Looking for the best way to stay updated and get involved in LSURJ's work? Sign up for our monthly email newsletter and join us for our monthly meeting. Visit the Take Action page to learn more.

Communications Volunteers​: 
There are lanes for everyone to join in this work, and we need your help online! You can see from this blog page that we are choosing not to regularly update our site. Most of our updates are shared in our monthly email newsletter to our base, but we would love to keep this blog updated with key information for folks looking for an entry point into LSURJ's work. If you can regularly volunteer your time (with other LSURJ members) to spread the word about our organizing efforts and to mobilize the base, please consider joining the LSURJ Comms team. There are various ways to participate depending on your time and interests. Some of our top needs right now: posting on LSURJ's Twitter / Instagram / Facebook and updating our blog section of our site. 

Ready to dive in? Have more questions? Contact us at [email protected].

Coming to these endorsement decisions has been years in the making. For us, Ending Cash Bail is the “low hanging fruit” when it comes to changing the criminal justice system in a meaningful way for everyone- especially poor and working class folks. In our field work, we’ve determined that 76% of voters are with us on the issue regardless of their political party or race. Cash bail is a classist system that needs to go- and every day in arraignment court, judges are asked to use their discretion about when, if, and how high to set bail. By putting pressure on sitting judges and backing progressive candidates, we aim curb and ultimately eliminate this classist practice one courtroom at a time. In doing so, we have an opportunity significantly lessen the population of our overcrowded and deadly city jail.

Learn more: you can learn more about how SURJ and LSURJ came to these endorsements here.

Take action: Do you want to help spread the word about these endorsements before the Nov. 8th election? Visit this page and scroll down to the "Join Us" section!