Burn-4-Votes

Voter Motivation Videos

Maya Angelou

Voices for Working Families provided us with a half dozen sets of files for burning DVDs of a great motivational piece for people of color.

The DVD burning files are located here.

Please note that some of these files are quite large, so downloads will take some time. We've turned on indexing for the folder where they're stored so you can download all of the files for a set. Note also that you will need to click on the file entries with the right mouse button and then select "Save target as" to download the files.

If you've got a DVD burner and want to burn the video but don't quite know what to do with these files, please subscribe to the Burn-4-Votes group e-mail list and send your request for help to the list. (FYI, you'll need to "fix" the e-mail address for subscribing - replace " at " with "@" in the address.)

One Vote

Courtesy of One Vote, we've got a great 8 minute video urging single women to vote in November.

We encourage you to burn CDs of this great video (we only have PC/MAC compatible formats at this point), use them in your own voter registration and identification efforts and/or send them to canvasers in a battleground state near (or not so near) you.

Here are links to watch the video or download a copy to burn onto CD:

• One Vote Single women voter motivation (39 MB - Windows Media)
  To save to disk, select the link and the after Windows Media Player opens select File/Save Media As.
• One Vote Single women voter motivation (40 MB - Quicktime)
  To save to disk, right mouse click on the link and select Save Target As.

Audio excerpts from the One Vote video are now available as well for use as Non-Partisan Public Service Announcements:

• Audio clip #1 from One Vote Video.
  To save to disk, right mouse click on the link and select Save Target As.
• Audio clip #2 from One Vote Video.
  To save to disk, right mouse click on the link and select Save Target As.

Following up on the successful Burn-4-Dean mobilization, we are working to produce a variety of 7 - 10 minute videos, this time targeted at newly registered voters.

Registering new voters is great, but registering new voters you know are going to go to the polls on election day and vote for progressive candidates is even better! The goal of Burn-4-Votes is to move newly registered voters past thinking about voting to committing to vote.

To pull this off, we need:

• a limited number of people in the video production business who can contribute their time, skills and facilities to produce the videos;
• a few people with graphic arts skills to create CD/DVD and jewel case label artwork; and
• as many people as we can possibly find with CD and DVD burners who can copy the video files onto CDs and DVDs for distribution to newly registered voters.

If you'd like to get involved, subscribe to the Burn-4-Votes group e-mail list.

Burn-4-Votes Project Team Resource Page (password required)