Ya gotta start off each day wid a song, Labor Day weekend edition (more substance than usual).

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Every Saturday is, or can be, Sanders Saturday for Sanders' campaign volunteers. However, Saturday of Labor Day weekend is a unique opportunity to leaflet at a mall. Labor Day weekend shoppers stocking up for barbecues and back to school. Everyone (I hope) in a pro-labor state of mind, etc.

In that vein, I point you one of many of Playinghardball's great threads in this group, this one about Betty, a 91-year old woman who stands (with aid from her walker) outside WalMart's every week to campaign for Bernie Sanders, entitled "If a 90 year old woman can stand in front of Walmart every week to tell people about Bernie," (okay, so he gave her a year.)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026592890



And also to Aerows' thread about spreading the Bern Labor Day weekend, which contains a lot of info about leafleting.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/128046765


And, to help you prepare for future campaigning, my thread about picking up something like stickers or mini-campaign buttons at the Bernie Store, so you can give them away as part of the campaign effort. (spoiler; the secret to saving money at the Bernie store is to buy in quantity or buy a pack)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12779936

I find it's easier to slap a leaflet into the extended, open hand of a passerby right after they've agreed to accept my offer of a free sticker or mini-campaign button.


BTW, buying at the Bernie store, where everything sold is union made in the USA, may just be the best possible way to observe Labor Day.

Annnnneeeeewayyyy.......ya gotta

(Sing it, Jimmy, boy! Sing it for the hoi polloi!)



In honor of 91 year old Betty standing in front of Walmart in Redding, CA and in honor of all Sanders campaign volunteers or all ages and stages who do whatever they possibly can to spread the Bern every day, today's song is an old school campaign jingle, written and rendered by an anonymous 92-year old woman Bernie supporter and her back up singers (who are so far back, they never appear in the video, except via their harmonies).

Enjoy, beloveds.