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Issues a Call for Action to Latino Leaders
July 8, 2008 To All Latino Community Leaders: After registering more than 25,000 voters in warm-up activities over the last period, it is time for SVREP to ramp up massive community mobilization. We invite all forces in the Latino community (and its allies) to unite and organize nonpartisan voter registration drives that mobilize the Latino vote in the fall elections. In ten days, organizations and elected officials from 36 states and 13 countries will gather at the 3 rd Annual National Latino Congreso (www.latinocongreso.org) in Los Angeles on July 18-20. At the Congreso, they will launch “Movimiento 10-12” to help raise Latino registration to 12 million, and drive 10 million voters to the polls in November. A successful mobilization will send a powerful message in favor of justice for immigrants, federal action to reactivate the economy, fixing our broken educational system, extending health care to all, and ending the war in Iraq (the top five Latino issues). SVREP (www.svrep.org) has joined together with LULAC, Hispanic Federation, NALACC, LCLAA, HMLA, MAPA, and hundreds of local organizations and elected officials to launch a coordinated national nonpartisan campaign in more than 20 states to register and turnout 250,000 new voters during summer and fall. All “Congreso” attendees, as well as all others willing to unite, are invited to join this nonpartisan effort. Below is list of SVREP targeted counties, in which SVREP will provide training, financing, data, media support, materials, and other technical support to community-based coalitions that pledge to mobilize their memberships and volunteers to do neighborhood-based voter registration (and turnout) during August-November. SVREP will invest $3 million towards its portion of the goals (registering and turning out 150,000 voters). If you are interested in joining this effort, nominating candidates for paid voter registration coordinator positions, want to launch a local coalition, or otherwise help please attend the Latino Congreso (www.latinocongreso.org) or contact us one of our field representatives:
TX/WA/OR: Veronica Hawkins, vhawkins@svrep.org, 800-404-VOTE Jacquelyn Longoria, jlongoria@svrep.org 800-404-VOTE NM/CO: Jaime Chavez, jchavez@svrep.org, 505-730-7555 CA/NV: Martin Rodríguez, mrodriguez@svrep.org, 800-222-5654 Ruben Villareal, rvillarreal@svrep.org 800-222-5654 AZ: Adelita Villegas, avillegas@svrep.org, 602-367-1554 FL/GA/NC/VA: Alvaro Fernandez, alfernandez@the-beach.net, 305-308-6079
124 SVREP Target Counties/Regions (# projects indicated in parenthesis, coalition partners priority communities coming soon) Arizona (20): Maricopa (11), Pima (3), Pinal (1), Santa Cruz (1), Yuma (1), Cochise (1), Coconino (1), Globe (1) California (34): Los Angeles (18), Orange (1), San Bernardino (3), Riverside (2), Santa Barbara (2), Ventura (1), Fresno (1), Kern (1), San Diego (2), Imperial (1), San Joaquin (2) Colorado (11): Pueblo (2), Adams (1), Arapahoe (1), Denver (2), Larrimer (1), Weld (1), San Luis Valley (2), Boulder (1) New Mexico (14): Bernalillo (2), Dona Ana (2), Santa Fe (1), Taos (1), McKinley (2), Rio Arriba (1), Valencia (1), Chaves (1), Sandoval (1), Eddy (1), Grant (1) Texas (24): Cameron (5), Hidalgo (10), Dallas (4), Harris (2), Nueces (1), El Paso (1), Bexar (1) Florida (13): Miami-Dade (10), Hillsborough (1), Orange (2) North Carolina (1): Eastern NC (1) Georgia (1): Fulton (1) Washington (3): Yakima Valley (3) Oregon (1): Salem-Woodburn area (1) Nevada (1): Clark (1) Virginia (1): Northern Virginia (1) |
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