Dear Friends,
Thanks so much for your support of my candidacy for assembly district delegate. With your incredible support, I won. My term as an assembly district delegate is two years. There is much to do. And none of us can do this alone. I pledge to stay in communication with you and active in the community – within the party and outside of the party. It is vital that we ALL remain engaged in agitating for reform and political inclusion at the local and national levels.
My goal in running was ENFRANCHISEMENT: to get more involved in the Democratic Party and to work for better inclusion of rank and file voters in our political landscape. Enfranchisement is as vital an issue today as it has ever been in our nation. When people are marginalized from the political process, when people are denied access to the polls, when our parties shut us out of decision making processes – the right wing wins. We cannot allow that.
Here are two things you can do TODAY…
Connect with a Democratic Club in your area. These clubs are influential and a good way plug in and and stay on top of what is happening locally. Identify a club and commit to attending the next meeting. Check out this list of clubs in Alameda County:
Connect with righteous grassroots organizers. The folks at Solidarity Sundays are kicking serious butt by staying on top of breaking political news and disseminating timely information about ways to push back against a rapidly rising tide of institutional injustice in this country. They put out a daily update that will arm you with the information you need to be able to speak truth to power. Check them out:
https://www.solidaritysundays.org/
I plan to update this blog with news from my travels in the community and within the California Democratic Party. Please let me know if there are websites you would like to list here as tools for engagement, empowerment, enfranchisement, and uplift.
Thank you again for coming out on January 7, 2017 in San Leandro in the rain, wind, and cold to cast a vote in this election and help chart a bold and progressive course for the CA Democratic Party in 2017 and beyond. The people are the party. Enfranchisement matters.
In Solidarity,
Pam
Enfranchisement Now 