Dear Dudley Volunteers,
Just a quick reminder about a few upcoming events:
1. Election Protection � Training tomorrow night!
2. Pie in the Sky Box Party to Benefit Community Servings � Please RSVP by November 5
3. Children Discovering Justice � Please contact us if you are interested
--Maria
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1. ELECTION PROTECTION
Tuesday November 2, 7-10AM and 5-8PM
Training Tomorrow (Thursday) Evening 7-8:30PM
Dudley volunteers will serve as poll monitors in a comprehensive non-partisan effort to
ensure that all registered voters throughout Massachusetts may freely exercise their
rights to vote. Dudley volunteers will provide information and materials about voting
rights and procedures (including new identification requirements and the right to cast a
provisional ballot), report possible voting irregularities, and be available to provide
immediate assistance to any voters who encounter difficulties at the polls.
There will be a training for all poll monitor volunteers tomorrow (Thursday), 10/28
7-8:30PM at the Visiting Nurses Assisted Living Facility at 259 Lowell St. in Somerville.
Attending this training session is REQUIRED unless you have already attended another
similar training conducted by MassVOTE or the Lawyers� Committee. If you cannot make the
training but would still like to volunteer, please see
http://www.massvote.net/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=1180&ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_…
to find another training time that works for you.
Everyone will sign up for volunteer shifts AT THE TRAINING. I had originally thought that
Dudley volunteers would �adopt� a single polling location in Somerville for three shifts
during Election Day and that I would be the one coordinating our shifts for that one
location. I have just learned, however, that the MassVOTE people in Somerville would
actually like to cover more polling locations for just the two busiest times during the
day, 7-10AM and 5-8PM. This means that if we have more than four volunteers, we�ll
necessarily be volunteering at more than one polling location. So, even though I have to
say I thought the idea of �adopting� a polling location sounded pretty neat, I think it
will actually be best just for everyone to schedule themselves individually at the
training according to their own availability on November 2. I still hope that it might be
possible to have pairs of Dudley volunteers together.
Even though we will all be a little scattered in these morning and afternoon shifts and
possibly at different polling locations, I hope all of you might like to stop by the
Election Returns Party hosted by the Intellectual and Cultural Fellows in the GSL at
Dudley from 8 til late. I know I will be here glued to the TV for at least part of the
time and it would be fun to hear how everyone�s experience was at the polls.
If you intend to attend the training and to volunteer on Election Day, please email me
back here and also drop a line to Alex Pirie, who is coordinating the Somerville volunteer
shifts. His email is apirie(a)somervillecdc.org. Even though I won�t be the one coordinating
shifts and whatnot, but I�d still like to just keep a record of the great work Dudley
volunteers are doing.
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2. PIE IN THE SKY BOX PARTY FOR COMMUNITY SERVINGS � RSVP by 11/5
Saturday, November 13
9AM-12 PM (exact time and location to be confirmed, but we tentatively plan to meet on the
steps of Dudley House at 8:30AM for bagels and juice)
Pie in the Sky, which has been described as �The World�s Greatest Bake Sale,� is a
fundraiser to benefit Community Servings, Greater Boston�s free, hot, home-delivered meals
program for people living with AIDS and their dependents and caregivers. Dudley volunteers
will help out with this major effort by constructing the boxes that will store thousands
of mouth-watering, donated pies. Please email Maria at dudleypublicservice(a)yahoo.com by
November 5 if you would like to volunteer. If you would like to order a delicious Pie in
the Sky pie for your family�s holiday celebration (and make possible a very special
Thanksgiving meal for Community Servings� clients), please visit
www.pieinthesky.org
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3. CHILDREN DISCOVERING JUSTICE
Act as a volunteer juror for the "Discovering Justice: The James D. St. Clair Court
Education Project." Watch students as they hold a mock trial in front of a state or
federal judge. The event will be held at the Moakley U.S. Courthouse on Wednesday,
December 15th, from 5:30-8:00 p.m. We�d like to let the program know how many volunteers
we�ll have as soon as possible, so please email Denise at dudleypublicservice(a)yahoo.com if
you would be able to commit to volunteering at this event.
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Dudley Public Service Fellows
Denise Ho, Ernesto Martinez, and Maria Stalford
Lehman Hall, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138
fax: (617) 496-5459
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~dudley/fellows/pubserv/pubserv.html
To receive updates about Dudley Public Service Events, go to
http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/dudley-pubserv
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