CNY Solidarity members and supporters:
Please find below the weekly ACTION ALERTS from Indivisible NY24.
Our electoral focus for the next five weeks is on the two U.S Senate runoffs scheduled for Jan. 5 in Georgia. Multiple opportunities to get involved below.
Today (Dec 7)
Voter Turnout with New Georgia Project
New Georgia Project has virtual phonebanks every day at 5pm, plus earlier slots on Saturdays and Sundays. Click here to sign up.
Tuesday (Dec 8)
Voter Turnout with Fair Fight in Georgia
Fair Fight (Stacey Abrams’s organization) has phone and text trainings every Sun., Tue., and Thur. at 4pm and virtual phonebanks every Sat. and Sun. at 11am. Click here to sign up.
Wednesday (Dec 9)
Contact County Legislators or Write to Paper About Partisan Salary Cuts
The Republican legislature decided last week to reduce the salaries of the election commissioners on a party line vote. It also created an annual salary review targeting them. Threatening to cut salaries is a classic technique for interfering with officials’ independence. Writer your county legislators or the newspaper about this. Contact information for legislators is here.
Thursday (Dec 10)
Student Debt
Contact Joe Biden and urge him to cancel student debt. It’s the one piece of fiscal stimulus he can enact unilaterally. More information here. Email Biden at https://bidenpresident.com/Contact
Friday (Dec 11)
Restore Social Services Funding
In a rare party line budget vote, the Republican county legislators rammed through a drastic set of cuts, including cuts to the departments of social services and children and family services. The county refused to spend $1.4 million from an untapped $77 million rainy day fund to partially restore those services during the ongoing pandemic as requested by Democratic legislatures. Contact your legislator or write the newspaper to object. Legislators’ contact information is here
Saturday (Dec 12)
Voter Turnout with Fair Fight in Georgia
Fair Fight (Stacey Abrams’s organization) has phone and text trainings every Sun., Tue., and Thur. at 4pm and virtual phonebanks every Sat. and Sun. at 11am. Click here to sign up.
Voter Turnout with New Georgia Project
New Georgia Project has virtual phonebanks every day at 5pm, plus earlier slots on Saturdays and Sundays. Click here to sign up.
Sunday (Dec 13)
CNY Solidarity and Indivisible NY 24 Meeting
3-4pm via Zoom. Details to come.
Save the date for these upcoming events:
Sun., Dec 20, 3-4pm: CNY Solidarity meeting via Zoom.
Sun., Jan 10, 3-4pm: CNY Solidarity meeting via Zoom (Annual Meeting).
Tue., Jan 5: Senate runoff elections in Georgia.
Wed., Jan 6: NY State Legislative session convenes.
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Tom