Urge Your Michigan Representative to Vote for SB 757 to Allow Ballots to be Processed a Day Early CALL YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE: Click HERE to find the phone and email of your State Representative. Tell him/her: Vote YES on SB 757; It allows clerks to handle a large influx of absentee ballots by starting a day early; It allows tired poll workers to work in shifts rather than staying long hours. A record number of absentee ballots were cast during the 2020 primary as a result of people taking advantage of Michigan’s new no reason absentee ballot law during the COVID-19 pandemic. Election activists, clerks and legislators from both parties are concerned that the outcome of close races could delayed three or more days, creating election related […]

Call Our Michigan Senators: Sen. Debbie Stabenow: 1-202-224-4822 Sen. Gary Peters: 1-202-224-6221 Tell Them — Stop War With Iran! Join International Day of Action Protests on Jan 25th Two Michigan Locations So far: Ann Arbor – noon in front of the federal building Traverse City – 1 p.m. Traverse City Open Space (Grandview Parkway & Union Street) Expect more locations. For more information, click HERE (provided courtesy of Code Pink) WE WON ONE: Round 2! The Michigan UU Social Justice Network (MUUSJN) joined many peace, justice and faith organizations, to urge the U.S. House of Representatives to adopt a War Powers Resolution to reign in #45’s ability to declare war on Iran. The House voted 224-194 on January 9th to adopt this Resolution. Now the Resolution (Senate […]

Call Your U.S. Representative 1-202-224-3121 (capitol switchboard) Tell your Representative to Vote for H.R. 3 “The Lower Drug Costs Now Act” THE PROBLEM Prescription drug companies charge Americans three, four or even 10 times what they charge people in other countries for the same drugs. These companies subject Americans to unjustified drug price hikes that are far above the rate of inflation. The soaring cost of insulin is an example of out of control prescription drug prices that are crying for a solution. More than 100 million people are diabetic or pre-diabetic. Diabetes is reportedly the highest cost disease in the U.S., more than $300 billion per year. Insulin was invented almost 100 years ago in 1922. Yet, between 2012 and 2016 insulin costs have […]

1-202-224-3121 (Capitol Switchboard) AND A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE ENERGY & COMMERCE COMMITTEE FROM MICHIGAN: Rep. Debbie Dingell (D); Rep. Fred Upton (R); and Rep. Tim Walberg (R) Tell him/her to support the Women’s Health Protection Act (HR 2975) Abortion rights must be protected: Congress must pass the WHPA Now! With an anti-choice majority on the Supreme Court, our reproductive rights are under a clear and direct threat. Passing the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) will protect abortion rights from many state restrictions and bans. The WHPA (HR 2975) introduced by Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) now has 213 co-sponsors. Your support can move the more friendly U.S. House to take action on this bill. This bill can pass the House. A sister bill in the […]

Call Your State Representative Click HERE to Find Your State RepresentativeTell him/her to support HB 5179 – The Michigan Reproductive Health Care Act On October 29th, Rep. Kristy Pagen unveiled the Reproductive Health Act (HB 5179) in the presence of Governor Gretchen Whitmer and other women’s right advocates. The bill, which has 48 other co-sponsors, was formally introduced on October 31st and was sent to the House Government Operations Committee. This week, MUUSJN’s Interfaith Reproductive Justice Coalition voted unanimously to support HB 5179. It protects all individual decision making in terms of reproductive health such as: ABORTION IS NOT CONTROVERSIAL AMONG VOTERS OR PEOPLE OF FAITH! The public may not realize that the majority (73%) of American voters do not want Roe v. Wade overturned. Two […]

TRUMP-PENCE GAG RULE BANS TITLE X FAMILY PLANNING FUNDS FOR HEALTH CENTERS THAT MAKE ABORTION REFERRALS CALL MICHIGAN SENATORS DEBBIE STABENOW: 202-224-4822 GARY PETERS: 202-224-6221 CALL TO ACTION This Monday August 19th, the Trump Administration, through its Department of Health and Human Services, issued an ultimatum: family planning providers must state in writing that they would stop making referrals to doctors who perform abortions or the federal government would stop allocating Title X family planning funds to those organizations. Title X is the premier reproductive health care program started by President H.W. Bush in 1970, It provides low or no cost services to 4 million people. Title X provides funding for health services, birth control, and pregnancy tests, as well as screenings for sexually transmitted […]

Support Amendment to Block War  Call Your U.S. Representative  Click HERE for Michigan Members of Congress BACKGROUND The United States and Iran are moving closer to war every day. The Trump administration is playing a dangerous game of rapidly escalating tensions between our two countries, increasing the risk of accidents and miscalculations.   Call your U.S. Representative to support a bi-partisan amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to prohibit funding for military action with Iran unless Congress has declared war or authorized military action. A VOTE COULD HAPPEN THIS WEEK. This amendment, being co-sponsored by Rep. Ro Khanna(D-CA) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla), a frequent Trump supporter, is being co-sponsored by Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI) and Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI).  “Last week we watched President Trump come within minutes of striking Iran  and involving the U.S. in yet another […]

Call Our Senators This Friday Gary Peters: 1-202-224-6221 Debbie Stabenow: 1-202-224-4822 Urge Them to Vote for S. 1039 to Block War With Iran  Background The U.S. Senate is expected to vote this Friday on S. 1039, a bill called the “Prevention of Unconstitutional War With Iran Act of 2019” (Sen. Tom Udall, (D-New Mexico). This bill, adopted earlier in June in the House, is meant to cut off funding for a war in Iran.  The U.S. Constitution declares that a U.S. President cannot declare war without Congressional approval. We’re on the brink of a needless, destructive and costly war with Iran. Besides withdrawing from a 2015 nuclear arms containment treaty, which Iran has been in compliance with, the Trump administration instituted sanctions to cripple the Iranian economy. The U.S. deployed battleships and a battery of Patriot missiles off Iran’s coast.  Iran responded by shooting down a U.S.drone. President Trump claimed he exercised […]

 Urge Our U.S. Senators to Be Champions To Promote YES Votes on the Equality Act (Both are Equality Act Co-sponsors)  Senator Debbie Stabenow: 1-202-224-4822 & Senator Gary Peters: 1-202-224-6221 BACKGROUND  On May 17th the U.S. House voted 236 – 173 to adopt the Equality Act. Eight Republicans joined all House Democrats in support HR 5, a comprehensive bill that would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people based on housing, employment, public accommodations, jury service, federal funding and education.  ADOPTION OF THIS BILL IS A HISTORIC MILESTONE! This was the first time this bill was reported out of committee after it was first introduced in 2015. Thanks to all who called their U.S. Representatives to support this legislation.  […]

Call Your U.S. Representative  Urge To Vote YES on the Equality Act Vote Expected this Friday Click HERE for List of Michigan U.S. Representatives (includes phone numbers & mailing addresses)  Click HERE to find YOUR U.S. Representative BACKGROUND  This year Rep. David Cecilline (D-Rhode Island) re-introduced The Equality Act (HR 5), a bill that would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Fair Housing Act to prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ people based on housing, employment, public accommodations, jury service, federal funding and education. This bill was recently adopted by the House Judiciary Committee on a 22-10 vote to advance it to the full House. All democrats voted for the bill; all republicans voted against it.  This bill has 240 co-sponsors, enough to get adopted in the House.  Senator Jeff Merkley has also introduced […]