Project Ideas

I have been thinking about what kinds of things I can do for my project. I want to focus on making sure that people who vote are informed. One of my political passions is making sure that everyone votes, and that they are voting for the right reasons. Keeping that in mind, here are some thoughts that I had:

Community Service Project: ?? (Volunteer at a polling place-- if there are elections... I need to look into this more)
Campus Activism: Voter Registration, or something involving voting/elections/etc.
Online Activism: Informed Voters (party/candidate platforms, election dates, polling places, etc)

Another one of my passions is something I discovered last semester during the International Relations course, in which I wrote policy recommendations for North Korea's nuclear proliferation. While doing this research, the North Korean refugee issue was brought to my attention through an organization called Liberty in North Korea (LiNK). I would love to do something with them that would bring more attention and awareness to the situation in North Korea:

Community Service: Volunteer with LiNK
Campus Activism: Start a local chapter of LiNK, fundraise, and/or just bring awareness about the NK refugees to campus
Online Activism: Again, something either related to LiNK, or anything to help the NK refugees/bring about awareness to the situation

Those are my two main ideas... I think I'm leaning more towards North Korea :)

The Beginning

Here we go! This is my lovely blog for Pols 476: Seminar in Citizenship and Civic Engagement for Spring 2010! :)