Expansion of Voting Rights
Press Conference: 9:30AM on the steps of City Hall
Hearings: 10:00AM - 1:00PM at 250 Broadway (across from City Hall), 14th Floor Hearings Room
(1/2/3/9/A/C/J/M/Z to Chambers Street, N/R to City Hall, or 4/5/6 to Brooklyn Bridge)
No taxation without representation.
Participation = Power
[a rally held by The New York Coalition to Expand Voting Rights on the steps of New York City's main Post Office May 15. Ruben Tavarez: "Your vote is your voice."] (No photo credit available) There are more than 1.3 million New Yorkers of voting age who can’t participate in our local democracy… With one in five New Yorkers ineligible to vote because they are not citizens, civic participation in the city is not what it could be.
Support the expansion of voting rights to tax-paying non-citizen immigrants!
These city residents are subject to all the laws that citizens must observe. They contribute in countless ways to the economic vitality and social and cultural life of this city that serves as the unofficial capital of the world. According to the Urban Institute, immigrants pay $18.2 billion in taxes, or 15.5% of the state's tax income.
[Ron Hayduk of BMCC-CUNY & Cheryl Wertz of NICE] (No photo credit available)
Nevertheless, because of their citizenship status, these new New Yorkers are not allowed to participate in choosing the municipal representatives who make the policies that affect their lives daily. Excluding such a significant portion of the city's population from political participation undermines the health of our democracy and discourages incipient U.S. citizens from taking a stake in the issues that affect their communities.
Join the New York Coalition to Expand Voting Rights - a coalition of 57 member organizations representing hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers - for a Press Conference and City Council Hearings on the Voting Rights Restoration Act (Intro. 628)
For more information, contact Cheryl (718) 205-8796
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