Good morning!
This is the weekly DKos Asheville open thread where we try to get together every Saturday morning around eleven, and then drift in and out throughout the day. We hope this group serves to reinvigorate us locally and regionally here on Daily Kos, building on the sense of community that's grown through our online engagement. DKos Asheville can give us all a better sense of connection, a better understanding of who these people are that we stand with, work with, and share with in the political process. We hope, through this community, that we can do a better job of leveraging our orange passion for progressive politics to help elect more and better Democrats.
If you would like to host a weekly open thread, please let us know.
Our quarterly meetup is TODAY!
1:00 pm, The Cantina, 10 Biltmore Plaza, Asheville.
Randall published a diary last night talking about the meetup and the importance of meetups like these for improving our effectiveness in the political process. If you haven't read it yet, go here.
For more specific details on food, etc, read Randall's previous diary here.
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Reverend William Barber has been traveling around the state promoting the upcoming Moral March on Raleigh, and was here in Asheville and Brevard this past Wednesday. For those who can make the trip, the event is scheduled for Saturday, February 8th, two weeks from today. If you want to take one of the chartered buses to the event, go to mountainmoralmonday.wordpress.com. More information can be found in the event announcement on the NAACPNC's facebook page. This looks like it's going to be a big event; if you've been looking to get more involved with this movement, attending this event would be a great way to contribute.
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As a reminder, we now have a google group for DKos Asheville, setup for the purpose of making it easier for us to send messages to group members. We'll use it to send reminders of the Saturday open threads, meetups, voter registration events, etc. If you would like to be added to the google group, kosmail me an email address and I will send you an invite. Note, this is a private group and your email address will not be public. Remember to check your email for the google invite.
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Hope to see you all at the meetup today. Bring cameras!
Enjoy your day!
8:49 AM PT: I'm running out the door, but wanted to mention that we may be live-blogging the meetup, if we can put down the food long enough to type. Look for a new diary maybe around 1:00 or sometime thereafter, if we can pull it off.