SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2021 AT 1:45 PM CDT – 5 PM CDT
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Votercade! A Community Convoy to Honor John Lewis and Voters' Rights
Free · Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center
Join a "convoy" of vehicles in a votercade of people from Ashland, Bayfield, and Sawyer counties who want to highlight the need for fair and safe elections!
Join us for a photo opp at the start location in Ashland at 1:45 PM, or in Hayward at 3:30 PM (at Hwys 63 and 27 downtown), or LCO Community College at 3:50 PM!
Or, join us for the whole route (ending at LCO Community College at 3:50 PM) or hop in at any community along the way!
Our schedule of stops is:
2 PM: Leave Ashland, Visitors Center
2:30 PM: Grand View at the town hall
2:45 PM: Drummond at the library
3 PM: Cable at the Community Center
3:30 PM: Hayward, Hwy 63 & 27
4 PM: LCO Community College
The late Congressman John Lewis shed his blood crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge to fight for Black voters and Voters of Color to participate in America’s electoral process and the enactment of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Today voting rights are under attack in Wisconsin and nationally by state legislators who are introducing and passing laws to put up barriers to participate in elections.
Americans are coming together on May 8 to make their voices heard about making voting safe and open to all those eligible to vote.
Join us on May 8 to highlight the need to pass the For the People Act, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and D.C. Statehood, and to address the filibuster--one of the greatest obstacles to the passage of civil and voting rights.
For more information contact Anne Chartier at 715-682-9418, or Debra Swaden at 715-957-0066
Co-hosted by League of Women Voters of Ashland Bayfield Counties and UW Extension Ashland County's Community Development program.
