• People

Bonus Pre-Election Interview with Pita Juarez, Comms Director of Chispa

• Chispa
• climate change
• environment
• first time voters
• immigrants
• LatinX
• League of Conservation Voters
• Vote
• voting

Today we want to share with you this interview with Pita Juarez who has been working to mobilize BIPOC and Latinx voters for Chispa, an arm of the League of Conservation Voters.  They are currently working in 5 states with large concentrations of minority voters and hope to expand to Texas in the next election […]

• Politics

Virtual Organizing Reveals Young, Rural Latinx Voters’ Climate Change Concerns

• BIPOC
• climate change
• derecho
• Iowa
• NextGen America
• rural
• voters
• voting

Virtual organizing has allowed NGOs like NextGen America to focus their attention on rural, young BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) voters — a demographic that has been historically underrepresented in elections in the U.S. These voters have brought climate change and sustainable farming to the forefront of the election in places rural Iowa.

Why this Matters:   In 2018, only 2 percent of rural voters ages 18 to 29 voted in the midterm elections.

• Politics

Environmental Voter Project Expands to 6 More States

• 2020
• election
• primary elections
• voting

Some good news to share! Our friends at the Environmental Voter Project, a non-partisan group that works to identify inactive environmentalists and then turning them into consistent activists and voters, have expanded their work into 6 additional battleground states ahead of the 2020 election: Arizona, Virginia, New Mexico, North Carolina, New Hampshire and Maine. What […]