Protect Abortion in Kansas, Keep Congress Blue,

StateStrong Lobby Week

Protect Reproductive Rights in Kansas

The first statewide election over abortion since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade is about to take place in Kansas, and our allies need your help. Early voting has already opened for the August 2 election. In 2019, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the state constitution protects the right to abortion. Now, the legislature has passed, with a supermajority, a state constitutional amendment that declares that there is no such right. If the outrageously named “Value Them Both” amendment wins at the polls, the majority anti-choice legislature will be free to pass any abortion restriction they like – even one like Oklahoma’s that bans abortion from the moment of conception, which threatens contraception and IVF as well as termination. In fact, Kansas forced-birth fans have such a bill all ready to go if they win the August election – HB 2746, “Creating the crimes of unlawful performance of an abortion and unlawful destruction of a fertilized embryo, except when necessary to save the life the mother.”

What you can do:

• Sign up to text bank – Join Vote No Kansas volunteers to text voters across the state, every Monday & Thursday 4-6 PM Pacific Time (more frequently in the week before the election). Sign up here. Also check out the events of Kansans for Constitutional Freedom.
• Help get people from underrepresented communities and young voters to the polls – support Loud Light and their New Frontiers Project

• Postcards to Voters has added writing postcards to Kansas! If you’re already signed up with them, great – if not, sign up at https://postcardstovoters.org/

• Donate:
  • Check out Vote Neigh and their amazing merch – 100% of the proceeds go to the Kansas Abortion Fund!
  • Donate directly to the Kansas Abortion Fund
• Find out more: 
  • Vote No Kansas
  • Vote Neigh
  • Kansans for Constitutional Freedom

Keep Congress Blue

Join Indivisible East Bay to Keep Congress Blue! We’re excited to offer both Zoom and outdoor, in-person postcarding events. There’s also a gathering for Team Arizona! Read more and RSVP below: 

• Team Arizona Gathering, Sunday, July 31 at 3PM sign up here
• Postcarding Events:
  • Thursday, July 21 on Zoom at 6:30PM sign up here
  • Saturday, July 23 outdoor in person at 1PM  sign up here 
  • Thursday, August 11 outdoor in person at 6PM sign up here 
  • Sunday, August 14 on Zoom at 3:30PM sign up here 

StateStrong Lobby Week

We’re gauging interest in a virtual StateStrong Lobby Week! We’d meet mid-August, after most Appropriations hearings, to garner support for a few key California priority bills, chosen by the Lobby Week planning team. Small groups from each district will meet their legislators to explain why their bill is important and ask for their support. We’ll provide a brief training and will hold a planning meeting before the legislator meetings to assign roles.

Please fill out this form if you are interested in participating.

• StateStrong All Working Groups Meeting, 1st Monday of every month at 5:30pm on Zoom, next meeting August 1st, RSVP here
• Zoom Postcarding, Thursday, July 21, 6:30PM-8:00PM, RSVP here  
• In-Person Outdoor Postcarding, Saturday, July 23, 1:00PM-3:00PM, RSVP here 
• Team Arizona Gathering, Sunday, July 31, 3:00PM-5:00PM, RSVP here

• In-Person Outdoor Postcarding, Thursday, August 11, 6:00PM-8:00PM, RSVP here 

• Zoom Postcarding, Sunday, August 14, 3:30PM-5:00PM, RSVP here

• August All Members Meeting, Sunday, August 28, 1:00PM-2:30PM, RSVP here 

• Zoom Postcarding, Sunday, September 25, 3:30PM-5:00PM, RSVP here
• Zoom Postcarding, Sunday, October 9, 3:30PM-5:00PM, RSVP here

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