{"id":78287,"date":"2022-01-18T16:13:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T21:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=78287"},"modified":"2022-01-18T16:11:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T21:11:43","slug":"press-conference-wed-jan-19-2022-coalition-of-voting-rights-activists-will-deliver-petition-to-stop-lincoln-county-from-eliminating-all-but-one-polling-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/press-conference-wed-jan-19-2022-coalition-of-voting-rights-activists-will-deliver-petition-to-stop-lincoln-county-from-eliminating-all-but-one-polling-place\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESS CONFERENCE WED. JAN. 19, 2022: Coalition of Voting Rights Activists Will Deliver Petition to Stop Lincoln County from Eliminating All But One Polling Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 18, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — As the U.S. Senate continues to discuss voting rights amid national efforts to disenfranchise voters, the new Lincoln County Board of Elections will vote Wed. Jan. 19, 2022 on whether to close all polling places except one. A coalition of voting rights activists will present a petition to the board at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 19, and a press conference will follow at 4 p.m. The petition drive was coordinated by the Georgia Coalition for the People\u2019s Agenda (The Peoples Agenda), Common Cause Georgia, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, and Black Voters Matter.<\/p>\n

\"Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n

Local activists and community members helping to coordinate are: Rev. Denise Freeman, civil\/human rights activist, Bishop Willie Jackson, Christ Centered Outreach Ministry, and Rev. Christopher Johnson, Augusta Interfaith Coalition.<\/p>\n

WHO:<\/strong> Press Conference Speakers:<\/p>\n

Helen Butler<\/strong>, executive director, The Peoples Agenda<\/p>\n

Rev. Denise Freeman<\/strong>, civil\/human rights activist, Lincoln County<\/p>\n

Bishop Willie Jackson<\/strong>, Christ Centered Outreach Ministry<\/p>\n

Rev. Christopher Johnson<\/strong>, Augusta Interfaith Coalition<\/p>\n

Fenika Miller<\/strong>, Sr. state organizing\u00a0manager, Black Voters Matter Fund<\/p>\n

Aunna Dennis<\/strong>, executive director, Common Cause Georgia<\/p>\n

WHAT:<\/strong> PRESS CONFERENCE on closure of polling places in Lincoln County, Ga.<\/p>\n

WHEN:<\/strong> DATE: Wednesday Jan. 19, 2022 — TIME: 4 p.m.<\/p>\n

WHERE:<\/strong> Lincoln County Board of Elections (In front of the building); 160 May Avenue, Lincolnton, GA 30817<\/p>\n

HOW: For more information contact Edrea Davis edmedia@dogonvillage.com<\/a> or 818.613.9521 (text\/cell).<\/p>\n

ABOUT THE PEOPLE\u2019S AGENDA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Georgia Coalition for the People\u2019s Agenda is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization performing year-round voter registration, education and mobilization in Black communities throughout Georgia. Led by board chair, Rev. J. A. Milner, and Butler, the organization has headquarters in Atlanta and offices in Athens, Albany, Macon, Augusta, LaGrange and Savannah.<\/p>\n

For more information visit https:\/\/thepeoplesagenda.org\/<\/a> or email coalition@bellsouth.net or call the People\u2019s Agenda at (404) 653-1199.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 18, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — As the U.S. Senate continues to discuss voting rights amid national efforts to disenfranchise voters, the new Lincoln County Board of Elections will vote Wed. Jan. 19, 2022 on whether to close all polling places except one. A coalition of voting rights activists will present a petition to the board at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 19, and a press conference will follow. The petition drive was coordinated by the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda (The Peoples Agenda) among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8661,"featured_media":78286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,236,12804,124,940,123,48],"tags":[17559,17556,17558,16214,17557],"class_list":["post-78287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-news","category-african-american-interest-news","category-ap","category-atlanta-news","category-local-govenment-news","category-georgia-news","category-government-news","tag-common-cause-georgia","tag-lincoln-county-board-of-elections","tag-lincoln-county-ga","tag-press-conference","tag-voting-rights","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":3593,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}