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Browse guides to learn and take action on the issues you care about.
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- Housing and homelessness 1
- Indigenous rights 4
- LGBTQ rights 3
- child rights 3
- criminal justice reform 3
- disability rights 1
- disaster relief/humanitarian aid 1
- economic justice 5
- environment/climate justice 3
- global issues 6
- gun control 1
- human rights & civil liberties 6
- human trafficking 4
- hunger and food insecurity 1
- immigrant & refugee rights 4
- politics 6
- public health 4
- racial justice 6
- reproductive health & rights 1
- voting rights 3
- women & girls’ rights 7
- workers’ rights 7
End Gun Violence
Every day, more than 110 Americans are killed with guns and more than 200 are shot and wounded. This is a uniquely American problem. In fact, even though the U.S. represents less than 5% of the world’s population, it has 46% of the world’s civilian-owned guns. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Here’s what you can do.
End Hunger and Food Insecurity
There are more than 800 million people experiencing hunger and 3 billion people experiencing food insecurity across the globe. In the U.S., more than 38 million people don’t have access to enough food. Yet, we have the solutions to end hunger.
Here’s how.
End the National Eviction Crisis
Since the pandemic began, millions of Americans have fallen behind on rent or mortgage payments. Wage and job losses combined with surging rent and home prices to create the perfect storm. Nearly 7.7 million Americans are behind. Despite this, pandemic-related jobless benefits, renter protections, and a nationwide eviction moratorium came to an end in October 2021. As a result, eviction filings are surging across the country.
Here’s how you can help
End Gender-Based Violence
One in three women will experience some form of gender-based violence during their lifetime. That’s an estimated 1.3 billion women worldwide. And this figure is likely under-reported due to societal norms, stigma, shame, and silencing. Gender-based violence is pervasive, but it is also preventable. Stand in solidarity with survivors and fight for the rights of women, girls, trans women, and other vulnerable people to live free from violence.
Here’s how.
Build Collective Climate Action
Climate change is a real and undeniable threat to our entire civilization. Climate disasters like flooding, hurricanes, and wildfires are impacting people around the world at a scale never seen before. We are on the precipice of a catastrophic global temperature rise that will affect all aspects of our lives. The good news is that environmental action groups from the frontlines to the global level are more organized and mobilized than ever with solutions to turn this mess around.
The time to act is now. Learn how.
Voting Matters
Despite record voter turnout in the last presidential election, the U.S. has one of the lowest voter turnout rates compared to other established democracies. And, at least 18 states enacted 30 laws restricting access to voting in the first half of 2021. These two factors combine to further disenfranchise voters and weaken our democracy.
Here’s what you can do about it.
Raise the Minimum Wage: The Fight for $15
Corporate profits are at an all-time high, yet wages are at a 65-year low. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009. Nobody working 40 hours per week should live below the poverty line and not be able to pay their bills, feed their families, or keep a roof over their head. It’s time to raise the minimum wage.
Here’s what you can do about it.
Support Haiti
On Saturday, August 14, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, about 78 miles west of the capital Port-au-Prince. With recovery efforts still underway, at least 1,400 people have died, over 6,000 injured, and more than 7,000 have lost their homes. This comes after last month’s destabilizing crisis when President Moise was assassinated, and in between two tropical storms (Fred and Grace) passing over the island that could cause mudslides and make rescue efforts more difficult.
Here’s how you can help.
Support Migrant Children and Dreamers
Every child deserves the care, support, and services they need to thrive. Yet, migrant children entering the U.S. are often confined in detention centers, separated from their families, prevented from quick reunification with family or sponsors, denied access to legal representation, and deprived of accurate information in a language they can understand. Others, who were brought to the U.S. as children by their parents and now call the U.S. home, remain in a state of limbo without a pathway to citizenship.
Here’s what you can do about it.
Protect Our Democracy
Across the country, Republican-controlled state legislatures are eroding our democracy by using a range of tactics including undermining faith in our election system and introducing hundreds of bills aimed at suppressing voting rights. Simultaneously, the redistricting process is underway and Republicans will attempt to use gerrymandering to further rig the system in their favor. Passing the Freedom to Vote Act and ending gerrymandering are top priorities for democracy reform.
Here’s what you can do about it.
Advancing LGBTQ+ Equality
We have made important advances towards LGBTQ+ equality over the past decade, and there is much to celebrate. Unfortunately, we have also experienced significant rollbacks. Even today, with the most pro-equality administration in U.S. history, LGBTQ+ rights are being threatened at the state level and in communities, schools, and homes across the country. In the first half of 2021, seventeen anti-LGBTQ+ bills were enacted into law at the state level.
Here’s what you can do about it.
Defund the Police
Defund the police reimagines what community safety looks like. It refers to divesting taxpayer dollars from policing and law enforcement activities and investing the savings in public safety measures that support community needs and create the conditions for everyone to thrive. This makes all of us safer. Yet there is a big misinformation campaign about the movement.
Here’s what you can do about it.
Protecting Abortion Rights
Abortion rights are under attack. Abortions are one of the most common medical procedures - one in four women in the US will have an abortion by age 45. Yet, a growing number of legal restrictions deny sexual and reproductive health and rights to an increasing number of women and adolescent girls because they can’t access safe abortion services.
Here’s what you can do about it.
End Human Trafficking
Human trafficking is also referred to as modern slavery. Every year, millions of people are trafficked and forced to work against their will, including within the United States. Practically every good and service we buy contains human trafficking at some point in its supply chain.
Here’s what you can do about it.