In These Times--- America Votes---

[RainDog]

here's an exerpt from the Jan. 5, 2004 In These Times (just on the newstand today)

"About a dozen groups--backed by the likes of EMILY's List, the AFL-CIO, the Sierra Club, and MoveOn.org--are quietly building an infrastructure to undertake the most extensive door-to-door grassroots voter contact operation in U.S. history. Its potential to turn the election already is well understood on both sides: Longtime activists say they haven't felt this energized in decades---and Republicans are using congressional hearings to shut down the operation or steal directly from its playbook."

..."Cecile Richards, former cheif of staff to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, is director of America Votes, a coalition of 24 progressive organizations that will be coordinating field efforts."

...I just read this today and want to contact them to find out how I can also help with the door-to-door registrations.

I found the America Votes website. You can sign up for email notifications.

http://www.americavotes.org/press/july-15-2003.cfm

by helping to register Americans who have given up on any hope for change, we can get rid of Bush...along with people like Bev and Andy who are also working to make sure the machines we use to vote will honestly represent the votes of all the people who vote.

[KoKo]

1. Thanks RainDog.....it's a good link. I wondered when I saw the Salvation

Army folks standing ringing their bells this week, if we might not take a cue from them, and get permits to stand in shopping centers ringing bells for the vote!

Many of us are reluctant to go knock on strangers doors and ask them if they vote or not. It seems "intrusive." I wonder if there isn't a less intimidating way to make registering fun? Or, to make it something one could do by standing at a shopping center ringing a bell.

:shrug: A good read anyway.