Today, UU FaithAction NJ joined with a powerful coalition of justice-seeking community organizations to hand-deliver The People’s Lame Duck Agenda to legislators across the state! We are urging our legislators to pass critical racial and social justice legislation to move our democracy forward.
Rev. Charles Loflin visited the office of Senator Nia H. Gill, along with Micauri Vargas of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and Eric Benson of New Jersey Policy Perspective. Nancy Griffeth, Board Trustee, also visited the offices of Senator Jon Bramnick, Assemblywoman Nancy Muñoz, and Assemblywoman Michelle Matsokoudis, along with Bill Griffeth and Rosella Clyde of the League of Women Voters of New Jersey.
All together, our coalition visited every state senator and assemblyperson’s office in New Jersey.
Our shared agenda includes expanding abortion access, protecting immigrants’ rights, building police accountability and transparency, and expanding protections for democracy. All together,
With the election over, it’s time for New Jersey lawmakers to get to work and build a more welcoming, equitable, accessible, and just state for all.
With deep gratitude to our partners in this work—ACLU of New Jersey, League of Women Voters of New Jersey, Wind of the Spirit NJ, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, New Jersey Policy Perspective, New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, New Jersey Working Families Party, Salvation and Social Justice, NJ Citizen Action, Make the Road NJ, and Garden State Equality.
Check out The People’s Lame Duck Agenda: Shared List of Priority Bills for a complete list of bill numbers and brief descriptions.
And find your state representatives using our NJ Legislator Lookup tool.
I visited the District 21 Offices of Jon Bramnick, Nancy Muñoz, and Michelle Matsokoudis with Rosella Clyde of LWV and my husband Bill. It was fun and interesting. Very tight security at Matsokoudis’ office, explained by an incident at Keans Westfield office. Could that have been a sit-in by faith-based leaders (one near and dear to us!)