Obama Grassroots

This is one of the things I'm thinking about while making art (and while not making art)

WELCOME, PRESIDENT OBAMA!

Just 20 days until the inauguration of President Obama! What a relief to have a president we can be proud of ,who can speak in sentences and even paragraphs. He will need our help to bring some sense to this mess that Bush has made.

Those of us who donated to or worked on the Obama campaign are part of the valuable Obama database that was tapped recently to form grassroots groups supportive of our new prez. More than 4200 groups met across the country during the weekend of December 13-14 to talk about how they could sustain the enthusiasm developed for Barack Obama during the campaign.

We started a group here in western Mass. - Obama Grassroots of Western Massachusetts (obamagrassroots.wma@gmail.com). We will work locally to help the Obama team organize and will give our feedback on issues important to us.

COUNTDOWN TO JANUARY 20TH

Our first group mission is to organize an event that will benefit our community. We chose to support the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts with a countdown to January 20th. Our group of about 60 people has pledged to donate $20 each and to contact 20 friends/relatives/neighbors/co-workers, etc. and ask them each to donate $20 and to contact more Obama supporters themselves to ask for donations of $20.

WHY DOLLARS AND NOT CANS?

We are collecting donations, rather than food, because the Food Bank is able to purchase $7 worth of food for each $1 donated. This means that $20 can purchase $140 worth of food. The Food Bank distributes about 6 million pounds of food to children, the elderly, veterans, the disabled and working families, through soup kitchens, food pantries, homeless shelters, childcare centers and elder programs throughout Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden and Hampshire counties - all the counties of western Massachusetts.

HOW ABOUT KICKING IN $20 TO HELP AND CELEBRATE?
The Food Bank has a secure website where donations can be made http://www.foodbankwma.org/ in honor of President Obama. (If you make a donation, be sure to mark it in honor of President Obama.) Or, if you want to donate by check, send it to:

The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, Inc.

P.O. Box 160

Hatfield, MA 01038

Thanks for your help in contributing to this meaningful welcome to our new president!

Bye-bye, Yuck Man!