What's in the grassroots?

I am seeking grassroots activism.

MAYDAY.US, on its Plan page, says it has citizen activists in 18 states. Its MAYDAYUS Twitter, its MAYDAY PAC Facebook, its MAYDAY PAC Headquarters Facebook Public Group, and its MAYDAY PAC Subreddit report virtually no grassroots activity going on.

Following its civil disobedience action in Washington DC earlier this month, the focus for Democracy Spring appears to be a list of Our Demands for Congress to act on.

Democracy Spring is planning on grassroots activity. This is laid out in an April 19th email as follows:

We have drawn a line in the sand. Every candidate for public office in our country, from President down to city council must choose: stand with the People on the side of democracy, or with Big Money on the side of corruption. From this day forward, there will be a growing political price to pay for anyone who defends our billionaire-dominated political system or the voter suppression policies that compromise our fundamental right to self-government.
We the People have found strength, we have found courage, and we have found each other. From the spark of this moment in Washington, a movement will catch fire across the country, as grassroots leaders from all 50 states return to their homes and organize others to take nonviolent action to defeat those who stand in the way of reform.
To the defenders of the corrupt status quo we declare this: from your offices to your press conferences, debates, and fundraisers, and in the hearts and minds of every voter, we will expose you, we will disrupt you, we will shut you down.
Across America, we will continue to escalate and force this issue into the headlines. We will make the 2016 election a referendum on whether we will live in a democracy for all or a plutocracy for the 1%.

This has just begun, and not much yet has been reported in the DemocracySpring social media about specifics of grassroots activities going on.

The below DemocracySpring tweet from yesterday solicited supporters to ask their Reps "to sign onto Sarbanes letter."

Keep The Heat On!
Ask your Rep to sign onto Sarbanes letter:https://t.co/Gmarerw8rV https://t.co/876Xqy1MOd pic.twitter.com/rLZRoTUNhq

— Democracy Spring (@DemSpring) April 27, 2016

At this juncture, the Democracy Spring social media has not indicated any recruitment efforts to get grassroots volunteers, or even what kind of resources it has to engage in recruitment efforts.

In my efforts, on almost a daily basis, I have been passing to MAYDAY, Democracy Spring and other organizations names of people who have responded favorably to my tweeting and who would appear to me as possible candidates for recruitment as grassroots volunteers for those organizations. To throw out a rough guess, I would say there have been thirty names I have passed along in the past month, and in the months preceding that there have been another hundred names. Further those are not the names of everyone who evidenced interest in my tweeting and who would be a potential candidate to recruit as a volunteer for the organizations. (A main current source of "names" are persons using the #feelthebern hashtag. Millions of Sanders supporters are being confronted with what they are going to do if Sanders will not be the Democratic nominee. Many of these persons could be candidates for recruitment as volunteers in the grassroots here.)

MAYDAY and Democracy Spring have not expressed to me any interest in the names I have passed along to them and basically have said nothing to me.

It is hard to know what to infer from this.

The organizations do not evidence in their social media any active recruitment efforts. Possibly they have recruitment efforts going on  that they don't report, and the organizations don't have any need or use for the names I am passing along to them.

Possibly the organizations don't have much resources for recruitment efforts and they don't have resources to make follow up contact with the names I have passed along.

Possibly the organizations have made follow up contact with those names without telling me.

Possibly the organizations don't believe that grassroots volunteers can do anything worthwhile.

Possibly the organizations don't think they have good ideas for grassroots actions that volunteers will actually undertake.

So, to those who come to this blog and have interest in pursuing grassroots activity, I don't know what to tell you about pursuing such grassroots activity under the auspices of MAYDAY, Democracy Spring or other organizations.

My citizens effort needs all the grassroots volunteers it can get. Right now it has no active grassroots volunteers.