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PRESS ADVISORY: Mayor Menino Joins Diverse Immigrant Community Leaders to Kick-Off Ya Es Hora!/Now is The Time! Voter Registration Campaign

Source: Ya Es Hora
Date: Aug 5 2008
8/ 5/2008 12:54 pm - When: Tomorrow, Wednesday, 6th at 11:30 am Where: In front of Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA
PRESS ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, August 4th, 2008

Contact:

Damaris Lopez, Agenica ALPHA: 617-541-4455 ext. 16

Gosia Tomaszewska, Polonia Votes 2008, White Eagle Media: 617-350-3001

Doreen Treacy, CivicHealth Institute, DotWell: 617-822-8120

Shuya Ohno, MIRA: (617) 821-8990

 

Mayor Menino Joins Diverse Immigrant Community Leaders to Kick-Off Ya Es Hora!/Now is The Time! Voter Registration Campaign

Campaign Expects Unprecedented Numbers of New American Voters to Register to Vote for Fall 2008

When: Tomorrow, Wednesday, 6th at 11:30 am

Where: In front of Faneuil Hall, Boston, MA

Speakers:

Mayor Thomas M. Menino

Rocio Saenz, President of SEIU 615

Reverend Cheng Imm Tan, Director of the Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians

Damaris Lopez, Director of Programs, Agencia ALPHA

Jenrry Renderos, Centro Presente

Gosia Tomaszewska, Campaign Manager of Polonia Votes 2008

Luisa Pena from MassVOTE

Erica Moise, Ward Fellowship

Marcony Almeida, Organizing Director of the MIRA Coalition

What:

Leaders representing diverse immigrant, faith, and labor communities will be joined by Mayor Thomas M. Menino to launch the Ya Es Hora/Now’s the Time Voter Registration Campaign for the Greater Boston Area. The historic Ya Es Hora Campaign has already helped hundreds of thousands of legal permanent residents obtain US citizenship. The Ya Es Hora Voter Registration Drive is a national campaign that has been registering new American voters to increase voter participation among Latino communities. The Ya Es Hora/Now Is The Time kick off launches a Greater Boston effort, which brings together a diverse multiethnic, multilingual coaliton in collaboration with Ya Es Hora to increase voter participation and civic engagement among all the immigrant communities to unprecedented levels. (see case study of California from the 2008 Presidential Primaries here. <<http://tinyurl.com/66x536>> )

Visuals: Mayor Menino will stand with advocate dressed as Lady Liberty and encourage all citizens to register to vote.

Participating Organizations:

ACORN, Agencia ALPHA, Brazilian Immigrant Center, Brazilian Women’s Group, Cape Verdean Community UNIDO,Centro Latino de Chelsea, Centro Presente, Chelsea CDC, Chelsea Collaborative, Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, Chinese Progressive Association, Cuenca Enterprises of America, DotWell, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, EBECC, Election Department, Fenway CDC, Hyde Square Task Force, Immigrant Information Center, Irish Immigration Center, Latinos Unidos en Massachusetts, MassVOTE, Mayor’s Office of New Bostonians, Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, Polonia Votes 2008, Project Right, ROCA, Roxbury Resource Center, SEIU 615, Univision, VietVotes, Ward Fellowship, White Eagle Media, LLC

 

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