Hejsan Phone-A-Thon! Get Out the 2020 Vote in Sweden
Join us for two hours to make as many calls to voters in Sweden as we can! We need to remind every one of our voters in Sweden to request their absentee ballot for the election in November as soon as possible using www.votefromabroad.org.
We'll start with a Zoom meeting and then we'll make calls from home using CallHub. Let's Get Out The Vote together!
Join Zoom Meeting at 11:30am: https://zoom.us/j/93699854233?pwd=NkxvSGk2NDQxc29EY0luV3IvN3VCZz09
Meeting ID: 936 9985 4233
Password: 539790
Need to sign up to make calls using CallHub? Visit: https://www.democratsabroad.org/voter_support_team
DA Sweden June 16th 2020 Volunteer Phonebanking Training
Democrats Abroad Sweden is committed to getting out the 2020 vote! We are hosting a Volunteer Phonebanking Training on Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 at 7:00 PM CEST for volunteers to join to learn more about why phonebanking is crucial for contacting our members to ensure they are registered to vote.
RSVP below to attend, and we will follow up with you with the information to join the online training session.
Thank you for your continued dedication to Democrats Abroad and the importance of voter registration!
Voter Assistance Online Open Office
Get help requesting your absentee ballot using www.votefromabroad.org and with other matters related to voting from abroad.
Every U.S. voter living in Sweden needs to request their absentee ballot for the 2020 presidential election as soon as possible.
To help you through the process, we'll have a team at hand online every Saturday at 12:00-13:00. We can't currently hold physical voter assistance events due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, so we're doing it via Zoom instead!
Join Zoom Meeting (password below)
https://zoom.us/j/92443194521?pwd=eHhIdVZaUFQ0SDVMcHBWYlhtR0hNUT09
Meeting ID: 924 4319 4521
Password: 003487
Voter Assistance Online Open Office
Get help requesting your absentee ballot using www.votefromabroad.org and with other matters related to voting from abroad.
Every U.S. voter living in Sweden needs to request their absentee ballot for the 2020 presidential election as soon as possible.
To help you through the process, we'll have a team at hand online every Saturday at 12:00-13:00. We can't currently hold physical voter assistance events due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, so we're doing it via Zoom instead!
Join Zoom Meeting (password below)
https://zoom.us/j/92443194521?pwd=eHhIdVZaUFQ0SDVMcHBWYlhtR0hNUT09
Meeting ID: 924 4319 4521
Password: 003487
Online Open Fika
We can't have in-person events for the time being, but we can still connect with one another! Please join our open fika for members of Democrats Abroad Sweden every Thursday at 15:00.
Come to talk politics, social distancing, or whatever you like!
Members of the Democrats Abroad Sweden Executive Committee will be on hand to give you a short update on our plans for the 2020 election and answer your questions.
The meeting will be held via Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/99996405860?pwd=TTk5bExSNzlZNzZYaXpIOHJIOHFEUT09
Meeting ID: 999 9640 5860
Password: 051123
Online Open Fika
We can't have in-person events for the time being, but we can still connect with one another! Please join our open fika for members of Democrats Abroad Sweden every Thursday at 15:00.
Come to talk politics, social distancing, or whatever you like!
Members of the Democrats Abroad Sweden Executive Committee will be on hand to give you a short update on our plans for the 2020 election and answer your questions.
The meeting will be held via Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/99996405860?pwd=TTk5bExSNzlZNzZYaXpIOHJIOHFEUT09
Meeting ID: 999 9640 5860
Password: 051123
Trump Does Not Determine What America Stands For
This is an English-language version of an op-ed article originally published in Swedish on etc.se. To read the original, click here.
There may be nothing more American than the debate about what the United States stands for. The country has had its share of flaws, while also continuing on a remarkable path of long-term progress. That progress has often been a struggle and suffered deep setbacks, like those we are experiencing just a month into the Trump administration. But we have regrouped and begun to organize to defend liberal democracy and our values.
The setbacks remind us that progress is not inevitable, and does not just happen naturally. Instead, progress is actively built by involved citizens, both by those in the United States and also by the millions of Americans who live abroad, many of them here in Sweden.
At the ballot box, through civil society, and by organizing politically, Americans are engaged in what President Barack Obama called the “hard and frustrating and necessary work of self-government”. Since Donald Trump’s election victory, in which he lost the popular vote by more than 2.8 million votes, we have seen the sheer power of what happens when the American civil society kicks into action to protect liberal democracy.
Organizations dedicated to protecting civil rights in the United States like the American Civil Liberties Union have raised unprecedented funds, while millions have demonstrated for what they believe in, and become engaged in the political process. Democrats Abroad, the official overseas arm of the Democratic Party, has signed up thousands of new members and volunteers, including here in Sweden.
On the day after Trump’s inauguration, more than 150 members of Democrats Abroad demonstrated on Medborgarplatsen in Stockholm (Photo: Democrats Abroad Sweden)
Trump’s ban on travel from a number of Muslim majority countries is unconstitutional and contrary to international law. Because it was originally conceived as a ban on all people of one of the world’s major religions, it is also deeply un-American. Even though it has now been halted by the courts, the Trump administration continues to defend it on the spurious grounds that it will keep the country safe. Now he has announced that he wants to deport millions of migrants, even those who have already become an integral part of American society.
We refuse to simply accept that. On the day after Trump’s inauguration, more than 150 members of Democrats Abroad demonstrated on Medborgarplatsen in Stockholm. When the travel ban was announced, many Americans in Sweden sprang into action. Democrats Abroad volunteers lined up to say they were ready to help those affected, and others went to work organizing legal support, lighting up the phone lines of their elected representatives, and recruiting friends and family to find ways to fight back. Similar stories have poured in from around the world.
That is how Donald Trump’s vision of America will be resisted. But the way we will turn the country toward progress again is through the electoral process, beginning with the midterm elections in 2018. That is why right now Democrats Abroad is organizing citizens and dual-citizens who live in Sweden to help them register to vote, get engaged with the political process, and shape the future of the Democratic Party.
Trump does not determine what America stands for. We will continue to fight for an America that is open, tolerant, and just. Nothing is more American than that.
By Alex Lange, Democrats Abroad Sweden, Stockholm Chapter Chair