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Happy Hump Day, Shit Givers.
Thank you all so much for the feedback on how you’d prefer we format these newsletters!
It sounds like most of you like what we’ve been doing: organizing actions by what’s new, what’s trending, and so on. Then you’d prefer if we pair those with specific nouns (clean energy, maternal health, education, etc.) and verbs (donate, volunteer, etc.). Fewer of you cared if we organize actions by geography.
We’re taking that all in and thinking about how we can present things so you can easily find actions that include what you care about the most, but also what’s timely. More to come!
For today, we ARE going to push some location-specific actions because Virginia’s new Congress is convening today, and we’ve got 60 days to pass a ton of progressive legislation and improve a ton of lives in the process. This is the first of what we hope will be many campaigns to move the needle at the state level (and not just in Virginia).
But we have actions for everyone else this week too!
What You Can Do This Week
Let’s go.
— Willow
Virginia, it’s time to lock in
After years of boots-on-the-ground organizing, Virginia’s new Democratic-controlled Congress is being sworn in today and it’s go time.
We’ve got 60 days to pass a ton of progressive legislation that’s been on the back burner or outright vetoed for the past few years that’ll improve lives across the state. We’ve spent the last few months loading 29 of the most impactful bills that were pre-filed into our Be Heard tool, and they’re ready to go.
Start calling your reps and demand they support legislation that will address the affordability crisis, increase teacher pay, expand housing and clean energy, improve health care, lock in reproductive freedom, voting rights, and marriage equality, and more.
Here we go!
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Better jobs for you and everyone else
Donate to the BlueGreen Alliance, an organization uniting labor unions and environmental organization to build a sustainable economy that supports families AND protects the environment. Turns out we can have both (go)
If you work in marketing or PR, volunteer to join Clean Creatives to pledge your support for fossil fuel free media (go)
🌏 Learn about a career path you can take to have a positive impact on the world using the research-based guides at 80,000 Hours (go)
Donate to the Construction Trades Workforce Initiative to help strengthen trade unions, recruit more people into clean energy industries, and advance economic and social justice (go)
🌎 Get the DL on sustainable sourcing at your company, like how to avoid supply disruptions and prepare for the green-materials supply crunch (go)
Double down on immigrant rights
Help build a society where everyone has the freedom and opportunity to thrive by supporting the National Immigration Law Center (go)
Kids In Need of Defense works to make sure migrant children have legal representation, social services, and a just future (go)
The Migrant Clinicians Network connects migrants to clinicians who want to help them (go)
The Florence Project provides free legal services, social services, and advocacy for detained immigrants facing inhumane conditions at the US-Mexico border (go)
The ACLU fights government abuse and defends individual freedoms, and that means ALL individuals. From segregated schools to ICE bullshit, they continue to fight the fight (go)
Build better infrastructure
Support the work of MOSES in Detroit, where they fight for infrastructure that serves everyone (clean water for all! What a concept.) (go)
🌏 UN Volunteers is always looking for skilled professionals to improve infrastructure in high-need areas worldwide (go)
🌎 The LWALA Community Alliance uses a locally-led model to improve health outcomes and transform the health care system in Kenya (go)
🌏 IDB Invest partners with the private sector to advance clean energy, modernize agriculture, strengthen transportation, and other infrastructure projects across Latin America and the Caribbean (go)
🌏 You can leverage your engineering skills to build water, sanitation, and energy systems where they’re needed most with Engineers Without Borders (go)
That’s it for the week. If none of the actions above spoke to you, or if you just want to do more, poke around in the app by choosing the nouns you care about the most. You can even filter by location.
Thank you — as always — for giving a shit.
— Willow
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