Get Up, Stand Up -- About Us

ABOUT US

What Is This?
Get Up, Stand Up is a platform for which individuals from all walks of life can get up and get aware of their rights and stand up and take responsibility to ensure those rights. Currently, our core commitment is centered on the right to vote.

Nationwide, over 5.3 million Americans currently or permanently have lost the right to vote.To deny someone the right to vote is to deny them freedom, for how can an individual have freedom when they are denied the only means they have to secure and protect that freedom?

What Are You Doing?
Beginning in October of 2008, Get Up, Stand Up launched a campaign to end U.S. felony disenfranchisement. We support the restoration of voting rights to men and women once they leave prison and re-enter the community.
Because the ways for which the right to vote is restored differs by state, this campaign currently operates on:
the national level- working to attain a more uniformed process for the restoration of voting rights. As it stands, where one calls home determines when and if that right to vote will be restored.

the state level- focusing on those states who continue to practice unjust policies towards restoring the right to vote.

Globally, we are committed to shedding the light on everyones right to life. Life is a right and love and compassion know no boundaries.

Why Should I Care?
As Elie Wiesel once said:
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."

How Can I Help?

Join The Campaign: Start receiving tools to take action and regular updates to stay informed.

Learn The Issues: Start learning all the facts and controversies regarding disenfranchisement. More Knowledge, More Power.

Inform Your Lawmakers: We can't have a government "by the people, for the people" if our lawmakers don't know what the people want, so SPEAK UP! Inform them of your views and if you want, remind them of their reelection coming up : )

Share Your Story: How has felony disenfranchisement affected your life? We want to know!!

Volunteer: Time, talent, thoughts; the opportunities are endless!