Volunteer with us on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!

Martin Luther King, Jr. recognized the power of service to strengthen communities and create common purpose. On the day that honors him - Monday, January 19th - Rock the Vote is joining forces with the Presidential Inaugural Committee to hold a national day of service.

Will you join Rock the Vote and volunteer in your community on January 19th?

On Monday, January 19th, wherever you are, will you host or participate in an event in your own community? Thousands of people are going to be cleaning parks, preparing meals, organizing blood drives and much more. Will you be a part of giving back to your community on January 19th?

Sign up here to volunteer.

Ellen for the Cure

The Ellen DeGeneres Show is celebrating National Breast Cancer Awareness Month by announcing the return of the Ellen for the Cure campaign!

Throughout October, Ellen is asking her audience members and viewers to raise money to help find a cure for breast cancer. 100% of all donations will benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

To donate, simply click here.

TubetheVote.com

TubetheVote.com, a next-generation, non-partisan website that presents both sides of the issues being debated in the presidential campaigns, launched today. An online platform that aggregates media- and user-generated coverage of the campaigns and candidates, TubetheVote.com's side-by-side layouts and ease of navigation empower voters to see the most important election issues in one place, and decide for themselves what the "truth" really is.

"TubetheVote distills the innumerable daily news stories and endless spin about each campaign into the most telling summary of the day's events, as judged by citizen journalists," said Michael Maier, co-creator.

TubeTheVote combines the best of new media, pulling content from YouTube, Twitter, the blogosphere and other new media sites to create the
first web 2.0 political magazine. Students and scholars from journalism departments at Michigan State University, Florida A&M University, University of Texas, and Midwestern State University are active participants in providing editorial content, along with several interns.

"We created TubetheVote.com not to create news but to assemble traditional and nontraditional coverage from both sides of the political aisle," said co-creator Eric Sinoway. "With such significant differences of ideology in play, we felt it was important that people be able access and respond to what's been said by the candidates, media, and even by citizen journalists. After seeing all sides, users can make their own, more fully informed decisions in this historic election."

TubetheVote.com is updated daily, offering a fresh take on existing internet content, with sections including:

• Top or Flop - Recounts the most memorable event of the day for each campaign - both the good and the bad
• 100% Biased - Shows the most skewed coverage on both sides of the aisle
• Twitter - Highlights user-generated "tweets" about the most popular election topics
• Sleeping with the Enemy - Exposes party insiders as they publicly criticize their own
• Best Parody - Highlights the silly, fun - but telling - comedic impressions of the campaigns
• Quote Quiz - Tests voters' knowledge of their candidates: who said what?
• User Videos - A platform for anyone to upload or view a favorite video of campaign 2008.

 

TubetheVote.com is not a business. It accepts no advertising and has no profit motive. It is a non-partisan platform that brings the unprecedented interest in the US election - and massive public discourse about it - to a new level. The project was conceived at the inception of the 2008 campaigns by entrepreneur Eric Sinoway and European journalist and Blogform founder Michael Maier. The pair recognized that although the internet would play an unprecedented role in the election, there seemed to be no single online resource where voters could monitor both sides of the discussion in a simple, user-friendly manner.

TubetheVote.com has a sleek, 3-D design built in Flash and uses open API technology to stream material from YouTube and Twitter to the site. The design of the site is intuitive, and feels more like the iPhone than a traditional website.

For more information, please visit http://www.TubetheVote.com.

National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month (NBCAM). Since the program began in 1985, mammography rates have more than doubled for women age 50 and older and breast cancer deaths have declined.

This is exciting progress, but there are still women who do not take advantage of early detection at all and others who do not get screening mammograms and clinical breast exams at regular intervals.

 

• Women age 65 and older are less likely to get mammograms than younger women, even though breast cancer risk increases with age.
• Hispanic women have fewer mammograms than Caucasian women and African American women.
• Women below poverty level are less likely than women at higher incomes to have had a mammogram within the past two years.
• Mammography use has increased for all groups except American Indians and Alaska Natives.
• If all women age 40 and older took advantage of early detection methods – mammography plus clinical breast exam – breast cancer death rates would drop much further, up to 30 percent.
• The key to mammography screening is that it be done routinely – once is not enough.

 

For more information about NBCAM, please visit www.nbcam.org. For additional information, please call one of the following toll-free numbers: American Cancer Society,

(800) 227-2345, National Cancer Institute (NCI), (800) 4-CANCER, Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization, (800) 221-2141.

The National Breast Cancer Awareness Month program is dedicated to increasing public knowledge about the importance of early detection of breast cancer. Fifteen national public service organizations, professional associations, and government agencies comprise the Board of Sponsors, who work together to ensure that the NBCAM message is heard by thousands of women and their families.

Fiesta for the Cure

Susan G. Komen for the Cure is proud to be the beneficiary of Fiesta for the Cure hosted by On The Border. Guests at On The Border restaurants will have the opportunity to purchase a silver cuff Fiesta for the Cure bracelet for $5.00 and will donate $3.00 from each cuff sold to Komen. In addition, guests are given a “thank you” scratch off card for each donation made to Komen. Scratch off cards give guests the opportunity to potentially win either a catered party, free queso, free dessert or breast health facts. The minimum guaranteed donation to Komen for Fiesta for the Cure hosted by On The Border's is $250,000.

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