Celebrities and advocates think texting will be the key to connecting Latino youth to the 2010 census.
Rosario Dawson and Wilmer Valderrama spoke during a "Be Counted, Represent" news conference in California Wednesday, encouraging students to download a phone ap or text family and friends to tell them about the census.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund alongside Voto Latino and the California Community Foundation sponsored the conference.
“Your voice literally does matter,” Dawson told the students. “You have the right to live with dignity in your communities. This is the opportunity to fight for that.”
They plan to visit more schools in neighborhoods that have proved hard to count in the census, giving out music downloads and spreading the word.
Source: Los Angeles Times, AP
Photo: seattlepi.com
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Historically latinos have not participated in the census survey. Reasons? Perhaps distrust of government, fear of harassment, among other reasons. I think that now we will get more participation. A lot of us that grew up here are now used to this.
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