Hello California and survivors! We need your help 👇🏽 legislators need to hear our collective voices calling for an end to #childmarriage with an #18noexceptions bill #AB2924 🙏🏽

#ICYMI : We have just days left to convince #California legislators to consider the bill to #EndChildMarriage . No matter where you live, take action NOW to urge #CA lawmakers to prioritize girls: bit.ly/49DwyXn

#EndChildMarriage CA #18NoExceptions Ash Kalra 🌱 Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris

Asm. Ash Kalra 🌱, please schedule #AB2924 for a hearing and pass without amendments. Let's end a #HumanRights abuse in #California that destroys girls' lives. #EndChildMarriage #EndChildMarriage CA #18NoExceptions Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris

#ChildMarriage produces devastating lifelong repercussions for girls' health, education, economic opportunities, physical safety & sexual/reproductive rights. Ash Kalra 🌱, #California 's girls deserve better. Please schedule & support #AB2924 to #EndChildMarriageCA #18NoExceptions .

Asm. Ash Kalra 🌱, states across the U.S. and around the world are making the marriage age #18NoExceptions . #California must not be left behind. Please put #AB2924 back on the agenda and pass it without amendments. #EndChildMarriageCA Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris

#California #ChildMarriage survivor Mandy’s mother told her it was “God’s will” that she marry her longtime abuser when she was just 17; she was ostracized by her family and excommunicated from her church once she divorced him. Read her story: buff.ly/3W6twI5 Ash Kalra 🌱

Marriage before age 18 creates a nightmarish legal trap. Even the most mature minor faces overwhelming legal and practical barriers if they try to avoid being forced into marriage. Asm. Ash Kalra 🌱, please do right by #California 's girls and schedule #AB2924 for a hearing.

I just emailed my local #CA lawmakers to urge them to support #AB2924 , the bill to #EndChildMarriage in #California . It took me only a minute, via Unchained At Last! Please do the same here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-c… #18NoExceptions

Asm. Ash Kalra 🌱, please put #AB2924 , Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris's bill to #EndChildMarriage , a #HumanRights abuse that destroys girls' lives, back on the agenda for a hearing. We cannot compromise on #California 's girls. #EndChildMarriage CA #18NoExceptions

In the last few years, 12 US states have acted to end all child marriage. #California could be next! Ash Kalra 🌱, please support and pass #AB2924 , the bill to #EndChildMarriage in #California , without amendments.

Californians! Listen up!
I just emailed #CA Asm. Ash Kalra 🌱 to urge him to make the marriage age #18NoExceptions . It took me only a minute, via Unchained At Last! Please do the same here: actionnetwork.org/letters/c2ac95… #EndChildMarriage #EndChildMarriage CA

.Ash Kalra 🌱, please support and pass #AB2924 , the bill to #EndChildMarriage in #California , without amendments. States across the U.S. and around the world are making the marriage age #18NoExceptions . #CA must not be left behind. #EndChildMarriage CA #ProtectCAKids #CA Leg

End child marriage‼️

Inspired by conversations with survivors such as Aliya PBUHer👸🏻, we were moved to create an original piece to help raise awareness regarding the devastating issue of childhood marriages. The song is called Stolen Sunrise.
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Urgent #ActionNeeded ! In #CA #USA children of ANY AGE can be married. 9K+ minors a yr are trapped in marriage. #AB2924 will be heard in committee 4/23.

Urge your legislators & retweet–we must take action now! #EndChildMarriage #18NoExceptions :
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URGENT: Your help needed to #EndChildMarriage in #CA ! A powerful legislator plans to kill or water down the bill to end #ChildMarriage on Tues. We can't let that happen. Please take a minute now to email him -- & ask all your friends to do the same: bit.ly/49DwyXn #CA Leg

I just emailed #CA Assembly Judiciary Chair Ash Kalra 🌱 to urge him to pass #AB2924 , the bill to #EndChildMarriage in #California , without amendments. It took me only a minute, via Unchained At Last! Please do the same here: actionnetwork.org/letters/c2ac95… #18NoExceptions

Urgent action needed! In #CA , children of ANY age can be married. 9K+ minors a year are trapped in marriage. #AB2924 will be heard in committee on 4/23. Urge your legislators & retweet–we must take action now! Support to #EndChildMarriage #18NoExceptions : bit.ly/endchildmarria…

🚨Check out my column in Ms. Magazine (and great pic of our bill patron and former school board member) celebrating the Commonwealth's accomplishment ending child marriage.

' #Virginia became the 12th U.S. state and first in the South to end child marriage last week, after Gov.

Virginia became the 12th U.S. state and first in the South to end child marriage last week, after Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) signed HB 994 into law.
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