Letters about US Congress

Not Standing Up for Voting Rights Undermines Democracy
Ann Pompelio
Published: 01/16/2022
Voter suppression undermines democracy. Normalizing sedition undermines democracy. Accepting the Big Lie of a “stolen election” undermines democracy. Read More
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Tell Your Representatives: Releases Not Transfers
Matt Dragon @matt_dragon
Published: 11/26/2021
Being in the US without authorization is a civil offense, not a criminal offense. Our neighbors are being detained for the equivalent of a lawsuit over backpay, or a slip and fall. No other civil offenses allow pre-trial confinement. Why should immigration? Even if the person has been removed previously, the criminal charge they face would be a misdemeanor. Do we detain teenagers pre-trial when they’ve been caught trespassing or having a fake ID? Of course we don’t and we shouldn’t detain our neighbors for those offenses either. Read More
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Tell Your Representatives, Releases Not Transfers When NJ ICE Contracts Are Ended
Elizabeth Redwine
Published: 07/09/2021
Many worked to end Essex County’s contract with ICE, but now the federal government is taking the draconian step of moving those ICE detainees from the Essex County Correctional Facility to detention centers in the Deep South including Alabama, Louisiana, and Georgia. Read More
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We Must All Work To Counter The Hate Encouraged By Political Leaders
Elizabeth Redwine
Published: 10/31/2020
There are many ways for the work that many of us have done against right wing hate to continue, and this is just one example, but I hope that when the dust settles, we remember that there are people locked up in our own county who need people of conscience to volunteer to help. Read More
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Republicans Puzzle Me
John Willard
Published: 07/25/2020
They characterize protest as inexcusable lawlessness, and forget that the largely peaceful protests, protected by the First Amendment, that have happened recently pale in comparison to the lawlessness of our Founding Fathers, who, when signing the Declaration of Independence, were reminded by Ben Franklin that they all risked being hanged as traitors, because their revolutionary protest was, in fact, breaking the law. Read More
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