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CALL NOW: Protect our ability to dissent!
These bills violate our constitutional rights to free speech, free association and due process.
Act now to defend civil liberties and our right to dissent in Florida – your voice matters!
Florida lawmakers are considering a package of dangerous bills (SB 1632 & SB 1634 and HB 1471 & HB 1473) that would give the Governor and Cabinet the power to secretly designate groups as “domestic terrorist organizations,” based on policies that are vague and discretionary.
Marches for civil rights that took over roadways. Sit-ins for disability rights that blocked traffic and occupied federal buildings. Without acts of nonviolent civil disobedience, we might not have the Civil Rights Act or the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Most Americans would not consider these to be acts of terrorism, but they are activities that could potentially be labeled as “domestic terrorism” under these bills. This is not hard to imagine when we consider that at one point in time there were governing officials who considered the NAACP to be a terrorist organization, and just within the past few weeks peaceful protestors in Minneapolis have been called “domestic terrorists.”
These bills violate our constitutional rights to free speech, free association and due process. Florida should focus on prosecuting actual violence under existing law, not creating a politicized designation system that chills lawful dissent.
Call your Florida House and Senate representatives now and tell them to VOTE NO on SB 1632 & HB 1471! Find the phone numbers here, and log your calls.
Here’s an idea of what you can say:
“My name is [Insert Your Name] and I am a constituent from [Insert Your Town]. I am asking you to oppose HB 1471 and SB 1632. These bills violate our constitutional rights to free speech, free association and due process. They will not make us safer. Please focus on what really matters: lowering costs, raising wages, and making our communities safer, not making it harder for people to come together to organize for a better future for all of us.”