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Statement on Magic City SAP
March 28, 2019
March 28th, 2019 City of Miami Commissioners 3500 Pan American Drive Miami, FL 33133 We are Engage Miami, a locally focused youth civic engagement non-profit, and we are writing in opposition to the Magic City Special Area Plan as it currently stands. In our polling of thousands of young people across Miami-Dade County,…
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Student Advocates Win Additional Campus Voting Sites
September 24, 2018
Engage Miami is thrilled that at the Sept 20th Miami-Dade County Budget Hearing, our county commission and mayor affirmed the importance of providing access to the ballot box by adding two new early voting sites for the November election, including one at MDC North Campus and one at MDC Kendall Campus, in addition to the early voting site at FIU announced previously. As our Executive Director, Rebecca Pelham expressed in her comments to the board, “students are the future of our democracy. Investing in young people now will pay dividends in the future because there is nothing more resilient than a civically engaged city.”…
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