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How To Sign a Petition
There are millions of online petitions on every cause and issue imaginable. But do they make a difference? Learn how to increase online petitions’ effectiveness and increase your impact by combining petitions with other forms of action and activism.
Here’s how.
What Does the Labor Movement Do?
Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1884 to pay tribute to the contributions of workers and honor the labor movement. Yet, many of us don’t spend the time to reflect on why we celebrate this holiday. So, we thought it was a good time to talk about how the labor movement shows up for workers’ rights and impacts your life.
Learn more.
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.
Resist
Many grassroots, activist, and frontline community groups lack access to sufficient funding. That’s where Resist comes in. Resist is a foundation that supports people’s movements for justice and liberation. They redistribute resources back to frontline communities at the forefront of change while amplifying their stories of building a better world.
Get to know Resist.
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.
Defining Immediate Needs and Long-Term Change
Creating a more just and equitable society requires addressing people’s most immediate needs and focusing on long-term change. This is not an “either/or” situation; one approach is not better than the other. This is a “both/and” situation. We cannot allow people to suffer when support can improve their lives right now. Nor can we focus solely on the immediate without addressing the root causes that allow the situation to occur in the first place.
We need direct services and systems change to work together.
How To Volunteer
Offering your time and talent (aka volunteering) can be a great way to support the causes you are most passionate about and give back to your community. Many nonprofits, campaigns, and social justice causes depend on volunteers to run their operations. However, not all volunteer opportunities are created equal, and some volunteerism can do more harm than good.
Here are some tips on how to volunteer with purpose and impact.
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.
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Much of the food we eat has been grown, picked, processed, or packaged by workers in sub-standard conditions (think: poverty wages, occupational hazards, violence, and sexual assault). Sometimes these workers are even subject to forced labor, a form of human trafficking or modern slavery. Yet, many food retailers claim that they are not responsible for the human rights abuses within their supply chains.
CIW set out to change that.
What Is Movement Building?
Social movements are created when groups of people come together to bring about change and solve problems that no one person or institution can solve alone. They often inspire people to see the world not as it is, but as it could be. Successful social movements make the impossible possible. Movement building is the process of growing and sustaining movements over time.
Learn how you can support movement building.
How To Contact Your Representatives
We, the people, have the right--and the responsibility--to access our representatives (aka “reps”) and to express our opinions and desires. Use the power of your voice and your vote to contact your reps directly, organize with fellow members of your community, put public pressure on your reps to meet your demands, and hold them accountable when they don’t.
Here are some tips on how to contact your reps to make your voice heard.
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.
FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund
There are countless organizations and individuals who are quietly going about changing the world. We like to spotlight organizations and changemakers doing great work and help you to learn about how you can support them.
Get to know FRIDA | The Young Feminist Fund. The only fund run by young feminists to support and establish other feminist organizations, collectives, and movements.
Making the Most Of Your Monetary Donations
Do you have a giving plan? In 2019, individuals in the U.S. donated more than $450 billion to charity. Sharpen your everyday activism skills by learning about how to make the most of your donations.
Who Are My Representatives?
Do you know who your federal, state, and local reps are and how to contact them? Our elected officials meet to debate and make governing decisions on our behalf. Using our voice and our vote is a powerful tool for change that too many of us don’t take advantage of. Learn about who your reps are at all levels of government and how to contact them.
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.
How To Combat Crisis Fatigue
May is mental health awareness month. So it’s a good time to talk about crisis fatigue. As an engaged citizen, it can sometimes feel like the world is constantly engulfed in crisis.
Here are some tips to stay motivated.
How To Harness Your Consumer Power For Good
Consumer activism (aka financial activism) includes conscious consumption, voting with your wallet, and socially responsible investing. It happens when you make purchasing decisions that take into consideration their social, economic, and environmental impact, and choose companies that prioritize people and the environment over profit.
Here are a few ways you can hold businesses accountable.