Justice & Democracy Are On The Ballot
We asked California State Assembly and Senate candidates where they stand on the most vital civil rights and civil liberties issues facing Californians today.
Legislation
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Racial Justice Act for All (AB 256)
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40% of California counties have no clinics that provide abortions, according to the most recently available data. Black and Latinx people, and people living in poverty, face profound barriers to accessing abortion care.
📣Take action to tell your California lawmaker to support a reproductive justice agenda for all – beyond Roe. Link in bio or highlights.
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Right now, instead of creating permanent and supportive housing, @CAGovernor @GavinNewsom and a number of state legislators are steamrolling costly legislation that would establish a court system that would force people who are disabled and unhoused into treatment and institutionalization.
📣Take action to stop #SB1338 using the link in our bio.
The governor's so-called "CARE" court proposal will have the power to impose:
▪️forced hospitalization
▪️state conservatorship
▪️forced medication
▪️criminal penalties
…all while calling it “care.”
We oppose #SB1338 — a statewide sweep of unhoused people and a gross violation of human rights that targets Black, Brown and Indigenous communities.
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All families who lost their loved ones to police deserve unbiased medical investigations. California lawmakers must do more to stop law enforcement from abusing their powers.
Ten counties in California already have independent coroner or medical offices so sheriffs cannot interfere with autopsies and investigations.
By passing #AB1608, every county in California will be required to have independent coroner or medical offices.
Haven’t California politicians learned anything from #FreeBritney? Taking people’s rights away and forcing treatment should never be a solution.
📍Read the @NYTimes article in our highlights.
Take action to oppose Gov. @GavinNewsom's #CARECourt ( #SB1338) using the link in our bio.
Thank you, Gov. @GavinNewsom, for signing #SB357 into law. We all deserve to exist peacefully in public without fear of violent arrest.
This happened thanks to the advocacy of our bill author Sen. @Scott_Wiener + our coalition @APILegal @EQCA @positivewomensnetworkusa @SwopLA @st.jamesinfirmary @translatinacoalition & @decrimswca. This legislation is part of a broader movement to treat sex workers as worthy of California’s full dignity and respect.
#SexWorkIsWork
Haven’t California politicians learned anything from #FreeBritney? Taking people’s rights away and forcing treatment should never be a solution.
📍Read the @NYTimes article in our highlights.
Take action to oppose Gov. @GavinNewsom's #CARECourt (#SB1338) using the link in our bio.
On the last day of #PrideMonth, tell Gov. Newsom to sign #SB357 into law to protect Black and Brown trans communities who are targeted, profiled and arrested by police due to outdated loitering laws. Link to take action in our bio or highlights.
#CARECourt will criminalize the unhoused and replace existing mental health programs with a system of forced treatment. Tell your CA lawmakers and @CAgovernor 🚫NO CARE COURTS🚫 — Link in bio.
This keeps happening because California sheriffs are colluding with ICE to deport immigrants and refugees — after they already served their time. Read the full @guardian story in our highlights.
No one should face double punishment because of where they were born. Gov. @GavinNewsom, pardon Sal and support the #VISIONAct.
The VISION Act (AB 937) ensures immigrant & refugees who served their time are treated equally by our criminal legal system. 🚫It would clearly prohibit all state and local law enforcement agencies from transferring people in their custody to ICE.🚫
📣Take action using the link in our bio to call on your California state senators to pass this bill. #AB937 #EndICETransfers
Racist & sexist terms and names have no place in our communities or on our federal lands.
AB 2022 would require every state agency or local governing body in the state to identify and forbid the word sq*** from all official places throughout California, create a process in consultation with tribal leaders to rename these areas, establish a process for removing and renaming future racist names throughout California, and more.
The CARE court plan is a statewide sweep of unhoused people that will impose hospitalization, state conservatorship, forced medication, and criminal penalties — while calling it care.
Forcing people into treatment is not a solution to our housing crisis.
Assemblymembers
@AsmAguiarCurry
@AsmKevinMcCarty
@luzmrivas
@asmdrjoaquinarambula
@AsmCarrillo
❌Vote NO on #CARECourt❌
TODAY at 6pm: An urgent, virtual discussion on the governor's flawed proposal to address our affordable housing crisis.
Use the link in our bio to register and to learn more. #CARECourt #CareNOTCourt
We have a lot of work to do here in California to end this struggle. Far too many laws and systems in our state present obstacles to true bodily autonomy for the most marginalized.
To get to true reproductive justice beyond Roe in California, we need to advance bold policy, organize and build power, and shift harmful narratives away from those that stigmatize reproductive healthcare, abortion, and gender-affirming care.
Take action using the link in our bio.
#RoevWade #ReproductiveFreedom #ReproductiveRights #AbortionAccessforAll #ReproductiveJustice
We remain undeterred. We fight for Californians’ bodily autonomy and the right to have children, to not have children, and to parent the children we have with dignity and safety.
Roe v. Wade may be struck down but our vision for reproductive justice and liberation transcends Roe. Swipe through and take action using the link in our bio or highlights. ➡️
Other ways to advocate for reproductive justice:
📍Ensure that your schools are providing comprehensive sexual health education as required by California law including information about abortion and rights to access sexual and reproductive health care. See our Know Your Rights page at your ACLU affiliate.
📍Donate money and/or time to @access_rj, California’s only abortion fund providing practical support for people seeking care, or to an abortion fund in a state where abortion rights are endangered.
📍Learn more about reproductive justice advocacy, follow @BW4WLA, @Latinas4RJ, & @SisterSong_WOC to support their efforts and learn more about abortion rights, reproductive justice, and how barriers to accessing care disproportionately impacts low-income communities and the communities of Black Indigenous, and other people of color.
#RoeVWade #AbortionRights #ReproductiveFreedom #ReproductiveJustice #AbortionForAll
#CARECourt will only lead to the incarceration of the unhoused, poor, and people with mental health disabilities.
Taking people’s rights away and forcing treatment should never be a solution.
Assembly Health Committee, vote NO on #SB1338. @asmaguiarcurry @asmkevinmccarty @luzmrivas @asmdrjoaquinarambula @asmcarrillo
Tell @CAGovernor to stop funding our courts on the backs of low-income Californians.
It takes just 1-minute to tell the Governor it's time to #EndCivilAssessments, the $300 traffic court late fee that disproportionately targets Black and Brown Californians.
‼️Take action using Links in our highlights.
No matter what the U.S. Supreme Court decides, we remain committed to the fight to protect and advance a broad vision of reproductive justice that includes everyone. Access to abortion is just one piece of our larger fight to ensure that reproductive rights move beyond abortion access.
#ReproductiveJustice #ReproductiveFreedom #RoeVWade #ReproductiveRights #AbortionAccessForAll
#Juneteenth is a reminder that freedom in America is imperfect because of racism. For the indigenous First Nations, for Black people, and for immigrants throughout this country’s history, the justice of liberty and emancipation was delayed and denied. But Juneteenth is also a reminder that hope endures for a future where we can all be free.
The Racial Justice Act was a first-of-its-kind law in the state prohibiting the use of race, ethnicity, or national origin in sentencing and convictions. Join us as we make history again with the Racial Justice Act for All, and extend civil rights in the courtroom to ALL people impacted by racist convictions and sentencing with #AB256.
Justice delayed is justice denied.
Take action to urge your California lawmakers to pass this bill. Link in our bio! #RJA4ALL
To avoid being held accountable, sheriffs ruled Angelo Quinto’s death as “excited delirium” instead of the real cause of death. All families who lost their loved ones to police brutality deserve unbiased medical investigations.
Pass #AB1608 to make coroners offices independent from law enforcement in California.