Pro-Choice Lobby Day 2009
Raise your voice for CHOICE 2009!
A day dedicated to education and activism!
More information and registration available at: ProChoiceLobbyDay.org, or call (651) 602-7655.
- Where
- Minnesota State Capitol
- When
- Wednesday, March 25th, 8:45 AM - 3:30 PM
- Cost
- Free! (Lunch is provided.)
- A day of education and activism
- Get the latest updates on reproductive health
- Meet other pro-choice activists
- Discuss reproductive rights with your legislators
Lobby Day is an excellent way to get involved in local politics and get actual face time with those you helped elect into office. Tell your senator and representative what issues matter to you, their constituent, and how you are expecting them to vote on issues facing them this legislative session.
Not only is Lobby Day incredibly effective and a great learning experience, but it is a blast! It is a great way to connect with other pro-choice advocates from all across Minnesota, so you can make some friends while sharing advocacy tips and strategies, new projects and goals, and plans of attack for pushing your legislators!
Lobby Day pulls us together, from all across the state, to create a unified front for pro-choice issues both locally and nationally. So raise your voice for choice! and join us at the 2009 Pro-Choice Lobby Day at the Capitol in St. Paul!
You will be well-prepared for the day, don't worry! Break-out sessions and Lobby 101 presentations before you lobby your legislators will help you with what issues to discuss and the approaches that are effective. This year, a new break-out session - Intergenerational Voices - helps in approaching different generations on choice topics. The pre-Roe generation has a unique viewpoint on the abortion debate, a view that we hope to have fully represented at Lobby Day this year.
Schedule:
- 8:45
- Registration begins
- 9:30
- Welcome, Opening Speech, Legislative Update in Great Hall
- 10:00
- Break
- 10:15
- Lobby 101 & Break-Out Sessions*
- 11:15
- First Lobby Visits followed by Lunch in Great Hall
- 12:00
- Rally in the Rotunda!
- 1:15
- Second Lobby Visits
- 2:30
- Wrap-up in Great Hall
* Choose from: Faith-Based Communities, Intergenerational Voices, Communities of Color, Greater Minnesota.