In addition to a primary concentration on Voting Empowerment, the Coalition for the Peoples' Agenda maintains active committees on Education, Criminal Justice and Environmental Justice.
Our Voter Registration emphasizes education throughout the state.
Our Evaluation Sheet (responses to candidate questionnaire) give voters insight on where candidates stand on various issues.
Our Town Hall meetings and Candidate Forums provide valuable information on candidates' records.
Our Get Out The Vote Campaign is utilized in central locations throughtout each region to accomplish mass voter turnout.
Our Election Protection project informs voters of their voting rights and provides immediate relief when problems are encountered.
Our Vote Connection Center (a collaborative project with the Georgia Citizens' Coalition on Hunger - a joint project of The Funding Exchnage and Funds for Southern Communities) provides training and technical assistance to nonprofit organizations and individuals in building coalitions and networks through effective issue campaign organizing and civic participation actiivities.
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WHY SHOULD YOU VOTE?
Elected officials make important decisions that affect your life every day. Here are a few good reasons why you should Make Your Voice Heard and Vote!
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The criminal justice system in Georgia has become so egregiously unjust that the Peoples' Agenda finds it necessary to address a breadth of areas of criminal justice policy in Georgia and to call for several critical changes. Across the state, far too many people are over-charged by Georgia's district attorneys, under-represented by Georgia's courts, over-incarcerated in Georgia's prisons and jails, and under-served by the institutions charged with their care. The Coalition for the Peoples' Agenda has identified seven (7) major criminal justice policy areas which require immediate attention:
The Agenda 