Terre Haute for Obama

The place is packed.check out the “Hoosiers heart Obama” sign!

Tonight at IU Assembly Hall in Bloomington, Indiana Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds will be playing to over 16,000 people. Check back here for updates live on the scene.

Terre Haute for Obama Headquarters is the place to be to begin your voter registration canvassing today! From 10am til 4pm you can stop by 425 Wabash and pick up a packet with a map, forms and info to register as many voters as you can. Monday at 4pm is the deadline
If you are going to the Dave Matthews concert you can also get VIP treatment with no lines, better seats and maybe more! All you have to do is get 20 new registrations by 5pm today and bring them by the headquarters.

People are lining up again for tickets view post for photo
Mobile Post “Live on the Scene”

Hundreds of Obama supporters (and Dave Matthews fans) began lining up at 4am in front of 425 Wabash, the Terre Haute for Obama headquarters, for tickets to see Dave Mathews and Tim Reynalds “Changs Rocks!” concert in Bloomington.

Message of the day: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Through his faith, courage, and wisdom, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. moved an entire nation. He preached the gospel of brotherhood; of equality and justice. That’s the cause for which he lived – and for which he died forty years ago today. Barack Obama is in Indiana today, where Robert Kennedy spoke on the night of Dr. King’s death, to discuss the ways Dr. King’s life and legacy speak to us today.

• Much of the commemoration this week centers on issues of racial justice – on the Montgomery bus boycott and the March on Washington, on the freedom rides and the stand at Selma. That’s as it should be – because those were times when ordinary men and women, straight-backed and clear-eyed, challenged what they knew was wrong and helped perfect our union. And they did so in large part because Dr. King pointed the way.

• But Senator Obama also thinks it’s worth reflecting on what Dr. King was doing in Memphis, when he stepped onto that motel balcony on his way out for dinner. And what he was doing was standing up for struggling sanitation workers, who were being denied fair treatment, a decent wage, and recognition of their union.

• Dr. King understood that the struggle for economic justice and the struggle for racial justice were really one – that so long as opportunity was being opened to some but not all, the dream that he spoke of would remain out of reach.

• While the sanitation workers eventually secured their union contract, the struggle for economic justice remains an unfinished part of the King legacy. Because the dream is still out of reach for too many Americans. All across this country, families are facing rising costs, stagnant wages, and the terrible burden of losing a home.

• Part of the problem is that for a long time, we’ve had a politics that’s been too small for the scale of the challenges we face. Instead of having a politics that lives up to Dr. King’s call for unity, we’ve had a politics that’s used race to drive us apart, when all this does is feed the forces of division and distraction, and stop us from solving our problems.

• That is why the great need of this hour is much the same as it was forty years ago. We have to recognize that while we each have a different past, we all share the same hopes for the future – that we’ll be able to find a job that pays a decent wage, that there will be affordable health care when we get sick, that we’ll be able to send our kids to college, and that after a lifetime of hard work, we’ll be able to retire with security. These common dreams are at the heart of the struggle for freedom, dignity, and humanity that Dr. King began, and that it is our task to complete today.

Supporting struggling families

• Today we learned that the economic crisis continues to spread to more American families, as we have now lost 232,000 jobs this year and the unemployment rate has reached its highest level since immediately after Katrina. This bad news is just the latest evidence that Washington needs fundamental change because it has failed the American people. For millions of unemployed Americans, the American Dream has been slipping away while their government has put special interests ahead of their interests.

• It’s time to turn the page on a Bush-McCain approach that tells Americans who are struggling that ‘you’re on your own’ unless you have a lobbyist in Washington, because we’re not going to strengthen our economy unless we come together on behalf of our common prosperity. Instead of doing nothing for out-of-work Americans, we need a second stimulus that extends unemployment insurance and helps communities that have been hit hard by this recession. Instead of tolerating decades of rising inequality, we need to grow the middle class by investing in millions of new Green Jobs and rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. And after decades of flawed trade agreements and tax breaks that ship our jobs overseas, we need to invest in companies that create jobs right here at home.

Tickets for the Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds “Change Rocks!” concert at Assembly Hall at IU-Bloomington on Sunday April 6th will be available starting at 10 AM on Friday April 4th at the official Terre Haute Obama Campaign office (425 Wabash Ave).The tickets are free to Indiana Residents (including Indiana college students with student id) Only. One ticket per person who shows up to the office (no exceptions).
Individuals will also be able to upgrade their ticket to a VIP ticket with priority seating if they register twenty new voters at the Terre Haute office between 10 AM Friday and 5 PM Saturday.
The line starts at the front door of the office…….now.