This wonderful video tells its own story, so I won’t blather on and attempt to do so for it. View and be inspired!  We’ve also posted it in our videos section, should you want to pass it on to a friend!

MISSOULA, MONTANA OBAMA WORKS
RIVER-CLEAN UP INAUGURAL EVENT, APRIL 19, 2008
Some 50 volunteers gathered by the banks of the Clark Fork River by
the University of Montana to clean-up a section of river as our first
Obama Works event.  Moms and kids clambered over rocks with trash bags
in hands, sorting out recyclables. University students pulled out
trash with vigor, alongside people of all ages—up to 85 years old, all of whom
believe that “community” includes not only people and civic infrastructure,
but also the natural world.

Obama banners fluttered in the cool wind. Missoula mayor John Engen,
who has endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president, stopped by with
his dog for a filmed interview. In fact, we have many interviews on
tape that will be put together into a short 4-5 minute film ( a work
in progress). Our voter registration table was a popular stop for
pedestrians crossing the footbridge over the river en route to the
Ki-Yoh Pow-Wow, and the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Native
American center on campus. Our tally of tangible community service for
two hours on the day that marked the start of Earth Week: 22 bags of
litter, 20 bags of recyclables, a large mound of cardboard.