START A YOUTH VOTER COLLECTIVE!

Here is a way to immediately plug in to the youth upsurge surrounding the 2008 elections!

Check out Youth Voter Collective or go to www.youthvotercollective.org!

The Youth Voter Collective is an organization of youth activists from across the country that mobilizes youth and college students to participate in the elections process, as well as garnering a united vision for a youth agenda in the post-election period.

Young people have so much to gain. With the continued erosion of workers’ rights to form and join unions, young workers remain the least likely to be in a union. Young people often get stuck in temporary, dead-end employment that requires them to take on multiple jobs in order to support their families and/or their education—leaving little time for civic participation.

It is the intention of the Youth Voter Collective to register and mobilize youth from all sections of the country, particularly working class neighborhoods and schools—focusing particularly on youth historically underrepresented in the voting process. Ensuring representation of women, people of color and queer youth in all levels of leadership, we hope to be able to reach out to the broadest possible sections of youth.

To find out more about the Youth Voter Collective, go to www.youthvotercollective.org!