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! Include you name, your title, your organization, the date and the bill (S.281) on your statement or testimony.   You can send them here:<span> </span><a href="mailto:vermont-senate-government-operations@googlegroups.com" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">vermont-senate-government-operations@googlegroups.com</a>.  Here are some other things that you can do to support the bill:</p><ol><li>SHOW UP on Friday! and bring your #racialjusticereformvt placard</li><li>Please pass this<span> </span><strong>call to action<span> </span></strong>to EVERYONE on your mailing list.</li><li>Please<span> </span><strong>call the Statehouse and leave a message</strong><span> </span>for Senators, White, Clarkson, Ayer, Pearson, Balint and Ashe with S.281 in the subject line, asking that that the bill be “voted out of Senate Government Operations”</li><li>Please<span> </span><strong>send an email to this address</strong><span> </span><a href="mailto:vermont-senate-government-operations@googlegroups.com" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">vermont-senate-government-operations@googlegroups.com</a><span> </span>requesting the bill be “voted out of Senate Government Operations”</li></ol>Here is the<span> </span><a href="https://racialjusticereformomnibusbillvt.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/general-328296-v1-18-0447__ingram__systemic_racism_board-rjrc-revision-12112017-docx.odt" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">proposed amendment</a><span> </span>language that the coalition and bill sponsor are putting forward.  Here is some systemic<span> </span><a href="https://racialjusticereformomnibusbillvt.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/racial-justice-reform-coalition-research-01302018.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">r</a><a href="https://racialjusticereformomnibusbillvt.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/racial-justice-reform-coalition-research-01302018.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">acism research</a> and a <a href="https://racialjusticereformomnibusbillvt.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/s281-equity-commission-questions-and-answers-qa.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline">Q&A </a>to verse you in the bill background and details. <p>Please print this placard and bring it with you on the day of testimony</p><p><a href="http://justiceforallvt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/RJR.jpg" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"><img alt="" height="109" src="https://i0.wp.com/justiceforallvt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/RJR-300x300.jpg" width="109" style="border: none; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; height: auto; line-height: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; display: inline; margin-bottom: 10px;"></a></p><p><strong>Vermont Poor People's Campaign:  A National Call For Moral Revival</strong><br><br><img height="300" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/1f000d0728d8306dd6b1f2d1c/images/342324a3-b201-4751-a5b3-416b9e12064a.jpg" width="300" style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; height: 300px; line-height: 14px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize; display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 10px; width: 300px;"><br>Join the Vermont Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival on February 5th at 12:00pm for our Unity News Conference. Vermont will join with over 25 states around the country and Washington DC to announce our participation in 40 days of moral action to launch the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival this Spring.<br><br>Date: February 5th<br>Time: 12:00pm<br>Room: Cedar Creek Room<br>Address: Vermont Statehouse<br><br>On February 5th, we will stand united with folks across the country at state capitols and in Washington, DC highlighting the human impact of policies which promote systemic racism, poverty, the war economy and environmental devastation.<br><br>Fifty years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King called for a Poor People’s Campaign to begin a “revolution of values” in America. We are reigniting these efforts to unite the poor, disenfranchised, and marginalized to transform our nation’s political, economic and moral structures of our society.<br><br>Join us February 5th! <br>Directly after the press conference we will all convene in Room 11 for a community meeting and discussion !<br><br>For more information, contact <a href="mailto:vermont@poorpeoplescampaign.org">vermont@poorpeoplescampaign.org</a><br><br>Here is the facebook event: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1794678264169827/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(51,102,153);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline"> https://www.facebook.com/events/1794678264169827/</a></p><p>#RacialJusticeReformVT</p></div></td></tr></tbo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