Turn Up Activism’s Strategy for the Georgia U.S. Senate Runoffs

Nov 30, 2020

Based on the success of our strategies mobilizing young voters in the general election, we are working to create historic voter turnout in the two Georgia runoff elections where 21% of the electorate are young people. 

We are specifically focused on reaching young people of color.
 

Contributions go to reaching young voters using these innovative strategies:

1. Registering young voters, including the 23,000 young people born in 2003, but that will be 18 by Election Day, before the December 7th deadline. 
 

2. Sustained targeted digital advertising, reaching 1.1 million, and influencer partnerships on social media like Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok.

 3. Superpowering organizing by enabling young people to volunteer and organize through TurnUp, our innovative mobile app.

4. Get out the vote programs at college and high school campuses in Georgia.


 5. Sponsoring youth organizing fellows getting out the vote on the ground in Georgia.


  6. Calling and texting voters with our volunteers from around the country.

I hope you’ll join me in contributing to Turn Up Activism. Best of all, because the organization is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, your contribution will be tax-deductible.

You can make your tax-deductible contribution through ActBlue Charities https://secure.actblue.com/donate/turnoutgeorgia

 If you would like to send a check or make a grant from a donor advised fund or foundation, make the check payable to Turnout Activism Inc. and send it to 35 Walden St #3g Cambridge, MA 02140, USA. Our EIN is 83-3917641.

Here’s to victory in Georgia, the best way I can think of to start the New Year.

April 14th will be a very special show.  My dear friend of over 50 years, Si Kahn, turns 80-years-old on April 23rd and I’m throwing a Si Kahn 80th Birthday Party.  Besides being a frequent partner-in-crime, Si and I co-wrote five consecutive Grammy-nominated albums, toured our Signs of the Times tour (with sign language artist, Susan Freundlich). Not incidentally, Si is the godfather of my son Peter.  I was the first person to record a Si Kahn song, even before his incredible debut album New Wood.  So, I’ll reprise that first song, along with lots more of his great music.  But, most wonderfully, there will be over a dozen artists, including Billy Bragg, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Tom Chapin, Jane Sapp, Holly Near, and Kathy Mattea, who’ll be chiming in with tales about Si and singing some of his classic songs.  This will be an incredible evening and a chance to not only hear some great music, but honor the guy I declared, “The best damn songwriter in the South…in his spare time!” back in 1975. 

Even if you’re not able to watch the celebration live, your ticket will allow you to view a recording of the full event for the next two weeks.

100% of ticket sales will go to support the official launch at the concert of the Si Kahn Living Legacy, a new non-profit project that will make available in perpetuity those of Si’s songs, stories, song cycles for children and adults, poems, unpublished books, musicals, and other creative works that have never before been available to the public, and ultimately keep them alive and easily accessible after he’s gone.