Together, we can mobilize Black voters and combat suppression, ensuring voices in Black communities are heard and reflected at the polls
Black the Vote is a campaign and call to action, encouraging civic engagement, voter turnout, and uplift issues impacting Black communities. Black the Vote is led by One Love Global in partnership with the Movement for Black Lives and Black Lives Matter.
What's inside the legislation?
SECTION 1: Defund
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Repeals major programs and agencies that are currently funding state criminal-legal systems
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Enacts ways to shrink military spending
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Passes policy changes across policing, pretrial detention, bail, and indigent defense
SECTION 2: Invest
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Creates a community-led, government-funded public safety agency that will conduct research into non-carceral, non-punitive alternatives to policing
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Provides grants for new safety infrastructures, grounded in the work of community-based organizations and those most directly impacted
SECTION 3: Create Opportunity
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Structures a fund to allocate our tax dollars directly towards programs and efforts related to Education, Environmental, and Economic justice
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Enhances self-determination of BIPOC communities through strengthening voting rights and ending Emergency Management
SECTION 4: Call for Accountability
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Repairs harm through building mechanisms to hold public servants accountable, such as decertification mandates for offending police officers and entire police departments with patterns of misconduct
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Enhances self-determination of BIPOC communities through strengthening voting rights and ending Emergency Management