Lift Every Vote Fieldwork

Name:

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, Brigette Olsen

Type of Fieldwork: Direct Action

What I did:

My grade and I wrote 247 postcards to help pass Amendment 4. The Amendment needs 60% of the votes to pass.

What I learned:

We learned about Amendment 4, an Amendment to re-enfranchise felons, there are 1.5 million felons. These post cards help edge them to vote which would help Amendment 4 be passed. We sent post cards because when you get a postcard in the mail you read it write away and they would see a handwritten note.

What I learned about Social Justice “work” and/or Civil and Human rights “work” from this fieldwork:

Throughout the fieldwork I learned that just writing a postcard to people to get them to vote is very helpful and will give them confidence. It takes a lot of work to get someone to vote and the way we did it included hand writing. I hope that the postcard will effect the people we sent them to so they will vote and help pass Amendment 4.

Jade

Jade is an eight grade student at LREI. She was born in NYC. She loves sports. Jade is on the school basketball, volleyball and tennis team. In her free time she loves to bake. She is very dedicated to her social justice project with the topic of how social media affects a teenage girls body image. 

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