By People’s Organization For Progress
VOTING RIGHTS FORUM SCHEDULED FOR NEWARK, TRUMP FIRING OF ELECTION OFFICIALS CONDEMNED, WARNS AGAINST COUP ATTEMPT
“The Attack On Voting Rights And The War On Black People,” will be the subject of a panel discussion that will be held Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 7:00pm at St James AME Church, 588 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Newark, New Jersey.
The event is sponsored by the People’s Organization For Progress (POP) a grassroots group that fights for civil and human rights.
“We are having this forum to convey the urgency of the moment as it pertains to voting rights in particular but also to the state of Black people in the U.S. in general. Both are under severe attack,” Lawrence Hamm, Chairman, People’s Organization For Progress stated.
“The basic message of our program will be that the Black community and our allies must have a response to these threats that is commensurate with the degree and intensity of the crises that we are facing,” Hamm said.
The forum in Newark is the third of a series on this topic. The first one was held in Montclair and the second was in Plainfield. Others are scheduled for Newark, Maplewood, Hackensack, and East Orange.
“Many still don’t realize the seriousness of the situation. The Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the MAGA Republicans in Congress have launched a full frontal attack on voting rights in order to impact the outcome of the midterm elections,” he said.
Hamm said the onslaught has been relentless with one thing after another. The latest episode has been Trump’s attack on the Election Assistance Commission (EAC).
“The People’s Organization For Progress condemns President Trump’s firings of members of the Election Assistance Commission, the federal agency tasked with helping officials administer elections and voters participate in the electoral process,” he declared.
“This is yet another attempt by Trump to dismantle the infrastructure that protects against election interference so he can engineer an outcome in the midterm elections that is beneficial to his party and himself,” he said.
