Actions for Week of May 8, 2022
Women’ s Rights and Voting Rights are Critical!
Saturday, May 14, 2022, 12pm - 6pm EDT
BANS OFF OUR BODIES
Gather at 12pm at Cadman Plaza, march across the Brooklyn Bridge, and then land at Foley Square for a "Welcome Village" from 3-6pm
A leaked draft US Supreme Court majority opinion explicitly overturns Roe v. Wade, reversing nearly 50 years of precedent and explicitly ending federal constitutional protections for abortion. Tewnty six states could move quickly to ban abortion, meaning millions of people might live without local access to abortion, and lose the power and freedom to make their own personal reproductive health care decisions.
Join Planned Parenthood and others across across the country to demonstrate that people support abortion access, and to show that we won’t back down.
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Thursday, May 12th at 5:30 PM
NEW VOTING MAPS
Via Zoom
Last week, the State Court of Appeals invalidated the recently enacted gerrymandered state Congressional and Senate maps and appointed a Special Master to redraw New York’s districts. Common Cause NY released its own proposed Congressional and Senate maps and filed them with the Steuben County Supreme Court and the Special Master. Common Cause will go over the current state of redistricting in New York, and present its proposed maps to reform New York’s broken redistricting process.
RSVP HERE
MAY 14th, 9am
UWS MoveOn/Indivisible/SwingLeft Car Pool to Bethlehem, PA
Bethlehem Planned Parenthood Rally and Canvassing
Join Upper West Side MoveOn/Indivisible SwingLeft volunteers to carpool to Bethlehem, PA as they attend the Bethlehem Planned Parenthood Rally from 11am-12pm doing voter registration and talking to women about Congresswoman Susan Wild, before doing door knocking/canvassing.
Take action to build the grassroots power Democrats need to win: talking to voters face to face is one of the single most important things. They’ll cover everything you need to know, and once you get going, you'll find that talking to voters is fun and rewarding.
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VERY IMPORTANT CALLS MUST BE MADE THIS WEEK
Bill S1917 just passed out of committee in the State Senate. Normal protesting activities could be criminalized under this law. Activists’ voices may be silenced. We fought this last year in both Nassau and Suffolk and now we MUST fight it again.
The bill designates offenses against uniformed police officers, firefighters, and medical service personnel as hate crimes, by including them as a protected class. A protected class is a group sharing a common trait and are legally protected from being discriminated against on the trait’s basis, such as being born with a specific skin color, a disability, or a specific gender.
Wearing a uniform is not a trait; it comes with jobs these law enforcement officers, firefighters, and emergency medical service personnel have chosen and can leave any time. This bill must be stopped.
Call our State Senators
Liz Krueger: Phone: (212) 490-9535
José M. Serrano: Phone: (212)-828-5829
and
State Senate Majority leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins 518-455-2585
MAKE CALLS THIS WEEK
From Common Cause: ban hybrid voting machines
We need to contact our representatives to urge them to pass the Hybrid Voting Machine Ban bill as soon as possible. Hybrid machines pose a security risk: they can produce unreliable paper ballots, making audits nearly impossible. They are also cumbersome and expensive. Banning hybrid machines and barcodes on ballots will give New York voters confidence that their vote is cast and counted accurately.
Call your representatives to tell them that taxpayer money shouldn't be spent on these unreliable and expensive machines. We need secure elections.
Assembly Member Dan Quart (212) 605-0937
Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright (212) 288-4607
State Senator Liz Krueger (212) 490-9535J
State Senator José M. Serrano: Phone: (212)-828-5829
SAVE THE DATE FOR OUR MAY MEETING
May 17, 2022
The primaries are coming!
Join us on Tuesday, May 17 at 7:30 to meet the candidates for AD73 (Dan Quart's old district). Hear what they have to say and how they plan to help us make our voices heard in Albany.
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