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1. 1. Untitled Document

   www.cclu.org/leg/details/detad - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/19/2000   Last Visited: 3/15/2002

   Second, Maggie Crowley, a high school intern at the CCLU worked tirelessly to organize gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth. They were able to build a group of almost 100 high school students across the state. They held meetings, collected hundreds of postcards of support, wrote letters to legislators and participated in a lobby day at the Capitol.

2. 2. www.massequality.com

   www.massequality.com/news/news - [Cached]

   Published on: 4/21/2007   Last Visited: 4/21/2007

   "I think it was a real eye-opener for a lot of people," said Maggie Crowley, 21, the chair of the youth committee for MassEquality, the coalition organized to oppose the amendment.
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   Robyn Maguire, field coordinator for the Freedom to Marry Coalition of Massachusetts, which partnered with MassEquality to organize the summit, gave Crowley much of the credit for convincing same-sex marriage advocates to harness the energy of youth volunteers.
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   Crowley, a seasoned activist at 21, has ample experience organizing GLBT youth. At 15 the Connecticut native spent her high school years organizing a statewide youth network for Love Makes a Family, the Connecticut coalition working to legalize same-sex marriage. Having received a scholarship for her GLBT activism, she came to Boston to attend Emerson College. After her first year in the city she began volunteering with Freedom to Marry, and later with MassEquality.
   
   Throughout the con con, Crowley was responsible for turning out the youth at the Statehouse on behalf of MassEquality. She worked with students at Emerson to put together the "Spring Break for Equality." Since part of the con con coincided with Emerson's spring break, Crowley secured on-campus housing that allowed Emerson students to stay in Boston and work full time for MassEquality.
   
   "It was a huge benefit to the organization to have six extra volunteers in there every day for a week," said Crowley.
   
   She also managed to get hordes of high school and college students to the Statehouse, mostly via e-mail lists and through outreach to student GLBT groups. Youth volunteers joined other same-sex marriage proponents in chanting, singing, and holding signs from early morning until late in the evening each day of the con con.
   
   "That we could get people to show up at six o'clock in the morning and stand outside in the middle of February was incredible," said Crowley.
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   The central premise of the summit, Crowley explained, is that with the proper training, young people can become powerful advocates for same-sex marriage rights.
   
   "If we could really educate them and give them concrete skills to get involved, they would really step up," said Crowley.

3. 3. The Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry

   www.rcfm.org/advocacy/index.ht - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/2/2006   Last Visited: 9/2/2006

   Support is always available , Contact RCFM Assistant Director Maggie Crowley at (617) 878-2390 or Maggie@RCFM.org.