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Grassroots Activism exploded during the 2004 Presidential election in Louisiana, which led to the first Louisiana Grassroots Convention in July 2005, Beaucoup Blues. Grassroots Activism leads the recovery of New Orleans since Katrina/Rita 2005. Grassroots Activism led to significant changes in OPDEC, the Orleans Parish Democratic Executive Committee (www.OPDEC.org) in the February 9th 2008 election, where slates of reform candidates joined together to move neighborhood advocates into the political spectrum. OPDEC had previously been dominated by the same leadership since 1991, and now is a more transparent committee, where 51 new members were elected to join 19 incumbents for the 2008-2012 term. A new Chair, James A Gray II, and new 1st Vice Chair, Deborah Langhoff, were unanimously elected to lead the committee they recently joined. Grassroots Activism led to the first Democratic challenge in 20 years of a 32-year regime in LA-94 that resulted in a spirited run-off election, and other elections around Louisiana prove that much conventional wisdom of who and where to run for office has been turned upside down whenever citizens are personally engaged in politics. These and other efforts are chronicled on the pages of www.LaRoots.net which began in March 2004 but now, with the help of the LaRoots e-bulletin, turns attention to the historic elections of the Fall 2008, and the Democratic National Convention in Denver which will set the tone of what is to come...
LaRoots.netis a private Louisiana database project to nurture and sustain an independent grassroots network which can spark support for liberal candidates and progressive ideas. This network grows by people inviting their friends to join. Identifying like-minded voters in this "neighbor to neighbor" way energizes many citizens not usually active in political efforts. Contact information is held privately in LaRoots.net and will not be given away or sold. We publish an LaRoots.net email bulletin that serves as a source of information about activities, both local and national. If you have a group or event that you would like promoted in our bulletin, please email LaRoots@cox.net In March 2004, LaRoots.net began as KerryRoots.com, created by Alan and Deborah Langhoff to promote John Kerry's candidacy in Louisiana. KerryRoots collected contact information on Kerry supporters across Louisiana and established the statewide KerryRoots e-mail bulletin to activate volunteers, staff phone banks, and create canvassing teams by ward/precinct where addresses were included. Our database has supported national, statewide and local campaigns.
Contact InformationPlease reach us by email when you can, and use Phone or FAX when necessary. Alan and Deborah Langhoff
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