BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML WPForms//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Feeds v3.14.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:WHACAN Monthly Meeting X-WR-CALDESC:Windsor-Hightstown Area Community Action Network X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 DTSTART:20260108T063000 TZNAME:UTC END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 DTSTART:20260108T063000 TZNAME:UTC END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:WHACAN Monthly Meeting DESCRIPTION:Hello WHACAN Community!\n\nThank you to everyone who joined us on Tuesday! We have incredible momentum following a busy season of co mmunity presence and connection\, and there are many powerful ways for y ou to get involved.\n\nHere is a summary of what we covered and what’s coming next:\n\n\n🎉 Recent Wins & Community Outreach\n\n Good Tro uble Lives On & National Night Out: We shared inspiring experiences from both events! At National Night Out alone\, we connected directly with c ommunity members and handed out 80 WHACAN cards.\n Elected Officials: We actively engaged with representatives at the local\, state\, and fed eral levels to keep our community's priorities front and center.\n On going Outreach: We will continue our outreach push to keep expanding our network and bringing neighbors together. Next up - we will have a booth at the Latino Festival on 9/19. A call for volunteers will go out in th e next few weeks!\n\n\n\n🕊️ Immigrant Justice Efforts\n\n We are actively reaching out to build partnerships with organizations already doing vital work on the ground\, including Rise\, Resistencia\, and a gr oup providing direct support at Delaney Hall.\n More information on s pecific opportunities to take action will follow soon.\n\n\n\n🗳️ 20 26 Election Mobilization & Action Ideas\n\nWhile our immediate area's lo cal elections may not be in jeopardy\, many key races across New Jersey and the country are on the line. We brainstormed several high-impact ide as to drive turnout and defend democracy:\n\n Informational Flyers: C reating a flyer with a QR code for easy sharing with neighbors and frien ds.\n Overpass Visibility Brigades: Banner-holding actions over the N J Turnpike to remind commuters to vote.\n Postcarding Parties: Writin g postcards to voters in vulnerable and high-stakes districts.\n Elec tion Day Rides: Collaborating with Black Cabs to provide free rides to t he polls on election day.\n Voter Registration: Partnering with Rise\ , with a strong focus on encouraging Vote-By-Mail enrollment.\n\n\n\n Want to Take the Lead?\n\nWHACAN is entirely community-run\, which mea ns every member can be a community leader. If you are interested in taki ng a lead role on any of these initiatives\, simply reply directly to th is email!\n\nIf you want to join a team but are not ready to lead\, that 's absolutely fine! Click the Join A Team button below to fill out the f orm. \n\nOnce we have volunteers to lead some of these initiatives\, we will be sending targeted emails for each specific action group (Election s\, Immigrant Justice\, Outreach\, etc.) so you can connect with your te am easily.\n\n\nIn Solidarity\,\n\n The WHACAN Team\n📅 UPCOMING EVENT S\n\nWHACAN Monthly Meeting - September\n09/12/2026\n10:00 AM - 11:30 AM \nHickory Corner Library\nLatino Festival \n09/19/2026\n2:00 PM - 8:00 P M\nHightstown High School\n\nWHACAN Monthly Meeting - October\n10/17/202 6\n10:00 AM - 11:30 AM\nHickory Corner Library\n\nWHACAN Social Gatherin g\, Postcard Party\, Visibility Brigade - TBD URL;VALUE=URI:https://whacan.org/events/community-meeting-2-2-2/ UID:urn:uuid:4b2bd083-35a5-4d74-98c5-9e11efa3dfcd STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20261013T000344Z DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260709T183000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20260709T200000 LOCATION:138 Hickory Corner Road END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR