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PHOTO CAPTION: Voting rights activists join comedians on stage at GA Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR) comedy night. (L-R): Erin Jackson, comedienne; BPhlat, comedienne; Melanie L. Campbell, NCBCP\/BWR; Felicia Davis, Clayton County BWR; Helen Butler, People’s Agenda; Sandra L. Williams, RWDSU; and Deborah Scott, GA STAND-UP. (Not pictured comedienne, MESHELLE.)<\/em><\/p>\n
\u201cWe are beginning this very serious mobilization phase with a fun event because our workers and volunteers have been pounding the pavement for months and we know how hard it will get over the next few weeks to motivate and mobilize frustrated voters,\u201d expressed Helen Butler, executive director of Georgia Coalition for the People\u2019s Agenda (People\u2019s Agenda) and convener of GA BWR.<\/p>\n
Butler continues, \u201cWe are also fighting voter suppression tactics so we are training more poll workers than usual and, if it\u2019s anything like 2021, we may have to deal with angry voters retaliating because they believed there was voter fraud. Black voters understand the power of the ballot and will turn out like they did in 2020 so we want to make sure they can vote. We have a lot of work to do so it was great to relax and enjoy the comediennes.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to Butler, members of GA BWR that organized the event included: Felicia Davis, Clayton County Black Women\u2019s Roundtable; Deborah Scott, GA STAND-UP; and Sandra L. Williams, Retail, Wholesale Department Store Union. Melanie L. Campbell, president of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation\u2019s (NCBCP) and convener of BWR, was on hand to bring greetings from the national office.<\/p>\n
As part of the organizing weekend the nonpartisan groups traveled through the Atlanta area on a bus wrapped with get-out-the-vote messages about the power of the ballot and urging people to vote. The bus will continue to visit cities in Georgia to mobilize Black voters and let residents know they can get a free ride to the polls by calling the GA Coalition for the People\u2019s Agenda hotline at 877-524-8683.<\/p>\n
Additional events over the weekend included a tailgating event on Saturday at the NCBCP Thomas W. Dortch, Jr. Institute during Clark Atlanta University\u2019s Homecoming, and on Sunday Georgia STAND-UP hosted a brunch and gospel concert at their headquarters in East Point, GA. The organizing weekend was part of NCBCP\u2019s seven-state Unity \u201822 Black Women\u2019s Roundtable Power of the Ballot GOTV Comedy Tour and Organizing Weekend.<\/p>\n Comediennes Meshelle \u201cThe Indie Mom\u201d of Comedy, Erin Jackson and BPhlat were just a sampling of the special guests who lined up to get out the vote. The comedy show followed the debate between former football player and businessman, Herschel Walker, and Georgia Senator and Pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Senator Raphael Warnock.<\/p>\n National Partners include AARP, SEIU, Neo Philanthropy\/State Infrastructure Fund and Kapor Center. Local partners are Black Male Initiative and Atlanta-North Georgia Labor Council.<\/p>\n For more information about the Georgia Black Women\u2019s Roundtable, or to volunteer, email coalition@bellsouth.net, call the People\u2019s Agenda at (404) 653-1199 or visit http:\/\/thepeoplesagenda.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n ABOUT THE PEOPLE\u2019S AGENDA\/GA BWR<\/strong><\/p>\n Georgia Black Women\u2019s Roundtable is convened by the Georgia Coalition for the People\u2019s Agenda (http:\/\/thepeoplesagenda.org<\/a>). The People\u2019s Agenda is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization performing year-round voter registration, education, and mobilization in Black communities throughout Georgia. Led by board chair, Rev. J. A. Milner, and Helen Butler, the organization has headquarters in Atlanta and offices in Athens, Albany, Macon, Augusta, LaGrange, and Savannah.<\/p>\n ABOUT CLAYTON COUNTY BLACK WOMEN\u2019S ROUNDTABLE<\/strong><\/p>\n Clayton County Black Women\u2019s Roundtable is an affiliate of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation’s Black Women\u2019s Roundtable, (https:\/\/www.blackwomensroundtable.org<\/a>) an intergenerational leadership development, mentoring, and empowerment arm for Black women and girls. The Black Women\u2019s Roundtable is at the forefront of championing justice and equitable public policies that center racial, economic, climate and gender justice key elements of success.<\/p>\n ABOUT GEORGIA STAND-UP<\/strong><\/p>\n The Georgia Strategic Alliance for New Directions and Unified Policies (Georgia STAND-UP) (https:\/\/www.georgiastandup.org<\/a>) provides research, strategy, technical support, and resource development for grassroots community organizing and non-partisan voter education. STAND-UP and Vote! is their year-round voter education and registration campaign. STAND-UP is one of the most visible and successful voting advocates in the Southeast emphasizing \u201cboots on the ground,\u201d door knocking, and grassroots mobilization.<\/p>\n ATLANTA NORTH GEORGIA LABOR COUNCIL<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"Power](\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/22-107-s2p-ga-ballot-bus-800x600.jpg\")
PHOTO CAPTION: Power of the Ballot Bus in Georgia.<\/em><\/p>\n
![https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/22-1017-s2p-ga-bwr-stage-300dpi.jpg<\/a><\/p>\nCAPTION: Voting rights activists join comedians on stage at GA Black Women\u2019s Roundtable (BWR) comedy night. (L-R): Erin Jackson, comedienne; BPhlat, comedienne; Melanie L. Campbell, NCBCP\/BWR; Felicia Davis, Clayton County BWR; Helen Butler, People\u2019s Agenda; Sandra L. Williams, RWDSU; and Deborah Scott, GA STAND-UP. (Not pictured comedienne, MESHELLE.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 17, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Call it the calm before the midterm election storm. Georgia Black Women’s Roundtable (GA BWR) treated staff, volunteers, local and national leaders, and members of the community to a night filled with tasty food, great company, and a lot of laughter when they hosted a Power of the Ballot Debate Watch Party and Comedy Show this past Friday, October 14 at IBEW Local 613.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8661,"featured_media":85921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,236,12804,124,37,134,123,48],"tags":[18659,18658,18660,14852],"class_list":["post-85928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-news","category-african-american-interest-news","category-ap","category-atlanta-news","category-entertainment-news","category-general-editorial-news","category-georgia-news","category-government-news","tag-atlanta-north-georgia-labor-council","tag-georgia-black-womens-roundtable","tag-georgia-stand-up","tag-voter-suppression","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":4069,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/22-1017-s2p-ga-bwr-stage-300dpi.jpg\"){kind=link}