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Click here for current opportunities to help!
CodePINK is what YOU make it to be! We are truly a grassroots movement. We do have a national headquarters with offices in Washington DC, New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. There are over 100 chapters of CodePINK around this country and 8 other countries have CodePINK chapters as well.
Here in the Bay Area, if we have a vigil (Sign up for a vigil now), it is because YOU have shown up! If we have a demonstration, it is because you have decided something is worth demonstrating about. If we have a coffee klatch or afternoon tea, it is because YOU have decided it is important to do. CodePINK depends on your involvement. And there are many ways to become involved with codepink and your involvement can take any shape or form you desire. You can come to meetings twice a month; or not. You can decide on an action or an area you'd like to focus on. You can make phone calls, send emails, write letters, make speeches, stand silently, work on campaigns, work on projects, work on demonstrations - anything you deem worthy of your time and energy. But work is essential! Bay Area CodePINK does NOT have any funding or paid staff - yet. So we count on everyone to participate. You can participate an hour a week, a month, a year; you can participate a day a week, etc. It is your call. Just PARTICIPATE any way you can!
Let us know what you want to do! Peace, Justice, and Love
Bay Area CodePINK
Current Volunteer Opportunites
Volunteer Coordinator
Duties:
- keeping updated listing of volunteers - e-mail and phone numbers current
- recruiting and welcoming new volunteers
- assigning volunteers
- forwarding volunteer website information to webmaven
- follow, participate on discussion list
Time Commitment:
up to 5 hours per week
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Volunteer Researcher
Duties:
- Research current international and domestic topics
- develop quarter-page information sheets
Topics may include: economy/jobs, choice, social security, war/WMD,
Time Commitment:
up to 5 hours per week
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Vigil Coordinator
Duties:
- Set-up, take down of vigil site including signs, ironing board and flyers
- recruit vigil particpants
- send reminders, e-mail and phone calls to vigil participants
can delegate
Time Commitment:
up to 4 hours per week
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CodePINK On-Line Store Manager
Duties:
- process incoming and outgoing orders,
- mailing order packages
- record-keeping / bookkeeping
- ordering inventory
Time Commitment:
up to 8 hours per week
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Action Volunteers
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For more information contact:
Sam Joi
1248 Solano Ave
Albany, CA
mzsam@bayareacodepink.org
510.524.2776
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Teams To Do
We're forming Teams to help us share the load! PLEASE sign up for any one or all of the following teams!
- Weekly meetings Team - Help organize and get the word out about meetings! Such as First Wednesday of the month meeting East Bay; 2nd Wednesday SF; 3rd Wed East Bay designated for specific groups/campaigns; 4th Wed East Bay designated for Activist Trainings or documentaries or??? Second Sunday of the month morning New Comer Orientations East Bay .
- Volunteers Team - work closely with volunteer coordinators and help recruit and inspire new activists and re-activate older activists!
- Internet Team - responsible for getting the info together for twice/month bulletin; action list; discussion list
- Office Team - help staff the office on Solano Ave, where we are gathering, meeting, greeting the public. We have had sporadic office hours these last 6 months since our priority has been occupying the "How Berkeley Can U BE" space in front of the MRS and needing every able activist there!
- Bulletin Board Team - help keep up the large bulletin board in front of office for flyers of actions, etc.
- Action Alert flyers Team - help develop the frequent (weekly - more or less depending on how active we are) 2-sided quarter-page or half-page flyers with our weekly alerts on one side, and either a message statement or a major action on the other
- Phone Tree Team - help call folks whenever we have folks to do the calling
- Email Alerts Team - be ready at a few moments notice to put out emergency or urgent actions sent out over the internet
- Email Tree Team - help organize and utilize individual emails for folks inviting them personally to participate
- MMMEG Team - help organize and coordinate our Monthly Monday Meet Eat and Greet - dinner, schmooze and sometimes fundraiser held at various restaurants or pot lucks, and have a theme to our evening, sign-up sheets, announcements, and brief meetings
- Idea/Campaign Teams - help ‘bottom-line' an action - we attempt to form teams of one or more activists to ensure that our brilliant strategies and ideas come to fruition as brilliant actions! We try to rotate responsibilities and tasks so that one person doesn't get stuck with most of the work.
- Tabling Team - help coordinate tabling! We set up tables as frequently as we are able, to have a hot pink presence in the community, to pass out literature, sign up folks for cp, hand out our latest flyer, and sell t-shirts if possible
- Calendar Postings Team - help disseminate information to codepinkers and com madres - we have a calendar on our local website, we can post to national cp, and we post to bay area progressive calendars all over the bay!
- Media Team - be part of the team that puts out press releases and posts to media calendars of events
- Liaison w/like-minded organizations & for events Team - help organize and coordinate with various groups - we attempt to designate liaisons to represent CP at meetings of other sistah organizations and/or specific events that we are co-sponsoring or endorsing
- Web site Team - help keep our website updated and accurate! We have our own bay area CodePINK web site! and national web site!
- Fundraising Team - this is our biggest weakness and most needed help!
Email info@bayareacodepink.org or call 510-524-2776 to sign up!
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