Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Blog the Vote!

Lee Wind over at I'm Here, I'm Queer, What the Hell Do I Read? and Colleen Mondor of Chasing Ray are putting together another initiative, this one called Blog the Vote! Quotage of the fundamentals:
Blog the Vote is a one day Kid and Adult Lit Blogger Event, where we all blog on Monday Nov. 3rd about the importance of voting on Tuesday Nov. 4th.

Blog the Vote is about sharing WHY it's important to vote. It's about the issues that will be decided by whoever wins this election . . .

Blog the Vote is not, however, about hate-speech or being rude - posts that overstep into nastiness won't be linked on the master list.
What's this got to do with kidlit?

This is about encouraging young voters to get out there and affect their own government. This is about determining the direction of the country that our kids (of all ages) are going to live in for the next four years, if not longer.

So join in!

(Double posted to Kid Tested, Librarian Approved. Apologies if you're seeing this twice!

2 comments:

Kimbra Kasch said...

And I love the community coming together to encourage kids.

In our house, we are a strange mix. I'm a democrat, my husband is a republican and my children are independents.

Lee Wind, M.Ed. said...

Yay!
Thanks for helping to spread the word. I'm trying to only post about politics and the upcoming election once a week, but I seem to have too much to say... Even with 5 days of posting, it's been a challenge to get ONE book-related post up a week!
Hugs,
Lee