Zoom with Laura Brill from The Civics Center on Tuesday, Sept 17 at 7:30 pm Eastern
I hope you’ll join us next Tuesday for the zoom with Laura Brill, the founder and CEO of The Civics Center.
Laura has an extraordinary background! She clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and co-authored several articles with her. She’s an award-winning advocate with more than two decades of experience working on complex legal issues and advocating for the LGBTA+ community and for equal voting rights.
And now, she’s focused on The Civics Center.
Laura will be here to talk about The Civics Center, but I bet we can talk her into a story or two!
The Civics Center trains students and educators to conduct registration and preregistration drives in High Schools. And they make it fun! In addition to training and support, The Civics Center provides T-shirts, stickers, customizable flyers, tote bags, candy and other swag in the brilliantly-named Democracy in a Box!
With our fundraiser, we are helping the Civic Center expand into 25 schools in diverse metropolitan areas – in Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania!
Here’s a link to our first post about the Civics Center, in case you missed it or you have slept since then.
Come to the zoom to learn more about how The Civics Center is making registering to vote a part of the turning 18 experience – or in many states, the “turning 16-or-17 experience”. RSVP via email to WaterGirl!
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WaterGirl
Let me know if you have any questions!
SiubhanDuinne
This sounds great! Please sign me up (and I’ll email you with confirmation).
Joy in FL
This is great. I will email you an RSVP ASAP.
different-church-lady
I really don’t get it: when I was in high school my friends and I were all clamoring to be able to vote.
Matt McIrvin
We made sure our kid was pre-registered and set up to get a mail ballot as soon as she knew her college mailing address. I actually missed the first election I was eligible to vote in (the 1986 midterm) because I didn’t figure out how to apply for absentee voting in time
I have a suspicion that a major reason for low youth turnout in our society is that many kids become eligible to vote around the same time they go off to college, and that change of address with associated uncertainty about residency makes it that much harder to do it. So they don’t get into the habit.
WaterGirl
@Matt McIrvin: Or maybe they feel like what they do doesn’t matter?
Come to the zoom and find out why so many young people don’t vote. I’ll bet they have done surveys one that. :-)
Origuy
Open thread? James Earl Jones in King Lear, NYC Shakespeare Festival, 1974
I remember seeing him in the role on PBS about that time, I’m not sure it was the same production, though.
BellyCat
Great project! It’s the kids and black womenz that are gonna save us from ourselves (I hope).
Almost Retired
This looks great. Count me in. This looks like such a smart strategy — empower the students and their faculty advisors to motivate young voters and give them the tools to make it easy. Should be a fun zoom, especially with the RBG angle.
Renie
I volunteered already to do postcards for them to register people in Pennsylvania. If you can, help out.
Postcard Link