For this all-important election (!!!) I’ve written 1900 postcards total plus 760 letters. It has taken me 6-7 months, but it keeps me busy doing something positive and Not giving into Any TRUMPian news.
I started activism in college, writing the education chapters for the book Institutional Racism in America, (Prentice-Hall, 1970, Knowles/Prewitt); and bringing together a group of Black Bay Area leaders and Stanford U. professors to write a successful federal grant to change teacher education at Stanford by adding Multicultural Education courses (precursors of Black, Chicanos, etc…studies programs).
I went on to work on George McGovern’s campaign and then built 7 pocket parks and gardens in Southeast Portland, OR, successfully blocking a freeway there and getting the funds transferred to public transportation light rail along the existing freeway instead.
In early 1970’s Oregon I also got to work on the nation’s 1st recycling Bottle Bill and the law saying No more nuclear plants until there was Permanent Waste Storage (this law spread across the nation). I was just in the right place at the right time and was elected first to Neighborhood Chair and then to the Office of Opportunity Board.
I’ve kept up my activism over the years, with many little victories and many defeats but never ever giving up and now Blue Wave Postcards has been a wonderful help this year, inspiring energy and with smart postcards with great links for voters’ education, registration, vote-by-mail, and GOTV!