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Florida Rising Weekly Newsletter |
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Join us this Super Saturday! |
Florida for All will be launching our monthly Super Saturdays this weekend across 10 counties! Organizers and volunteers will be canvassing across their neighborhoods, engaging voters on how we build local power for a brighter Florida for All.
Florida For All is powered by people like you and me, not wealthy donors and the bought off politicians who put their personal ambitions ahead of what’s best for us. Our priorities are addressing Florida’s housing crisis and rising cost of living, protecting workers’ rights while demanding good wages, providing access to quality health care and guaranteeing reproductive freedom, supporting quality public education, affordable childcare, and food access, and so much more. We ask that you share this within your organization’s base for a powerful Canvass launch! Join us in a county near you to GOTV and build community power with us. Alachua
Duval Leon Seminole
Orange Hillsborough Pinellas
Palm Beach Broward Miami-Dade |
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| Facilitation Workshop in Spanish Osceola County |
Saturday, July 16, 2022 11:00am - 3:00pm Florida Rising Osceola Office 1362 E Vine St, Kissimmee, FL 34744 Join our workshop led by Spanish-speaking facilitators to learn how to get involved in building a Path to Power. Click here to sign up. |
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| Facilitation Workshop in Spanish Broward County |
Saturday, July 23, 2022 11:00am - 3:00pm Florida Rising Broward Office 1142 W Sunrise Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311 Join our workshop led by Spanish-speaking facilitators to learn how to get involved in building a Path to Power. Click here to sign up. |
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| | Orange County Commission - Let the People Vote for Rent Stabilization |
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 8:00am - 1:00pm
Orange County Commision
201 S. Rosalind Avenue, Orlando, FL 32802
Florida Rising members, partners, and the broader Orange County community will rise up at the Orange County Commission meeting to show our resounding support for the proposal to let voters decide on whether the community is in dire need of a 1-year rent stabilization measure to stop the rising rent state of emergency. Click here to sign up. |
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July's People's Assemblies
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| Imagine, Resist & Lead Fellowship |
Imagine, Resist & Lead Fellowship (IRL) is a 16-week program for Black, Indigenous and Latina/o/x youth from 18 to 25 years old. The initiative will guide fellows through the importance of organizing, civic engagement, history and citizenship. Our IRL fellows will be trained about the theory and practice of organizing and power building. Fellows will also be working closely with a Florida Rising Mentor. We require that fellows invest 4-5 hours a week from August 6th through November 19th 2022. Each fellow will receive $1,500 upon graduation. Our Fellowship is hybrid: We will meet online and in person. Click here to apply!
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Change is better when you're a part of making it happen. Learn how to organize alongside friends, neighbors, and others across the state and guide the future of Florida Rising. Organizing with Black and Brown communities to win political power is at the heart of what we do, and our members own our collective work. The challenges to a just and equitable state may seem impossible to solve, and it's hard to know where to begin. But there's a way forward — and it starts by uniting on the ground and in our communities. It starts with the people closest to the problems themselves. It starts with you. Click here to become a member today! Anyone can join by contributing membership dues of $25 a year or more based on each individual's ability to pay. |
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Did you catch last week’s episode of Every Block Rising? 👀
Make sure to tune in for a new episode of #EveryBlockRising every Friday and check out last week’s episode: "Siempre Dale Con Ganas." Available at every-block-rising.simplecast.com and in Apple Podcasts!
The podcast is a space for our members to share their stories of struggle, hope, dreams, and life. All of this in hopes of building a Florida where we can all live with dignity, joy and freedom! |
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The last two decades of Alethia Jones' life are a clear depiction of how Florida’s mass incarceration system fais the residents of Florida.
While on her way to recovery, Alethia made a mistake that cost her entire life. Instead of investments in communities that prevent crime and make reentry after incarceration possible, Florida’s three strikes rule has robbed families of their support systems and shown the heartless nature of the system that we are living in. It’s time to right at least one of the 1XX wrongs of people serving life in the FL justice system for drug offenses and Free Alethia Jones. Go to FreeAlethiaJones.com to sign her petition for clemency and learn more.
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Voting rights groups will ask judge to toss City Council districts
Voting rights groups told a federal judge they will ask the court to overturn the Jacksonville City Council redistricting plans before the 2023 elections. The Jacksonville Branch of the NAACP, the Northside Coalition, the ACLU of Florida Northeast Chapter and Florida Rising, along with 10 Jacksonville voters, first filed suit in early May, asking the court to strike down seven of the city’s 14 council districts and three of Duval County’s seven School Board seats. Read more here
WTOP2-DC
This is a 30-minute radio interview with Andrea Mercado, Executive Director of Florida Rising. She talked about the impact of the 15-week abortion ban in Florida. It’s an influential radio station in Washington D.C, and the host of the news show is Michael Williams. Listen more here WTOP2-DC Second part of the 30-minute interview with Andrea Mercado about the 15-week abortion ban in Florida. Listen more here |
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