*** Media Advisory For Friday July 27, 2012 ***
Contact: Jacob Hay, jacob.hay@goodjobsla.org or (310) 855-2640
Esperanza Arrizon, esperanza.arrizon@goodjobsla.org or (323) 868-4189
¡Todos a Votar! Latino Voter Tour by National Latino Advocacy and Civil Rights Groups Makes LA Area Stop
LA stop to focus on uniting communities of color!
Los Angeles, CA – The Latino voter public education campaign, ¡Todos a Votar! (“Let’s Vote”), sponsored by national Latino advocacy groups to register and mobilize Latino voters throughout the country will make a stop in the LA area on Friday.
Joining forces on the tour across the U.S. are Service Employees International Union (SEIU), Mi Familia Vota (MFV), the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA), Center for Community Change (CCC), Presente.org, Voto Latino, and the Hispanic Federation. The groups will work with activists on the ground and online to register Latino voters, inform them of the issues at stake in this election and increase voter turnout.
The LA area tour stop will also focus on uniting communities of color as local leaders join together for a precinct walk, speaking with and registering minority voters who are critical to the electoral success of working family issues in California. The precinct walk will preview Good Jobs LA’s groundbreaking, intensive effort to turnout voters for this year’s election in LA struggling communities including South LA, Compton and Inglewood.
Other California tour stops include Stockton, Riverside and San Diego. From California, the voter registration campaign will move through Nevada, Arizona, Florida, Colorado and Texas.
WHAT: ¡Todos a Votar! Latino Voter Tour makes LA area stop
WHEN: Friday, July 27th at 11:45 am.
WHO: LA tour stop speakers include: Eliseo Medina, SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer; Ulises Gonzalez, National Field Director for LULAC; Angelica Salas, Executive Director for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA); Mike Garcia, President of SEIU United Service Workers West; Anthony Thigpenn, President of Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE); EunSook Lee, Representative for the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (CAPACD) and the Korean Resource Center.
WHERE: Good Jobs LA campaign office at 134-136 West 168th Street in Gardena, CA
VISUALS: Rally at campaign office with signs and banners. Precinct walk featuring Latino and African American leaders speaking with voters in minority communities.
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Good Jobs LA – a coalition of labor, community, faith and immigrants’ rights organizations – has engaged more than 50,000 families in struggling LA communities on holding wealthy corporations accountable for fixing our economy and creating good jobs. For more information go to www.GoodJobsLA.org
