Friday, April 07, 2006

Mom's On Main Street


Moms Sign up the Senior Class, is a nonpartisan national grassroots project whereby mothers (and others) visit classrooms of high school seniors and register them to vote.
It’s simple, really. Just like we’ve always done, we moms help our kids fill out forms.

But this time it isn’t a permission slip for a school field trip, or even a college application.
It’s something that we hope they’ll use for the rest of their lives.
It’s a voter registration form.

Every spring, millions of 18-year-olds graduate from high schools across the country.

These young adults – our children - are newly eligible to vote.

But there is no concerted effort nationwide to register them while they are still in high school and relatively easy to reach as a group.

We’ve got a plan to change that, called Vote@18: Moms Sign up the Senior Class.

The Need a little inspiration first? Read one mom’s story.
If you’re feeling a little shy, remember, you’ll be talking to students in your own kid’s school, in your own community.

You’ll be making a valuable contribution to their new lives as grown-ups, and it feels darned good. Help build on the groundswell of increased youth voter turnout in the 2006-2008 elections, and forge a culture of energized, engaged youth. Help sign up senior class!

Check out our http://www.themmob.org/voteat18/voteat18toolkit.html.

Good luck, and have fun meeting the Class of 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010!

Mainstreet Moms (The MMOB) is an education-in-action project committed to big change through the accelerated engagement of women, particularly as they identify and self-organize as mothers. MMOB is strictly guilt-free.
MMOB believes moms are hard-wired for sustainability. We have to think 10, 20, 30 years out because our kids will be there. Times like these call for more of us to be on the move, but traditional volunteerism doesn't always fit into the nooks and crannies left in a mom's full day. That's why MMOB works to serve it up. We know how to pull a good time out of chaos, and we aim for impact. This year, it's all about the vote reform.
MEANWHILE, the MMMOB offers easy-to-use tools for Moms and Honorary Moms of every stripe and flavor, pure and simple. The MMOB welcomes Republicans, Democrats, Greens, Independents, Decline-to-States and Plain Fed Ups -- absolutely anyone who'd like to join us in THE PURSUIT OF A RESTORED DEMOCRACY, THE NEXT ENERGY CHAPTER, MORE MOMS IN CHARGE, MORE KIDS ENGAGED, LESS IRAQ, AND truth in everything.
Current "education-in-actions" at The MMOB include Hold on HAVA, a vote reform project, Leave My Child Alone, a family privacy project focused on No Child Left Behind's military recruitment section, and http://www.themmob.org/voteat18/voteat18.html, a high-school senior voter registraion project.
The MMOB is a 501(c)3 corporation (in process). Contributions to the MMOB are tax deductible.