Tag Archives: Voting

Formerly Incarcerated Voters: Joining the Emerging Californian Electorate

California Calls has engaged and educated 576,000 new and occasional voters who have become an active part of the emerging California electorate. This new electorate, growing numbers of young voters, people of color, low-income, and immigrant voters have begun to impact policies that will make California a better place. They made their voices heard on…

KPCC 89.3 Highlights California Calls and SCOPE’s Strategy to Boost Voting in South LA

In a recent web and radio story, KPCC 89.3 highlighted how our alliance is transforming non-voters in South LA and around the state into active participants in civic life. Using a strategy called integrated voter engagement, California Calls and member organizations use repeated in-person contact and high-tech tools to get young and low-income voters, people…

Innovative New Tactics and Hands-On Organizing Change the Golden State’s Political Map

A recent news story in Alternet describes how a historic coalition of progressives with deep roots in local organizing in working-class communities set out to change the political status quo beginning in 2009. Last November, this coalition, which includes California Calls, proved to be the “linchpin in a statewide vote raising $6 billion a year…