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Related: About this forumJOHN LEWIS VIGILS On JULY 17 JOIN US FOR THE GOOD TROUBLE VIGILS FOR DEMOCRACY
To REPS Joyce Beatty (OH) & Senfronia Thompson (TX) & the Tx DemocratsThis:
https://goodtroublevigil.org/
We have reached an inflection point in which we must force our elected officials to act now or risk losing the very foundation of our republic.
We must pass the For the People Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and D.C. Statehood and we cant let anything, including the Jim Crow filibuster, stand in our way!
JOIN US FOR THE GOOD TROUBLE VIGILS FOR DEMOCRACY ON JULY 17
THE ONE YEAR MARK OF THE PASSING OF REP. JOHN LEWIS AS WE CARRY ON HIS LEGACY BY HOSTING CANDLELIGHT VIGILS NATIONWIDE TO DEMAND THAT CONGRESS ACT TO PROTECT OUR FREEDOM TO VOTE AND REBUILD OUR DEMOCRACY. WE MUST AND WILL WIN THIS FIGHT!
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JOHN LEWIS VIGILS On JULY 17 JOIN US FOR THE GOOD TROUBLE VIGILS FOR DEMOCRACY (Original Post)
Budi
Jul 2021
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SheltieLover
(59,601 posts)1. K&R!
Budi
(15,325 posts)2. From Joyce Beatty Twitter. "Why we fight, Why We March"
ShazzieB
(18,645 posts)3. Thanks so much for this!!!
I am SO going to be there!
summer_in_TX
(3,206 posts)4. Lots of vigils around the country.
The League of Women Voters of Hays County (Texas) and Mano Amiga San Marcos are hosting one of them.
The map showing Texas as not yet having enacted restrictive voting laws in not accurate. Although the Dems denied the House a quorum during the regular session and now in the special session on the big omnibus voting bills, Abbott managed to sign into law SB 1111 which targets rural and mobile populations - like college kids and the poor. Anyone who lists a post office box for their address will receive and have to sign and return an affidavit within 30 days or their application for a voter certificate will have it denied.
twodogsbarking
(12,228 posts)5. Let us not forget that CBS news showed Elijah Cumming's picture
and said it was John Lewis. Maybe black folks should be included in history lessons.
ffr
(23,127 posts)6. Keep fighting for democracy, team! Together we can change politics for the better.