Dear Friends,

Thank you all so much for your support on Tuesday night. Hundreds of New Yorkers came out to Union Square for powerful music, testimony, and performances, and then proceeded to march (over 25 blocks) to Governor Cuomo's NYC office. An even greater number of you all were able to support us digitally—close to 400 of you have used the automated email tool created by NYIC and an even more still have been active supporting this work on social media. Thanks so much to everyone who was able to contact their legislators and demand they pass all 5 bills that address the racist violence of police, jails, courts, and prisons. Again, thank you so much for joining us on the #RoadToJustice, but we are (still) not done!

Next week, the New York State legislature votes on bills. In advance of these votes, we need to let the two most powerful legislators—the Majority Leader and Speaker—know that they MUST pass these five bills!

ACTION ITEM: Call Senate Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins at 518-455-2585 (Albany) or 914-423-4031 (District) AND Speaker Heastie at 518-455-3791 (Albany) or 718-654-6539 (District).  If you don’t talk to a staff member, be sure to leave a voicemail. 

Use the image attached here as a call-in script, then be sure to share it with your networks, whether that be on social media or otherwise!