Name: Stella
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, Briget Olsen
Type of Fieldwork: Direct Action
What I did:
We wrote postcards to residents in Duval County, Florida and Pasco County, Florida who voted to get Amendment four on the ballot to remind them to vote. We had a list of addresses and names and put a personal message on each postcard.
What I learned:
Ex-felons can’t vote in elections even if they have served their time. Amendment four will still prevent muderers and sexual abusers from voting but if it passes a huge number of Florida residents will be allowed to vote again.
What I learned about Social Justice “work” and/or Civil and Human rights “work” from this fieldwork:
Sometimes it’s not about changing people’s minds, it’s about making sure the people who believe in something take a stand. We were writing postcards to people who did vote to get amendment four on the ballot instead of trying to change people who are against Amendment four being on the ballot. I went campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Cleveland, Ohio before the 2016 election and we were given a list of names of registered democrats and we went to their houses and knocked on their doors and gave them a piece of paper with information on early voting and their polling place so that they could go and vote. We weren’t trying to make Trump supporters or Third Party supporters vote for Hillary we were just making sure that people would go vote.
