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Oct162020

Vote absentee – Helpful tips below

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If you have moved in the last 30 days, you will need to re-register. You can update your information through this online voter registration page before October 19 or go to your city or township clerk. If you have moved and have not changed your address for voting, you will need to do that.

If you have received your absentee ballot and then decided to vote in person on election day, contact your clerk for instructions. If you need assistance with your absentee ballot, read the specific instructions regarding that.

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Jun252020

Our American Democracy: the hard fought right to vote

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As part of Ann Arbor’s Juneteenth Day Celebration, the zoom showing of Suppressed: The Right to Vote by the well-known documentarian Robert Greenwald demonstrates the way state governments can deprive blacks and other people of color from voting. Focusing on Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial election, the movie testifies to the array of injustices that state deployed to deprive minorities of the right to vote.

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Jun112020

Justice and the Police

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Read these articles and the proposed legislation; contact your legislators. There must be accountability!  Without accountability, nothing will ever change. Make sure your family and friends register to vote and actually vote. There are only a few months until November.  Support the candidates that agree with your values now!  Vote out those politicians that do not agree with your values.

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Jun42020

Police Target Journalists as Trump Blames ‘Lamestream Media’ for Protests

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A foundation of a functioning democracy is an informed, engaged public. Organizations such as the ACLU and Common Cause invite us to support their work to protect freedom of the press. Organizations such as ProtectPressFreedom.org – a coalition of journalists and press advocacy groups, in partnership with a wide range of major media organizations – encourages us to use social media to acknowledge threats, show support of the press and highlight great reporting. Journalists are there as representatives of the public, and if law enforcement is attacking them, they can’t do their job, and that hurts everybody.

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