On October 12, 2000, the fifth year of NASW's annual mobilize the Vote campaign, 90 MSW students, working with the New York Public Interest Group (NYPIRG), registered 10,288 New Yorkers in a single day.NASW/Mobilize the Vote Registers 10,288 in One Day
On October 12, 2000, the fifth year of NASW's annual mobilize the Vote campaign, 90 MSW students, working with the New York Public Interest Group (NYPIRG), registered 10,288 New Yorkers in a single day.
Over five years, NASW/Mobilize The Vote has registered 30,000 New Yorkers in an effort to raise the voting rate and increase political power in low and moderate income neighborhoods.
The students, wearing NASW/Mobilize the Vote T-shirts, fanned out throughout the city registering voters at subway and street sites such as 125th Street and Lenox Avenue and underground in the 42nd Street subway in Manhattan, the Fulton Street Mall in Brooklyn, and Parsons Boulevard in Queens.
The collaboration is underwritten by NASW's Political Action for Candidate Election (PACE) and supported by Columbia, Fordham, Hunter, NYU and Wurzweiler Student organizers who mobilized students from their schools included Catherine Carota and Terrence Paulin, Columbia; Carissa Blasius, Vanessa Diaz-Lopez, and Diana Halperin, Hunter; Ingrid Gonzalez and Vernon Dietz, Fordham, and Gloria Abrams, Mery Diaz, and Eden Rosen, Yeshiva.