Speaking Their Minds, Voting Their Conscience

St. Anthony Foundation is registering voters. Low-income voters, homeless voters, veterans who have fallen off government radars, seniors who’ve been pushed to the margins of the community. You don’t have to have a job to vote. You don’t even have to have a home. St. Anthony Foundation reminds our guests of this and helps them to register.

Our Justice Education and Advocacy Program does much of this work all year round. They talk with our guests and clients about the issues that affect their lives.  They engage guests in post card and letter campaigns, fax and email blasts. They drive guests and clients to Sacramento to meet with policy makers on health care, housing, and hunger.

Now St. Anthony Foundation is among the hundreds of advocacy and service organizations in the country registering people to vote.  We’ve hired two interns to do on-site canvassing with our advocacy staff. How our guests and clients vote is up to them. What matters to us is that they do vote; that they come in from the margins of society and participate.