First We Mourn. Then We Fight: Why You Need to Vote and Volunteer Now by Marti Rosenberg
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O
n Friday morning, September 18, it was crucial for LGBTQ Rhode Islanders that we unelect Donald Trump as President.
about the last four years for white LGBTQ people in this country has been so much worse for LGBTQ people of color. Think of the growing number of black trans women who have been killed, including through police brutality or lack of protection by prison staff.
– and if you care about ending police brutality, freeing children in cages at the border, preserving reproductive justice, saving our burning planet, and about the 200,000 people (at this moment) who have died from COVID – you have the power to help fight back.
I know I don’t have to remind you how bad the current administration has been, but I will, just briefly: their opposition to the Equality Act, the ever- You know it’s been bad. But now, after How? First, by talking to your family, growing number of anti-LGBTQ judges, Friday evening, September 18, with friends, and neighbors in Rhode Island the roll-back of so many of the and in the rest of the country. LGBTQ protections granted Email SwingStateVolsRI@gmail.com Are they registered to vote? If not, by the Obama administration, with your name and phone number, and visit the Vote America website, including Department of Justice you'll get information on how to volunteer in where you can check your interpretations of the Civil Rights phone banks led by Rhode Islanders. registration and follow the links Act to protect transgender and to election info from every state non-binary workers. Plus banning and Washington, DC. transgender service members and the passing of Supreme Court Justice those living with HIV from the military Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the risks are Are you registered to vote? (Do the because of who they are or their health exponentially increased. In other words, same.) status. Then there’s the push to remove you know it can get even worse. We protections of the Affordable Care Act may be able to influence the Supreme Do you and your family or friends have for LGBTQ people – and the hypocritical Court fight, and we should try hard. But a plan to vote? Will you vote by mail? claims that they will improve the ACA we know we can influence the election, Vote early in person (which you can do in Rhode Island and in many states with a new plan. and we must. throughout the country)? Or will you And everything that has been awful If you care about our LGBT community vote on Election Day?
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