Get into “Good Trouble” with Reeb Voting Rights Project
We need you – the hundreds of members and friends of All Souls, who have powered us since 2014 – to mobilize and equip voters with the information they need to ensure their votes count and their voices are heard.
Join us as we work in solidarity with other UU congregations and community partner organizations that center the leadership of people of color, work in communities with historically low voter participation, and advocate for changes to oppressive voting laws.
Our commitment to Equity, Transformation, and Interdependence calls us to act for a just and inclusive democracy. As UUs, we affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person and seek to dismantle systems of oppression that restrict access to the ballot. Grounded in our shared commitment to democracy, justice, and collective liberation, we take action to ensure that every voice is heard and every vote counts.
Looking to get Involved?
Faith, Community, and Resistance:
Organizing for 2025 & Beyond
Saturday, May 17, 9AM – 4PM at All Souls Church
Join us in the great work of resisting the rising tide of authoritarianism, fostering durable communities, and helping to build a stronger democracy than we had before! The day will offer multiple opportunities for spiritual grounding, community building, and skills development–all towards the end of claiming the power we DO have.
This event is faith-rooted but not faith exclusive, recognizing that unprecedented challenges require unprecedented collaboration. People from all congregations and community groups are welcome, as are people who are not connected to a group. Whoever you are, we invite you to consider coming as a team of two or more. Bring fellow congregants, activists, friends, and/or neighbors to get grounded, connected, and inspired! Register here
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Reeb Project Action Center
Check out the latest actions and activities you can get involved with to organize to protect and preserve our democracy. The Reeb Project Action Center is the place to go!
DC Statehood
Sign the Petition & Contact your Legislators
The Reeb Voting Rights Project of All Souls Church (D.C.) is renewing a call for assistance from UUs nationwide to support the people of D.C. who are in the cross hairs of the current administration. We ask for your help in protecting our limited Home Rule and, ultimately, gaining the same voting rights as residents of the 50 states.
Please send this petition to friends and family to be an ally of D.C.! Advocating for D.C. Statehood in the midst of the political situation right now, may seem like a low priority. However, it is not for these reasons:
DC citizens (700,000) do not have Senators or Representatives to defend our rights.
DC Home Rule gives us the right to vote for a Mayor and a governing Council. This can be taken away as threatened by Utah Senator Mike Lee who created the so-called Bowser Act, submitted recently. It disrespects the District’s elected representatives while seeking to end 50 years of D.C.’s limited Home Rule.
Join the Leadership Team
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.
You can also sign up for our mailing list.
About
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. 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, met, 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 DC Statehood and national voting rights legislation.
We do this work in solidarity with other UU congregations and community partner organizations that center the leadership of people of color, such as Reclaim Our Vote, Center for Common Ground, Side with Love Action Center, New Virginia Majority, and Washington Interfaith Network.