetstorm this afternoon, here’s your reminder! This is starting soon…though it’s always hard to tell exactly when something in Arizona is starting while daylight savings is in effect, since AZ doesn’t observe it (if only NONE of the states did! what a pointless waste of resources and source of confusion that old sawhorse is). Our own…

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#Berning Up? the FANS have arrived!

We’ve just received our order of 1,000 “feelthebern fans from a small family-run, green business in California. They look GREAT! who doesn’t need a fan in summer around here? Because we ordered 1,000—and because the company is made of up Bernie fans!—they cost only $1.07 each. Here is how NYC4Bernie decided to finance these, after a detailed discussion at our last meetup: one member paid for the…

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People for Bernie Nationwide Call 7/15

These take place biweekly, and we’ve been on a few. Just as meetups take a little time to find their mojo, so do conference calls, and People for Bernie is really starting to hit their stride. If you haven’t joined in yet please try to make the next one. We’ll get a link to that on our Meetup calendar. Some highlights from last night’s call: Nate Rifkin, who is on the ground with the campaign in…

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When Bernie's People Call, we ANSWER!

When Bernie’s People Call, we ANSWER!

Last night we heard from a young woman working for Bernie’s campaign (yes, one’s heart might’ve skipped a beat when the smartphone showed a Burlington area code). Seems they get a lot of calls from supporters who need literature, and no staff available for creating anything beyond what’s already available, at least not yet. She (Coby?) asked if it would be okay to direct such callers to the…

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