Ambassadors Jenna Morton and Cisco Aguilar were on hand Tuesday night to spin their way through the post-debate analysis. ONE Vote ’08 was an official co-sponsor of the debate and the logo could be seen every time Chris Mathews did a live shot of spin alley.
ONE Vote ’08 volunteers fired up the crowd outside and passed out wristbands to debate watchers. Check out the awesome video ONE’s Matt Higginson put together from footage outside the debate.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich was in Concord, NH, today where he went to get a charitable haircut to benefit autism. I presented the “On The Record” petitions to him in the barber chair.
Rep. Kucinich was eager to tell me how much he support’s ONE’s mission and efforts. His staff was already familiar with “On The Record” from when ONE member Michael Castaldo dropped off the petitions to his office over the weekend!
ONE stars Matthew Bartlett and Michael Castaldo passed along our “On The Record” petitions by hand to staff people from Senator John McCain’s and Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s campaigns this weekend.
More than 53,000 people have already signed the petition urging every presidential candidate to go on record with their plans for extreme poverty and global disease. If you haven’t yet, sign on now and add this “On The Record” widget to your website or blog.
Dennis Kucinich opened his Las Vegas office on Monday. We were there to ask him about his stance on extreme poverty and global disease. See his response in this video:
Thurdsay night, Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Christopher Dodd, John Edwards, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama and Bill Richardson participated in a live, televised forum at Howard University.
ONE volunteers seized this opportunity to send these presidential candidates a message when they arrived at the forum. Each volunteer got one sign that said one of the following words, “What will you do to end extreme poverty and AIDS?” We set up across from a sea of presidential candidate supporters and signs. We could tell that lots of people were intrigued by our unique message. Cars slowed down while they passed us on busy Georgia Avenue to see what we had to say! Our group traveled a few blocks down the sidewalk (in order!), shouting our message so other groups saw us, too. A few limos and town cars with dark tinted windows passed by us, so we can only speculate on who may have been inside!
An hour into our demonstration, our shouting was overpowered by a torrential storm, but that didn’t stop us until our signs were dripping ink and unintelligible!
This was just one of many times the candidates and their supporters will see ONE in the crowd urging both to make ending extreme poverty and AIDS a top priority in the 2008 elections.
By the way, a similar forum with the Republican candidates will occur in September at Morgan State University in Baltimore. Read more on the presidential forums here.
Last Saturday, supporters from all over L.A. gathered to hear Congressman and Presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich share his views on how this country should be run. His speech focused on peace, stating that his campaign is a “vehicle to restate America’s position in the world”.
When I spoke with the Congressman, he and his wife Elizabeth expressed their enthusiasm for ONE and Kucinich proudly wore a white ONE band throughout the event.
California ONE members will continue to meet presidential candidates from both sides of the aisle to make sure that poorest of the poor are not forgotten during the 2008 election cycle.
ONE is campaigning to ensure that the Congressional budget does not cut foreign assistance programs like Feed the Future that help people break the cycle of poverty and hunger.
The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years. More than 11 million people, mostly nomadic pastoralists and farmers in south-central Somalia, north-eastern Kenya, and south-eastern Ethiopia, are severely lacking access to food.
2011 marks 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were documented. Take a closer look at the specific, achievable goals we must hit by 2015 to make this year the beginning of the end of AIDS.
As aid agencies warn more than 9 million people could be affected by a food crisis in East Africa, world leaders are failing to keep their 2009 promises to tackle the causes of chronic hunger and support farmers in the world's poorest countries.
Last Saturday, supporters from all over L.A. gathered to hear Congressman and Presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich share his views on how this country should be run. His speech focused on peace, stating that his campaign is a “vehicle to restate America’s position in the world”. 
