Last night in Laconia, NH, Sen. Obama held a town hall meeting and I went with some ONE members to lend our voice to the poorest people on Earth.

During his speech, Sen. Obama spoke about how, if elected president, he would expand US efforts to fight AIDS and poverty in Africa and said that he would help build schools for impoverished children so that they do not end up without primary education or get pulled into extremist madrassas. And in response to a question, he stated that he would try to shift wasteful farm payments to conservation in order to help local farms and developing world farms.

After the town hall, ONE member Melissa Skinner was able to pass off an informational packet for “On The Record” that over 50,000 ONE members signed on to in the past 2 weeks. Sen. Obama told her that although he was not wearing his ONE bracelet, he support’s ONE goals and had Melissa give the packet to his aid, Reggie Love.

(Apologies the clip is sideways. Will try to fix!)

-Matthew Bartlett, ONE Regional Organizer