Grow The Hope With MoveOn

MoveOn.org members worked tirelessly to get Barack Obama elected. Now that the mission is accomplished, those wonderful volunteers believe that it's just the beginning of the journey and more needs to be done to make a LASTING impact. It's clear that MoveOn members are fired up and ready to go! So MoveOn has decided to hold "Fired up and ready to go" gatherings in every community next Thursday, November 20th. Members will get together to celebrate our big win, brainstorm next steps for our organizing, and kick off our efforts to help Obama make bold, progressive changes.

MoveOn needs someone in your neighborhood to host a gathering so that everyone who helped make this victory possible can come together to keep the momentum going. Can you host a gathering?

http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/create.html?action_id=153&id=15102-10549100-F0trpEx&t=5

There are already 6 events in your region. If you feel like that covers your area, click the event to sign up. If not, please continue with the form below to host your own! Thursday, 20 Nov 2008, 6:30 PM Manhttan is Fired Up and Ready to Go - 2 miles away 100 Riverside Drive #12A (Map) New York, NY Thursday, 20 Nov 2008, 7:00 PM Fired Up and Ready to Go meeting - 5 miles away 6 Washington Mews (Map) New York, NY Thursday, 20 Nov 2008, 6:30 PM GO OBAMANIACS!! - 6 miles away Soho loft (Map) NYC, NY Thursday, 20 Nov 2008, 6:30 PM Jersey City is fired up and ready to go - 7 miles away 316 Montgomery Street (Map) Jersey City, NJ Thursday, 20 Nov 2008, 7:30 PM Fired Up and Ready to Go - 10 miles away 280 17th Street (Map) Brooklyn, NY Thursday, 20 Nov 2008, 7:00 PM FIRED UP AND READY TO GO FOR OBAMA - 13 miles away 165 N 18TH STREET (Map) EAST ORANGE, NJ

First They Came

By R. Bisson

Remember, it was on November 9,1938 know as "The Night of Broken Glass". Chancellor Angela Merkel (pictured on the left) has stressed that it is not enough to remember the events of November 9, 1938 through memorials and ceremonies but "we must always think how it was that it could come to this singular event, the Holocaust."

With the election of Barack Obama, we have come a step closer to insure that something like the Holocaust will not happen again, BUT only if we remember that once it did happen.

Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller (14 January 1892 - 6 March 1984) explains the idea beautifully in his poem "First They Came":

When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for the Jews, I remained silent; I was not a Jew. When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out.