September:

Talking with our neighbors: a training on Relational Organizing

Studies have shown that voters reaching out to their friends, family and neighbors yields a higher turn-out rate at the polls than only reaching out to strangers. The Abolish Slavery VT campaign wants to capitalize on this trend by focusing our training on strategies and talking points to reach out to those we know. Each training will be identical and one will be recorded if you are unable to make any of these dates but want to participate. So please only register for one of these trainings.

• Saturday, Sept. 17th 10-11:30AM
• Sunday, Sept. 18th 6:30-8PM
• Monday, Sept. 19th 7-8:30PM
• Wednesday, Sept. 21st 12noon-1PM
• Thursday, Sept. 22nd 10-11:30AM 
• Thursday, Sept. 22nd 7-8:30PM

Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

For more information or if you have any questions, please contact Melissa@viavt.org 

Phone Banking for Abolish Slavery VT campaign

Our national network friends at Faith in Action Fund want to support the amazing work Vermont is doing by hosting three days of relational organizing phone banks the last week of September.

Volunteers will be joining from across the USA. The first 20-30 minutes, individuals will be trained and given a script to use while making calls. Then we will begin calling Vermonters to encourage them to vote "YES!" to Abolish Slavery with no exceptions.

Tuesday, Sept. 27th 6-8:00PM

Wednesday, Sept. 28th 6-8:00PM

Friday, Sept. 30th 3-5:00PM

Looking ahead to October

October:

Talking with Vermonters

October is the final month to ensure that Vermonters know that Prop 2/Article 1 is on the ballot and that they will vote YES! Join us for phone banking, canvassing and GOTV work. (Get Out The Vote) More details will follow but save these dates now!

• Phone Banking every Tuesday and Friday, 4:30-6:30PM
• Canvassing weekends: 10/8-9 and 10/15-16, 9:30AM-12noon (first half hour is training and then 2 hours of canvassing in either Burlington, Montpelier, Norwich or Brattleboro)
• GOTV phone calls: 10/25, 10/26, 10/27, 11/1, 11/4, 11/5, 11/6, 11/7