Thursday, June 23 - Volunteer to Elect Progressives / Emergency Response to Supreme Court Abortion Ruling
Actions You Can Take Today
Action 1: URGENT - Volunteer to elect progressives in the IL primary election
Action 2: Prepare for the Emergency Response to the Supreme Court Abortion Ruling
Action 1: URGENT - Volunteer to Elect IL Progressives
We’re proud of the work we’ve done to rebuild the Midwest blue wall. But is it strong enough? We’re watching the Trumpies win primaries across the country. If we’re going to stop the GOP from pulling the country further to the right, we need to elect truly progressive candidates up and down the ballot here in our Blue Illinois. And that happens in the critical primary underway right now.
It's time to volunteer for Election Day work on June 28 and in this critical week/weekend leading into the in-precinct voting. Direct contact with voters is how we win. When it comes to our endorsed Congressional candidates Kina Collins (IL07) and Delia Ramirez (03), to know them is to love (and vote for) them. We just have to get the word out.
Join phone banks with Indivisible Chicago or individual campaigns, knock on doors with our canvass team or volunteer to be a “poll stander” passing out candidate literature at early voting sites and on Election Day. We have the tools, the times, the places, and the training to make it easy and rewarding for you.
Nothing we say can get you out for election work this week? We understand. So, how about this: resolve to triple your vote by informing two friends and ensuring they turn up to vote for progressives. Be a bundler from the comfort of your own home and boost voter turnout wherever your friends and family may live. But we’ll give you bonus points if you can boost turnout in Illinois 07 for Kina Collins and 03 for Delia Ramirez. Our candidate pages include maps of the 3rd district and the 7th district (scroll down) that will help you zero in on those voters within your networks.
Action 2: Emergency Response to Supreme Court Abortion Ruling
We do not know which weekday the Court will issue its ruling. It will most likely be this month. Whichever day the Court rules, we ask that everyone who supports legal abortion gather at Chicago's Federal Plaza (Adams & Dearborn Streets) for an emergency response to the Court's ruling.
By threatening legal abortion even in states that have laws protecting it, the court is slamming the door in the face of millions of women and gender non-conforming people, hitting Black, Brown, and Indigenous people the hardest. It is putting at risk all LGBTQ rights, the right to contraception, and even the right to interracial marriage.
If the court goes through with its threat, this will be the first time in US history that the Court has taken away rights previously guaranteed. To say that this is a horrible precedent and a huge step backward for all of us is a gross understatement.
We will NOT silently accept a right-wing attack on abortion that opens the door to attacks on the rights of all women, LGBTQs, Black and Brown people, and all working-class people. WE MUST RESPOND by taking to the streets. This is the way our rights have always been won. This is the way that they must be defended.
Help tell Washington that we will not silently allow decades of progress to be swept away. On the day that the Court issues its decision, that night, drop everything and assemble at Chicago's Federal Plaza (Adams & Dearborn Streets) at 5:30 pm. Follow this Facebook event for updates.
Action via ACLU of Illinois
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