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Marching to Selma's 50th: One Voter At A Time
Today's annual commemoration of the Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma marks the beginning of a new campaign to fully restore the 1965 Voting Rights Act, before its 50th anniversary next year.
The Annual Bridge Crossing Jubilee commemorating Bloody Sunday and the Selma-to-Montgomery marches in 1965 kicks off a yearlong voter registration campaign to restore the 1965 Voting Rights Act. It was signed into law as a direct result of the civil rights actions in Selma and surrounding counties nearly 50 years ago.
After today's annual pilgrimage across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, tomorrow marks the beginning of the Marching to the 50th: 50 Cities/ 50 Cars/ 50 Voters At A Time campaign to REGISTER ONE MILLION NEW VOTERS by the 50th Anniversary of the Selma Movement in March 2015.
The campaign is the work of Saving OurSelves (S.O.S.) Movement for Justice and Democracy, a regional association of 40 organizations and activists across the South who are fighting for voting rights of all citizens. The movement came in response to last year's devestating U.S. Supreme Court ruling that gutted Section 4, a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
The campaign kicks off tomorrow (Monday, March 10) with “The Caravan for Democracy: From the State Capitols to the Nation’s Capitol” at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The caravan's Freedom Riders for Voting Rights will make stops for rallies at capital cities en route to Washington, D.C., where they will demand that Congress fully restore the Voting Rights Act. (Download the full schedule HERE). The D.C. rally marks the beginning of voter registration to reach the ONE MILLION NEW VOTERS goal.
S.O.S. is sending out the call for those committed to social justice and true democracy.
Join the Movement! Text 'selmajubilee' to 72727 to stay connected and be in the loop about the Golden Anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" and the Selma Movement in 2015.
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