Huge day for Voters from Congress
“Today was a huge victory for us,” Matt Segal the Executive Director of the Student Association of Student Empowerment (SAVE) said Thursday evening in an interview after testifying before the House Administration Committee on voting rights for young people. This was the culmination of 5 months of SAVE members and volunteers working the Hill in…
Student Voter Rights
With schools back in session there are plenty of students looking to vote in the State where their University is come November 4th. This has always been a sensitive and unfortunately difficult issue for students. Many state and county election boards don't want students voting in their precincts, and some have gone as far to…
Another big HeadCount weekend…
HeadCount just had one of our biggest weekends yet – we registered over 1,000 people at the All Points West Festival, hundreds more at the Virgin Festival, and our touring teams on the Jack Johnson, O.A.R. and Dave Matthews Band tours all had record setting shows! It’s really exciting to see the momentum that we’ve…
Voter Protection Key to Legislation Today
UPDATE: Shakowsky just announced it on the House Floor in the late night session about 30 minutes ago. At a time when organizations across the country are focused on increasing voter registration, the Student Association for Voter Empowerment (SAVE) has worked hard to make sure that when those newly registered voters go to the polls,…
Upclose Activism
The Center for Community Change’s Sally Kohn has a piece today about the passionate Millennial activism that is taking place online and the extent to which it happens off line. We’ve kinda heard this complaint before with Thomas Friedman’s Generation Q piece that slammed the Millennial Generation for not being disgusted enough by our contemporary…
On the road update…
Time has indeed been flying by here at HeadCount – we are a month into our touring season, but it feels like we’ve been on the road forever! Over the past month, we’ve had teams on the ground and on the road with the Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson, Pearl Jam, and Ratdog. We are…
Interest Rates on Student Loans Drop
Beginning July 1st, the first phase of largest college aid expansion in six decades kicks in, according to a release sent out from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. This was part of the number of bills pushed through Congress in 2006 when the New Direction Congress rolled into town. In efforts to help middle class…
1,145 at Bonnaroo
Just wanted to let everybody know that HeadCount ended up registering 1,145 people this weekend at Bonnaroo. This was a record breaking weekend for HeadCount and a sign of how far the organization has come. We are extremely proud of all the volunteers that came out this weekend. We had an incredible team of 9…
Bonnaroo updates…
Headcount is back out at Bonnaroo this year in full action! In addition to our all star team hitting the ground and registering voters – we’re at 700 currently, getting dangerously close to our 1000 goal – Headcount co-founder Marc Brownstein has also been on site and was featured on a panel on Friday. Our…
HeadCount hits the road…
The past few weeks have been busy here at HeadCount – our volunteers have been hard at work in their communities registering lots and lots of voters, and our touring teams have hit the road in full force, getting hundreds of people registered to vote and involved with HeadCount along the way! Erin, Ashley, Stephanie…