Activist

Your role is to organize a press conference and lead the conference according to your group’s chosen position, whether it is Reform or Defend. You will work in conjunction with the Historian and Lawyer role-players to shape the presentation you will make during your press conference. You will also work closely with the Technician to create a powerful presentation that you will use during your press conference. Remember, it is your job, if your group has assumed the Reform position, to create and propose a replacement voting system for the ECS. If your group has assumed the Defend position, you will need to have a systematic approach in place to defend against the points of the Reformers.

Activist, your notes are below, print them out and use them as a guide to your research and final project. You will need Adobe Acrobat to download these notes.

• Activist Notes (18 kb)

General ECS information Links:

U.S. Electoral College Site
http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/electoral_college/about.html

Electoral College Calculator:
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/calculator.html

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Electoral_College

Links Specific to your Role:

The Virtual Activist 2.0 A Training Course
http://www.netaction.org/training/

Working for a change
http://www.workingforchange.com/

Media Rights Progressive Secretary
http://www.progressivesecretary.org/

Weblobbying
http://www.weblobbying.com/
http://www.mediarights.org/

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