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curiousangel remembered as 12:15am that we'd arranged for bulk trash pickup tomorrow - we have an old ratty box spring that doesn't fit up the attic stairs, so we're dumping it. The city will pick up that sort of thing for free, but one's turn comes only once a month. So we went downstairs and hauled the box spring from the back yard, up the back steps, through the kitchen and living room, out the front door, and onto the curb. At 12:15am. Better than forgetting it, I suppose.
I sent another letter off to the Washington Post this morning, in response to an irritating column claiming that Dean supporters think we'll never have to organize beyond the Internet - apparently, because we're all unemployed former dot.commers who still think that the Bright Shiny Internet is not only all-important, but also sufficient unto itself.
My letter said:
To the Editor:
In his July 6 column, J.P. Gownder cautions Howard Dean supporters that their Internet organization strategy will fail because it is insufficiently oriented towards the "real world" beyond the computer. Mr. Gownder would be correct if Dean truly intended to make the Internet the beginning and end of his campaign. Internet Meetups get a lot of press because they're a novel organizing strategy, but no one in the Dean campaign - including Meetup attendees - thinks they're all that will be needed.
My local Meetup in Baltimore serves as an organizing point for more traditional campaign activities, such as flyering at local events, conducting letter-writing campaigns, forming campus organizations, seeking endorsements from local politicians, and appealing to members of the state Democratic Central Committee. We've always understood that we need to bring the Dean message to people who aren't online. At the July Meetup, for example, we hand-wrote, in ink, hundreds of letters to individual Iowa voters.
Meetups exist to bring Dean supporters together, and to energize and organize us for what Mr. Gownder describes as the "gritty, difficult work of true grass-roots campaigning." In the two Meetups he attended, he seems to have mistaken the pep rally for the football game.
Rebecca Wald
Baltimore, MD
curiousangel remembered as 12:15am that we'd arranged for bulk trash pickup tomorrow - we have an old ratty box spring that doesn't fit up the attic stairs, so we're dumping it. The city will pick up that sort of thing for free, but one's turn comes only once a month. So we went downstairs and hauled the box spring from the back yard, up the back steps, through the kitchen and living room, out the front door, and onto the curb. At 12:15am. Better than forgetting it, I suppose.I sent another letter off to the Washington Post this morning, in response to an irritating column claiming that Dean supporters think we'll never have to organize beyond the Internet - apparently, because we're all unemployed former dot.commers who still think that the Bright Shiny Internet is not only all-important, but also sufficient unto itself.
My letter said:
To the Editor:
In his July 6 column, J.P. Gownder cautions Howard Dean supporters that their Internet organization strategy will fail because it is insufficiently oriented towards the "real world" beyond the computer. Mr. Gownder would be correct if Dean truly intended to make the Internet the beginning and end of his campaign. Internet Meetups get a lot of press because they're a novel organizing strategy, but no one in the Dean campaign - including Meetup attendees - thinks they're all that will be needed.
My local Meetup in Baltimore serves as an organizing point for more traditional campaign activities, such as flyering at local events, conducting letter-writing campaigns, forming campus organizations, seeking endorsements from local politicians, and appealing to members of the state Democratic Central Committee. We've always understood that we need to bring the Dean message to people who aren't online. At the July Meetup, for example, we hand-wrote, in ink, hundreds of letters to individual Iowa voters.
Meetups exist to bring Dean supporters together, and to energize and organize us for what Mr. Gownder describes as the "gritty, difficult work of true grass-roots campaigning." In the two Meetups he attended, he seems to have mistaken the pep rally for the football game.
Rebecca Wald
Baltimore, MD
