Exciting news! Our Get Out Her Vote Campus Campaign is registering and motivating young women nationwide and especially in seven key states -- Iowa, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada and Arizona.
We don't have a moment to lose -- there are only 46 days before the first voter registration deadlines. I don't have to tell you that the threats to women's rights have never been greater.
You can help sponsor student organizers on college campuses and make a huge difference.
Elections today frequently are won by very tiny margins. The activation of young women voters has the potential to change the political landscape in many states and perhaps the country as a whole. Only one-third of young women (18-24) voted in the 2000 presidential election.
Our groundbreaking Get Out HER Vote Campaign focuses on young women. We know first-hand the potential of young women to mobilize and make a difference -- more than half of the 1.15 million who joined the March for Women's Lives in Washington DC on April 25, 2004 were college-aged. We are positioned to make a difference.
Our college program is the largest pro-choice campus campaign in the nation today. We have affiliates in 37 states. We are determined to register tens of thousands of new campus women voters in the next 6 weeks before voter registration deadlines close -- and mobilize an even larger number to the polls on Election Day, November 2.
We need your help. We need to raise emergency funds in the next 10 days before students return to campus.
For $750, you can provide a stipend for a student organizer on a campus in one of the seven states for one month. If you could support 10 student organizers yourself, that would make a very big difference to our campaign. If that's too much:
- $400 pays for food, travel, and supplies for one senior organizer for one week in the field
- $128 covers the cost of students tabling for voter registration for one week on campus
- $90 provides Voter Pledge Cards for 1,000 students
- $50 pays for photocopying 1,000 blank voter registration forms
- $25 covers the cost of 10 Get Out Her Vote posters for visibility and tabling on campus.
We are stretching to make every dollar count. Even small gifts can make a difference. It's not too late. This could be the most important election of our lifetimes. We must all do what we can.
For a Feminist Future,
Eleanor Smeal
President
P.S. If you can volunteer too, go to GetOutHerVote.org and download a Get Out Her Vote kit!
Posted at 08:45 pm by blogswarm
