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PA League of Young Voters own Dylan Lampe was interviewed by WTAE while he waited in line to vote on Chatham’s campus.
Meanwhile, volunteer Francine Porter was out interviewing voters about their voting experience and thoughts on the election.
Videos like these are being uploaded by the League as well as many other groups and individuals all across the county as part of the Video Your Vote project.
Tags: election day, election protection, stories, videoyourvote, votersOur office was completely packed for E-Day orientation this week, as dozens of eager volunteers came in to get trained and scheduled to get out the vote on Tuesday.
They ranged in age from 17 years old to over 50. We gave them all a t-shirt and the list of canvasser rules and rights, and got them scheduled for either a whole-day or half-day shift.
IF YOU MISSED THE ORIENTATION… Saturday, Nov. 1st at 1pm in our office you can still get trained and scheduled to push those voters out the door! Call 412-362-7927 with questions.
Tags: election day, orientation, training, volunteersYou want to help get out the vote. Come to one of our super-duper election day orientations: get prepped, scheduled, and the day’s agenda in an hour. Plus, we’ll feed you punch and pie!
TUESDAY, Oct 28th, 7pm-8pm
League Office, 6101 Penn Avenue Suite 302, East Liberty
WEDNESDAY, Oct 29th, 7pm-8pm
United Steelworkers Office, 1945 Lincoln Highway, North Versailles
(We’re serious! Punch & Pie!)
Tags: election training, get out the vote, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Youth VoteThis is a great, fun chance to do your part. Trick or Vote is a nationwide nonpartisan costume canvass taking place on Halloween. So in Pittsburgh, on Oct 31st at 5pm, costumed canvassers will meet up to get out the vote during Trick-Or-Treat!
We need food for our organizer training program participants. 15 people have committed to giving us 4 hours of their time every Saturday from 10am-2pm for the rest of October, to learn how to become (or become stronger) grassroots community organizers. Unfortunately, we don’t have enough money to feed the class on our own. We need fruit and/or bagels, juice, and coffee for breakfast and some stuff for lunches.
Can you help? If so, please contact me, Roxanne, at 412-362-7927. Thank you!!!
Saturday October 4th was a great day for the PA League! We had so many wonderful volunteers wake up early to go canvassing with us and the Steelworkers in Penn Hills and North Versailles to make an impact on the upcoming election.
It was extra exciting because the PA League recently has been getting national recognition for our efforts. On Saturday, CNN brought their film crews out to North Versailles to capture the excitement and the hard work that we have all been doing to reach out to those new and unlikely voters.
You can catch the footage on CNN American Morning showing Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week!
Engaging the next generation of young leaders!
The Post-Gazette gave us a shout out as the place to volunteer this election. What are you waiting for? Add your name to the list! The more volunteers we have the more we can do (obviously), and there’s a lot to do!
Tags: election, post-gazette, volunteer, voteThe PA League was recently featured in the series of Right Here columns about 20-something Pittsburghers who work at nonprofit organizations.
“Our goal is not only to engage [voters], but keep them engaged after this election. … I’ve never seen an election with this much enthusiasm,” Ms. Rincon said.
Read the full text of the article here
Tags: election, engagement, new voters, pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, post-gazette, registration, students, volunteers, vote
We got a spot in the Post-Gazette for our jail registration work in conjunction with Just Harvest; Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN; the Community Voters Project; Work for Progress; and Duquesne University nursing and political science students last week!
Tags: allegheny county, Allegheny County Jail, disenfranchised, election, ex-offenders, inmates, pa league of young voters, pa league of young voters education fund, Pennsylvania, registration, unlock the vote, vote, voter, Voting“Spearheaded by inmate program director Jack Pishke, it was the largest registration effort to date at the jail and the only one jail officials knew of statewide, in anticipation of the last registration day: Oct. 6.
In a dizzying two hours, the group helped to complete 456 new registrations and about 700 absentee ballot applications.
Unlike most of the younger volunteers, Ms. Rabinowitz, 67, of Park Place, had been in jail before. She was locked up with a group of organizers for two separate stretches in 1963, after the group was arrested for registering rural black voters in the south with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
Those voters, she said, were scared because “they’d never had the right to vote before and we couldn’t tell them it wasn’t dangerous.”
The jail inmates today were just eager. And hopeful.”
With the election steadily approaching and the state and national economy in near collapse, it is more important than ever that we get out there to talk to as many voters as we can, and we need your help! We will be knocking on doors and calling voters based out of our headquarters in East Liberty and our field office in North Versailles all week long, and until we get out and make our voices heard on November 4th.
THIS WEEK:
USW District 10
1945 Lincoln Highway
North Versailles, PA 15137
The North Versailles field office is in USW District 10 Headquarters on Route 30.
PA League of Young Voters
6101 Penn Avenue, Suite 302
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
The League office in East Liberty is on Penn Avenue in the Liberty Bank Building. Use the door next to H&R Block to call up to be buzzed in.
Holler at Mac (mac@theleague.com) or Terry (terry@theleague.com) if you can make it out this week,
and together we are going to work for the future of Pennsylvania!