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Volunteer's Notebook: The Obama USC Rally

Aaron Perman |
October 22, 2010 | 11:08 a.m. PDT

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It has been a crazy 24-hour period. Things have been changing constantly. I arrived last night at a 6:50 p.m. for a training with Organizing For America to find out that the e-board from USC College Democrats (of which I am the Vice President), was organizing and in charge of getting 200 to 300 volunteers for Friday to direct people across campus and the surrounding area on where to go. And 50 of the people we were supposed to organize were showing up in 10 minutes.

We created an ad-hoc plan of organizing people into teams on the fly, gave initial instructions and reached out to more than 500 people in the next 10 minutes, many of them members to help with the effort.

The response was overwhelming. We had another quick training at 9:30 p.m. for those we contact that could make it - approximately 100 people showed up 2 hours after we contacted them.

At 10 p.m. we walked back to my house, turned a bedroom into our war room and were planning until 2 a.m. We got 3 hours of sleep, were up at 5 a.m. and organizing 200 - 300 volunteers into 20 teams by 6 a.m. We dispatched, supervised, and things so far are going off without a hitch.

Our volunteers are working like heck and will be rewarded with priority seating, the fullfillment of making this a success, and ultimately helping to get Democrats elected to keep the country and California on the right track.



 

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