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Wed Sep 12, 2012, 08:20 AM Sep 2012

REPRESENT - The Native Vote featuring Mikaela Thinn



New Video Aims to Mobilize Rural Native Youth to Register to Vote
http://www.thenation.com/blog/169862/new-video-aims-mobilize-rural-native-youth-register-vote


Sixty-six percent of American Indians and Alaska Natives who were eligible to register to vote in 2008 did so. The other 34 percent—more than 1 million people—did not. There’s a concerted effort to register Native voters in 2012, and make an big impact on Election Day.

Meet Voting Rights Watch’s newest community journalist, Hillary Abe. He works for College Horizons, a national nonprofit focused on facilitating the higher education of Native American, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian youth. Hillary is also an accomplished videographer and aspiring filmmaker. He recently shot and directed a short video in Northern Arizona geared towards mobilizing rural Native youth to vote. Check out and share his video, and expect to see more from him about the Native vote this election season.
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