In all the excitement last week, I forgot to post photos from our evening AGOA letter drop-off.

People asked for one, so here’s the play by play from last Thursday!

5:30 PM: House offices were closing at 6 PM and ONE Campaign staff had
thousands of letters to deliver before the crucial AGOA vote! We quickly
divvied up the letters and hit the streets!

5:35 PM: Frantically searching for an empty cab, we ran (literally)
through the clogged and busy rush hour streets of Washington.

5:36…5:37…5:38: So cabs aren’t so speedy, but we hit a lot of green
lights, arrived, and finally split up to deliver the letters as quickly as
possible.

During the next 20 minutes, we navigated our way through the maze of
hallways and office furniture (as many offices were in the process of
moving), walked through a tunnel to access another building in search of
an office which had moved already, and successfully completed our
mission!

Considering that many of us had just met for the first time, it was an
unorthodox ice breaker!

Later, I watched the House vote live and I was struck by how the votes
of a few, but the efforts of many, would have a direct affect on the
lives and communities of thousands of people. The best part was waking
up on Saturday to see that the Senate had voted in favor of the “third-party fabric” provision of AGOA as
well.

That exercise was totally worth it!