Citizen Rights

Citizen Rights

Democratic government depends upon informed and active participation at all levels of government. Governmental bodies must protect the citizen’s right to know by giving adequate notice of proposed actions, holding open meetings, and making public records accessible.

Virginians for Reproductive Freedom
Event Date: 
04/03/2025 - 6:30pm
Event location: 

Zoom

Join Virginians for Reproductive Freedom Power Hour: the first of many monthly webinars where VRF will share reproductive updates, explore important topics with key speakers, and offer mini trainings to help you enhance your organizing skills.

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Action Alerts

The current "What You Can Do" (WYCD) action encourages all voters to call their Florida legislators to express opposition to Florida bills SB 420 and HB 1571, another attempt at preemption.

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Action Alerts

The current "What You Can Do" (WYCD) action is related to some legislators downplaying the high-level security text chain on Signal to describe details of a US military attack on Houthi targets. Louisianna Senator John Kennedy said “I don’t think most Americans care one way or another.” Call your legislators and tell them you care that our military and security leadership has bungled sensitive military communications.

Warm Hearth Village Center
Event Date: 
05/06/2025 - 5:30pm
Event location: 

Warm Hearth Village Center

Photos & Report from the 2025 Annual Dinner

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Action Alerts

SPB 7016 by the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee and HB 1205 by Representative Jenna Persons-Mulicka are the bills that are moving through committees focused on restricting the citizen-led amendment process at this point in the legislative session. These approaches are very different but both represent dire threats to the citizen-led amendment process in Florida. Please take 60 seconds to urge your state legislators to oppose attacks on the citizen-led amendment process.

NAACP March 2025 Meeting featuring Carolyn Rude
Event Date: 
03/23/2025 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Event location: 

Old Hill School

 

The NAACP Montgomery Co. - Radford City - Floyd Co. Branch welcomes our very own Carolyn Rude as their credo speaker this month!

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Blog Post

Hello, Democracy supporters!

I hope that each of you has received the "What You Can Do" email messages. They are created by a League team with the intent of giving League members and the broad community simple actions we can take EVERY DAY to object to the anti-democratic and questionably legal activities going on in our national government. Share them with your networks. If anybody would like to be added to the email list, send their name and email address to...

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Action Alerts

The current "What You Can Do" (WYCD) action encourages all U.S. citizens to file formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.

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Action Alerts

The current "What You Can Do" (WYCD) action is related to weekly demonstrations at the Gainesville Tesla dealership, 2501 N. Main Street from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every Saturday until further notice.

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Action Alerts

The current "What You Can Do" (WYCD) action is related to various topics on the economy, including, but not limited to, the budget, tariffs, social safety nets, NOAA, the stock market and more. Read about the topics and call your legislators with questions, based on the ones provided or your own personal experience. Call every day. Keep the phones jammed and voice message boxes full!

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