Blue Wave Blogs

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  Fighting For Future Generations {Guest Post}

  by Sani Field September 28, 2022

  One morning in early April 2018, I tossed aside the morning paper and gazed across the breakfast table at my 12-year-old granddaughter. A haunting...

  • civil rights
  • democracy reform
  • elections
  • local elections
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers
  • voting rights

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  What Can One Person Do? A Lot! {Guest Post}

  by Sani Field September 12, 2022

  Hubby and I joke that when we moved to “red” Colorado 26 years ago from “Joisey,” we were the reason the state turned blue. Now, having moved t...

  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers

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  Interview with Mitch Stahl: Activism For All

  by Lisa Gillespie July 14, 2022

    An Interview with Mitch Stahl: long-time activist, Blue Wave Postcard writer, and group organizer. Mitch’s group are residents of the Frasier Me...

  • abortion
  • Black Lives Matter
  • civil rights
  • climate crisis
  • democracy reform
  • economy
  • elections
  • For The People Act
  • fundraising
  • gun safety legislation
  • local elections
  • pandemic
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers
  • voting rights
  • women's rights

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  Moving Upstream {Guest Post}

  by Sani Field April 5, 2022

  I remember so distinctly a conversation I had in one of my moms’ groups the third week of November in 2016, just after 45 was elected. We were all...

  • Black Lives Matter
  • civil rights
  • elections
  • local elections
  • pandemic
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers
  • voting rights

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  My Path to Postcarding: The Tuck Frump Group {Guest Post}

  by Sani Field March 4, 2022

  It was the summer of 2020, and my husband and I had two young kids and were (still are!) in the midst of a global pandemic as well as a shift in o...

  • Black Lives Matter
  • civil rights
  • climate crisis
  • democracy reform
  • elections
  • pandemic
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers

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  Senate Fails to Pass the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act

  by Sani Field January 21, 2022

  Merely two days after celebrating a national icon who championed the right to vote for all Americans, the Senate failed to pass election reform le...

  • civil rights
  • democracy reform
  • elections
  • filibuster
  • retrospective
  • voting rights

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  BWPM and the Ladies Who Letter {Guest Post}

  by Sani Field November 23, 2021

  Hello! My name is Heather Fisher and here is my Blue Wave Postcard Movement story. During the summer of 2020, as the United States presidential el...

  • elections
  • retrospective
  • volunteers

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  2021 Q3 Retrospective

  by Ning Mosberger-Tang September 9, 2021

    I'm SO proud of our core Blue Wave team and volunteers. It took us only ten days to complete our most recent Vote No on the California Re...

  • blue wave process
  • climate crisis
  • democracy reform
  • HR1/S1
  • pandemic
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers
  • voting rights

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  Saturday Postcard Parties - Connecting While Quarantined

  by Faith Gowan September 2, 2021

  I first met Ning at an in-person Saturday afternoon postcard party in 2019. A small group of people would get together in Boulder to write postcar...

  • democracy reform
  • HR1/S1
  • pandemic
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers

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  Nonviolent Civil Disobedience: The Arrest of An Activist

  by Sani Field July 29, 2021

  Leah Greenberg, the Indivisible Co-Founder who spoke at our event recently, was arrested on Monday, July 19, 2021 in a non-violent direct action s...

  • civil rights
  • democracy reform
  • HR1/S1
  • retrospective
  • voting rights

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  The Blue Wave Process Part Four: Postcard Kits and Local Distribution 

  by Lisa Gillespie July 1, 2021

  Once Chiu-Ki and Sha-Mayn have worked their magic (see part three of this series), we are ready to roll with kitting and postcard distribution. Our...

  • blue wave process
  • democracy reform
  • pandemic
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
  • volunteers

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  What You Should Know About Blue Wave Postcards’ Expansive Network of Volunteers

  by Adrianne Middleton May 20, 2021

  Blue Wave Postcards is a 100% volunteer organization, with several groups of volunteers. First, there’s the core team. This is the most wonderful ...

  • blue wave process
  • pandemic
  • path to postcarding
  • retrospective
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