The focus of the legislative season in New Haven, our community, requires that we get to Hartford and attend public hearings on the issues we care about. Our legislative coordinator, Esul Burton, pays attention to the different bills that are supporting the issues our team has voted on. She works with different legislative captains who reach out to partners on campus, local organizations, and state representatives to develop a strategy for our advocacy and figure out how we can best use our voices as college students to fight for the issues we believe in. Oftentimes, it’s the small things that count: emailing and calling legislators who are on the fence about a bill and convincing them to support it, putting together a few Facebook posts or a photo campaign to raise awareness about an issue, or writing an op-ed in the campus paper. While at his show in Birmingham, England on October 17, he said: "Can you guys do me a favor? Can you guys just relax for about two seconds? I get it, I get it, but I’m, like, two feet away from you. And I can hear you. I appreciate all the love, it’s amazing. But can you show it in a different way? Screaming is just so obnoxious.” It seems his frustration stemmed from being repeatedly interrupted while trying to tell a story: “I don’t think I’m being heard sometimes and it gets a little frustrating. So when I’m speaking if you guys could not scream at the top of your lungs… is that cool with you guys?” surfaced earlier this month and gave the ending away — sort of! — we can imagine you know what we're talkingJohn Stamos In this op-ed, Ananya Kumar-Banerjee, communications director of Yale College Democrats, explains how to get involved with local politics.