You may have seen my previous post about Lauren Reichelt (TheFatLadySings) and her effort to expand the number of “People of Color” at Netroots Nation by bringing a large group of folks from her area. To do this, she is applying for a $50,000 Pepsi Refresh grant. Right now, her grant stands at a sad #104.
From Netroots Nation coordinator Raven Brooks:
“The key to winning the Pepsi Refresh grant is accumulating daily voters. Netroots Nation has agreed to help us organize to win this grant. Sign up at this link to receive an email once a day providing you links to vote. Once the contest is over, win or lose, the email list will be deleted and your email won’t be shared with anyone. So please help us recruit all the daily voters you can, and we can do this.”
I’ll keep the details short here other than to give you Lauren’s pitch:
Communities Joined in Action is a national alliance of community health coalitions working to end disparities in health care. CJA believes health care is a Civil Rights issue and it works to create Civil Rights facts on the ground by teaching coalitions in underserved communities to use the Affordable Care Act and other tools to insure access to quality health care among the poor, people of color, the homeless and other hard-to-reach populations.This year, we have created a Marketing and New Media Committee dedicated to teaching coalitions to build power through community organizing, and to make use of online organizing tools. We have submitted a Pepsi Challenge Grant to bring 24 coalition participants to Netroots Nation in Providence, RI to caucus with bloggers and to learn on and offline organizing techniques.
If you want to learn more about why this is a great thing to support, check out my previous post on the subject. You can also check out the Daily Kos Digital Divide tag and read the posts of others.
Here are a few things to remember:
- This costs you nothing
- You can vote twice a day, once via the website, once via text (text the message 110867 to Pepsi at the number 73774)
- This will help expand the diversity of Netroots Nation
- This will help a group of very good activists become more effective
- This costs you nothing
- It’s free
Also, too:
“The key to winning the Pepsi Refresh grant is accumulating daily voters. Netroots Nation has agreed to help us organize to win this grant. Sign up at this link to receive an email once a day providing you links to vote. Once the contest is over, win or lose, the email list will be deleted and your email won’t be shared with anyone. So please help us recruit all the daily voters you can, and we can do this.”
Here’s the Pepsi Challenge link: Lifting the Digital Curtain. Go there. Now. AND VOTE!
Like pictures instead of a text link? Click this one then!
Or this one!
But don’t just vote today. VOTE EVERY SINGLE DAY IN DECEMBER!
And text in a vote (text the message 110867 to Pepsi at the number 73774). Every single day in December.
And share it on Facebook. Every single day in December.
And tweet it to your followers. Every single day in December.
This community needs to flex its muscles and we only have a couple weeks left to do it. Please help. Did I mention it costs nothing?
Finally, the best way to remember to vote each and every day is to get a nice, friendly little nag in your email box each morning sign up for that HERE.
