Position Title: Civic Engagement Canvasser
Reports To: Southern Organizer
Pay Rate: $20 per hour
Hours: This position ranges from 10-30 hours/week, per the Canvasser’s availability
The Civic Engagement Canvasser will engage in nonpartisan voter registration, community education, get-out-the-vote (GOTV), and voter protection activities leading up to the November 2022 Georgia General Election.
Job Description Position Title: Get Out The Vote (GOTV) Community Organizer
Reports To: Southern Organizer
Pay Rate: $25 per hour
Type: Temporary Full-Time, September 12th, 2022 through November 15th, 2022
The GOTV Organizer will lead the charge on volunteer recruitment and mobilization, while building relationships with volunteers and developing volunteer leaders. Our ideal candidate is a person who takes the initiative, is highly organized, builds relationships easily, and is comfortable working with diverse and underrepresented communities. A candidate who is a good fit is one who has the energy and determination to reach ambitious goals, the commitment to support young leaders learning to do this work and has a positive outlook and contagious personality. The person selected for this position will be trained, supported, and should be open to direction on how to perform the GOTV duties.
In recent weeks, the Biden administration has announced two critically important steps to ensure that LGBTQ individuals of all ages are protected against discrimination. Both efforts rely upon the 2020 US Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County. This landmark ruling affirmed that sex discrimination in federal law covers discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. While that ruling specifically covered employment discrimination, there is a long history and precedent that this definition of sex discrimination covers other areas of discrimination.
To make these changes in federal law without Congressional approval, the Biden administration must open a public comment period to hear from individuals and organizations on why they support these updated definitions and are used in regulatory actions. Until Congress finally takes action to pass federal legislation, these rules are the only way we can be assured that we won’t be discriminated against in the important areas of education and healthcare.
On Friday, June 24, 2022, with a 6-3 vote, the United States Supreme Court did what to so many was unimaginable. SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade, ending 50 years of federal abortion rights. The window to pass federal LGBTQ inclusive, nondiscrimination policy is closing, and an opinion from the court leads many of us to believe that marriage equality could be next.
In their next term, SCOTUS will hear a case concerning whether or not religious beliefs allow someone to discriminate against people who identify as LGBTQ. The Equality and Fairness for All Americans (EQFFAA) framework will bring federal protections to LGBTQ Americans in employment, housing, public accommodations and more. Our framework will also codify the Obergefell decision which brought marriage equality to the United States. It will also repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.
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How has Georgia’s HIV criminalization law changed in 2022?
As of July 1st, Georgia’s recently modernized HIV criminalization law implicates a drastically different proof for criminal charges that can be brought against a person with HIV in Georgia.
In the earlier days of the AIDS epidemic, states were encouraged to enact laws criminalizing people with HIV who “knowingly exposed” another person to HIV in exchange for federal funding to AIDS care. Since then, many states have repealed or modernized their HIV criminalization laws to reflect accurate science and stray away from the phobic sentiment with which these laws were written.