DPNM's Field Notes: Activism & Organizing

As we noted in our very first post to this blog, one of its functions would be to inform about and report on the various activities that the party undertakes. Among one of our regular features on this blog will be a weekly report detailing the recently past and upcoming events with which the DPNM is involved.

One of the most valuable services the DPNM offers are Grassroots Volunteer Trainings. These trainings range from learning how to canvass and phone bank effectively; how to garner press coverage; branding your campaign and ways to recruit volunteers to your campaign.

These events can be offered from a one-hour, single topic session to a comprehensive 7 hour seminar.

Best of all, these seminar are offered for free and are available to the County Parties. So far, McKinley, Chaves, Lincoln, Sandoval and Santa Fe have committed to participating in this great series of programs and Otero, Cibola and Curry counties have expressed interest. Ideally, we would like to host events for all of New Mexico's 33 counties!

As a strong incentive for sponsoring and hosting such an event, counties in New Mexico would have access to data such as voting methods, census data, press lists and voter registrations -- all specific to your county.

To set up an event for your county, contact the DPNM's Field Director, Marisa Trujillo DeMull @ 505.830.3650.

For those readers in Santa Fe county, there is an upcoming training already scheduled for August 22nd from 9:30pm-4:30pm. Readers of this blog who wish to attend this training can contact Santa Fe County Chairman Richard D. Ellenberg @ 505.992.1396 for more information.