Next Anne came up.

You may have noticed, she said, that last year’s “Time Person of the Year” was a mirror. Anne says she thought that was sorta lame, but it still works with this point: No one person is making this movement happen; We are all making this movement happen.

Anne talked about why we picked Minneapolis for this training: there’s an important political convention here in 2008. We picked Denver for the same reason.

The ONE Campaign is changing the political landscape. “Congress is paying attention to our issues in a way I don’t think they were even two years ago.”

Anne remembers when she first started talking about debt cancellation and everyone treated her like she was nuts. But five years later, we had cancelled 21 developing countries’ debt. And just last week, for example, the Senate passed the Smith-Dodd amendment reversing a $2.2 billion planned cut to the president’s 2008 international affairs account budget request.

Anne talked about how ONE volunteers in New Hampshire are going up to the presidential candidates, asking them their plans on fighting extreme poverty and global AIDS. You can look through the ONE Blog, to see the candidates (Republicans and Democrats) who have donned the ONE band.

Next, Anne told everyone to call Senator Klobuchar about the 302B (the next step in the 2008 budget process.) Mike took the stage and called the senator in front of everyone. Mike asked Senator Klobuchar to support the Senate’s 2008 international affairs budget of $38.9 billion.

Anne then asked everyone in the room to pull out their cell phones and do the same right now. (Everyone calling a senator in their home state if they aren’t from Minnesota.)