Don’t forget to VOTE for City Council at-large. You can still vote early today and tomorrow (Sunday). Election is Tuesday 12/7. Turn-out will be low, so your vote will count MORE!! Early voting 10 am to 6 pm on Saturday and Sunday at any of the early voting sites listed at this link: https://www.duvalelections.com/General-Information/Learn-About-Elections/About-Early-Voting#early On …
Susan
Susan joined the First Coast Freethought Society in 2008 after hearing about the organization on NPR. Susan has coordinated the FCFS book group since 2016. She retired in 2018 after working as a CPA for 42 years! Now, she is a member of the Advocacy Overview Committee for FCFS.
2022-HB 51
Please ask your state representative to co-sponsor HB 51. This is the gist of HB 51: Each school district, charter school, and private school that received voucher money must include in their school curriculum instruction required under f.s. 1003.42(2)(g) and (h), relating to the history of the Holocaust and the history of African Americans. https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/51/ Some people …
Accurate Election Results
We need people to feel secure that the election results are accurate. The House already passed similar legislation. Please call or write your Senators about this important legislation.Excerpt from article:**The bill requires states to replace old, paperless electronic voting machines with voting systems that provide voter-verified paper records and provides grants for states to purchase …
Do No Harm Act
Do No Harm Act will correct the problems created by the RFRA Please check out Americans United for Separation of Church and State press release about the Do No Harm Act:https://www.au.org/media/press-releases/Senate-Booker-Do-No-Harm-Act There is an action alert at the link below. They make it easy to write and ask your U.S. Representative and Senators to co-sponsor …
What do you think of SJR 192?
I’d love to hear a debate as to why changing the commissioner to elected rather than changing the state board members to elected is the better option.
Roe v. Wade was not the beginning of women having abortions
Roe v. Wade was not the beginning of women having abortions, it was the end of women dying from abortions. When Roe v. Wade was upheld by the USSC in 1973, the GOP and many others applauded the ruling. But the Christian Nationalists decided that abortion would be a good public policy issue from which …
Please consider writing the head of the Florida Health Department
Please consider writing the Governor appointed head of the Florida Department of Health and asking him to change rule 64DER21-12 to allow elected school boards to pick the safest option for the neighborhood schools which is a mask mandate with no opt out provisions. The state Board of Education is using that rule to bully …
Elected school boards should be allowed to have mask mandates without opt out provisions
For more information about the Duval County elected school board’s mask mandate with an opt out provision: https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/education/2021/08/03/jacksonville-area-schools-require-masks-opt-out-clause/5477059001/ Masks work best if the person with covid-19 is wearing the mask because a mask decreases the number of droplets (carrying the virus) that spread from the nose and mouth out into the environment. The way I …
Write the elected school board about mask mandates
Please base your decisions on currently available scientific evidence and not divisive political rhetoric.
Stop Voter Suppression
The US Senate is voting on the For the People Act (S. 1), a sweeping bill aimed at shoring up voting rights, reforming campaign finance, and heightening ethical standards. We need to pass this bill before August recess. Even if you’ve called previously, please call again. Possible SCRIPT: Hi, I’m a Florida citizen calling from …