Backbone Campaign hopes for a couple of paid positions

[eridani]

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Help Launch the Procession for the Future
Together we can animate a progressive vision for the country
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Dear Friend of the Backbone Campaign,

I want to tell you about an exciting development in the Backbone Campaign and to ask for your support to make it happen. Since its inception, the Backbone Campaign has been a beacon of reason, inspiration, and creativity. The resonance of our message, fueled by the energy of committed individuals, has enabled us to grow over the past four years, to a nationally renowned and artful voice in a growing progressive movement.

Our tools and projects are in such demand that we cannot keep up at our current capacity. Currently, we have one paid staff person (me). We would like to expand by two additional half-time paid staff to respond to increasing demands and to develop and implement an exciting new project, the Backbone Campaign's Procession for the Future and its Spring 2008 Campus Tour.

The first staff person we would like to add immediately is Amy Morrison. For the last three and a half years Amy has served as a volunteer Managing Director. The Backbone Campaign Board of Directors and I would like her to continue and expand on her good work for the organization as a paid staff person. She has asked to be compensated for a half time job. Will you help us realize our goal of increasing our capacity and building a Procession for the Future?

The Procession for the Future is like a traveling Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, but instead of celebrating Porky the Pig and Bullwinkle, the Procession for the Future will animate a progressive vision for the country with giant puppets and floats that portray progressive agenda items such as:

* Fair Trade & Living Wage Jobs

* Ecological Sustainability & Renewable Energy

* The End of War & Dismantling of Empire

* Election Integrity & Renewal of Democracy

* Housing, Education and Health Care for All

* A Humane & Fair Immigration Policy

* Protection of Family Farms and Local Economies, and other progressive policies.

At the end of each Procession, the festival art pieces will circle up in a park or campus and become a theme park for education and training, with information on each of the issue areas and activist trainings on social justice organizing.

The Procession will launch March 4th, 2008 with a tour of campuses and cities across the country and then continue through Summer and Fall of 2008, visiting swing states and other strategically important locales to visually inspire and educate Americans so they can hold candidates accountable to a progressive agenda.

We have ambitious goals for the coming year, and we need to grow to meet them. Please help us raise the funds necessary to support hiring a Managing Director/Procession for the Future Organizer for the Backbone Campaign. One way you can do that is to hold a Backbone Campaign House Party; call the office if that interests you: [phone]. You can make an online donation via credit card or paypal, or mail a check. We gratefully accept gifts of stock and airline tickets. You can provide sustaining support with a recurring contribution by joining the Lumbar Club. All donations are tax deductible. Please go to our donate page or mail a check to the address below. https://secure03.dataride.com/backbonecampaign-org/donate.cfm

However you choose to support us, you are making an investment in animating our collective progressive aspirations, for which we thank you very much! Together we will build a strong progressive movement that continues to grow through and beyond 2008 to ensure a future worthy of our children.

Bill Moyer
Executive Director
bill {at} backbonecampaign.org
206 408-8058

Backbone Campaign
P.O. Box 278
Vashon, WA 98070

PS- You might be wondering what the second halftime position is that we are speaking of. In a few months we hope to add a Student Organizer position to accompany the Procession to campuses around the country and continue visiting strategically important cities throughout the Summer and Fall of 2008.


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email: info {at} backbonecampaign.org
phone: [phone]
web: http://www.backbonecampaign.org