ReebVotingRights@allsouls.ws
In solidarity with fellow Unitarian Universalist congregations and community organizations, we are committed to building a democratic nation where every person has the right to participate in governance, every vote is counted, and the inherent worth and dignity of every person is valued.
Our work focuses on ensuring fair access to the ballot for all, especially for communities that have historically faced barriers to voting. This includes non-partisan activities such as:
● Joining Get-out-the-Vote (GOTV) efforts in communities of color
● Advocating for the repeal of oppressive voting laws
● Supporting election integrity as poll workers, poll watchers, and line warmers
● Mobilizing for DC Statehood
Democracy is not a given—it’s a collective effort. Let’s protect it, together, grounded in our shared commitment to democracy, justice, and collective liberation.
Contact ReebVotingRights@allsouls.ws to get information about:
● Getting involved with current voting rights and democracy initiatives. Activities include: reaching out to voters by postcard, text, and calls; joining canvassing trips; organizing UUs to join national marches and other resistance efforts; managing volunteer databases; internal communications; strategic planning, etc.
● Joining the Reeb Leadership Team to help guide and plan our voting rights work.
All are welcome. No experience needed. We are united through love and action.
“Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and redeem the soul of America.”
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Reeb Voting Rights Project nighttime protest
We have general organizing meetings every other Wednesday to build our beloved community and organize our efforts to support voting rights, assist voter registration, and get out the vote for critical primaries and elections at the local, State, and Federal level. All are welcome at all meetings. We are united through love in action.
Send us an email at ReebVotingRights@allsouls.ws and we can tell you more about what we are doing and how you might get involved. We are looking for postcard writers, callers, texters, data crunchers, leaders, and organizers to help us build another world.
We do this work in solidarity with other UU congregations and community partner organizations that center the leadership of people of color. Some of our community partners:
Center for Common Ground/Reclaim Our Vote
Picture of members of the Reeb Voting Rights Project holding individual letter signs that spell Freedom To Vote at a nighttime protest
History of the Reeb Voting Rights Project
The Reeb Project for Voting Rights is named in honor of former All Souls associate minister James Reeb – beaten to death in 1965 when he went to Selma, Alabama, to march for voting rights.
Rev. James Reeb
The project has four goals:
Building a beloved community dedicated to ensuring equal representation in the democratic process that reflects the inherent worth and dignity of every human being.
Engaging in targeted efforts to mobilize voter turnout in historically marginalized constituencies by working in solidarity with grassroots partners that center the leadership of BIPOC communities and other underrepresented groups (LIGBTIQ+, disability, migrants etc.).
Conducting ongoing public education and awareness campaigns focused on voter suppression, disenfranchisement of DC residents, and the rights of the formerly incarcerated, and work in the service of impacted communities to develop remedies to these human rights violations.
Integrating an intentional racial and intersectional justice lens across all our voter mobilization efforts from the very outset to ensure racial, gender, and social equity.
Since our launch in 2013 (at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington), we have called, sent postcards, texted, worked with and mobilized thousands of voters in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas, and Arizona. We provide voters with helpful, non-partisan information about registering to vote and exercising their right to vote. We have also supported national voting rights legislation and developed a DC Statehood Campaign with partners to reach out to UUs across the country.
“We are going to have to really take upon ourselves a continuing and disciplined effort with no real hope that in our lifetime we are going to be able to take a vacation from the struggle for justice.”