Using my powers to make something better, using my art supplies to not go crazy in the meantime. Dominic: artist, architecture and planning student, writer, poet, gay, UIC 2018
This is the kind of thing that young people have been asking for, forever. If enough young people come out and vote, Saskatchewan could make this happen. If this happens there it could spread across this country. We need to support parties that are acting in our best interests.
The Saskatchewan election is on April 4th, 2016. It is an election between the Centre-Right, conservative, Sask Party and the Centre-Left, progressive, NDP Saskatchewan party.
I’d appreciate it if everyone could share this; Canadian or not.
Saskatchewan’s population is only 1.1 million people. The wider this is spread the better chance it’ll reach Saskatchewan voters in time for the election. Because of its small population, individual votes will matter a lot more, particularly in rural ridings. Canadian elections elect members of legislature individually in a set region (called ridings) so your vote counts for more than it would in an election for a single leader candidate. A party just needs more MLA’s elected than the other party to govern.
The NDP has a good platform so far, but this promise in particular has the potential to have the greatest impact for young Canadians. I’d also encourage those who live in Saskatchewan to volunteer with the NDP and try to convince family and friends to support them too. The sask party has strong support in the province, but the youth could help close that gap.
If policies like this are implemented across Canada it may even put international pressure on the USA or other countries to make university more affordable or free.
As somebody not from Saskatchewan, I think I speak for most of the rest of Canada when I say that Brad Wall sounds like a real douche canoe and I hope y'all can get rid of him.
HOLY FUCK SASKATCHEWAN, YOU ARE RAD
im a 21 year old (ive never voted before) but i want to vote this time for bernie. can you please explain when voting starts, like what date and what should i do. i graduated high school 3 and a half years ago and i really dont remember that well when it comes to what needs to be done to vote
It takes some dedication to become involved in the political process, mostly because there are so many vested interests trying to keep you from doing so.
Also, I almost guarantee that what I am going to tell you was never covered in High School.
You will not have to register for any party in order to vote for Bernie Sanders in the Primaries if you live in: Alabama,
Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi,
Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin.
You will have to be
either registered as a Democrat or be Unaffiliated In order to vote for
Bernie Sanders in the Primaries if you live in: California, Idaho, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Washington and West Virginia
You will have to be a registered Democrat in order to Vote for Bernie Sanders in the Primaries if you live in:
Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, DC, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa,
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New
Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wyoming
In
many states you have to be registered as a member of that party for 30
days prior to the primaries in order to vote, although that isn’t always
the case. So your best bet is to register now.
Next, find the date of your primary or caucus and vote.
Due to the large amounts of money and time that candidates spend in the
states with earlier primaries and caucuses, many states will spend this
year changing the date of their events. Rules are also subject to change
at the same time.
THE INFORMATION BELOW IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. CLICK THE LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION AND FOR ANY CHANGES IN DATES OR RULES.
As of June of 2015 here is the tentative schedule for the Democratic Primaries and Caucuses.
As long as you followed the first step and registered to vote, your state will send out information about your voting location and what you need to bring to that location in order to vote.
I know this is tons of information and that it seems super complicated, it is set up that way on purpose. Those in power want you to react:
The powerful are banking on us acting this way.
They know that the Millennial Generation is now the largest voting generation in History. They know that we have the ability to enact change in a way that has never been seen before and they are scared.
This is our first chance to make the changes we want in government. I know it may be difficult to become involved but if we learn anything from our parents generation it should be that a lack of participation in politics only makes the system favor the wealthy and hurt the rest of us.
Let’s not make the same mistakes.
Look, there is a huge difference between whoever winds up the Democratic candidate for president and any of the clown car Republicans. There may be as many as 3 Supreme Court opening during the next presidential term. Do you want another Antony Scalia on the court?
Register. Help your friends register. VOTE VOTE VOTE, even in the local elections. Control of the US Senate is crucial as well as the presidency.
One thing that should be mentioned: Bring your ID, if you have any questions about what to bring check the website of which ever part of your state government helps run the elections. In the case of Texas it would be under the Secretary of State.
It will give you all the information you need to vote in both primaries and elections in your state: how to register, how to research candidates, what you need to bring to the polls to vote and much more.
do you have those people that you’d go anywhere with unconditionally, like they could say “lets go check out that dumpster” and you’d be like “im in”
tbh if someone invites you to a dumpster theres a 99.9972658% chance you about to smoke a blunt so thats either not a very good example or a very nonchalant way of suggesting these people are stoners
Has anyone received anything from The Leelah Project?
We have found no evidence that even one person has received a package from Alexis Ann Miller, alias Alex Yrigoyen, since the Leelah Project was founded in January. According to the project’s most recent post, which claims that due to a lack of funding the project will be closed at the end of April, 120 packages were sent out. Shouldn’t there be at least one thank you note or picture of a package posted by the project or the receiver?
We noticed that the project claimed each package costs $82 shipped. The GoFundMe page for the project raised $15992. GoFundMe takes 7.9% of proceeds plus 30 cents per donation for all 699 donations so it’s $14518.93. They also raised money through PayPal, partnerships with businesses, other online fundraisers and local fundraisers in Miller’s hometown of Los Angeles. Even if the $14518.93 was the total they should have been able to send 177 packages not including any of the clothes and stuff they got donated to them. Sending 120 packages would cost $9840. According to the International Business Times’s write up on the project on February 12th there were already over 100 packages sent out by that date. Weren’t any packages sent out since?
We sent Miller a message 48 hours ago telling them to prove they sent out packages and people got them or we would expose their lies to the public. They then posted saying they were sending out prom dresses followed by the post saying the project is closing down. We believe that they never sent out any packages at all.
We hope we’re wrong. If anyone has proof that packages got to them or that the project is even a legally registered charity please send it to us.
A writer for the new york times interviewed a series of people who had survived jumping off the golden gate bridge. Every person she interviewed admitted that about two thirds of the way down, they realized that every seemingly meaningless problem that caused them to jump was fixable.
