Lobby Day 2009 is rapidly approaching and with the changes that came with the 2008 elections your voice is needed more now that ever! Incoming pro-choice officials need to know who is out there supporting them and the new anti-choice officials need to hear from their constituents that they need to change their stance and support Minnesota’s pro-choice, pro-sex education, pro-family majority!
Schedule for the Day
When you arrive at the Capitol for Lobby Day we will be meeting in the Great Hall in the lower level of the Capitol. We will begin the day with a big Pro-Choice welcoming speech followed by a Legislative Update. From there we will move into our break-out sessions where we will give Lobby 101 presentations followed by a presentation with a Q&A section on Talking About Choice in the context of the community group you have chosen to attend. From there it will be off to our 1st round lobby visits then a quick lunch in the Great Hall. At 12:00 everyone will gather in the Capitol Rotunda for our Pro-Choice Rally in the Rotunda which will have various community voices and Pro-Choice Legislators! After the Rally the final lobby visits will begin and the day will end in the Great Hall with quick Thank You notes to our Legislators.
8:45 Registration begins
9:30 Welcome, Opening Speech, Legislative Update in Great Hall
10:00 Break
10:15 Lobby 101 & Break-Out Sessions*
11:15 First Lobby Visits followed by Lunch in Great Hall
12:00 Rally in the Rotunda!
1:15 Second Lobby Visits
2:30 Wrap Up in Great Hall
Break-Out Session topics:
- Faith Based Communities
- Intergenerational Voices
- Communities of Color
- Greater Minnesota
For more information or to sign up please go to www.prochoicelobbyday.org
