Taking Action

Advocate and Learn:

Find your representatives and contact them here: https://www.congressweb.com/smart_transportation/legislators/

Sign the petition for universal background checks: http://bit.ly/MFOL-petition

Find more ways to fight gun violence: https://giffords.org/ https://marchforourlives.com/

Tell your representatives in Congress to pass the Global HER Act: https://p2a.co/rJFMibA

Find more ways to help protect reproductive rights: https://www.populationconnectionaction.org/what-can-i-do/

Find more ways to help Black Americans: https://blacklivesmatter.com/blm-demands/ https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

More ways to help Indigenous Americans: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/indigenous-peoples-day-native-americans-action/?template=nexthttps://www.amnesty.org.au/10-ways-to-be-an-ally-to-indigenous-communities/

Be a Global Citizen: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/take-action/

Learn more about our history and how it is affecting us:

Books to read –

  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
  • Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, Douglas A. Blackmon
  • Becoming Nicole: The Story of an American Family, Amy Ellis Nutt
  • Myths of Gender: Biological Theories About Women and Men, Anne Fausto-Sterling
  • Obstacle Course: The Everyday Struggle to Get an Abortion in America, Carole Joffe and David S. Cohen
  • Sexual Citizens: A Landmark Study of Sex, Power and Assault on Campus, Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan
  • Killing the Black Body, Dorothy E. Roberts

Podcasts to listen to –

  • rePROs Fight Back, Jennie Wetter
  • Teaching Hard History, Learning for Justice
  • en(gender)ed, Teri Yuan
  • American History Tellers, Wondery

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