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Voting Rights The 2013 Shelby County v. Holder decision struck down key voting rights protections from the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Now, in an effort to restore these protections, Reps. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Terri Sewell (D-AL) have introduced the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019. Action: 1. Contact your Member of Congress. If they are a cosponsor of H.R. 4 Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019, thank them. If not, ask them to support this legislation. 2. Contact your Senators. If they are a cosponsor of S. 561 Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2019, thank them. If not, ask them to support this legislation.
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Private Prisons Many investment funds own shares in private prisons. Action: Take a look at the funds listed in this article, and if you invest with any of them, contact them and ask them to divest of all their private prison investments. abovethelaw.com/2018/10/you-might-be-an-unwitting-investor-in-americas-private-prison-nightmare/ Violence Against Women Act The House has passed the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019 which protects women against violence and domestic abuse. The Act will now go before the Senate. Action: Contact your Member of Congress and thank them if they voted in favor of H.R. 1585 or give them a piece of your mind if they didn’t. Roll call here: clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll156.xml. Contact your senators and ask them to vote in favor of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2019. Oppose Kelly Knight Craft Trump’s pick to be the next U.S. ambassador to the U.N. is Kelly Knight Craft, climate change denier and wife of coal billionaire Joseph W. Craft III. She is being awarded the position as a result of her considerable financial support of the G.O.P. and is in no way qualified for the job. Action: Contact your senators and ask them to oppose the appointment of Kelly Knight Craft as next U.N. ambassador. This important and complex job should not be handed over as a reward for giving money. Iranian Woman Condemned Nasrin Soutoudeh, an Iranian lawyer and civil rights activist has been sentenced to 148 lashes and 38 years in prison for defending women who removed their headscarves in protest against the law requiring women to wear them. Action: 1. Sign the Change.org petition to the U.S. State Department asking them to call for Ms. Soutoudeh’s immediate and unconditional release. 2. Sign Amnesty International’s petition to the Supreme Leader of Iran on her behalf. 3. The U.S. and Iran do not have diplomatic relations. The Embassy of Pakistan represents Iranian interests in the United States. Send a message to Iran through this Embassy asking them to release Nasrin Soutoudeh immediately. Use this email: info@daftar.org. Climate Change H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act, would require the U.S. to remain in the Paris Climate Agreement. The majority of Americans believe that the U.S. should remain in the Paris Agreement. Action: Contact your Member of Congress and ask them to support H.R. 9, the Climate Action Now Act. (If your MoC is a Democrat, they already co-sponsored the bill, so you could thank them.) Find Your Representative | House.gov Mueller Report Rep. Jerry Nadler, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has subpoenaed for the unredacted Mueller Report and the evidence gathered during the investigation. Congress must now demand public hearings with Department of Justice and FBI senior leadership. Action: Contact your Member of Congress to say that you expect Congress to demand public hearings with Mueller, Rod Rosenstein and other senior officials from the Department of Justice and the FBI. Find Your Representative | House.gov Impeachment Action: In light of the Mueller Report, ask your Member of Congress to institute impeachment proceedings against Trump. Find Your Representative | House.gov The Ten-Minute Activist announces an Easter break from now until Tuesday, April 23 Immigration DHS Secretary Nielsen has resigned, and Trump is threatening an even more draconian approach to immigration and the crisis at the border. Action: 1. Contact your Member of Congress and say that the new DHS Secretary must commit to an absolute moratorium on family separation. 2. Contact your Senators with the same message. |
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