Knitty Gritty JC, a Jersey City activist organization, is supporting Vice President Kamala Harris for president and will be sponsoring voter registration events every Sunday in August.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
“Civic Sundays” will take place every Sunday in August from 9 a.m. until 10 a.m/ at the Riverview Park gazebo, located on Ogden Avenue in the Jersey City Heights.
Community members will be sending postcards to encourage those in Pennsylvania, and in New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District, where Democratic nominee Sue Altman looks to unseat U.S. Rep. Tom Kean, to vote.
“This is our moment to fight for democracy, to fight for our country and to fight for the future we choose, for freedom. We do this by winning the House, Senate and by electing Kamala Harris, the first woman and woman of color to be President of the United State of America,” said Mo Kinberg, a member Knitty Gritty JC.
:We’re very concerned that the current Republican Party seeks to remake America into a fantasy of the 1950s ideal—white, Christian, and male-dominant. And that it will use highly punitive means to try to achieve it. That’s not what Hudson County stands for,” added Arlene Stein.
The event will include music, letters and postcards to swing states, information on Project 2025, sign- ups for door knocking in PA and CD-7, stories from Knitty members, along with other ways to get involved.
“Civic Sundays” is part of a national effort to mobilize and educate voters, which began in California in 2017.
Knitty Gritty Social JC Social Club formed in response to the 2016 Election of Donald Trump. We knitted hats for the Women’s March at one of our first meetings.
Since 2016, the Knitty Gritty has grown to about 250 participating members in Jersey City and Hudson County and over 600 followers who support progressive democratic values.
They have sponsored candidate forums, canvassed for progressive candidates, written hundreds of postcards, and worked to save our democracy.
