Voter Registration Challenge

If you’re worried about polls showing the Presidential race tightening, work on registering people to vote and educating them on the issues. It’s the only way this country is going to get zapped out of its trance – one that I have been calling Nine Eleven Fever for the past seven years.

Arizonans have absolutely no excuses. If you’re eligible to vote, please please please click on this link to Service Arizona and you can be registered within five minutes. My goal is to get 20 people signed up to participate in this country’s civics between now and November 4th.

Groups like VotoLatino, Mi Familia Vota, and Chicanos por la Causa have mobilized throughout the state, so there is plenty of opportunities to get involved. If you’re sick of the lies, the smears, and the illusions of a dark reality that kept George Bush and his merry band of slaughterers in power in 2004; then join the movement to say ¡Ya Basta! – Enough Already! so John McCain is not allowed to continue the massacre of human lives and constitutional democracy in the U.S.

The thought of McCain and his warmongering advisors winning in November scares the shit out me. I have no reason to complain, though, if I don’t work to keep him away from the red button and the pen that will ultimately sign a military draft into existence.

 

Shout-Out to Mi Familia Vota

Just got a knock on the door from three organizers with Mi Familia Vota. I’d like to extend my thanks to them for doing the hard work of door-to-door voter mobilization. They are working for more than voter registration, but also to educate the public on various ballot initiatives that will directly affect the latino community. In most cases, affect us detrimentally.

The country is stronger when we push for more people to become engaged. As their literature notes, a lot is at stake in November:

A lot is at stake in this election: high gas prices, the war, immigration. You should vote to protect the future of our families.

• Unemployment in Arizona up 20% since 2000
• 1 in 5 people have no health insurance
• Over 30% of Arizona students don’t graduate
• Gas prices are up almost 36% in the last year alone

That’s the dreary news, the good piece of it is that we can do something about it all: Vote.

And, perhaps more importantly: Organize.