September 17, 2024

registration, voting, and more!

Hi friends,

In honor of National Voter registration day, check that you’re registered. For NYS, go here. For all other states, go here.

If you need to register in any part of the US, go here. Help a friend or neighbor register!

A muscular werewolf “HulkHogan-ing his shirt” will appear on Michigan’s I Voted stickers this year. The design — by 12-year-old Jane Hynous — won a contest designed to engage young people in the electoral process.

The Arizona Supreme Court dismissed a case challenging Governor Katie Hobbs’s executive order to expand voter registration and ballot drop off locations. The state was a focal point for Trump’s claims of electoral irregularities in 2020.

Arizona’s Maricopa County just approved 236 voting centers for November, which means that the county will have 35% more voting booths than were available in November 2020.

Martin Luther King Jr. once described voting as

“the foundation stone for political action.”

That means that we build on our power as voters to make a more just society by advocating for good policies through community action, advocacy, and lobbying.

To call attention to the accessibility improvement projects that are on hold because of the pause in congestion pricing, hundreds of transit organizers and groups representing disabled New Yorkers talked to members of the public at 23 subway stations earlier this month.

The Climate Change Superfund Act, which would hold corporations accountable for their emissions by collecting billions from them rather than passing those costs onto consumers, is also awaiting the governor’s signoff.

The Business Council of New York State has assembled a coalition to pressure the governor to veto the legislation. Our job is to raise our voices. Here we go!

Tell Governor Hochul that you want congestion pricing and climate action! I made it easy!

Let’s get another set of good measures off of the Governor’s desk so that New York families can access child care subsidies. The package of bills passed with overwhelming support.

Tell Governor Hochul to sign the package of child care legislation. This quick action is from the Alliance for Quality Education.

Missourians collected more than 375,000 signatures to get a measure on their November ballot to amend their state constitution to enshrine reproductive freedoms in their state constitution; last week, a dubious legal strategy to remove it from the ballot failed. Missourians will vote on the amendment.

In New York State, we too can add reproductive protections to our constitution, along with civil rights protections for LGBTQ+ people and those with disabilities by supporting Prop 1.

Vote YES on Prop 1 to add the Equal Rights Amendment to New York’s constitution. It will be on the back of your ballot. Talk it up!

Jessica Valenti reported a bunch of big wins for reproductive justice this past week, including court decisions striking down an abortion ban in North Dakota and preventing Indiana from making public the records of individual abortions (as if they were not private health information).

Other rulings will require Nevada to allow Medicaid to cover abortion care and uphold a regulation requiring health insurance plans in Illinois to include abortion in their pregnancy care coverage.

Valenti also reported that more men are educating and organizing young men to engage them in the fight for reproductive freedom.

with love,

L