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Buy a Gerrymandering Jigsaw Puzzle to help us fight for fair districts in NY!

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Over a year after our project launch, we have finally given out all 100 of our Gerrymandering Jigsaw Puzzles!

Thank you so much to all our donors and everyone we worked with in our fight for fair districts.

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"Gerrymandering is great for politicians, bad for voters."

-Our Karen Young in the @bronxtimes

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Our Gerrymandering Jigsaw Puzzle gets a shout-out in this article in Radio Free Brooklyn!

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New York should first amend the State Constitution to create a ballot initiative process led by the public, not by legislative leaders.

With that, it would be possible to create a truly independent Redistricting Commission that can give us truly representative districts.

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The failure of the IRC to agree on maps was disappointing, but not surprising.

This is why New York needs a TRULY independent redistricting commission.

Read our statement:

https://t.co/LsnDIqMmTv

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The Unity Maps, created by a coalition of Black, Latino and Asian American community organizations, speak directly to redressing past injustices and should be considered as well.

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These districts remind us of our yoga poses

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The new map proposals that the Redistricting Commission will vote on later this morning have been posted -- once again, there are two sets of lines https://t.co/efROfM3JvR

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@RedistrictNet NEW JERSEY!

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Holiday sale! Get a Gerrymandering Jigsaw Puzzle for just $39.

They're the perfect gift for your democracy-loving aunt or uncle!

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“When you have districts that yoked together very far distant areas, which we have a lot of in NYC, it causes issues. The issues in Westchester ... are very different from the Bronx.”

-#DrawDemocracy's very own Karen Young in the @bronxtimes

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Today is the last day to submit testimony to the New York Independent Redistricting Commission.

You can submit here:

https://t.co/Rjbkwr9GwN

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"Residents were given the chance to vote among several proposed maps the committee created ... They also considered the Unity Map designed by the Unity Map Coalition, a trio of voting rights advocacy organizations representing people of color in NYC."

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Don't forget! On SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5TH, there will be one last catch-all redistricting hearing for those who couldn't make the others.

Sign up to testify here:

https://t.co/l759HxSAjA

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The Independent Redistricting Commission will be holding a final catch-all virtual hearing on Sunday, Dec. 5 if you haven't been able to make any of the 23 previous ones

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We have a new op-ed in Politics NY!

"A Russian teenager from Brooklyn named Ziv said it best: 'Districts should not be based on a politician trying to keep themselves in office.' New York City deserves better than that."

Read more here:

https://t.co/H91qFpoMbX

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Don't miss our fast-motion video of our team putting together the Gerrymandering Jigsaw Puzzle!

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“I think that’s a real danger and a weakness in the way that this commission was designed,” Li said. “It’s not completely free of partisan entanglements. It’s only partially free, and dependent on the good will of the legislature and the governor.”

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