Friday Demo: Step Up US Governors!
STEP UP GOVERNORS – NOW OR NEVER
Demonstration in Santa Fe, Friday July 20, 10:00 am at
National Governors’ Conference
When: Friday July 20 10:00 am
Where: State Capitol, East Side
What: Rally at the State Capitol and March to the Santa Fe Convention Center at 11:00 AM
Speakers: Prominent speakers in environmental protection and human rights
We demand our Governors step up to protect our human and civil rights., our air, water, and environment, and the right to a decent life.
The federal government has abandoned the people. Governors must support state policies and laws that
• Provide affordable healthcare as a right for all
• Increase state funding for public education K – higher education
• Expand environmental protection and 100% renewable energy
• Ensure women’s access to reproductive health and right to choose
• Stop inhumane ICE enforcement, protect due process for immigrants and asylum
seekers, and keep families together
• Guarantee unions the right to organize and collect dues.
• Protect free speech rights to support Palestine through boycotts
• Protect voting rights and end gerrymandering
• Enforce stricter gun control laws, ban assault weapons and paraphernalia
• End mass incarceration and private prisons
• Protect indigenous lands and rights
• No interstate transfer of nuclear waste
Participating organizations: Indigenous Rights Center, New Mexico Women’s March 2018, New Mexico Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, Juntos: Our Air, Our Water, Our Revolution: New Mexico for Bernie Sanders, Somos Un Pueblo Unido, Frack Free New Mexico, 350 New Mexico, The Red Nation, Tewa Women United, New Energy Economy, SouthWest Organizing Project, The Indian Problem, @Black Lives Matter, Indivisible Santa Fe, Progressive Democrats of America Central NM, Jewish Voice for Peace ABQ, Friends of Sabeel Albuquerque, Santa Feans for Justice in Palestine, Chainbreaker Collective, Retake Our Democracy, Earth Care, Albuquerque Center for Peace & Justice, NastyWomenNM, Santa Fe NOW, Veterans For Peace – Joan Duffy Chapter – Santa Fe, NM