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Day TWO of #19thRepresents is underway with Stacey Abrams! Next up today: Meryl Streep, Zoe Saldana, BLM's Alicia Garza, Voto Latino's María Teresa Kumar, John Hopkins' Martha Jones & NYT's Nikole Hannah-Jones!https://www.crowdcast.io/e/19th-represents-day2 …
"What we're watching in 2020 is the pinnacle" of voter suppression efforts Abrams say to kick off the second day of #19thRepresents summit programming.
"We have not run out of time," Abrams says. "We have time, if Congress will take action" on the HEROES Act. "We'll have voting that works well."
"They're not going to do what should be done and restore the Voting Rights Act to full force," Abrams says of congressional Republicans after the death of Rep John Lewis as we head into 2020 elections. #19thRepresents
"In 42 states you can vote by mail," Abrams says. "You can also vote early." Pre-pandemic there was VBM in 34 states, she notes. #19thRepresents
"Vote by mail" will not work for those facing evictions and are in unstable housing situations, Abrams says, recommending: 1) vote by mail or 2) vote early during #19thRepresents
Call your Secretary of State and "demand drop boxes," Abrams says during #19thRepresents
Abrams decries "malfeasant application" of voting laws in Georgia and other states. "We have good laws," she tells the #19thRepresents
"I believe it would be a good idea" to have a woman of color as VP pick, Abrams says, adding most importantly Biden will pick the "best partner for him." "I trust him." "Optimally it will be a woman of color but I do not begrudge any choice that he makes." #19thRepresents
Hearing Meryl Streep talk about my job before launching into suffragette readings is beyond. #19thRepresentshttps://www.crowdcast.io/e/19th-represents-day2 …
"They knock at the doors of Justice and ask for an equal chance," Zoe Saldana reading Mary Church Terrell at #19thRepresents
"It is not only votes for women but the entire question of Democracy that's at stake," Meryl Streep reading Gertrude Foster Brown at #19thRepresents
"Do you want a government for the people, by the people and for the people? And aren't women people?" Streep reading Foster Brown #19thRepresents "Women should have the vote because it is unjust, shameful and just cowardly of men."
"This dream, this idea, this aspiration, this is what American Democracy means to me," Zoe Saldana reading Mary Mcleod Bethune for #19thRepresents
Nikole Hannah Jones kicks off a #19thRepresents panel on suffrage as unfinished business by reminding us that race and racism have been the “Achilles heel of the women’s movement.”pic.twitter.com/Zx1meaO9Xr
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