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hope you had a nice weekend...
hadn't heard from you...please let me know the best snail-mail address for you
or would you rather have us email the impact report instead?
thanks much,
mike
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On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Michael Huttner, Founder and CEO <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Board and Key Partners-
Below are the latest successes from our state partners: California, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin.
I also plan to send you our state by state impact report.
what is the best snail-mail address for you?
Mike
303-931-4547 cell
Here are updates and success stories in each of our ProgressNow partner states:
CALIFORNIA/Courage Campaign:
Camp Courage. Inspired by the "Camp Obama" trainings that powered neighbor-to-neighbor organizing across America in 2008, Camp Courage is an intensive two-day training designed to teach the principles and skills of community organizing to activists working to restore marriage equality to California. To date, Courage has held four Camp Courage events across the state - in Los Angeles, Fresno, San Diego and Oakland. Over 500 people have attended. The camps seed the development of local grassroots activist teams and networks, especially in communities of color and in so-called "red" parts of California often overlooked by marriage equality activists. http://www.couragecampaign.org/CampCourage
Equality Teams: Organized by volunteers county-by-county, the Courage Campaign has mobilized 23 Equality Teams in 15 counties across California. These teams are creating infrastructure to restore marriage equality to California, enabling community organizers to recruite a grassroots army of marriage equality activists, identify undecided voters, and participate in coordinated statewide Courage Campaign events. In the two months, Equality Teams have canvassed neighborhoods across California, recruiting scores of volunteers and conducting important preliminary conversations with undecided voters. http://www.couragecampaign.org/EqualityTeams
COLORADO/ProgressNow Colorado:
Online and new media success with Angie Zapata trial the first successful prosecution of a hate crime for murder of a transgender
In April, ProgressNow Colorado partnered with 50 progressive organizations including GLAAD and the Colorado ACLU to advocate for passage of federal hate crimes legislation by organizing around the hate crimes trial of Angie Zapata's killer in rural Greeley, Colorado. Angie Zapata was brutally beaten to death with a fire extinguisher because she was a transgender woman. The trial of Angie's killer marked the first time that Colorado's recently-expanded hate crimes law was applied in a case with a transgender victim, and it was also the first time that any state's hate crimes law resulted in the conviction of a transgender person's killer.
We placed full-page ads in four major-market daily newspapers and 19 regional weekly newspapers to raise awareness of Angie's murder and the need for federal hate crimes legislation. We placed op-eds in papers around the state signed by opinion makers as diverse as a community organizer in Denver to a Pueblo city D to Congressman Jared Polis and U.S. Senator Mark Udall. We brought in nationally-recognized blogger Autumn Sandeen of Pam's House Blend to live-blog the trial from a transgender person's point of view. Her 975 updates on Twitter during the trial kept the world informed moment-by-moment, and her personal interactions with reporters at the trial had a noticeable influence on the traditional media coverage both locally and nationally.
Before the trial, ProgressNow Colorado's Jen Caltrider interviewed members of Angie Zapata's family and produced a poignant video that has been watched over 17,000 times online and played on CBS Television's Logo network. We organized and advertised on Facebook, with 1,125,000 people seeing our message at least nine times each, and building a list of over 5,000 supporters in two weeks. We also advertised with Google Adwords, with our message being shown over 13 million times and seen by over 2 million people. 25,000 people visited AngieZapata.com to learn about federal hate crimes legislation. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill with a large bipartisan majority two weeks ago, and the U.S. Senate is poised to take up the legislation in the next few weeks.
FLORIDA/Progress Florida:
Working with NAACP and other progressive partners, Progress Florida distributed a letter among targeted members of the press from the Florida NAACP to Gov. Crist regarding his next Supreme Court appointment and the need for diversity. After following up the letter distribution with phone calls to contacts in the media, Progress Florida helped generate press for the NAACP on this critical issue. Working in coalition with Planned Parenthood, ACLU, Equality Florida and the NAACP, we recently succeeded in helping convince Gov. Crist to appoint a more moderate minority judge rather than the radical right wing jurist pushed by the NRA and Conservative Christian Coalition.
Progress Florida successfully drove continued media scrutiny and helped orchestrate a major public backlash that forced the resignation of House Speaker Ray Sansom (R-Destin) after ethics violations and corruption were unearthed by the St. Petersburg Times. Our www.SackSansom.com website was featured and staff quoted, in numerous newspapers, radio programs and political/news blogs across the state. The public outcry led to a grand jury investigation and on April 17th, Rep. Sansom was indicted on felony charges of "official misconduct". The implications of this are much greater than one person, as the grand jury indictment has sent shockwaves throughout the Florida capital and it calls for major reforms in the budget process.
MICHIGAN/Progress Michigan:
Progress Michigan's Lansing Can Do Better campaign targeted for defeat a proposal to build a new coal-fired power plant in the state's capital. Through strong messaging, earned media and online organizing pressure was put on Lansing Board of Water and Light Commissioners and City Council members. In less than a year, the utility's initially steadfast pro-coal position has eroded and they are now looking at clean energy alternatives.
In our work with the Cure Michigan Campaign, the Embryonic Stem Cell Ballot Initiative, Progress Michigan was responsible for the online marketing and grassroots support of the issue. Through our efforts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and working with progressive bloggers across the state, we were able to mobilize activists and supporters on an issue that we were not expected to win. It won 53-47 on the ballot. Pollsters and pundits after the fact attributed much of that success to the online activism. This week the Cure Michigan Campaign was awarded 'Best in Show' by the Central Michigan Public Relations Society of American (CMPRSA) for it's efforts in both traditional press outreach efforts as well as online outreach and marketing. In the year since the creation of our Twitter feed, we now have over 644 followers, who we engage regularly and in turn often retweet our calls to actions, blog posts, rapid responses out to their network, which has lead to spontaneous organic blog posts follows by influential online activists and members of the media.
Progress Michigan worked with the America Votes table on the Obama Budget, and helped to organize, with the national support of Renew and Rebuild America, a press event around the Obama Budget. We were able to bring together environmental organizations, health care organizations, and labor organizations to call on Senator Stabenow to continue support for the Obama Budget. Progress Michigan took the lead on organizing the press event, putting together press materials, and writing talking points, as well as reaching out to the press. We also put out an online take action to call on members to write Senator Stabenow.
MINNESOTA/Alliance for a Better Minnesota:
Pre-Tea Party Blogger Briefing:
Before the national tea parties - several that were being held in Minnesota - on the evening of April 14 ABM shared with the progressive bloggers in our state a memo we put together outlining the facts about the tea parties. The memo was titled "tea party primer" and was used extensively by bloggers throughout the rest of the week to counter the news coverage put out by the right wing. In addition to ABMs news conference, this groundwork gave the bloggers the tools and facts needed to smack down any untruths about the activities - and also forced several right wing bloggers to spend the time talking about the tea parties defending their organizing, participants, etc - in other words, we got them off their message.
Tea Party Pushback:
ABM took on the right wing on the day it's claimed as its own in Minnesota for more than 10 years - tax day. Building on the resources provided by national groups, ABM held a news conference on tax day that garnered coverage from every tv, radio and newspaper outlet (and most online) in direct response to the right-wing "tea party" concept. The coverage provided an argument for the things taxes pay for (services like teachers, police and roads) as well as cast doubt on the organizing and real intent of the events. The result: their tea party looked more like a whiny brat festival. ABM's response was used in several national meme's as well - and we started an online twitter fight that also got mainstream attention - when we asked folks to tweet about the things they are thankful that taxes pay for.
NEVADA/ProgressNow Nevada:
ProgressNow Nevada partnered with Si Se Puede to plan, organize, promote and moderate a forum designed to raise awareness about different types of immigration reform. The event was conducted in both Spanish and English and featured a wide variety of experts ranging from local attorneys, Hispanic business owners, teachers, legal and undocumented immigrants and grassroots political organizers coming together to discuss progressive immigration reform. This event generated significant Spanish media.
ProgressNow Nevada successfully completed an online petition campaign urging the governor to accept federal stimulus funds for unemployed Nevadans. The governor had previously written to the president rejecting the funds. After the petition campaign, our press event and resulting media coverage the governor changed his mind and agreed to accept hundreds of millions of dollars in unemployment benefit money. The majority of Nevada's unemployed are lower-income service workers and ethnic minorities. ProgressNow Nevada led a coalition of non-profit social service groups, many of which were quoted in news stories about pressuring the governor.
NEW HAMPSHIRE/Granite State Progress:
Granite State Progress has focused on helping partner organizations increase their online capacity, providing tools and language to increase online participation. For example, Granite State Organizing Project wanted to participate in the Good Jobs petition action but wouldn't have been able to collect many petitions in person on the four-day lead time. Using GSP's online tools, GSOP generated dozens of petitions from their membership in a couple of days.
Progressive in New Hampshire were at a loss of how to handle President Obama's offer of a Cabinet position to Republican U.S.
Senator Judd Gregg, and the Democratic Governor's likely appointment.
Granite State Progress quickly presented the message frame that Gregg was refusing the hand of bipartisanship by dictating his successor, and then built on that message when Gregg chose not to take the position. Appearing in all major political columns and regional TV news, GSP successfully directed some of the attention away from Obama and Lynch's actions and focused in on criticism of Gregg's
NEW MEXICO/Clearly New Mexico:
Clearly New Mexico coordinated an all out pr blitz on pending legislative attacks on the nonprofit sector, working with over 30 organizations, a dozen letter to the editor, three op-eds and a half a dozen radio shows. we also coordinated a radio ad and grassroots calls with 4 nonprofit allies to kill a $400 million tax increment development district in the legislative session.
http://newmexicoindependent.com/22712/todays-blog-roundup-leprechauns-at-the-roundhouse-and-manny
Clearly New Mexico created over 200 news stories this year, leading to the first ever limit on contributions in New Mexico campaigns and heightened awareness on the role of political contributions and pro-industry votes.
http://newmexicoindependent.com/23941/momentum-for-reform-was-just-too-great-to-resist
OHIO/Progress Ohio:
Health Care: As part of HCAN, national leaders needed a Senate champion of a public financing option for the pending Healthcare debate. ProgressOhio was the direct HCAN conduit with Sen. Sherrod Brown's staff throughout the Fall of 2008 and Winter of 2009 to secure his role as the "champion" in the Senate of a public insurance option. ProgressOhio committed and arranged a date for a rally in support of the Senator with our partners in HCAN. Their was some concern about the date and time allotted - a Friday at 10:15 in the morning - but through our online to offline work and collaboration with traditional organizing groups we delivered over 500 people to a rally where Sen. Brown publicly committed his leadership to the public plan option.
Youth: Sweatfree came to ProgressOhio for help in obtaining an executive order eliminating state purchasing from sweatshops oversees that take advantage of underage children. ProgressOhio launched a public relations program for them including a Shadows On High column, two press conferences that got statewide play, and worked with a local High School Girl's Field Hockey team which requested their school send back their uniforms and purchase others not made in Sweatshops. The result was an Executive Order by Governor Strickland changing State purchasing policy.
PENNSYLVANIA/Keystone Progress:
Held 2 RootsCamps, training and networking over 200 activists across Pennsylvania, Created news service for progressive bloggers and other new media. More than 75 participants who have placed hundreds of stories we forwarded to them from national and state partners. Assisted partners in conducting news conferences and developing media campaigns. Also wrote news releases and contacted media for numerous partners including SEIU BJ 32, ACORN, Sierra Club, Planned Parnethood Advocates, Equality Advocates, SEIU Healthcare PA, AFL-CIO, SEIU PA State Council, Alliance of Retires Americans.
Built online network of 150,000, with over 40,000 active participants in first 8 months of existence. Created network of nearly 30 partner organizations doing cooperative netroots organizing.
WASHINGTON/Fuse Washington:
Budget Crisis Communications Program: Earned Media and Progressive Coordination
Fuse coordinated communications strategies and collaborative grassroots organizing for the progressive groups working on the State budget crisis. As the only group who was not focused on protecting specific programs, we were in the best position to coordinate collaborative efforts and promote cross-cutting themes. Our work directly generated ten TV news stories, over 60 radio news stories, and dozens more direct (quoting Fuse) and indirect (other groups using our messages) news hits. This story from KIRO news is a good example: http://www.kirotv.com/video/19055943/index.html
Veto Prevention Strategy: 2 days, 3 bills, 42 organizations, 2500 activists, 1 powerful message. After the Governor indicated she was seriously considered vetoing three of the biggest progressive wins of the 2008 legislative session (including the conservation community's Toxic Toys and Local Solutions bills), Fuse launched an urgent campaign to send the Governor a compelling message from progressives on all three bills. Fuse was the only group in Washington that had actually worked on all three bills.
Our two-day campaign recruited 40 of the leading progressive organizations in the state to cross issue lines and send a message to the Governor urging her to stand with the people of Washington and sign all three bills. Dozens of labor unions and social justice groups weighed in on behalf of the two conservation bills, while conservation groups supported a tax fairness bill. The message was reinforced by a letter from more than 2,500 progressive activists- over 50 single spaced pages of signatures. She signed all three into law.
WISCONSIN/One Wisconsin Now:
One Wisconsin Now led the pushback effort against the "teabaggers" in Wisconsin, generating and providing talking points for coalition partners and leading the countermedia effort. OWN was featured in television, print and radio across the state, ensuring a progressive taxation message was featured universally in stories about the teabagging events. OWN pushback included earned media at the main teabagging event at the state capitol, press releases and follow-up opinion pieces in the state's largest newspapers.
The Institute created and executed a successful strategy to draw media attention and pressure on the state's chamber of commerce, Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce, WMCWatch.org, which has spent millions of dollars on advertising and lobbying to promote a conservative policy agenda. As result of the Institute's work at WMCWatch.org and media attention to its effort, WMC publicly-announced its decision to refrain from continuing to run anti-progressive issue advertisements.
OWN developed the Wisconsin Research Project, a collaborative legislative and judicial research program that is creating a permanent in-state progressive opposition issue research program. This program includes a research database which allows the categorization and organization of information on a permanent basis - the goal being a lasting resource for the progressive movement to assist with issues polling and strategic earned and paid media communications.
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