Fwd: Vote NOW for Malia Lazu in Showtime's American Candidate

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Vote NOW for Malia Lazu in Showtime's American Candidate

 

 

 

Call Showtime's American Candidate Vote Line at 877-786-9116 to

support the one remaining progressive candidate. We are down to the

wire. Call Sunday night (NOW!) between 9:45 EST and 11:45 PST(<<?). Calling

this number is a vote for Malia.

 

The last votes are being tallied. It will either be the arch

conservative Park Gillespie, or our favorite, the progressive Malia

Lazu. Use your opportunity to vote to support the Malia as the

progressive candidate and let our progressive voice be heard far and

wide.

 

http://www.sho.com/site/americancandidate/hq.do?content=malia

 

 

 

Malia Lazu is the National Field Coordinator for the Young Voter

Alliance a progressive 527 targeting youth voting in 5 states

throughout the country. YVA is a coalition of the League of Pissed Off

Voters, Hip Hop Political Action Convention, Young Democrats and

Stonewall Democrats and Clickback America.

 

Ms. Lazu was the project director for Democracy Action Project, a

national youth electoral reform organization, focusing on rebuilding

trust in government and ensuring that every vote counts. Democracy

Action Project has a signature annual event called " Democracy Summer " .

Last year over 300 youth activists from 30 states participated in the

week long training school.

 

Ms. Lazu is the founding Executive Director for Mass VOTE, a statewide

non-partisan coalition of community-based organizations, faith-based

institutions and neighborhood associations working to increase voter

participation in urban neighborhoods. She has been recognized by the

Massachusetts State Senate and House for her role in the rise in voter

turn out in the state. Ms. Lazu was named " Activist of the Month " by

MTV in June 2000, and is a board member of the Youth Council of The

Partnership for Excellence in Government as a representative of MTV.

Ms. Lazu currently sits on the following boards; YouthVote, Dunk the

Vote, Council for Excellence in Government, Declaration Generation and

the Center for Voting and Democracy-education committee.

 

Ms. Lazu moved in 1995 from her home in Honolulu, Hawaii, to enroll in

Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts. While pursuing her

undergraduate degree she interned in the Women and Politics program at

the Commonwealth Coalition, a statewide progressive politics

organization. While there she played a key role in helping to elect

the first Haitian-American to the Massachusetts House of

Representatives, the highest elected office in the country for a

Haitian-born elected official. Ms. Lazu went on to become a statewide

college organizer for the Clean Elections campaign, winning a landmark

statewide ballot question in 1998 for sweeping campaign finance reform

in Massachusetts.

 

 

 

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