Democracy for New Hampshire - Volunteer

Peace Day Exeter

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:43:50 -0400

The Peace Day Exeter festival will be held on Sunday, September 21 in the lovely downtown Swasey Parkway between the hours of 1 and 5 PM. Activities for the festival include workshops and games for children, music and poetry, guest speakers, panel discussions on peace and sustainability issues, and other exciting events under two tents and the Swasey Parkway gazebo. Some of the participants to date include key note speaker, peace and campaign finance reform advocate Doris “Granny D” Haddock, The Tents of Hope Project, Camps for Diversity with Marilyn Kellogg, the Taoist Tai Chi Society, yoga and meditation with Julie Rost, environmental activist Beth Tener, Mark McPeak from UUSC Just Democracy, music supplied by Chris Avery and The Sassafras String Band, Reni Taylor, Drew Sullivan, Ruth George and other musical guests and poets. The festival is planned to coincide with the UN International Day of Peace. The Blue Moon Market and Café will supply a wonderful array of food and drink. Phillips Exeter Academy students will work with children in supportive and educational roles. Films and meditative exercises for adults are also scheduled. This is a family festival, and those attending are encouraged to bring a blanket or folding chairs and enjoy the day’s activities. The First Unitarian Universalist Society of Exeter is the rain location for this event. For more information, please visit our webpage: www.peacedayexeter.org. If you’re interested in volunteering for Peace Day Exeter, please contact either Cindy at clategan@comcast.net or Bob at bmoore628@comcast.net, phone: 603-642-4648.

ServeNext Presidential Straw Poll is NOW LIVE!

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:14:02 -0500

The ServeNext Presidential Straw Poll is now ready for your vote! Designed celebrate the season of service, create some friendly competition between campaigns, and address the unprecedented critical food shortage faced by residents in need this winter, the contest will benefit the New Hampshire Food Bank and its local agencies across the state.

CLICK HERE TO VOTE NOW!

Clinton and McCain serve those who serve America

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:44:42 -0500

U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) commemorated Veteran's Day in Waterloo, IA by announcing new policy proposals to ensure that America fulfills its obligations to those who have served and sacrificed for the nation including giving military veterans additional opportunities to serve their country through AmeriCorps.

Hillary will make vouchers worth up to $10,000 available to returning veterans who want to serve in AmeriCorps and select not-for-profit organizations. These organizations would provide at least $5,000 to supplement the voucher. This system will help veterans create normal routines and reenter their communities while doing meaningful work serving their country. Hillary will make this subsidy available to as many as 20,000 veterans a year.

Last month, Senator Clinton announced her plans to expand AmeriCorps by 100,000 members by the end of her first term as President and increase the Segal Education Award from $4,725 to $10,000 for each year of service.

Service in the air on Presidential campaigns; NH Food Bank faces critical shortage

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:17:28 -0500

U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) are asking their supporters to take action - and they don't (just) mean phonebanking or canvassing. They're asking for folks to give back directly to their communities.

Through Thanksgiving, the Clinton campaign will collect food for those in need this holiday season.

During Thanksgiving week and through the end of November, the campaign will deliver food and other items collected to shelters and pantries throughout the state. “Serving the ‘least of these’ in our communities is the ultimate contribution to the common good. We are all blessed when we join together to offer a helping hand,” said Senator Clinton. “I am heartened that my campaign is joining with the people of New Hampshire in lifting up our fellow Americans in need as we enter the holiday season.”

Senator Clinton highlights spike in National Service applications since 9/11

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:26:33 -0500

At series of events today at colleges and universities throughout the Northeast including the University of New Hampshire in Durham, U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (NY-D) highlighted how eager young Americans are to give back to their country through National Service programs since 9/11.

During her remarks at each event, Clinton honored the activism and public service of students and recent graduates. In particular, she noted that between 2000 and 2006, applications to Teach for America nearly tripled and that between 2004 and 2006, applications to the AmeriCorps VISTA program jumped 50%.

March to Re-Energize New Hampshire - 3 Days to Go

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:47:51 -0400

Yesterday, over a hundred people crowded before Nashua’s City Hall to kick off the March to Re-Energize New Hampshire, a walk from Nashua to Concord calling for national leadership on real global warming solutions and a clean energy economy. After today, only 3 days to go until masses of Granite Staters converge on the State House lawn to send this message.

After walking from Nashua to Litchfield yesterday, the marchers will finish today’s (Thursday’s) journey at Bronstein Park in Manchester at 7pm, to music by the Powerkegs and speeches by business and community leaders.

Join us at Bronstein Park tonight (Thursday) at 7pm! Directions are at:

http://www.climatesummer.org/nhschedule

For info on the the march or the culminating rally on Sunday, Aug. 5 at noon at the State House in Concord, click here:

http://www.climatesummer.org/march

March to ReEnergizeNH – 5 Days to Go: the Power of Walking

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:40:58 -0400

All of us, organizers and volunteers, are in the campaign office. Laptops, phone lists, signups on the walls, folded chairs, empty juice bottles strewn everywhere. There’s a nervous excitement in the air.

This evening – Tuesday, July 31 at 6:30pm – the March to Re-Energize New Hampshire is celebrating its kickoff in Greeley Park, at 105 Concord St. in Nashua. Granny D, no stranger to long journeys for a cause, will talk to us about the power of walking, and give her blessings as we prepare to go.

Join us for the March to Re-Energize NH! July 31, 6:30pm: kickoff celebration in Greeley Park; August 1-5: Nashua 6:30pm; Aug. 1-5, or the rally on Sunday, Aug. 5:

http://www.climatesummer.org/march

March to ReEnergize NH - 6 Days Left: Farming for the future

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:42:05 -0400

6 days, thousands of Granite Staters from all walks of life will
gather on the State House lawn, calling for national action on global warming.

You can sign up at:
http://www.climatesummer.org/march

You should see our office: coffee donations stacked high, green flags and green shirts, maps and laptops, the lavender walls barely showing beneath lists of our endorsers and newspaper clippings. It's not that we're messy (well, that could be true); people just keep showing at our door, asking to help – friends, neighbors, and the guy from the bagel shop downstairs.

And it's not just the office that's swelling with activity – it's the whole Granite State. Now we have a bus coming from Portsmouth and carpools from Hanover. Newspapers are publishing letters from natives of Hooksett, Amherst, and Nashua daily. A woman we met at the Canterbury Fair yesterday remarked, "You guys are everywhere."

It certainly feels like it – one second I'm on the phone with the Governor's secretary, and the next I'm wondering if I bought enough pancake batter for Saturday night's celebration of New Hampshire maple syrup. Amidst the hype and excitement growing all across the state, it's easy to forget why exactly Granite Staters are set on walking five full days in the first place.

Sununu Gets Iraq Report Card

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:56:00 -0400

WHO: Concerned New Hampshire Citizens
WHAT: Senator Sununu’s failing grades on bringing the troops home
WHEN: Friday, July 27, 2007 at 11:00 a.m.
WHERE: Lobby of the Legislative Office Building

Students join with New Hampshire Citizens calling for a Clean Energy Economy

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:41:02 -0400

Summer is here and that means baseball games, farmers markets, and afternoons in the local park. For 25 students here in New Hampshire it also means canvassing neighborhoods, meetings with groups of all types from churches to local energy councils to Rotary Clubs and high schoolers. It means having as many conversations as we can with as many people as we can, all to build up to a five day march from Nashua to Concord where we will have the largest demonstration calling for action to halt global warming yet- over 3,000 people on the statehouse lawn.

Earlier, Nancy Tobi briefly mentioned this effort, which we call the March to ReEnergize New Hampshire. The March is a five day walk on August 1st through 5th to demand action to build a clean energy economy- 80% reductions in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 and 2 million new job in a clean energy sector. That is the goal and the demand but the March to ReEnegize New Hampshire is so much more. It is thousands of conversations between the 25 of us working and citizens. It is the thousands more conversations between those citizens and their neighbors. It is 3,000+ people in Concord on August 5th, but also the hundreds (thousands?) in Nashua at Greeley Park on July 31st to kickoff the March that will happen the next day. It is the community events that will happen in Hooksett, Pembroke, Suncook, Litchfield along the way. The house parties, the presentations and discussions and community events that will lead up to the March.

Bird-dog training in New London Feb. 25

Sat, 10 Feb 2007 06:29:30 -0500

A conference at Colby Sawyer College on Sunday, Feb 25 will give citizens the skills and tools they need to interact with Presidential candidates.

“Democracy in Action” will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. in Clement Hall of Colby Sawyer’s Ivey Center. The conference, which includes workshops on current issues and hands-on training on how to get candidates to answer your question, is free and open to the public.

Issue workshops will include Iraq and nuclear weapons; the federal budget; climate change; and water, trade policy and the environment.

Democracy in Action is co-sponsored by Colby-Sawyer Coalition for Peace & Justice, American Friends Service Committee, PrioritiesNH, NH Peace Action, and Carbon Coalition. For more information or to pre-register, contact Erin Placey at eplacey@afsc.org or 603-224-2407.

Dover Canvas - Volunteers needed

Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:42:10 -0400

The New Hampshire Democratic Party is canvassing in Dover Wards 3 and 4 on Saturday, October 14th at 10 am and on Sunday, October 15th at 1pm - and we are looking for volunteers to help introduce our neighbors to our great candidates!

If you are interested in joining us in Dover for this canvas, please contact Nicole Miller -
New Hampshire Democratic Party
Strafford County Field Organizer
nmiller@nhdp.org
603-749-6193

Tax Day 2006 Leafletting

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:58:52 -0400

Keene and Manchester, Statewide:

PrioritiesNH and TrueMajority, with several NH partners, will be in front of post offices talking with taxpayers about America’s spending priorities. We’ll show citizens how their federal tax dollars are spent and encourage them to communicate their own priorities to Congress.

Meet up with Tax Day teams at the post offices at 1000 Elm St. in Manchester and at 196 Main St. in Keene from 3 to 6 pm Monday. We’ll provide leaflets and TrueMajority pens to hand out and clipboards to enlist others to our cause.

We would also like to have teams at post offices in other communities – especially Plymouth, Laconia, Nashua, and Dover – during the morning and/or afternoon rush hours. If you'd like to lead a team in your community, please contact Melissa Bernardin at (603) 224-3800. For more information: http://www.prioritiesnh.org/events.php

GOTV: Londonderry/Auburn Special Election

Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:47:37 -0500

John Robinson of Londonderry is running for an open seat in the NH House of Representatives in a January 24 special election in Londonderry and Auburn, Hillsborough County's 10th District.

John is the lead Londonderry reporter for Nutfield Publishers (publishers of the Londonderry Times) as well as a freelance writer. He is also the founder and operations manager of WLLO-LPFM, the Londonderry School District's FM Radio Station. John is extremely active within the Londonderry community and as a volunteer in the Londonderry school system, for which he has been recognized by Governor Lynch.

Volunteers -- for phone calls, visibility, etc. -- to help John with his campaign to bring a strong new Londonderry voice to the State House can contact his campaign through the state Democratic party headquarters at 225-6899, or drop in at 2 1/2 Beacon St., Concord anytime between now and Tuesday evening.

DFNH volunteer positions

Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:10:33 -0500

Dear DFNH Members & Friends:

Democracy for New Hampshire continues to be the leading grassroots political action committee in New Hampshire. To further our growth, we need your help to help fill several critical roles in our organization.

We're looking for several committed, high-energy people to fulfill key volunteer roles in our organization. Ideal candidates will be individuals who think both strategically and tactically about their role in the organization. We also want people who are interested in advancing and improving the good work that has already occurred in each of these positions. You must be able to assume responsibility without being bossy, and you should be able to produce results that meaningfully impact the work we do.

Each position requires 5-10 hours of volunteer effort each week. Each position requires the person have a consistent (and ideally, high-speed) connection to the Internet, facility with standard computing software and skills (e.g., word processing, spreadsheets, Internet searching), and a passion for advancing the DFNH mission.

A final word: while experience helps (and sometimes is essential in our technical positions), it is not an absolute requirement. If you're a fast learner and a responsible person, we can provide training and guidance to help you become effective in what might be a new role for you.

We're looking to fill the following positions at DFNH. To learn more, please click on one of the links below to see a complete job description for each position.

To apply, please send a current resume to staffing@democracyfornewhampshire.com along with a cover note explaining your interest in the position, relevant background, and why this volunteer position would be a good fit for you and DFNH.

We hope you will join us!

Peter Glenshaw
Chair, Democracy for New Hampshire
pglenshaw@democracyfornewhampshire.com