“Debt is difficult. It's depressing, it's stressful,” says Maggie Bell, Lead Organizer for NGP's C.L.E.A.R. Campaign and the first in her family to graduate from college.
For Maggie Bell, a 24-year-old organizer from Georgia, student debt relief is a racial justice issue. “Not having student loan debt opens the gates for me to have more opportunities at living life, like capital letters LIVING LIFE,” she said.
C.L.E.A.R. stands for Cancel Loans for Education and Reparations and is a campaign by the New Georgia Project, the state's largest civic engagement group.
“We are going to keep pushing and applying pressure after oral arguments are over and once we get a decision. One does not stop here,” said Maggie Bell, lead organizer for the New Georgia Project, one of the groups organizing […]
“Student debt cancellation is one of the defining issues of my generation,” Maggie Bell, the lead organizer for New Georgia Project’s C.L.E.A.R. campaign, said in a statement.
“There are hundreds of thousands of people who filled out voter registration forms in the state of Georgia to get registered to vote that would not have done so, presumably, if it had not been for the New Georgia Project.”
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According to Blair, New Georgia Project is on track to register 40,000 new voters this year alone. Once they are registered, the group turns to engaging new voters and offering issue-based education to secure turnout for the 2024 presidential election.
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830 Glenwood Ave. SE, Suite 510-221,
Atlanta, GA 30316
(404) 996-6621
2023 © The New Georgia Project