GOT I.D.? Now that the racist activist GOP SCOTUS majority have turned back time toward a new Jim Crow era, we need a new civil rights movement in response. Much as Get Out The Vote (GOTV) was used so successfully in 2012, it's time to Get Out The I.D. (GOT-ID, or #GotID) -- except in this case, year-round.
Much as the Freedom Riders rode the segregated buses and countless other civil rights activists helped get African Americans registered and voting in Jim Crow South in the years after the Brown vs. the Board of Education decision, and before the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), it's time to energize a new generation of civil rights activists of all stripes.
This campaign will both shut down one of the most wide-spread and virulent racist Republican voter suppression tactics, and act as a rallying point -- a mobilizing and educational effort for to put a stop to these and other atrocities against democracy, and help build a year-round activist network in the process.
FYI, this diary came out of StellaRay's outstanding and currently rec-listed diary,
Beware Texas Democrats. Wisconsin was there once too., and a discussion she, high uintas, I, and others had in it about how to get people motivated in places where the GOP is marching with hob-nailed jack boots all over democracy, women's and minority rights, and civilization in general. Below is a brief list of reasons this could work.
We need to mobilize Democrats around the country to contribute money, resources, and their time to get those would-be voters without state photo identification, in GOP-run states that enact such laws, to the appropriate locations to get the I.D.s. This is exactly the type of backlash that made possible the tremendous minority voter turnout in 2012 in response to the Republican voter suppression. Now we need to use that momentum, and the new VRA gutting SCOTUS gambit, to say fuck you to the Republican Party once and for all. Let's drive home the last nails in their coffins, folks!
No, this is not the only issue/problem, but its a big one, and rallying around it would have benefits well beyond the specific voter I.D. effort
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