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Global Black Caucus For The Win
Help Democrats Abroad Global Black Caucus fight for our democracy in 2020.
Donations of any size will help us "Get Out the Vote" and vote out our current regime.
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Christian J Gross rsvped for Joint Book Club Discussing "So You Want to Talk About Race" 2020-08-30 14:31:03 -0400
Joint Book Club Discussing "So You Want to Talk About Race"
Join us for a Joint Book Club hosted by the Göttingen-Hannover and Münster-Osnabrück Chapters of DA Germany. We'll be discussing "So You Want to Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo on Thursday, September 24th at 7:00 PM on Zoom.
"In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide."
Please RSVP for the link to the Zoom call. Feel free to share this invitation with others and bring a friend!WHENSeptember 24, 2020 at 7pm4 rsvps rsvpWHERE
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Dialing for Democracy is a calling marathon
and global Democrats Abroad fundraiser.Phonebankers will make as many calls as they can to DA members to ask them to request their absentee ballots. Calls will be made from 9:00am to 9:00pm CEST on Flag Day, June 14. Generous sponsors like yourself will push our callers to reach our calling goals and provide the critical funds to keep our voter outreach going strong through November 3!
DONORS: If you are sponsoring a specific caller, BEFORE you select an amount, write the caller's name in the box at left!
Donate $50 and you’re sponsoring 200 calls!
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Don’t forget to check in on how the calls are going on Facebook Live from 7:30pm to 9:30pm on June 14 on the DA Germany Facebook page.
For a full overview of the call-a-thon, click here.
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Göttingen-Hannover Chapter Chair
Christian J. Gross was elected the Chapter Chair for the newly named Goettingen-Hannover Chapter in 2019. He was born in Germany and grew up in Sandusky, Ohio. After high school Chris went on to pursue his undergraduate education at Beloit College in Wisconsin, where he received his BS degree in geology. Here, Chris also began to acquire his political, historical and environmental awareness. After his studies he moved to Portland, Oregon, where he got his first taste of environmental activism, by working for the League of Conservation Voters. Moving south to Ashland, Oregon he first worked in an organic food store, and then landed a position as a geologist on the Rogue River National Forest conducting applied geohydrological research in the Big Butte Springs Watershed. After project completion, Chris moved back to Portland (where he also votes) to work for the Mt. Hood National Forest on various environmental and engineering geology projects.
In 1992, Chris moved to Goettingen, Germany, to continue his geological studies at the Georg-August University of Goettingen. This led him to do research in Austria (receiving a German Diplom degree) and Namibia, studying very ancient rocks for a comprehensive PhD dissertation. In 2007, along with his research Chris also started a geoscience editing and translation service.
“Being a geologist studying ancient rocks has given me a sense of deep geological time. Climate change and the drastic impact that humans have on the Earth in all its facets is what drives part of my political activity. Boiled down to all the ages of life on Earth, one can truly say that the Earth does not need humanity, but humanity needs the Earth. Let’s all go out and vote and create a Blue Wave to generate sweeping changes to our society for all future generations.”
Chris has been a member of Democrats Abroad since 2000 but became more actively involved when Goettingen hosted the Annual General Meeting in 2005.
