Friend,
Across the country UU’s are expanding the coalition of people prepared to overcome voter suppression and #votelove in 2020.
In addition to your local work, UU the Vote is planning national days of action every other week from now to election day. If you’ve been wondering what you or your congregation can do, forming a team to participate and putting the national phone banks on your calendar is an easy next step.
In Florida, we’re partnering with New Florida Majority Education Fund to reach hundreds of thousands of Florida voters. Over one hundred Florida UUs have been phonebanking for the last three weeks, ahead of the state attorney and sheriff primary elections, talking to thousands of voters about police violence against Black people and the need for systemic change. Now we need to bring in UU reinforcements from around the country as we head toward the general election and talk to voters broadly about the stakes in 2020.
In Wisconsin, we joined Wisconsin Voices - a statewide coalition of over 65 organizations committed to progressive values and expanding the electorate by building power in communities that have been divested from & targets of voter suppression through elections and year-round organizing. We’ll flank the work of WI Voices partners and fill in gaps - phonebanking priority voters who might not be part of their other organizations’ base.
| Be Part of the National Call-in Days to Voters in Wisconsin and Florida
Every other week until election day, UU’s from across the country are making non-partisan calls together to register, mobilize, and persuade voters in 2020.
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The next phonebank is August 25th from 6-8 pm ET. Please sign up here!
This is an all hands on deck moment! Please sign up and help us recruit more volunteers. You can forward this message, send people the sign up links, send it to your lists, post in your newsletters, and share the sign up links on Facebook. We have a goal of gathering 500 UUs and friends to make calls in August and September. If everyone recruits 1-2 or even more people we can make and surpass that goal. People understand what a crucial moment we are in, in Florida, Wisconsin, and in our nation.
We hold the phonebanks on Zoom so that we are able to make our phone calls together. We gather in, get oriented, trained in the first 30 minutes or so of the phonebank, make our calls together, and debrief and celebrate our results at the end of the session. Working this way is fulfilling, faithful, and fun as we build solidarity and power for change.
In faith & hopefulness,
Susan Leslie.
PS each call to a voter costs .042 cents. Would you donate $10 to reach the next 250 voters today?
