Handwritten Postcards Featuring Political Cartoons Breaking Through Media Bubbles with Erin Miller Cartoons for Democracy

About this episode

Erin Miller discusses the use of handwritten postcards featuring political cartoons as a tool for voter engagement and activism.

Erin Miller , Founder of Cartoons for Democracy, joins Deepak Puri , Founder of The Democracy Labs, to discuss using postcards to enable people who can't canvass due to age, location, or time constraints to support campaigns. A political cartoon on one side of a postcard with a handwritten note is an eye-catching way to communicate a message quickly and humorously to a broad audience, and it is proving effective at getting attention from voters. Deepak and Erin talk about Why postcarding is a crucial tool for activism and complementary to other tactics Finding ways to overcome digital disinformation Role of the Campaign Postcard Captain How cartoons and humor can bypass literacy and attention span barriers to plant a seed about an idea #CartoonsForDemocracy #TheDemLabs #PostcardCampaign #VoterEngagement #Democracy #PoliticalCartoons #GrassrootsActivism #VoterTurnout #Postcarding #CivicEngagement #GOTV #GetOutTheVote #PoliticalActivism #DemocracyInAction CartoonsforDemocracy.org TheDemocracyLabs.org

People in this episode

Host: Karen Jagoda

Guest: Erin Miller

Topics covered

• political activism
• voter engagement
• grassroots activism
• digital disinformation
• humor in politics

Keywords

• postcards
• political cartoons
• voter turnout
• civic engagement
• grassroots activism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cartoons for Democracy, The Democracy Labs

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