Word: campaigners
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...clemency Clinton granted to imprisoned members of FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group linked by the FBI to bombings, armed robberies and murders. Republicans accused the President at the time of using the commutations to draw Puerto Rican support in New York for the budding senatorial campaign of his wife. In the conservative National Review, Andrew C. McCarthy opines, "With the FALN pardons, [Holder] helped foster an atmosphere where terrorist clemency was not out of the question - even though the United States was then being targeted for terrorist attacks...
...Family are taking part, with 8,500 events nationwide listed on the site as of Wednesday. "It's an effort to emphasize the fact that people have to take responsibility for their own government," explains Marshall Ganz, a Harvard professor and community organizer who has worked with the Obama campaign...
...also one of the first major efforts of the nascent Obama Administration to harness the power of the Internet to increase citizen participation. During the campaign, Obama's team vowed to create a "Craigslist for service" along the lines of the Obama campaign's social-networking site, MyBarackObama.com. "We believe that real change can only come from the bottom up," Obama said in late 2007 on a visit to Silicon Valley. "And technology empowers people to come together to make that change." Indeed, rather than centrally control the flow of information, USAService.org has opened itself up to users to post...
...community organizer. But even if the call to service is patriotic and not partisan, the effort could pay real political dividends for Obama down the road. For one thing, the organizing effort is doubling as a way to keep many of the grass-roots groups from Obama's campaign active. "We've been able to use the Barack Obama brand," says Kristopher Irizarry-Hoeksema, a former volunteer from the Obama campaign who is helping to grow a community group outside Baltimore...
...group, Randallstown for Change, has used the campaign's databases to stay organized and has begun working with local black churches and other community groups to plan a local health fair for later this summer. The Randallstown group has partnered with Urban Influence magazine, which targets black professionals, to organize a training session in Baltimore on the Saturday before Inauguration for community groups, withworkshops on everything from the civil rights of protesters to the use of stock proxies in engaging corporations. Political events like this will take place alongside apolitical blood, food and book drives. (There are 81 events listed...