***** BIG EVENTS *****
(tentative schedule — we’ll keep you posted)
AT THE WDHQ
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** Only some RSVP links are live and clickable; revisit this page for updates **
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Click here for current list of Volunteer actions available as we reach the finish line
SEPTEMBER 2024
Friday, 9/13 — 7 – 10 PM 1st Karaoke for Kamala 🎶
Sunday, 9/22 — WDHQ Canvass for Joe Kerr — Take the HQ Van to Knock Doors in CA-40 🚙
Wednesday, 9/25, 7 – 8:30 pm — HQ Fundraiser for Lateefah Simon (CA-18) and Derek Marshall (CA-23) 💰
Wed. 9/25 – Sat. 9/29 — Sign up to register voters and table at the Antelope Valley Fair 🚙 📋
Friday, 9/27, 7 – 10 PM — Karaoke for Kamala Returns 🎶 Professional MC and setup, 60,000+ songs to choose from 🎤
Saturday, 9/28, 5 – 7 PM — Ballot Initiatives Forum! Your HQ makes learning about CA ballot measures fun and fascinating! 👍👎
Compare pro vs. con arguments … and walk away knowing more than any of your friends about what’s on the ballot and what the measures will really do
Sunday, 9/29, 12 – 5 PM — Rally to Register Voters in West Hollywood for Harris-Walz! 📋
Sep. 29 – Oct. 6, daily — 100-Minutes Challenge for Jimmy Carter’s 100th Birthday — Phonebank all week!
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OCTOBER 2024
Tuesday, 10/1, 5 – 9 PM — VP Debate Watch Party at the HQ 📺
Saturday, 10/5 — Youth Poster Making — Let’s make Harris/Walz posters and art! 🎨
Sunday, 10/6 — Marshall Ganz, architect of Obama’s 2008 epic grassroots organizing campaign, in person at the HQ
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Friday, 10/11 — Yom Kippur, no event
Saturday, 10/12 — Blue Grooves: Music! Comedy! WDHQ! with satirical singer-songwriters Tracy Newman and Kevin Kelso + special presentation “Comedy vs. the Apocalypse” by comedy writer and sought-after speaker David Misch! 🎸😂 🔥
Sunday, 10/13, 11 – 2 PM — Women For Harris Brunch with PAULA POUNDSTONE!: 47 to 47,000 — allies welcome!!
(If we get her elected, KH will be the 47th President; the brunch aims to reach 47,000 voters) 🍕🥙
Biig happy announcement: Brunch appearance by none other than fave comedian **Paula Poundstone,** friend of the HQ!
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Friday, 10/18 – Sunday, 10/20 — Arizona Pride Mobilization 🌈
Friday, 10/18, 7 – 10 PM — Laugh Till You’re Blue Comedy Night 🤣
With David Rosenberg • Andy Woodhull • Murray Valeriano • Felicia Michaels • Lachlan Patterson • Cathy Ladman
- **NEW EARLIER DATE** Saturday, 10/19, 11 AM – 5 PM — Final Postcard Drop Party: Celebrating the last day of postcarding at the HQ! CLICK HERE
Saturday, 10/19, 7 – 9 PM — *NEW* Dancing for Democracy 💃🕺
Drop-in group dance lessons at the HQ from local instructors at the Arthur Murray Dance Studio of Santa Monica! We’ll have multiple 25-minute sessions throughout the night, so come anytime between 7 and 9 and bring your dancing shoes
Sunday, 10/20, all day — *NEW* Celebrate Kamala’s 60th with balloons & cake & calling & carding!
Join in and together we can make all our wishes (well, at least one of our biggest ones for her, for ourselves, for the country and the world) come true in November 🎈🎂🥳 RSVP here … or just drop in anytime!
[[Harder-Rollins fundraiser moved to 10/27]]
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- Saturday, 10/26, 2 – 6 PM — Dia de los Muertos Phonebanking Celebration Family friendly activities and Spanish Speaking Phone Banking at the WDHQ! Register Here
Saturday, 10/26, 7 PM — 🎶 Karaoke for Kamala III: Professional MC and setup, 60,000+ songs to choose from 🎤
Sunday, 10/27, 5 – 7 PM — WDHQ fundraiser for Josh Harder and Will Rollins — with Bryan Tyler Cohen 💰
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**NEW** Sunday, 10/27, 7 PM+ — What? The return of PAULA POUNDSTONE?? Yes yes yes! CLICK HERE TO RSVP
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Monday, 10/28, 7 PM — Imperiled by Climate Change: What We Can Do About It (no RSVP needed)
Jonathan Parfrey is executive director of Climate Resolve, a nonprofit organization in downtown Los Angeles. Jonathan has served as a commissioner at the L.A. Department of Water & Power, among many other positions over the course of 40+ years of activism. He will discuss a few of the underlying causes of climatic change as well as actions we can take to curb the worst effects
- Thursday, 10/31, 12 – 7 PM — Halloween Phone Banking Party! Come dressed in your costume and make calls for Kamala! Register Here 🎃
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NOVEMBER 2024
Last weekend phone banks at the HQ! Call voters in swing states starting at 8 AM
(remember, that’s 11 AM in North Carolina, Georgia, and Michigan)
https://events.democrats.org/event/712308/
Ballot Curing (making sure every vote gets counted) at the HQ
Low stress, high-reward calling of voters who’ve cast ballots that weren’t accepted — we give them the opportunity to “cure” their ballots so they get counted. Very important in small-margin elections!
Every day from now till >past< Election Day! Shifts start at 12 and 3 PM, with a 6 PM shift Mon. – Thu.
https://www.mobilize.us/westsidedemocratichq/event/720981/
Take an HQ bus with us to knock doors
Vegas buses are full — thank you to everyone who signed up! But we have some great, easier-on-the-posterior (shorter trip!) in-state options for you, with two very special guests
One-day canvass this Saturday, 11/2: bus to CA-45 for Derek Tran!
9 AM meetup at the WDHQ. Parking validation available in the SM Parking Structure 2, 2nd Street between Wilshire & Arizona
https://www.mobilize.us/westsidedemocratichq/event/731997/
One-day canvass this Sunday, 11/3: bus from the HQ to CA-40 for Joe Kerr — with thank-you appearances by **GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM & REP. KATIE PORTER**!
9 AM meetup at the WDHQ. Parking validation available in the SM Parking Structure 2, 2nd Street between Wilshire & Arizona
https://www.mobilize.us/westsidedemocratichq/event/731974/
“Upcycled food ” (it’s fascinating) expert Dr. Lara Ramdin, the HQ’s own ubervolunteer and bus captain,
will head a panel discussion — details to come! 🧪 🦍🐟🌿
*** Tuesday, 11/5 — ELECTION DAY! 🗳️ ***
Up-to-the-last-minute fervent calling and texting 📞💬
followed by anxious watching of election coverage on MSNBC or CNN (click here to RSVP) 📺
Saturday, 11/9 — OMG We Did It Please Let This Be a Victory Party (click to RSVP) 🥳🤞
With special WDHQ Volunteer Appreciation presentation ♥️💙