Join Our Voice, Our Vote Arizona for a morning of fun, education and exercise.
The Black Power Walk is an activity for the entire family to come to the Eastlake community and walk around historic sites and celebrate Black History. After you walk through the community join us at Eastlake Park for more fun and entertainment at our community block party. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽
Our OVOV Political Action Committee was devoted to ensuring our Black communities were represented by electing officials that reflected our community's values. Launching on Juneteenth, this historic Black-led PAC was the largest our Black communities had engaged in Arizona. By endorsing elected officials that believed in uplifting and centering Black voices, we held weekly community conversations, interviews, and opportunities to engage everyday working-class folks in the political process.
Electing officials that are representative of the population it serves is critical to the development of Black communities. By continuing to advocate and ensure Black voices are represented in the electorate, we’ve mobilized our communities to take action through a variety of advocacy-based programs. From our Black Wave 2020 campaign to our Team Wakanda Warriors volunteer program, we held virtual events to connect voters and Black elected officials, have community discussions regarding policy, political action, and preserving space for Black voices.
The Unity Forum of Black African & African American Series, is a community building campaign under our Unified Black African Descendants (UBAD) Initiative. This initiative encompasses all persons that identify as African Americans, African Immigrants/Refugees, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, and any other persons that identify as both Black and descending from Africa. In UBAD we believe in the unity of our communities and in celebrating each other's strengths, resilience, power and success.
We unapologetically advocate for our human rights and justice in African and the diaspora. Together, we work to heal from the traumas our communities have experienced and are still going through, in order to strengthen the bonds that hold us together. Through dialogue, understanding, and compassion we will continue to move forward and persevere with resiliency.
Even though the 2020 elections demonstrated historical voter turnout among our communities of color, there is still more work to do. To holding our elected officials accountable, substantial criminal justice reform, reparations for Black communities, and more; we host community forums, mobilize call-to-actions, provide resources and safe spaces for people to share their experiences and support.
Expanding our membership base, investing in our community, educating our young leader’s and providing space for our Black community’s concerns is an opportunity to build a long-term, sustainable grassroots movement. #OurVoiceOurSquad is all about the folks who make OVOV authentic, community-driven, and above all else, the dope org. in town with the most committed and inspiring team of diverse Black and Latinx leaders across Arizona.
We look forward to make powerful change with you!
For more information, contact Bethlehem, Membership Director: bethlehem@ourvoiceourvote.us
or schedule an information session with the link below!
