A Chance to Show What You Can Do...


Feel frustrated?

Want to get involved in doing something?

Want to run your own show?

Don’t have much money?

Here’s the opportunity to do all of the above….

It’s called the Power of One Society.

What we do is find opportunities to get involved.

Usually its some kind of symbiotic involvement with another group or, at times, it can be a solitary level of involvement.

What can someone without much money do?

There’s lots of opportunities to make an impact….and it doesn’t take more than chimp change to do. That’s your call.

For example, you can build an internet group, have meetings with friends and discuss opportunities, or you can look for opportunities over the Net or via local radio or newspapers.

Wherever you live, there is something going on that is politically driven, that emotionally involves you, impacts your life one way or the other, ie. Clean air programs, alternative energy, infrastructure, transportation, land use, political activism, or whatever happens to be your hot button. For me, it’s Veteran affairs, the environment, land use and alternative energy.

But be that as it may, the Power of One Society does not dictate. It coordinates, offers advice, lends emotional support, and ask if you would tie in with more national programs; nevertheless, if you choose to be an agent of the Power of One Society, it is up to you to choose your own priorities for your area or needs.

All that we ask is a level of prudence before committing our name to any enterprise and that projects of a national nature be discussed in advance.

As far as the way to get involved, there are many:

You can write a letter to the editor

You can enlist your friends or garden society members, or whatever to your cause…

You can prepare an editorial to send to your newspaper….

Or participate in a forum

You can do some research

Prepare a report

Call your representative

Contact your governor

Communicate with your State government

You can host a fundraiser for a worthy politician

You can augment the efforts of someone running for office

You can become an active member of your Democratic party

Chair a committee

Host a move-on meeting

Set up a Meet Up group to discuss challenges

You can influence your local radio station, petition your local movie house to show films of a progressive nature….

You can email your friends and family

You can run for office

Encourage others…

You can raise money to get people to vote

You can mobilize a blood drive

Agree to drive seniors to the voting polls

Offer to become a poll watcher

Attend a State Convention

You can lobby for better land use

Argue for improving infrastructure

Plan for better land and more efficient land use…

Raise money to buy hats and gloves for war Veterans

Arrange to take them to appointments….

These are all simple things that any one of us can do…..

Over the course of the last five years, I and my friends and neighbors have done most of them….from persuading our local movie house to show Michael Moore to fund raisers for Howard Dean. We have raised money for Veterans causes and attended State wide meetings to improve infrastructure and land use, writing reports and sending out press releases to argue our differences. We have fought for alternative energy programs when the coal lobby was thought to be impossible to beat. We have held Meet Ups for candidates, and Meet and Greets for new people joining the political process.

We have done virtually all of this with only minor expenditures. I have funded my own participation with book sales and my costs have only been minimum.

Next year, we hope to expand our efforts.

There is much work that lies ahead and Obama will need all the help he can get.

If something we’ve said here resonates with you, we invite you to participate.

We don’t ask you for dues or money.

But we do ask that you take a pledge to get involved—at your own pace.

We also ask that you stay in touch and submit periodic reports and, if possible, participate on a larger scale when needed.

That’s about it.

If you are interested, submit your name, number, street address and email address.

Most of our communications is conducted via Internet and Email.

Our next big project will be developing a presence on the Internet and we may do some solicitations for that purpose.

But we hope to keep everything voluntary and move this program forward with good will.

Thank you for your interest.

Les Aaron

The Power of One Society….