Prior to the November election The Stansbury Forum raised money for Swing Left, an organization dedicated to flipping states that had voted Trump in 2016 to the Democratic column in 2020. Donors to Swing Left received a boxed set of photographer Robert Gumpert’s photo note cards. The Swing Left project was extremely successful in helping to swing Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona and seemingly Georgia to blue Biden in the Presidential. Less successful were efforts to flip the Senate, and now control of the Senate has come down to a special election on January 5 in Georgia to elect both of the state’s US Senators. If the Dems can pick up both seats then the Senate is a 50-50 body with VP elect Kamal Harris breaking ties. Progressive forces in labor and communities of color that hope to push the new Prez to do Medicare for all, Green New Deal and racial justice will have a lot better terrain to fight on if the Dems wrest the senate from Mitch McConnell.

It appears that after a hand recount demanded by Trump that Biden will carry Georgia’s 16 electoral votes. This should not surprise our readers who have followed the demographic transformation of the state. 2019 census estimates tell us that that 52% of Georgians are white, 32% Black and 10% Latinos. But demographics do not automatically lead to electoral victory. It takes organizing, and Stacey Abrams, who ran unsuccessfully for Governor in 2018, has done a huge service to all of humanity by running a stellar voter registration project called Fair Fight Action. The Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) has also done stellar work in combating racist anti-immigrant sheriffs who gleefully collaborated with ICE in two Georgia counties. It appears that the labor union UNITE HERE whose members in hospitality have been laid off in massive numbers during the pandemic will be engaging effectively again on the ground in Georgia as they did in AZ, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Florida. 

So again friends of The Forum, it is all hands on deck to win these two Senate seats. Help Jon Ossoff beat incumbent Senator David Perdue and help Reverend Raphael Warnock beat Sen. Kelly Loeffler. Texting, phoning, post carding are all in the mix again. Seed the Vote, a California based organization that did great work in Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania will once again be on the ground in Georgia probably integrating their volunteers with the HERE program.

Once again Bob Gumpert has agreed to roll out his boxed photo card sets to support the battle upcoming in Georgia. If you make a $100.00 contribution to one of the organizations listed below you will receive a boxed ten-card set of Gumpert cards.

Seed the Vote

Fair Fight Action

GLAHR

Once you’ve made your contribution, pick any 10 images from the contact sheets below and send your selection, receipt of contribution and an address to send the cards to:

gumpert@ix.netcom.com

If you have trouble reading the numbers below the image, you can “drag and drop” the jpeg to you desktop.

Thanks to you all and victory on January 5, 2021!

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