The AAUW Action Fund’s It’s My Vote: I Will Be Heard voter education and turnout campaign represents an unprecedented investment in making women’s voices heard in the 2012 election. Follow us on Twitter and on Tumblr for the latest updates, and check out our biweekly Campaign Update for news, resources, and ideas.
In May, as part of the It’s My Vote: I Will Be Heard campaign, we released the first of many videos from young women talking about the upcoming election and the importance of voting. We also promised to continue to post those testimonials — all of which are available on the campaign Tumblr.
Today, we’re making good on that promise with a video from Julie Zeilinger, the founder and editor of the feminist blog FBomb. In the video, which she made exclusively for the It’s My Vote campaign, Zeilinger lists her reasons for voting. They’re all compelling, but it’s her ending that hits home. “There are already so many forces out there trying to silence” young women, she says. And it’s true. From strict voter-identification laws to people who say we shouldn’t vote, the legal and cultural barriers that young people face are real.
But that doesn’t have to stop us. WATCH, share, and vote!
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