James Reeb Voting Rights Project at All Souls Church

10/20/2022

*** VIRTUAL PHONE BANK WITH NEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY ***
*** Mon, Oct 24, 6:30pm-8:30pm ***

Join your All Souls family and other UU members from across the DMV as we partner with New Virginia Majority to reach out to voters in Northern Virginia. Come take the opportunity to encourage Virginians to cast their ballot in these crucial midterm elections, and help ensure they have a plan for voting.

No experience is required. Help make all voices heard!

Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3yVEMdM

10/17/2022

*** In-person Texting Pizza Party!!! ***

Come join All Souls friends in person as we text voters on Saturday, Oct. 22nd, 12:30-2 p.m. There isn't much time left!

We will be on the rooftop of 2651 16th Street NW (just a few doors down from All Souls). There will be pizza, drinks, snacks, and a beautiful view to enjoy! If the weather is bad, no problem--we'll just move into the clubhouse!

Sign up here for free lunch and texting: https://bit.ly/3Tq5raD

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Community Partner: Poor People's Campaign National Textbanking Program. They are looking for help to reach 5 million poor and low-wealth, low-propensity voters across states all over the U.S.

10/14/2022

*** Come for Democracy, stay for Rev. Rob’s blue beard - Oct 20th - Online - 6:30 - 8:30 ET / 3:30 - 5:30 PT ***

Our longtime partners in voter mobilization, the UU Justice Ministry of North Carolina, are once again doing weekly phonebanks on Thursday evenings. They’ve told us directly that many UUs from All Souls (and the DMV) participated in these phone banks in 2020, and that it made a big difference for them! So let’s do that again.

Everyone is invited to participate any Thursday they can, but the phonebank on *Thursday, October 20* is special because our UU the Vote of DC, MD, and VA campaign (co-led by the Reeb Project) is the official host of that one! It means we’re helping with the opening centering and making an extra effort to turn people out.

To that end, All Souls Minister of Social Justice, Rev. Rob Keithan, has committed to doing a ridiculous action if more than 30 people from All Souls participate! He will either (1) dye his beard blue or (2) have a bucket of ice water dumped on him.

Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3Tlx0BR

This is all about democracy, so people who participate get to vote on which he does! Training is available at each phone bank, so first-time volunteers are welcome and supported.

10/13/2022

*** Come for Democracy, stay for Rev. Rob’s blue beard - 6:30 - 8:30 ET / 3:30 - 5:30 PT ***

Join Reeb as we partner with the UU Justice Ministry of North Carolina. They're looking for help to reach poor and low-wealth, low-propensity voters across the nation and urge them to claim their voices and vote.

If Reeb can get 30 people from the All Souls community — including friends — those who participate will get to choose whether he (1) dyes his beard North Carolina blue or (2) has a bucket of ice water dumped on him!

To sign up, click here: https://bit.ly/3Tlx0BR

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Text banking is EASY and EFFICIENT. Text banking apps allow you to send pre-scripted text messages with nonpartisan voting information with a touch of your thumb. The text banking app also masks your number and manages your replies. For example, one person can send 3,000 texts in 30 minutes and have 30 replies to manage. Reeb members can text bank while watching movies! It is that EASY.

10/03/2022

*** Texting Tuesdays starting Oct 4th - Online - 8 p.m. ***

Have you heard? Texting is the new Postcarding!

Join Reeb as we partner with the Poor People's Campaign National Textbanking Program. They're looking for help to reach 5 million poor and low-wealth, low-propensity voters across the nation.

To sign up, click here: https://bit.ly/3SynBqI

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Text banking is EASY and EFFICIENT. Text banking apps allow you to send pre-scripted text messages with nonpartisan voting information with a touch of your thumb. The text banking app also masks your number and manages your replies. For example, one person can send 3,000 texts in 30 minutes and have 30 replies to manage. One Reeb member text banks while watching movies! It is that EASY.

10/02/2022

*** NOW - We are sending postcards to Virginia voters ***

Join us (bring friends too) and help achieve our pledge to reach 5,000 VA voters of color.

Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3xiV1AX

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Join the All Souls Reeb Project and join easy, nonpartisan, and fun Get Out the Vote efforts in September and October. Voting can and does impact all of the issues you care about. We helped make people’s voices heard in 2020 and we can do so again!

09/11/2022

*** NOW - We are sending postcards to Virginia voters ***

Join us (bring friends too) and help achieve our pledge to reach 5,000 VA voters of color.

Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3xiV1AX

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Join the All Souls Reeb Project and join easy, nonpartisan, and fun Get Out the Vote efforts in September and October. Voting can and does impact all of the issues you care about. We helped make people’s voices heard in 2020 and we can do so again!

06/15/2022

*** JOB ALERT!! ***
*** 2022 Voting Campaign Organizer with UUs in DC, MD, & VA ***

Five Unitarian Universalist organizations seek a half-time consultant to serve as our Voting Campaign Organizer from August 1 – November 30, 2022. The Voting Campaign Organizer will help mobilize Unitarian Universalists in DC, Maryland, and Virginia to conduct non-partisan voter registration, engagement and turnout actions, particularly in communities negatively affected by voter suppression. The sponsoring organizations are All Souls Church Unitarian in Washington, DC, UUs for Social Justice, the UU Legislative Ministry of Maryland, and the UU Legislative Ministry of Virginia–all working with the national UU the Vote campaign. With UU the Vote 2022, we’re organizing on the state and local levels to fight for fair elections, advance voting rights, protect abortion access, and resist the targeting and criminalization of Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities. The consultant must be comfortable working with justice-seeking people of faith.

https://bit.ly/2022VotingCampaignOrganizerUUDMV

06/11/2022

04/04/2022

*** Postcard Opportunity!! Get out the vote in NC!! ***

Reeb will be joining get-out-the-vote ("GOTV") efforts in North Carolina given our long history supporting voting rights there. Our efforts are especially important given recent, heightened concerns about voter suppression and gerrymandering.

Our longstanding partner in this effort is Reclaim Our Vote (now affiliated with the Center for Commonground). Our mutual goal is to educate and empower underrepresented voters in voter suppression states to engage in elections and advocate for their right to vote.

Reclaim Our Vote's goal is to reach 400,000 black voters in North Carolina prior to their primary on May 17th. Early voting in North Carolina runs from April 28 to May 14.

Sign up to send postcards to North Carolina:
https://secure.everyaction.com/ce4NWpHzAUW434ruICbqpg2

Photo by Mikhail Nilov, pexels .com

03/12/2022

*** UU the Vote in 2022!! Sunday @2 pm, All Souls ***

Please join Reeb Voting Rights Project (All Souls) and the UUtheVote team (UU Church of Arlington Virginia) to learn about meaningful actions you can take to make a difference. For UUs, protecting the rights of all people to have a voice and a vote is living our UU values.

At the meeting we'll hear from two powerful advocates: (1) Nicole Pressley, Field and Programs Director of the national UU Side with Love Action Center (UUtheVote), and (2) Andrea Miller, Founding Board Member, Center for Common Ground/Reclaim Our Vote.

Both will speak to their organization's 2022 vision to empower under-represented voters to fully participate in elections.

SIGN UP HERE TO LEARN HOW TO UUtheVOTE in 2022:
https://bit.ly/3KsEfUf