- Mary Ellen Goodman, ACTivist

Since 2004, New Yorkers like Mary Ellen have been volunteering with ACT NOW to help win elections the old-fashioned way - by talking directly to voters!

This year, we face an historic campaign - one that has the potential to bring change to our government from Albany to the White House. Will you help us turn the tide?

On Thursday, August 28th at 7PM, we’ll be having a little well-deserved fun (and drink!) at our “Convention Watch and Pep Rally!” Won’t you join us to watch Barack Obama officially accept the Democratic nomination for President of the United States?

On Saturday, September 6th, we’re taking our first trip to Queens to help defeat conservative state Senator Serf Maltese and end 40 years of  Republican domination in the New York State Senate. We’re just two seats from a Democratic majority!

And if you can’t make it out to the canvass, you can join us on Thursday nights as we call targeted voters in Serf’s district, all from the convenience of our Manhattan phone banks.

Finally, don’t forget, we’ve got an important swing state just a couple hours away! We’ve been to our old stomping grounds of Pennsylvania twice this year to register Democratic voters and we are currently developing plans for future trips.

So, whether this is your first election or your 14th, it’s always a good time to get ACTive!

On June 26th, we celebrated the beginning of an historic campaign - one that has the potential to change the face of our government from Albany to the White House.

We reconnected with the ACTivists we know and love, who have traveled with us to swing states and crucial districts, and have talked to countless voters from our Manhattan phone banks.

We saw plenty of new faces, too - we look forward to expanding our ranks big-time, to ensure victory!

The feedback from our partygoers was resoundingly clear: Our ACTivists are ready and eager to work!

So keep checking our upcoming events and reading our emails to keep abreast of our plans to win the Presidency, key Congressional districts, and the NY State Senate for the Democrats. And let us know how you’d like to make a difference in 2008!

We’re going to elect this guy in November. And we’re going to kick our campaign off with a launch party on June 26th! Click here for details.

With two groundbreaking candidates in the race until the end, it took Democrats more than five months to choose our presidential nominee.

Now that we’ve done that, it’s full steam ahead from now until November to elect Barack Obama the next president of the United States.

Are you ready to get started?

Join us for our June 26th ACT NOW 2008 campaign launch party!

We’ll meet up with old ACTivist friends and lay our plans to help win the White House, expand Democrats’ majority in the Congress and finally flip the New York State Senate into responsible Democratic hands.

Click here for details and to RSVP.

Wheelchair accessible

Please RSVP below and let us know which Thursday(s) you’ll be joining us:

Our August 21st phone bank is booked and there will be no phone bank on August 28th. Spots are available in our September  4th,  18th, and 25th phone banks.

The phone bank is located at 80 8th Ave. (NE corner of 14th St. and 8th Ave. - entrance on 14th St.), Suite 1802

Please bring a photo ID to gain building access.

Space is limited. Please RSVP to be guaranteed a seat.

It’s official - Vito Fossella won’t run for re-election in November, giving Democrats a solid chance to take the only Republican seat in the New York City congressional delegation and turn it blue!

 The Cook Political Report already rates the race a “toss-up,” and we couldn’t be more excited at the prospect of ACTivating our phone banks and deploying our army of awesome canvassers all over Staten Island (and a sliver of Brooklyn) to help win this seat. 

It’s not yet clear who the Democratic (or Republican) candidate will be, and, as always, we won’t inject ourselves into a primary battle. But when our candidate emerges we’ll likely jump in with both feet. In the meantime, we’ll explore opportunities to begin laying the groundwork for victory through generic activities (like voter registration) that will benefit any Democrat in the fall.

 Stay tuned for more information as the situation evolves.

We’ll be gathering at the ACTivist clubhouse (AKA, upstairs at the Irish Rogue Pub and Restaurant) at 7PM. The Irish Rogue is located at 356 W. 44th St. between 8th and 9th Avenues.

Pub menu and cash bar.

Wheelchair accessible seating downstairs.

Please RSVP below and let us know in the comments section if you’ll be bringing friends.

We will meet at 10:00 a.m. at the George Washington statue in Union Square, then take the train to Queens and go door-to-door to help win this critical election.

Our group will return to Manhattan by 4:00 p.m.  No previous experience necessary–we’ll cover all the basics on the train.  All you need is a desire to reclaim our State Senate from the Republicans…oh, and a metrocard!

In 2004 and 2006, ACT NOW trained and deployed hundreds of New Yorkers to work on-the-ground with Democratic campaigns in the always-critical swing state of Pennsylvania.

We have no plans to slow down this year. In fact, we’re looking forward to expanding our ranks!

Please RSVP below, and we’ll keep you in the loop for future trips.

We’ll host a guest speaker (to be announced), then break into moderated discussion groups to ask you, the ACTivists: which races matter most in the coming year? What is your vision for our participation in the 2008 elections? Where do we start, and where do we go from there?

Stay tuned for information about the program and location as we finalize the details.

In the meantime, mark your calendar and reserve the date: on March 9th we need you to help us strategize how, when and where to put the country back on track in 2008.