- Engage in Phone and Text Banking - Tonight
UU the Vote is asking UUs from around the country to join UUs and their partners in Michigan for a National Phone Bank on October 15 from 6:30-8:30 pm EST. This effort is focused on MI voters who are targeted for voter suppression. You can use any device: PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device. Register here!
- One More Easy Way to Get Out the Vote
Make a phone call to every adult niece, nephew, and grandchild you have across the United States and engage them in a conversation about voting. Have they registered? What’s their plan to vote? Do they know how to vote by absentee ballot? For those living in Michigan, see the this 2020 Voter Information Sheet for what they will need to know. For those living outside of Michigan, direct them to either https://www.campusvoteproject.org/state-student-voting-guides if they are a college/university student, or https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/plan-your-vote-state-by-state-guide-voting-by-mail-early-in-person-voting-election/index.html?cid=bc_npd_nn_ms_np-1_200816 if they are not, and help them make sense of the information. You can also share how your values help you make your decisions about your votes.
This Sunday, a special plate collection will be taken to supplement the minister’s discretionary fund. Our minister is often contacted by people in the community who might need gas money, money to pay an electric bill, a night in a hotel, etc., and he uses his discretionary fund to provide this. While we have a line item in our budget, it does not suffice for the needs like this in the community, especially in the time of the coronavirus. You can donate online to this fund at our website or checks can be sent to our treasurer made out to UUFCM with “Discretionary Fund” indicated in the memo line.
Find absentee ballot dropboxes in Isabella County. Make sure you deposit your ballot in the dropbox that matches where you are registered to vote.
The third film of our “Good Trouble” Film Series about the importance of voting rights is “John Lewis: Good Trouble” (~1 hour 36 minutes). It is available on Amazon Prime to rent. Watch the film sometime before Monday, October 19, then join us at 7:30pm on Monday for a facilitated discussion about the content of the film. The Zoom link to access the discussion is in the UUFCM calendar. We hope you will join us!
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