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Elections - Get Involved!
Voting is key, but it’s not all there is to the election process. You can get involved in a lot of ways:
How To Vote in Minnesota
Minnesota makes it easy to vote early or on Election Day, by mail or in person. Click through to find out how.
What's On My Ballot?
The Primaries are coming up!
There are a bunch of races that are having primary elections on Aug 14th - federal offices, state and county offices as well as some local offices too. Find out who and what is on your ballot.
Kavanaugh Nomination - What's At Stake, What Can We Do?
The balance of the US Supreme Court is set to change significantly for a generation or more, following Kennedy’s retirement and Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to fill his seat.
Kavanaugh is a partisan Republican and an extremist, and his confirmation would pose a serious threat to reproductive rights, healthcare, environmental protection, net neutrality, works’ rights, LGBTQ rights, gun violence prevention laws, voting rights and more.
Save the Boundary Waters
For 18 months, the Forest Service has been carefully documenting likely harm to the Boundary Waters and the Superior National Forest if sulfide-ore copper mining is allowed on public lands next to the Boundary Waters. This critically important study is nearly complete. The study will inform Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke before he decides whether to protect the Boundary Waters by putting nearby federal lands off-limits to new mining leases for 20 years.
Missed Deadlines in Getting Children Back to Their Families.
The government is currently in violation of a court order to reunite children separated from their families at the border. Only 38 of the 102 under-5s were back with their families by the 10pm Tuesday (7/10) deadline. More reunifications were expected to follow.
After the #FamiliesBelongTogether Marches, what now?
Last week, WMM joined a number of other organizations in a civil disobedience action at General Dynamics, Bloomington, to protest the company’s involvement in the business of immigrant detention and monitoring. This action was led by Navigate MN, Black Visions Collective, CTUL, and SEIU Local 26. Eight protestors were arrested, including Sen. Patricia Torres Ray.
Comment now to oppose the gutting of the National Environmental Policy Act
Known as the Magna Carta of environmental law, is a federal law that promotes the enhancement and protection of our environment. It also established the President's Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).
NEPA was passed in the 70s following outcry over how the Interstate highway system in the 1950s and 60s was built- by bulldozing communities with no consideration of the harmful impacts.
Children must be reunited with their families. Children should not be in detention centers.
More horrors keep emerging on the family separation policy: 2,300 children removed from their parents in 6 weeks; younger kids and toddlers housed in “tender age” shelters; no plan yet on how to reunite kids with their parents!
MEDIA ADVISORY: Thousands of Women Demand Congress End Family Separations
Washington, DC -- On Thursday, June 28th, more than 1,000 women will converge on DC to demand Congress end the policies that criminalize immigrants, separate families, and incarcerate children in prison camps.
Tax bill: What's next?
The Senate GOP tax bill passed with a 51-49 vote around 2 a.m. ET Saturday, Dec. 2. While the bill itself is a problem, the way the GOP jammed it through to a vote is unacceptable and a breach of democracy.
Call for a clean DREAM Act
Since the September announcement to rescind DACA, effective March 5, 2018, no bills have been passed to offer protection to the 800,000 DREAMers.
Save Net Neutrality
Act now to save Net Neutrality. The FCC will vote on repealing net neutrality on Friday, Dec. 14.
Submit your comments on Birth Control
Access to birth control is being limited. Submit your comments now to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to help keep open access to birth control.
Keep your hands off our birth control
Last week, the Trump administration made it harder for women to get birth control by allowing employers, colleges and universities to drop birth-control coverage from their health plans for religious or moral objections. Tell the administration how you feel about this ruling.
Demand a Clean DREAM Act
In March 2018, an estimated 1,500 people will begin to lose current DACA status every day. To prevent this, Congress must act to pass the Dream Act into law.
New Gun Regulations Introduced
Following the mass shooting in Las Vegas, a number of new bills on gun regulation have been introduced. Here are a few of them. Let’s help them get through!
Calls Needed for Women's Health - Vote No on HR36, Ban on Abortions over 20 Weeks
Call your US Senators and demand they stand for women's health and vote NO on the bill (HR36) just passed in the House banning abortions after 20 weeks.