Episode 186: Educate, Register, Engage and Mobilize
It’s time to get primed and prepped for the midterm elections. L. Joy walks us through step by step how to on creating a report card for your elected officials, grading them, then engaging them. Next, L. Joy brings Nse Ufot back to the front of the class to discuss the continued laser focused work of the New Georgia Project on winning in Georgia.
Homework:
Who represents you on the Federal. State, and Local level? These are the people you will be grading with the report card you create using suggestions from L. Joy in this episode like: What is their leadership in the district (constituent services)? How much/what kind of resources are they bringing back to the district? Are they responsive to local issues?
Communicate to your representatives your report cards on them.
The New Georgia Project has created a game to teach how it is up to you to use phone banks, early votes, and some serious coin to save the day and democracy because as John Lewis said “The Vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.” Download This Is Not A Game from the Apple or Google play stores
Are there elections in your locale? (Yes, there are) Know who is running:
US Senate Elections https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Senate_elections,_2022
US Congress Elections https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Congress_elections,_2022
Gubernatorial Elections https://ballotpedia.org/Gubernatorial_elections,_2022
Lieutenant Gubernatorial Elections https://ballotpedia.org/Lieutenant_gubernatorial_elections,_2022
Secretary of State Elections https://ballotpedia.org/Secretary_of_State_elections,_2022
State Legislative Elections https://ballotpedia.org/State_legislative_elections,_2022
Municipal Elections https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_municipal_elections,_2022
Our Guest:
Coming back to the front of the class this episode is Nse Ufot is the Chief Executive Officer of the New Georgia Project (NGP) and its affiliate, New Georgia Project Action Fund (NGP AF). Nse leads both organizations with a data-informed approach and a commitment to developing tools that leverage technology to make it easier for every voter to engage in every election. Nse and her team are also developing Georgia’s home-grown talent by training and organizing local activists across the state. She has dedicated her life and career to working on civil, human and workers’ rights issues and leads two organizations whose complementary aim is to strengthen Georgia’s democracy. Under Nse’s leadership, NGP has registered over 500K Georgians to vote.
