'Travel For Change' Is Sending Volunteers To Maine For Gay Rights
Usually, volunteer vacations are about helping the needy, but for some, they can also have a political agenda. Last year, Travel for Change helped send over 400 volunteers to swing states to work for the Barack Obama campaign. Now, they are helping send volunteers to Maine, where voters will take to the ballot box next month and decide whether to overturn a law that allows same-sex couples to wed. "Question 1," as it is being called, is similar to Prop 8, a same-sex marriage ban eventually approved by voters in California last year.
Travel for Change is working with the No on Question 1 campaign to get volunteers from across the country to Maine to work for marriage equality. The organization is raising funds and airline miles, matching volunteers to share rooms and cars, and placing them in appropriate jobs once they arrive in Maine.
Volunteers are needed to work full time making phones calls and knocking on doors, preferably for a week or more, through November 3rd. Out-of-state volunteers are assigned a travel coordinator who will help them find affordable lodging and transportation.You can sign up to volunteer on Travel for Change's website and someone will get back to you with details about the trip and what can be expected. Help to make Maine truly the way life should be.
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