NCJW Advocacy Wrap-Up:

Friday, August 16, 2024

In this issue...

Run for Their Lives: Sunday Belmont Shore

Last Postcard Party of the Summer

Virtual Letter Writing Party

Planned Parenthood In-Person

NCJW at the Long Beach Women’s Fair

Join ADL California in Advocating Against Antisemitism 

Run for Their Lives:

Run/walk event calling for the immediate release of the hostages held by Hamas 

Every Sunday, 10 am, Belmont Shore

Please join Long Beach/Orange County's weekly 18-minute walk/run to bring attention to the hostages and bring them home now. Many walk/runs take place weekly all over the world as nonpolitical and not promoting any ideology – the message is just to release the hostages and bring them home.  

The walk/run will be this Sunday, August 18, at 10 am at the start of the beach walk path at Alamitos Bay in Belmont Shore (where Bayshore meets Ocean). Please wear a red shirt. If you have a hostage poster, please bring it. Also, if you have flags from any of the countries that hostages are from, please bring them. 

Invite friends and family. This is a humanitarian issue so everyone is invited. One does not need to be Jewish. 

For more information, contact member Dr. Mark Dressner at cesto@aol.com.



Join our Postcard Party or Write at Home

Wednesday, August 21, 7 pm

A Home in Long Beach

Postcard writing is off to a great start! Folks are writing at home and at our gatherings. 

On July 30, four of us gathered and completed more than 60 postcards and on August 11, another 9 of us met and completed 90 postcards! 

Our last gathering of the summer is Wednesday, August 21, 7 to 9 pm at a home near Cal State Long Beach.

We are writing to Virginia! Virginia starts early voting on September 20th! We’re also writing to Georgia and Florida.

The closer the election gets, the more important our work becomes.  Please join us!

REGISTER HERE

Questions, contact Deb Lelchuk at advocacy@ncjwlongbeach.org.



Virtual Letter Writing Party

Wednesday, August 29, 5–6 pm

Zoom

On Wednesday, August 29, Vote Forward is hosting a virtual letter writing party to celebrate the joy of letter writing! Join them to write a few letters and hear from fellow volunteers about how letter writing brings them joy, and how they bring joy to their letters to voters.

Hope you’ll join Vote Forward on Zoom to write letters with your fellow volunteers!

Unveil Your Voting Power

With Planned Parenthood

Saturday August 24, 10 am to 1 pm in person

Abortion access is under attack, even in California. Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, access to abortion nationwide - yes, even in California - hangs in the balance.

The road to reproductive freedom nationwide runs through us: California voters. California voters matter. YOUR vote matters. It will take all of us to protect reproductive freedom.

Join Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties for #InMyVotingEra: Unveiling Your Voting Power to learn the skills you need to turn out your community for abortion access this election cycle.

Anaheim: Saturday, August 24th | 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

*Address provided via email following RSVP

Join NCJW at the

 Long Beach Women’s Fair

Monday, August 26

The Long Beach Women's Fair 2024, sponsored by Long Beach Suffrage 100, The Feminist Uprising and Zoe Nicholson, is celebrating National Women's Equality Day. It is a commemoration of Congress signing the 19th Amendment.

There will be 30 information tables with services and activities specifically for women and girls, as well as music, entertainment, and refreshments. Everything is FREE.

NCJW is staffing a table; please consider volunteering! Write to advocacy@ncjwlongbeach.org to sign up and help us make this a successful event!

In the evening, the film Still Working 9 to 5 will be shown at the Art Theatre Long Beach.The first Fierce Women of Long Beach Awards will also be given out. If you want to print out some tickets (see below) and give them to your friends, feel free!

Support Jewish Community Priority 

Bills Against Antisemitism

Last week, ADL staff and volunteer leaders traveled up and down the Golden Coast to Sacramento in the fight against antisemitism on campus and ensure that biased curriculum does not make its way into California schools. In coalition with JPAC and 80 other Jewish communal advocates, ADL was there to ensure that your concerns are heard and to show that we’re doing all we can to fight back against the rise of antisemitism and extremism. 

In this moment, your voice is needed to ensure that our elected officials take action in this critical moment. Three bills in the Senate Appropriations Committee (AB 1979, AB 2918 and AB 2925) and three bills in the Assembly Appropriations Committee (SB 1287, SB 1277 and SB 85) are facing key votes this week! 

Will you take 30 seconds to contact the Senate and Assembly Appropriation Committees to support key pieces of legislation? 

The Advocacy Committee of NCJW GLB & WOC meets the fourth Tuesday of the month at 5 pm, currently on Zoom. 

Want to check us out or have questions?

Email advocacy@ncjwlongbeach.org

Questions about anything you have read or related to our Section’s advocacy? Email advocacy@ncjwlongbeach.org.