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The Center's affiliate organization,
Western
State Strategies, is continuing our traditional work
on campaign finance reform, supporting voter-owned elections
and promoting a more transparent election system that
expands democracy. |
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Help Western States Center
support and grow the progressive movement in the West! |
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Lessons
Learned: Electoral Organizing & Women,
Younger Voters,
New
Citizens/Immigrants & Small
Town/Rural Voters
The next pages reflect a "round robin"
approach to gleaning lessons learned in working with
other constituencies and opportunities for better work
in the future.
Electoral Organizing
& Women
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What We Did
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Could Do Next
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- Involved them in volunteer events
- Invited them to voter forums
- Attended League of Women Voters event,
provided materials
- We worked on issues,
childcare/choice-educated on issues that
polarized our community with
issues/motivational to vote
- Elected women endorsed our campaign
- Had parties on women centered holidays
- Collect stories of women's voting
experiences & share
- Provide childcare at polls
- Supported women's leadership
- Provided leadership development
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- Survey their needs/issues
- Directly engage women and single parents
on issues of childcare and access to
education
- Explore electoral leadership development
specifically targeted to women (not running
necessarily) to use voter file to target
women
- Cultivate women leaders
- Address sexism, make it safer for women to
do work
- Address issue of employer accommodating
dress of immigrant women
- Target work with women-centered
organizations
- Encourage (support women to run for local
office, etc.)
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Electoral Organizing
& Younger Voters (18- 24 years old)
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What We Did
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Could Do Next
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- Two youth surveys days
- Leadership development on two additional
campuses
- Recruited and trained students
- Recruited college students as volunteers
- Registered voters at Chicano concerts
- Trained and educated on the electoral
process
- Registered people at concerts, gas
stations, campuses, targeted young people
districts
- Collaborated with student group for
convention, students in leadership roles
- Targeted our message, educated on rights
of citizenship
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- More involvement as leadership versus
supporters
- Identify youth contacts and opportunities
- Develop a plan to more fully” engage on
long term, ongoing basis
- Survey needs issues that affect them
- Target our message towards community
colleges and have a better plan to engage
community college students in the work house
parties, pizza party to encourage voting
- More role models elected to office (new
citizens and women)
- Encourage youth to take leadership in
immigrant rights organizations
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Electoral Organizing
& Small Town/ Rural Voters
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What We Did
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Could Do Next
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- Press stories in small town papers
- Radio PSAS to small town radio markets
- Gave money
- Events
- Door-to-door (outreach at churches)
- Training and organizing (everything!)
- Small town voters guide
- Have parties
- Candidate forums
- Creating databases locally
- Urban ally support
- Using framework that accents common value
for democracy
- Geographically targeted our work in
smaller towns
- Went door-to-door
- Community forums
- Targeted Latino Voters increased presence
- Put organizers on rural campuses
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- House parties
- Community education forum join in larger
demonstration (march, rally, convention,
etc.)
- Recruiting volunteers to reach out to
others in small towns
- Television targeting small town and other
target materials, stories of small town life
- Target schools as community centers
- Regular mailing (one-sheet newsletter for
example)
- Deeper training and analysis for
door-to-door
- Identify community leaders and volunteers
to help keep in contact
- Greater collaboration with multiple
community groups posters at grocery stores
and local frequented businesses
- Precinct organizing
- Work in more isolated rural areas that
aren't as condensed
- Build movement in Eastern portion of the
state
- Build more messages around rural campus
communities
- Specifically target their issues
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Electoral Organizing
& New Citizens/Immigrants
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What We Did
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What We Could Do Next
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- Citizenship workshops
- How to Vote Logistics
- Education abd candidate forums
- Exposure/collaboration with other ethnic
groups
- Linguistically and culturally appropriate
materials and resources
- Educated youths on options for citizenship
- Educated on immigration law to avoid
deportation
- Rally on immigration issues
- Lots of volunteer experiences (leadership
development)
- Assistance & information at
naturalization ceremonies
- Translated some material (minimal) forums
in Spanish
- Organized youth immigrants as volunteers
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- Acknowledging and training, our volunteers
with working with new citizens/immigrants
- Better gathering/identification of issues
of concern to our communities
- Better material develop for specific
communities
- Recruit key leaders to endorse voting
- Better collaboration, planning of projects
and partnerships with multiple immigrant
committees
- Prepare civic engagement” packet or
guide
- Leadership development
- Include issues and or provide support in
our own priorities and agendas
- Identify new citizens, connect them with
needed information
- Designate leaders in communities
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Back
to the VOTE Project Page.
Get
Electoral Organizing Resources, Tools and Curriculum. |
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