Title: Civic Engagement for Introverts Mods: ellen_fremedon, likeadeuce, ainsley--happy to have one or two more! Category: How-To Description: A crash course in How To Politics, even if you’re still figuring out How To People.
In a 60-minute panel, we’ll focus pretty heavily on elections, especially for downballot races. Likely topics include:
—Ballot research: How to find information on your local elections, candidates, and ballot issues. —Volunteering 101: How to connect with local campaigns and volunteer organizations; kinds of work you can do with them; the difference between canvassing and fundraising. —Typical interactions for phone bank and door-knock conversations, and how the scripts, data collection, and target audiences change from early campaign through Get Out The Vote. —Demonstrations of some of the apps and software that campaigns commonly use, like autodialers, Reach, or MiniVan. —Accessibility issues—both barriers, and things that are more accessible than you might think. (Otherwise known as "Rampant social anxiety is a phone banking superpower, ask me how.") —Self-care and spoons. —Hatch Act refresher, and exactly what it does and doesn't permit. (We would love a co-mod who is a lawyer or a fed or both for this part!) —Canvass role-play! We will pass out scripts of talking points for fictional candidates, and everyone will get a chance to act out some common scenarios.
If we can get a 90-minute panel, we’ll also have time to talk about engagement after the election:
—Researching your local government, including ancillary bodies like school and library boards. —How to write a good statement for a public hearing or town hall. —Civic jobs you can volunteer for—election judges, caucus chairs, advisory board members, etc. —Local political party organizations and what they do.
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Date: 2020-03-08 05:41 pm (UTC)Title: Civic Engagement for Introverts
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Category: How-To
Description: A crash course in How To Politics, even if you’re still figuring out How To People.
In a 60-minute panel, we’ll focus pretty heavily on elections, especially for downballot races. Likely topics include:
—Ballot research: How to find information on your local elections, candidates, and ballot issues.
—Volunteering 101: How to connect with local campaigns and volunteer organizations; kinds of work you can do with them; the difference between canvassing and fundraising.
—Typical interactions for phone bank and door-knock conversations, and how the scripts, data collection, and target audiences change from early campaign through Get Out The Vote.
—Demonstrations of some of the apps and software that campaigns commonly use, like autodialers, Reach, or MiniVan.
—Accessibility issues—both barriers, and things that are more accessible than you might think. (Otherwise known as "Rampant social anxiety is a phone banking superpower, ask me how.")
—Self-care and spoons.
—Hatch Act refresher, and exactly what it does and doesn't permit. (We would love a co-mod who is a lawyer or a fed or both for this part!)
—Canvass role-play! We will pass out scripts of talking points for fictional candidates, and everyone will get a chance to act out some common scenarios.
If we can get a 90-minute panel, we’ll also have time to talk about engagement after the election:
—Researching your local government, including ancillary bodies like school and library boards.
—How to write a good statement for a public hearing or town hall.
—Civic jobs you can volunteer for—election judges, caucus chairs, advisory board members, etc.
—Local political party organizations and what they do.