Natalia B. Dutra Record-breaking voter turnout is making headlines across the US. People everywhere are casting their ballots for the November election. According to MSNBC, as of October 24th, the number of people who have voted has already surpassed one-third of total voters in the 2016 election, and about twenty percent of those votes were […]
Jennifer Manzano From the television commercials, political text messages, and canvassers at your door or through your phone, word of the 2020 U.S. presidential election has been prevalent in all aspects of our daily lives. Though profuse, this is a result of individuals exercising their rights and encouraging others to do the same in aspiration […]
Laura Jimenez, Fall 2020 Intern We have all received phone calls that we wish we would not have answered. We often regret picking up the phone for telemarketers, bill collectors, scammers, and now, more prevalently, phone bankers. As the 2020 General Election comes to a close, politics and civic duty has progressively become more relevant to every […]
DeKalb County Becomes First in State to Voluntarily Create Officially Translated Sample Ballots in Korean and Spanish Atlanta, GA — Today the #DearGeorgia, It’s Time campaign led by Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta (Advancing Justice-Atlanta) and supported by more than 30 voting rights organizations announced new in-language voting resources including officially translated ballots in Korean and Spanish that are available immediately. DeKalb […]
Friday, October 16, 2020 (Atlanta, GA) – GALEO and Atlanta’s State Farm Arena have teamed up for early voting efforts. The State Farm Arena website includes instructions on how citizens who are registered to vote in Fulton County residents can vote early at this location. GALEO has helped State Farm Arena translate these instructions here: […]
Jerry Gonzalez, GALEO jerry@galeo.org, 678.691.1086 UGA law school honors alumnus and former SEC commissioner, Luis Aguilar, with portrait unveiling 1st Latino distinguished with honor and Aguilar was also former GALEO Board Member Friday, October 16, 2020 (Athens, GA) – As the month celebrating Latinx heritage draws to a close, the University of Georgia School of […]
Jerry Gonzalez, GALEO jerry@galeo.org, 678.691.1086 Friday, October 9, 2020 (Norcross, GA) – GALEO continues with the largest Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts in the organization’s history today. Building off the tremendous participation of the Latino electorate in 2018 for Georgia’s elections and significant interest and participation in the 2020 primary elections, GALEO expects this […]
Re: Requesting Immediate Investigation of Inhumane Treatment of Individuals Detained in Immigration Detention Facilities in Georgia Dear Members of the Georgia Delegation to the 116th U.S. Congress: We are writing as a coalition of leaders from Georgia’s law, medicine, faith, immigrant and human rights communities to express our outrage over the continuing inhumane treatment of immigrants […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jerry Gonzalez, GALEO jerry@galeo.org, 678.691.1086 Friday, September 18, 2020 (Norcross, GA) – GALEO announced the start of the largest voter registration and Get Out The Vote (GOTV) efforts in the organization’s history today. Building off the tremendous participation of the Latino electorate in 2018 for Georgia’s elections and significant interest and participation […]
During my time at GALEO, I have had the opportunity to grow on a professional and personal level on different elements that I have learned throughout the internship and fellowship. I was able to get out of my comfort zone and network with other community leaders, community members and different nonprofit organizations. Networking was such […]
