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DESCRIPTION:SACRAMENTO: March On for Voting Rights\n\nOn Saturday, August 28th, voting 
 rights activists will be marching on Washington D.C. \nand in cities across 
 the nation.  Join us in Sacramento to protest voter suppression and defend 
 democracy.\n\nSacramento info & register: 
 https://actionnetwork.org/events/march-on-for-voting-rights-california\n\nNational 
 website: https://marchonforvotingrights.org/\n\n\nVoting Rights Are Under 
 Attack\n\nSince January, 48 states have introduced 389 bills that amount to 
 shameful, outright voter suppression, and many have already become law. 
 These laws suppress voting methods that enrich our democracy and lead to 
 high turnout: banning ballot drop boxes and mail-in voting, reducing early 
 voting days and hours, restricting who can get a mail-in ballot, 
 prohibiting officials from promoting the use of of mail-in ballots even 
 when voters qualify, even criminalizing the distribution of water to voters 
 waiting in the long lines these laws create.\n\nRacist, anti-democratic 
 voter suppression laws amount to rigging the game. But in America, 
 elections are not a game—and lives depend on their outcomes.\n\nThat’s 
 why, on August 28, 2021, we’re marching on Washington D.C., as well as 
 Sacramento, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, Phoenix and other cities across 
 America.\n\n\nThe Legacy of MLK Jr. Continues\n\nOn August 28, 1963, Dr. 
 Martin Luther King led 250,000 people on a historic \nMarch On Washington. 
 There, in front of the Lincoln Memorial, he delivered his famous \n“I 
 Have a Dream” speech, calling on the nation to rise up and live out the 
 true meaning \nof its creed. At the time, Black Americans were living under 
 the tyranny of laws—\ncalled “Jim Crow” laws— that legalized racial 
 discrimination. His speech that day has become one of the defining moments 
 in American history.\n\nToday, state legislatures are pushing America back 
 to the Jim Crow era with laws that reinstate systemic discrimination at the 
 ballot box. That is why, on August 28, 2021—58 years to the day after his 
 father’s march—Martin Luther King III will help to lead Americans on 
 another march to demand federal voting rights protection.\n\nMarching is a 
 form of nonviolent protest, and protest is a form of democratic expression 
 \nolder than America itself. We march to shine the light of truth on what 
 is happening in state legislatures, ensure that Americans understand 
 what’s at stake, and give people a mechanism to demand action on this 
 most urgent issue of our generation.\n\n\nORGANIZATIONS\n\nMarch On\nDrum 
 Major Institute\nFuture Coalition\nSEIU\nNational Action Network\nPublic 
 Citizen\nDeclaration for American Democracy\nAsian and Pacific Islander 
 American Vote\nCAIR Arizona\nNational Organization for Women\nChicanco Por 
 La Causa\nFix Democracy First\nLeague of Women Voters\nIndivisible\nLeague 
 of Conservation Voters\nLeadership Conference on Civil and Human 
 Rights\nPeaches to the Polls\nStand Up America\nUnion for Reform 
 Judaism\nVoto Latino\nVote.org\nand more\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/07/31/18844082.php
SUMMARY:Sacramento: March On for Voting Rights
LOCATION:California State Capitol, 1315 10th Street Sacramento, Sacramento, CA 
 95814\n\nWear a mask.  Please follow all current COVID safety guidelines: 
 https://covid19.ca.gov/ 
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