I reported to the group on our group start in Waterloo -- we had five people show up for the meeting March 22. Jos encouraged the two pastors there to bring more people to the table, and encouraged me to do more work with the African-American churches before the next meeting on Tuesday, April 28. I got a call Monday morning from an African-American FM radio station. They want me to come up and do a live interview. I'm looking forward to that.
Our health care reform public forum is all set. We are just waiting for confirmation on the name of the Mercy Medical Center administrator who is going to be a panelist and then we can start publicity. We could use more ushers. Anyone interested in helping out Aisha and Leland?
There will be an opportunity for letter-writing at the forum. That will be our monthly letter, so be sure and make time to write your letter!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Global Call March 24
Allison and I were on the phone together, just the two of us, for almost an hour. I hadn't checked on the progress of our appropriations requests making it off Congressman Loebsack's desk and on to Congressman Lowey's office. Allison told me about a microcredit sign-on letter to Cong. Lowey. I just sent that letter to Meagan Linn, the Congressman's aide who handles foreign affairs, asking her to forward the letter to the Congressman and then get back to me with her thoughts.
We also talked about the video program for RESULTS and the MDGs. I went to Iowa City Tuesday afternoon and put in two hours of editing and an hour of burning DVDs. All told, we put in an hour in the studio and five hours in the edit booth. I have to burn VHS copies from DVDs yet before I'm done.
We also talked about the video program for RESULTS and the MDGs. I went to Iowa City Tuesday afternoon and put in two hours of editing and an hour of burning DVDs. All told, we put in an hour in the studio and five hours in the edit booth. I have to burn VHS copies from DVDs yet before I'm done.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Domestic Call March 12
It was just Douglas and I on the call today, so we had a great conversation.
We talked about progress on the Health Care Reform public forum -- try saying reform forum three times fast! Rockwell isn't able to send anyone to be the business representative on the panel, but I have a friend who works at AEGON who talked to a manager in HR who is going to do the panel for us. All we need now is the publicity. I'm going to be delegating writing of the press release Monday night.
Douglas warned me, and Allison has warned me as well, that I'm dangerously close to having GroupLeaderItis, where the group leader does too much of the work and doesn't delegate any of it. It's not healthy for me, nor is it healthy for you. So I'm going to make a conscious effort to do more delegating.
We're caught up on our domestic issues, unless someone wants to write an op-ed on health care reform? We'll talk about that on Monday.
We talked about progress on the Health Care Reform public forum -- try saying reform forum three times fast! Rockwell isn't able to send anyone to be the business representative on the panel, but I have a friend who works at AEGON who talked to a manager in HR who is going to do the panel for us. All we need now is the publicity. I'm going to be delegating writing of the press release Monday night.
Douglas warned me, and Allison has warned me as well, that I'm dangerously close to having GroupLeaderItis, where the group leader does too much of the work and doesn't delegate any of it. It's not healthy for me, nor is it healthy for you. So I'm going to make a conscious effort to do more delegating.
We're caught up on our domestic issues, unless someone wants to write an op-ed on health care reform? We'll talk about that on Monday.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Global Call March 11
The global conference call this Saturday promises to be great:
March 14 conference call: Winstone Zulu and Asia Russell are our guests! Join us to learn about the powerful impact the Global Fund is having on diseases of poverty like AIDS and TB. Winstone is a globally-renowned TB-HIV activist from Zambia (listen to his story), and Asia is a civil society delegate to the Global Fund Board. Listen and be inspired to take action! Call (800) 474-8920 .
The call starts at 1 p.m. I won't be available this Saturday for RESULTS Conference calls, but the Library at Christ Episcopal Church is reserved, so feel free to gather.
I reported tonight that I can use my brother's TB story as a lead-in for an op-ed on the Global Fund. RESULTS has put together two pages of great information to use for the article, and with a local angle like my brother, we should be in good shape to get published this time. I'm disappointed that the Gazette never published Kathy's op-ed on microcredit. So I've put together three letters to the editor on microcredit. Aisha has already sent hers in. I also sent a letter to Kathy and to Mona. I will check with them Monday night at the meeting what the progress is with their letters.
I am not going to be going to the International Conference this year. This afternoon I got an email from Jos saying that we had an appointment to see Senator Grassley on the 23rd. It hit me -- that's my parents' anniversary. This will be Mom's first anniversary without Dad and I just can't leave her alone at that period in her grieving. The fundraiser is planned for May 31 and should net about $600, with another $100 coming from GEMS. The total cost to attend the conference is about $1700, if you're rooming with one other person.
March 14 conference call: Winstone Zulu and Asia Russell are our guests! Join us to learn about the powerful impact the Global Fund is having on diseases of poverty like AIDS and TB. Winstone is a globally-renowned TB-HIV activist from Zambia (listen to his story), and Asia is a civil society delegate to the Global Fund Board. Listen and be inspired to take action! Call (800) 474-8920 .
The call starts at 1 p.m. I won't be available this Saturday for RESULTS Conference calls, but the Library at Christ Episcopal Church is reserved, so feel free to gather.
I reported tonight that I can use my brother's TB story as a lead-in for an op-ed on the Global Fund. RESULTS has put together two pages of great information to use for the article, and with a local angle like my brother, we should be in good shape to get published this time. I'm disappointed that the Gazette never published Kathy's op-ed on microcredit. So I've put together three letters to the editor on microcredit. Aisha has already sent hers in. I also sent a letter to Kathy and to Mona. I will check with them Monday night at the meeting what the progress is with their letters.
I am not going to be going to the International Conference this year. This afternoon I got an email from Jos saying that we had an appointment to see Senator Grassley on the 23rd. It hit me -- that's my parents' anniversary. This will be Mom's first anniversary without Dad and I just can't leave her alone at that period in her grieving. The fundraiser is planned for May 31 and should net about $600, with another $100 coming from GEMS. The total cost to attend the conference is about $1700, if you're rooming with one other person.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Domestic call March 5
We've already completed the most recent action, which is to request $100 million be put in the budget for health care reform. RESULTS was quite disappointed that the White House Summit on Health Care Reform today didn't invite anyone supporting single payer. I wasn't surprised, though. That meeting I went to last summer with Janelle Krishnamoorthy, aide from Senator Harkin's office, pretty much said the same thing. The Senator had been holding hearings with health care providers, insurance companies, patients, all the stakeholders in health care reform. Janelle told us that single payer wasn't going to fly.
I heard back from Clay Jones' office saying neither he nor his Senior Vice President for Human Resources would be able to be a panelist at our public forum April 20. Rockwell has a Board meeting that night. So I'm going to call John Bloomhall from Diamond V Mills to see if he can be there.
I heard back from Clay Jones' office saying neither he nor his Senior Vice President for Human Resources would be able to be a panelist at our public forum April 20. Rockwell has a Board meeting that night. So I'm going to call John Bloomhall from Diamond V Mills to see if he can be there.
Global Call March 4
Had a chance to talk with Yvonne in Northern Detroit about our tv production. She's interested in copies. Four public access stations in the Detroit area can show the programs. Yvonne is trying to work with her local paper on global issues but they only want local news. So they're going to try tv as a way to educate the public.
The DC RESULTS office helped tremendously with the forms for Congressman Loebsack's office on appropriations requests. I don't know how much good it will do, but the forms are in one day before the deadline. I've emailed the requests to aides in the Senators' offices. They don't have their forms ready yet. BTW, if you look on the RESULTS website at the appropriations requests, don't be fooled by the $500 for microcredit. It's a typo. Supposed to be $500 million.
I got tired of waiting for the Gazette to print our op-ed on microcredit, so I wrote three letters to the editor. Aisha has already sent one in. I also asked Mona and Kathy to send in a letter.
The DC RESULTS office helped tremendously with the forms for Congressman Loebsack's office on appropriations requests. I don't know how much good it will do, but the forms are in one day before the deadline. I've emailed the requests to aides in the Senators' offices. They don't have their forms ready yet. BTW, if you look on the RESULTS website at the appropriations requests, don't be fooled by the $500 for microcredit. It's a typo. Supposed to be $500 million.
I got tired of waiting for the Gazette to print our op-ed on microcredit, so I wrote three letters to the editor. Aisha has already sent one in. I also asked Mona and Kathy to send in a letter.
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