Good Trouble 2022: Ensuring Voting Rights in America

Good Trouble 2022: Ensuring Voting Rights in America

January 5, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Info & register here: https://mediatorsbeyondborders.org/event/good-trouble-2022-ensuring-voting-rights-in-america/


Mediators Beyond Borders International is delighted to launch 2022: the Year of Action in Collaboration with one of the most important matters facing the United States: Voting Rights. This event is organized in partnership with Black Women for Positive Change, the National Association for Community Mediation, and the Trust Network.

Award-winning civil rights activists Attorney Barbara Arnwine and Attorney Daryl Jones, Co-Leaders of the Transformative Justice Coalition fresh off their community-based victory in the Justice For Ahmaud Arbery community-building campaign, will bring their extraordinary skills and expertise to this candid discussion about effective strategies for ensuring voting rights in America.

At a time of declining trust in institutions and toxic polarization, Barbara and Daryl will share their successes in community coalition building and policy advocacy in communities across the United States. Barbara and Daryl will also highlight exciting community empowerment opportunities that will be presented through the passage of the Freedom To Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, both bills are currently pending in the U.S. Congress.

We hope that you will join us for a lively, interactive and substantive discussion, and prepare to work to create a more inclusive and robust democracy.

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CALL TO ACTION: END THE FILIBUSTER & PASS VOTING RIGHTS

Tell our CA senators that the filibuster -- a Jim Crow era relic -- must end to allow
voting rights legislation. Passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
and the Freedom to Vote Act must happen now!

Direct email and/or direct phone numbers here:

Senator Dianne Feinstein: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me
Phone: (415) 393-0707
Fax: (415) 393-0710

Senator Alex Padilla: https://www.padilla.senate.gov/contact/contact-form/
Phone (202) 224 – 3553
Fax (202) 224 – 2200

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Concerned about the future of Voting Rights? Join in Voting Rights actions happening
both in-person and virtually in the SF Bay Area & nationwide:

Jan6 Unity Nationwide Day of Remembrance & Action - Vigils & Actions for Voting Rights: https://jan6unityday.org/

San Francisco: MLK22 March Toward Justice & Commemoration of Voting Rights Legacy:
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/12/23/18846912.php

Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Action for Voting Rights: https://deliverforvotingrights.com/
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