Call to Action courtesy of Desert Progressives

Please Join Us Monday, Sept 4, at 7 pm
Shadow Rock Church,12861 N 8th Avenue, Phoenix
For a CASE Meeting on: How to Change Our Nation’s Immigration Policy and Change the Direction of this Country

We expect that like us, you have a bundle of mixed emotions about the outcome of Tuesday’s protest outside the convention center: everything from a great sense of solidarity and pride in the people of our city for standing up to the hate fostered by our president – to perhaps also a lot of anger and outrage about how the night ended. We await the result of investigations.

However, we are feeling even more sad, angry, and appalled at the deportation of our friend Ismael. So, yes, we want to work for peaceful dialogue – and YES, we also need to take action!  Mickey and I want to channel our energy into doing something constructive to change this horrible immigration system.

We recently found a powerful group to work with, and we really hope you’ll join us because it’s going to take all of us to make this change happen.  There’s a group called CASE (Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy) and before the last election, they organized hundreds of young people who went out and registered over 40,000 new voters to push Arpaio out of office.

In preparation for the next election, as CASE has been surveying infrequent voters, one of their big finds is that there’s a huge number of infrequent white voters, (not just minority voters) who name immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship as their top issue. They intend to mobilize these people AND register 200,00 more like-minded Arizona voters before the 2018 election, get them to the polls, and elect people who will fix this terrible immigration system. We can sit by and be sad and appalled, or we can stand up and do something – and begin doing it NOW.

We believe that CASE knows how to do this, and we believe that by joining with them and others, we can help provide the will and determination to change the course of this country as well as our horrible, broken immigration system.

Mickey and I have asked two powerful young women from CASE, Murphy Bannerman, and Rep Athena Salman, to come speak to us about how we can do this together.
It’s so important.
RSVP:  desertprogressives@gmail.com
Please join us on Monday, Sept 4 (Labor Day) at 7 pm to hear from them.
(Murphy and Athena will also be sharing information about another meeting on Saturday, Sept 9 (I think from 10 am-5 pm) to gather a huge group from many areas to get inspired, trained, and then go out canvassing together that day.  So, you might want to pencil that onto your calendar, too. Stay tuned for location info.)

Judy & Mickey
If you have questions, please call:                      
  602) 769-5149                   (602) 318-5236
Judy Schwiebert       or      Mickey Tucker