Name: Andrei
Social Justice Group: 2018-2019
Date of Fieldwork: October 1, 2018
Name of Organization: Lift every vote
Person (people) with whom I met and their job titles: Molly Harris & Bridgette Olsen
Type of Fieldwork: Direct Action
What I did:
We wrote letters to people who had there signature challenged and declined and told them to “vote for the 4th” so that they would vote to get ex-felonies the ability to be able to vote in FL.
What I learned:
I learned that peoples signatures can be challenged (ex. about 30,000 signatures got challenged), that Floridians can’t vote if they’re an ex-felon and that you need at least 60% of people to want ex-felons to vote to make that change.
What I learned about Social Justice “work” and/or Civil and Human rights “work” from this fieldwork:
in our first fieldwork, I learned