DREAM Act Portal Forum - Change.org Round 2 Voting -- Official Thread

Sorry there are about 5 threads floating around, lets keep it all in one place.

***Go here to vote!***

DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE, CREATE FALSE ACCOUNTS TO VOTE MULTIPLE TIMES!!

Lets finish this up strong!!

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Just a quick reminder to everyone, if you have already voted please log back into your account and make sure your vote has actually registered with the site. Once you are logged in click the DREAM Act idea and the vote box should be red, if the vote box is blue then you have not yet voted.

Jon, the creator of the FISA idea - which we endorse and urge everyone to vote for ( http://www.change.org/ideas/view/get...ivil_liberties ) - gave us the above suggestion. He said they were able to get a pretty good surge in votes by getting people to double check their vote.

Thanks all and now a message from Kyle of Citizenorange:

It's the last day to vote for the DREAM Act at Change.Org.

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/pass_the_dream_act_now

I'm assuming most of you have voted already and have asked all your friends to vote, so the best thing to do now, is to try and use new media tools to get tens of thousands of new eyes on this by tomorrow evening. I've written up a post over at Citizen Orange, and if folks can digg, stumble, reddit, and mixx my post we'll get lots of eyes on this. We should go through a blog though so we can monitor traffic and cut it off it get hijacked by nativists.

Here's my post:
<http://www.citizenorange.com/orange/2009/01/vote-for-the-dream-act-on-chan.html>

Vote it up using these three tools:
<http://digg.com/political_opinion/Help_The_Voiceless_Speak_Vote_DREAM_Act_at_Change_Org>
<http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7ps3r/help_the_voiceless_speak_vote_for_the_dream_act/>
<http://www.mixx.com/stories/3475887/help_the_voiceless_speak_vote_for_the_dream_act_over_at_change_org>

I've been the most successful with StumbleUpon so if you could go to, http://www.stumbleupon.com, install the toolbar, and vote it up there, that would be awesome. Each thumbs up you give directs at least a few hundred new eyes to a post.

If you don't know what all of these tools are, you should. It's one of the ways we're going to outsmart the nativists. Hope all is well.

Much Love,
Kyle
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Kyle de Beausset
http://www.citizenorange.com
http://www.promigrant.org
http://twitter.com/kyledeb

Here is a flyer you can pass around your campus etc. -- (Thank you Mathbruin of Ideas - UCLA)

Here is a message you can pass along:

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VOTE FOR THE DREAM ACT!!

For DREAM Act students and Allies! – CHANGE.ORG
Change.org has pledged to pass on the top 10 ideas on their site to Obama on Inauguration day. They have implemented a two-round voting system, round one ended on January 1st. After over 7,000 ideas and 250,000 votes the DREAM Act idea finished in 8th place with a whopping 2219 votes!

Round 2 began on January 5th, the 10 ideas with the most votes will be presented at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. as the "Top 10 Ideas for America." In addition to getting the ideas to Obama, change.org has pledged to form a national campaign for each of the issues. They have promised the support of their partners and their over 200,000 members!

Voting ENDS January 15th!!!

Please pass this link on to your friends and family.

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/pass_the_dream_act_now

How to vote

1. Go to the above link, www.change.org/ideas/view/pass_the_dream_act_now
2. On the left hand side of the screen you will see a blue box "Vote", click on it.
3. A registration screen will pop-up, it'll ask for Name, E-mail and Password.
4. Your account must be confirmed before you can vote, go to your account and click the link change.org sends.
5. You are now registered and can click on the blue "vote" box to vote.
6. Pass the link on to friends and family so that they can vote, as you just saw, registration took no longer than 15 seconds!!

We are also urging that members vote for both of the other immigration reform ideas. Follow the above steps and vote for:

CIR: http://www.change.org/ideas/view/pro..._of_immigrants
UAFA: http://www.change.org/ideas/view/equ...tional_couples

We are also asking that you get organizations on board to endorse the idea. If you are active in any organization send them this message or your own version of the message:

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Have your organization Endorse the DREAM ACT

We are in need of organizations to endorse the DREAM Act!

Change.org has pledged to pass on the top 10 ideas on their site to Obama on Inauguration day. They have implemented a two-round voting system, round one ended on January 1st. After over 7,000 ideas and 250,000 votes the DREAM Act idea finished in 8th place with a whopping 2219 votes!

Round 2 began on January 5th, the 10 ideas with the most votes will be presented at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. as the "Top 10 Ideas for America." In addition to getting the ideas to Obama, change.org has pledged to form a national campaign for each of the issues. They have promised the support of their partners and their over 200,000 members!

Voting ENDS January 15th!!!

How your organization can Endorse the DREAM Act:

1. Go to the above link, www.change.org/ideas/view/pass_the_dream_act_now
2. On the right hand side of the screen you will see a heading titled "Endorsements for this idea", click the link underneath that heading.
3. A registration screen will pop-up, it'll ask for the name of your organization, the URL to your website and your logo.
4. Submit the information, after review by change.org your logo will appear under the endorsement section of this idea. Your logo will then direct users to your website.
5. After review, change.org will email you letting you know you have been approved.
6. Remember to vote on the issue, pass the message along to the members of your organization asking that they do the same!

* In order to submit your logo you must save your logo as an image to your desktop and then simply upload it when asked for the logo.

Current list of supporters:

o NAKASEC (Chicago, LA)
o University Leadership Initiative (Texas)
o Fair Immigration Reform Movement (LA) -Myron
o Casa de Maryland
o National Immigration Law Center (D.C.)
o Voces de la Frontera (Wisconsin)
o CHIRLA /CA DREAM Network
o National Council of La Raza (D.C.)
o NY State Youth Leadership Council
o Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition (Denver, CO)
o UCLA Labor Center
o Brown University
o United States Student Association
o Student Labor Action Project (D.C.)
o First Focus (D.C.)
o Students Working for Equal Rights
o University of California
o Citizen Orange (Pro-Immigrant Blog)
o Student Immigrant Movement
o National Immigration Forum
o Center for American Progress
o New World Foundation
o Minnesota Freedom Network
o El Puente/Latino Youth Collective of Indiana

Please also endorse other ideas, namely CIR and UAFA:

CIR: http://www.change.org/ideas/view/pro..._of_immigrants
UAFA: http://www.change.org/ideas/view/equ...tional_couples