HI all -
If ANYONE is in the greater DC/MD/Va Metropolitan area and it is possible to help in this effort, please contact us ASAP. We need volunteers, especially this week, for helping to address what looks to be a potentially precedent setting issue for all of us
Please forward this message to any supportive groups or allies that you can think of....
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IMPORTANT = additional computing power needed for voter registration list checking/other data entry tasks - if you have a laptop and can bring it with you, please do so...Thanks,
Maryanne A. Arnow
Volunteer Coordinator
E:
allwayscooking@juno.comAlso please contact Anna Lucas,
EQMD Volunteer/Scheduling Coordinator, Task Force Leader, at:
saverightsnow@gmail.com
Tel: (202) 639-6330
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POSTED AS OF 2/29/09 - 11:45AM EST
Hi all,
We have revised the schedule for the petitions striking task force/project, mainly so that people's regular workweek schedules would be better accommodated, and we can realistically make our goals in striking down this petition.
It is of utmost importance that as many people get in to help us during the weekdays and weekday evenings AS POSSIBLE, because we will not have as many people available as we do/did during weekend times.
Please invite anyone that you think can possibly help us. We are seeing excellent results thus far, and as long as we can get enough folks going on this consistently everyday, we will likely make our goals and be able to strike this petition. Please forward this to anyone that may have an interest in this effort.
If you still need to be scheduled for this week or next week please contact myself or Anna Lucas, or anyone else at the task force that you are familiar with.
I will also post my email, and my own (tentative) schedule for this upcoming week, as it now stands.
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NEW / REVISED SCHEDULE AS OF 2/29/08 11:07AM EST***************************************
AVAILABLE TIMES
FRIDAY, Feb 29th, 2008 - 10AM-8PM
SATURDAY, MARCH 1ST - 12PM - 5PM
MON 3/3/08 through FRIDAY 3/07/08
10AM -8PM
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MY schedule:
Monday- 12 - 7PM
Tues - 12-7 or 1-8PM
Weds - 2-8PM
Thurs - 12-7/1-8
Friday - 12-8PM
TASK FORCE OFFICES
Nat'l Gay & Lesbian Task Force Offices/HQ
Nat'l Center for Transgender Equal Rights/HQ
1325 MASS AVENUE NW, DC - 6TH FLOOR
To everyone that has given their valuable time and extremely positive effort in helping with this very important matter, i must personally thank you, as this legislative effort directly affects my life within my own home county, and can only help continue to set the precedent for equal human rights for all of us, no matter where you live or work. Most Seriously -
THANK YOU.
Most Sincerely,
Best Regards all,
Maryanne A. Arnow
Volunteer Coordinator
e:
allwayscooking@juno.comtel Direct: 301-370-0944
Also please contact Anna Lucas,
EQMD Volunteer/Scheduling Coordinator, Task Force Leader, at:
saverightsnow@gmail.com
Tel: (202) 639-6330
Thank you
Posted on: February 29th, 2008, 11:10AM
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AVAILABLE TIMES:
FRIDAY, FEB 29th - 10AM-8PM
SATURDAY, MARCH 1ST - 12PM - 5PM
MON 3/3/08 - FRIDAY 3/07/08
10AM -8PM***********************
* IMPORTANT * - PLEASE Bring a laptop if you have one.
* * FROM THIS POINT FORWARD WE WILL ALWAYS NEED PEOPLE THAT HAVE COMPUTERS MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, UNTIL WE RECEIVE NEW BATCHES OF PETITIONS FOR MANUAL PROCESSING * *Until we get the next batches of petitions, we will have mainly data entry/data crosscheck tasks available. UPDATES TO BE POSTED.
Nat'l gay & Lesbian Task Force Headquarters
1325 Massachusetts Ave NW, Wash DC
6th Floor
Contact: Maryanne Arnow, Volunteer Coordinator
301-370-0944 / Email:
allwayscooking@juno.comAdditional Contact: Also please contact Anna Lucas,
EQMD Volunteer/Scheduling Coordinator, Task Force Leader, at:
saverightsnow@gmail.com
Tel: (202) 639-6330
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UPDATED 03/02/08 - 11:25PM EST - WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP
MARYLAND - PETITION STRIKING TASK FORCE - UPDATED SCHEDULE AS OF 3/2/08
MON 3/3/08 Through FRIDAY 3/07/08
HOURS - 10AM -8PM***********************
* IMPORTANT * - PLEASE Bring a laptop if you have one.
FROM THIS POINT FORWARD WE WILL NEED PEOPLE THAT HAVE LAPTOP COMPUTERS MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE. Until we get the next batches of petitions, we will have mainly data entry/data crosscheck tasks available.
ADDITIONAL UPDATES WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSTED - WE VERY MUCH STILL NEED YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT IN THIS EFFORT.
LOCATION:
Nat'l gay & Lesbian Task Force Headquarters
1325 Massachusetts Ave NW, Wash DC
6th Floor
Contact: Maryanne Arnow, Volunteer Coordinator
301-370-0944 / Email:
allwayscooking@juno.comAdditional Contact: Also please contact Anna Lucas,
EQMD Volunteer Coordinator, Task Force Leader, at:
saverightsnow@gmail.com
Tel: (202) 639-6330
Posted on: February 29, 2008, 03:36:44 AM
UPDATED 03/02/08 - 11:25PM EST - WE STILL NEED YOUR HELP
MARYLAND - PETITION STRIKING TASK FORCE - UPDATED SCHEDULE AS OF 3/2/08
MON 3/3/08 Through FRIDAY 3/07/08
HOURS - 10AM -8PM
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* IMPORTANT * - PLEASE Bring a laptop if you have one.
FROM THIS POINT FORWARD WE WILL NEED PEOPLE THAT HAVE LAPTOP COMPUTERS MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE.
Until we get the next batches of petitions, we will have mainly data entry/data crosscheck tasks available.
ADDITIONAL UPDATES WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSTED - WE VERY MUCH STILL NEED YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT IN THIS EFFORT.
LOCATION:
Nat'l gay & Lesbian Task Force Headquarters
1325 Massachusetts Ave NW, Wash DC
6th Floor
Contact: Maryanne Arnow, Volunteer Coordinator
301-370-0944 / Email:
allwayscooking@juno.comAdditional Contact: Also please contact Anna Lucas,
EQMD Volunteer Coordinator, Task Force Leader, at:
saverightsnow@gmail.com
Tel: (202) 639-6330
Posted on: March 02, 2008, 10:26:40 PM
HI ALL -
There are no weekend hours this Saturday and Sunday but the future
reviews have become a lot more time critical.
URGENT HELP NEEDED! (again)
We found out this morning that the Montgomery County Board of
Elections certified the signatures that the anti-LGBT extremists
collected to take away rights for the residents of Montgomery County,
so the heat is on now! We have 10 days to file a lawsuit disputing
the validity of the signatures, and we need your help! We've had a
stellar group of people coming in all week to help, and we are
getting in the next batch of signatures next week and so we'll need
all hands on deck again! It took us 2 weeks to sort the first batch
of 15,000 signatures. The second batch is 17,000. So, we have more
signatures and less time. Help! Help! Help!
The hours to volunteer are as follows:
Monday, March 10 - Thursday, March 13 from 10am-9pm
Friday, March 14 - 10am-6pm
Saturday/Sunday (March 15-16) hours: to be determined**if you have a laptop that has the program Microsoft Access and
wouldn't mind bringing it in to volunteer that would be very helpful
(or if you want to loan it to us that would be great too!) **
Where:
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's headquarters in
Washington, DC
1325 Massachusetts Ave, NW, 6th Floor (note: The building
reads "Nat'l Air Traffic Controllers" and after office hours, you
need a cell phone to call to get let in)Call or email to Anna at:
saverightsnow@gmail.com Tel: (202) 639-6330, or
also contact Maryanne Arnow at:
allwayscooking@Juno.com Tel: (301) 370-0944, to sign up for a specific time. We need you!
Some background information:
Last November the Montgomery County Council (Maryland) unanimously
passed a law to ban discrimination on the basis of gender identity
and expression. Anti-LGBT extremists created a campaign of scare
tactics to collect 25,000 valid signatures (even creating an
outrageous website
www.notmyshower.net). The opposition turned in
more than the required amount of signatures to the Board of Elections
in hopes of putting this issue on the ballot in November, which if
passed, would take away rights for the residents of Montgomery
County.
We need to stop them! Equality Maryland has hired an attorney to make
the case that many of these signatures are invalid, and the law
shouldn't be put on the ballot.
THANKS ALL. IF YOU SHOULD HAPPEN TO BE ANYWHERE IN THE GREATER DC/MD/NoVa area, PLEASE STOP IN IF YOU CAN AND GIVE US A HAND. THIS MAY BE "JUST A LOCAL ISSUE" TO SOME, BUT WILL AFFECT NATIONAL STRATEGIES AS REGARDS ANTI-LBGT GROUPS, AND WILL BE POTENTIALLY PRECEDENT SETTING FOR THESE SAME GROUPS ON A NATIONAL LEVEL IF THIS LAW IS OVERTURNED. THE TIME TO ACT AND HELP US IS
NOW SINCERELY,
Maryanne
Posted on: March 09, 2008, 05:59:36 PM
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Hello all,
This is a VERY Important update in the Montgomery County Petitions Challenge. The attorney for Equality Maryland had a scheduling meeting with the judge, and we were given an expedited deadline, that would allow us to have this case heard in time before the November Elections.
It does give us a rather soon deadline to turn everything in - May 8th. Which basically means we should have all the batches finished by April 30. There are 150 batches left that need voter database checks.
We are extending our weekday hours, and adding weekend hours in order to accomplish this. We are also renting 10 laptops from this Wednesday, April 15th until May 1st.
Current Hours are:
3PM to 8PM - - Monday 4/14 thru Thursday 4/17.
3PM to 6PM - - Friday
Extended Hours and Weekend Hours TBA and updates will be postedASAP.This is still an urgent matter. We NEED people NOW to help us get this important task done.PLEASE lend your rime and assistance in any and every way possible. If you happen to be in DC for national Lobby Days THIS WEEK, please stop in and say hello and lend a hand if you have any spare time and want to do something to seriously help your fellow Maryland community members.
LOCATION:
National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Headquarters
1325 Mass Ave NW, 6th Floor
Washington DC
Tel/Contacts/Volunteer Coordinators:
Anna Lucas - 202-639-6330 - Email:
saverightsnow@gmail.comBridget Krzysztofik - 301-793-5422
Maryanne Arnow - 301-370-0944 - Email:
allwayscooking@juno.comThank you. Huge thanks to anyone and everyone that has come in to lend their time and effort in this matter. It's not over yet, and there is still a lot of work that needs to be done on this issue.
