5calls.org is a site that makes it super easy to take action by calling your representatives.
All you have to do is enter your zip code and you will see a list of issues on the left side of your screen that you can choose from. When you click on one you will see a brief summary of the issue followed by the name and number for one of your representatives. Underneath that is a script for the specific issue you are calling about if you need it.
The Resistance Manualis an open-source wiki guide where you can find and add information about the most recent proposed policies for various social justice issues and how to resist them.
You can also find information on issues and upcoming elections specific to your state, crisis resources for marginalized communities, a list of social justice organizations to support, a calendar of upcoming events to join, and a list of essential readings on related issues.
“Action begins with information. Get educated. Get organized. Take action.”
I’ve got a friend who beat some strangers off due to witnessing them attempt to kidnap a different stranger. I’ve got friends who don’t have what it takes to fight with their fists so they go bolster the numbers at protests instead. I’ve got friends with physical impairments who call their reps on every issue instead of going to marches. I’ve got friends with social impairments who donate money to organizations that fight whatever issue arose this week instead of calling their reps. I’ve got friends who don’t have the spoons or money to do any of that and focus on educating themselves on all the small ways they can fix their language and actions to be as inclusive as possible, sometimes even editing the language of the policies at their places of employment to reflect what they learn. And I’ve got friends who are barely coping with everything and yet are still surviving despite the regime wearing away whatever energy they had left beyond what it takes for them to exist as their wonderful selves.
No matter where you’re at in your activism, you’re still important. What you are doing matters. There is no one single right way to do activism, and everybody’s limits just sort of help us diversify our overall activism portfolio.
democrats leech their votes from the most marginalized classes of society by dangling their basic needs in front of them and using fear based tactics to instill the idea that for poor people, racialized people, people persecuted for their gender or sexuality Dems are the only choice. and when Democrats have usurped the value of those votes, they stand back and allow the persecution of those same people for the sake of maintaining the status quo. if you don’t think that’s sinister in every definition of that term it’s because you’ve never had to face that danger and probably don’t have a place in this conversation
This is why Trump got elected and why Kavanaugh got confirmed and why Roe V Wade is gonna be overturned.
like????
and for like. the 3000000000th time. hilariously clinton won the popular vote. people voted for her. the voting isn’t the issue mayhaps.
“Vote for this one party or you die.” Sounds and looks like a healthy democracy full of free choice!
Safe access to women’s healthcare is essential and a fundamental right!! #globalgagrule #Resist #AdayWithoutWomen (at Washington, District of Columbia)
In 1979 on this day, International Women’s Day, 100,000 women called off work and marched the streets of Tehran to protest the mandatory hijab imposed by the new regime. If you think women aren’t powerful, I have news for you. When a women awakes, mountains are moved. Here’s to strong women, may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them. #Resist #TheFutureIsFemale #Iran #InternationalWomensDay #AdayWithoutWomen
America, where #lgbtqpoc lives and the lives of #blackwomen are silenced. Let’s vote and #resist so that we attain that #equality that has been for some, not all. #Vote to change this and keep the #resistance going. We are not done until everyone enjoys the same #privileges and #freedoms others have, just because.
It’s not that we are just a political media, it is that we felt compelled to answer history’s call to stand and #resist with all that we are against Trump and the #GOPTraitors — who replaced #RBG unfairly and dishonorably for a justice that will put in danger #lgbtqrights , #samesexmarriage , #obamacare (needed by many members of our community) and #transrights and protections aren’t erased and to do that, we had to answer that call. For you. For us. For our futures together.
These are my thoughts, and reactions to Charlottesville, and the awful Nazis that reared their ugly heads this weekend. I will not tolerate them, and I will not tolerate those who support them.
