SVA Youth Engagement Vote Plan

Ignite NC is a youth-led organization started in 2013 to train organizers, build power for the youth and student movement, and ensure access to the ballot box.

Help Deploy 50 Paid Youth NC Vote Defenders on 20 campuses to mobilize students to the polls and build local and statewide campaigns for access to higher education and ending police violence.

Call To Action!

Young people, students,people of color, women, immigrants and poor and working people are under attackin North Carolina. A regressive legislature and Governor have made massive cuts in public services including unemployment,education and healthcare are leaving youth of color to be racially profiled andfunneled into the school-to-prison pipeline and giving the young people of thisstate a jobless debt-ridden future.

Those in power areseeking to maintain this status quo by attacking voting rights. North Carolina witnessed the passage of the most repressive voting laws in the country.Cutting early voting, requiring state issued voter ids that excludes universityids, eliminating same day registration and reducing the window when people canregister. These are clearly tactics tosuppress the voice and power of youth, people of color, and working families -the core of the new emerging majority in the South.

In addition, localboards of elections have started to take more extreme measures to repress thestudent vote across NC by attackingearly voting sites at college campuses. Youth and student are under attack and we must take action.

Voter suppression is not new –particularly for the South where the specter of poll taxes and Jim Crow loomslarge.

In the 1960s theStudent Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) trained poll watchers tomonitor precincts across the south to protect the right of all people to vote.It is in the spirit of SNCC and the long history of youth resistance that wecall for all youth and students in North Carolina to stand up against theseattacks.

We call on young peopleto come together and in this spirit – as one tactic of many – to show up onElection Day -- to get trained and join the Vote Defender cohort – to beon the front lines to stop the intimidation tactics of the old south.

We must stand upagainst these attacks on students, from voting rights to racial profiling, tojoblessness. We must build power in our communities to challenge racist andageist laws and build a future based on community and equality.

In the words of EllaBaker, founder of SNCC, “We who believe in Freedom cannot rest until it comes”

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