{"id":163,"date":"2020-07-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calchurches.planetpov.com\/impact\/index.php\/2020\/07\/06\/help-voters-vote-the-new-freedom-summer\/"},"modified":"2020-07-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T00:00:00","slug":"help-voters-vote-the-new-freedom-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2020\/07\/06\/help-voters-vote-the-new-freedom-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Voters Vote &#8211; the new &#8220;Freedom Summer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"imgPusher\" style=\"float:right;height:159px\"><\/span><span style=\"display: table;width:auto;position:relative;float:right;max-width:100%;;clear:right;margin-top:20px;*margin-top:40px\"><a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.churchimpact.org\/\/uploads\/4\/1\/4\/8\/41486323\/blackchurchpac_orig.png?w=1160\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px; max-width:100%\" alt=\"Picture\" class=\"galleryImageBorder wsite-image\"><\/a><span style=\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\" class=\"wsite-caption\"><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"display:block;\">\u200bDear Friends:<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Our elections are the foundation blocks of our democracy. Free and fair access is imperative.\u00a0 We have only four months until the next general election, November 3, 2020, and assuring that everyone legally entitled to vote can vote is essential.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Black Church PAC has created the contemporary \u201cFreedom Summer\u201d program to reproduce the courageous voter registration drives of the early Civil Rights Era.\u00a0 While this drive is targeted to more Southern states than to our northern and western ones, every state has pockets of voter suppression. No one is immune.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Monday, July 6 at noon California time, there will be a webinar on Freedom Summer voter registration drives.\u00a0 You are invited to participate if you are Black clergy and laity or if you serve a diverse population in areas where voter suppression or obstacles may occur.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>To register for this critical voter registration and enhancement webinar, please click\u00a0<u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.votervoice.net\/BroadcastLinks\/Y4XtEhdEFngxRp1h_Z77uw\">here<\/a><\/u>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Other steps you can take, no matter where you reside, is to prepare for long lines and delays at the polls. While in California all voters will be receiving \u201cvote by mail\u201d ballots, things still can go wrong, and support for those standing in line will be needed,<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Bring cases of water, some food, folding chairs.\u00a0 Enlist your youth to hold line spots for voters needing bathroom breaks. Have masks available for anyone without one. Think about entertainment (socially distanced, of course).\u00a0 There will be spots in every state, even California, where things will not go smoothly.\u00a0 We need to anticipate those problems, be prepared to help voters vote.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Thank you!<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bDear Friends:\u00a0Our elections are the foundation blocks of our democracy. Free and fair access is imperative.\u00a0 We have only four months until the next general &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/2020\/07\/06\/help-voters-vote-the-new-freedom-summer\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/churchimpact.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}