SOMA Action Wants Local Voters To ‘Flip The House,' Oust GOP

ESSEX COUNTY, NJ — SOMA Action, a grassroots activist group based in South Orange and Maplewood (SOMA), will hold a public meeting on Sunday, March 4 to mobilize volunteers to help “Flip The House” in November.

According to a news release from the group, the meeting will take place at the Burgdorff Center, 10 Durand Road in Maplewood from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (Learn more here)

At the meeting, representatives from “grassroots resistance groups” in Congressional Districts 7 and 11 will recruit volunteers to canvass, phone bank and engage in other voter registration and education activities. The meeting will “equip activists with the tools and knowledge for successful voter outreach,” organizers said.

“If you can’t wait for 2020 to vote against Trump, then come join us to take the House back this November,” SOMA Action president Lily Hawkins said. “Ousting the Republican incumbents is a blow we can strike to win common sense gun safety, preserve affordable health care and environmental protections, create a fair tax system that does not punish New Jersey middle and working-class families and end the attacks on women, people of color, immigrants, and the LGBTQ community.”

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