{"id":12544,"date":"2022-04-13T21:14:56","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T01:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/?p=12544"},"modified":"2022-04-22T14:37:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T18:37:01","slug":"uniting-for-voting-rights-letter-to-the-editor-ny-times-1-27-22-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/2022\/04\/13\/uniting-for-voting-rights-letter-to-the-editor-ny-times-1-27-22-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniting for Voting Rights (Letter to the Editor, NY Times, 1\/27\/22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"mc-toc-title\">Uniting for Voting Rights (Letter to the Editor, NY Times, 1\/27\/22)<\/h1>\n<p><strong>By NJFAN CHAIR, TRUDY GOLDBERG<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcusercontent.com\/90107efdf8a83009f7945ac63\/images\/6465bb28-7da9-318f-9593-2480ba2bcf7d.jpg?resize=450%2C299&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"275\" height=\"182\" data-cke-saved-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcusercontent.com\/90107efdf8a83009f7945ac63\/images\/6465bb28-7da9-318f-9593-2480ba2bcf7d.jpg?resize=450%2C299&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Re \u201c<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/16\/opinion\/biden-voting-rights.html\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/16\/opinion\/biden-voting-rights.html\">How Did Democrats Let This Happen?<\/a>,\u201d by Bishop Reginald T. Jackson (Opinion guest essay, Jan. 17):<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Reginald T. Jackson calls out Democrats and especially President Biden for failure to lead the fight to protect voting rights. Presidential leadership is critical, but so is a strong movement to back it up.<\/p>\n<p>One source of widespread support for a save democracy movement is the numerous organizations promoting economic, social, racial and gender justice that often pursue their goals separately.<\/p>\n<p>Justice advocates have good reason \u2014 in addition to the obvious one of saving government for and by the people \u2014 to throw their full weight behind protection of voting rights.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"companion column\">The current assault on democracy targets the voting rights of the very groups who are likely to vote for and stand to gain most from progressive legislation like access to affordable health care and child care, decent housing, a guarantee of living-wage work and workplace rights.<\/aside>\n<p>That is why those engaged in the struggle for economic and social justice must make preservation of democracy and voting rights integral to their goals and struggles. Let us put aside the siloing that often characterizes our work and unite to preserve democracy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg<br \/>\nNew Canaan, Conn.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The writer is chair of the National Jobs for All Network.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uniting for Voting Rights (Letter to the Editor, NY Times, 1\/27\/22) By NJFAN CHAIR, TRUDY GOLDBERG Re \u201cHow Did Democrats Let This Happen?,\u201d by Bishop Reginald T. Jackson (Opinion guest essay, Jan. 17): Bishop Reginald T. Jackson calls out Democrats and especially President Biden for failure to lead the fight to protect voting rights. Presidential&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/2022\/04\/13\/uniting-for-voting-rights-letter-to-the-editor-ny-times-1-27-22-2\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uniting for Voting Rights (Letter to the Editor, NY Times, 1\/27\/22)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12544"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12561,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12544\/revisions\/12561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njfac.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}