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July Calls Us To Action!
Youth-centered calls to action to ignite the next generation of kind & courageous leaders.
Co-Created by Shannon Brescher Shea & Ashia Ray
We're cheering on...
- US Renewable energy yields 249 billion in climate & health benefits
- Federal 504 rule protects disabled parents custody of children
- Minneapolis achieves less violence in police dismantling initiative
- Iberian llynx no longer endangered thanks to conservation program
- Federal Judge blocks Florida trans healthcare ban
- Inagural class of doctors graduate from new Cherokee Nation medical school
- Washington implements single-use styrofoam food container ban
- Cleveland Museum returning stolen art from Libya
- Executive policy sheilds 500,000 immigrants from deportation
- 1-Year plastic bag restriction reduces 1 billion bags from Colorado waste stream
You give us hope
This July, we focus on themes of Interdependence, Climate Justice, Animal Rights, and Taking Local Action.
Daily 10-Second Ceasefire Texts
Sarah Sayer creates texting templates with sources, explanations, and calls to end violence against the people of Palestine. Subscribe to her free for a new Resistbot message every day.
Already on Resistbot? Text FOLLOW WATERMELON to the number 50409
Congress: Stop US Funding Conflict in Congo
Tell your officials to stop funding genocide in the DRC. For over 25 years, United States allies Rwanda and Uganda have plundered and murdered Congolese people using diplomatic and political cover from the US.
Support Teachers & Librarians Against False Accusations of Antisemitism
False accusations of antisemitism are used to silence librarians and K-12 educators educating about Palestinian culture, history, and current events. Help local schools and libraries reduce the impacts of attacks before they arise, and learn how to respond when the attacks come for you.
Congress: Ban Cruel Whale Captivity
The SWIMS Act would end the capture and breeding of whales for entertainment, closing one of the cruelest chapters in aquarium history.
Target Corp: Stop Poisoning Bees
Demand US retail chains refuse to sell food grown using neonics killing bee colonies everywhere. Walmart and Giant have started to move, but Target is dragging its feet.
Ban Wild Animal Sales In Your Community
For stores like PetSmart and Petco, countless animal deaths go unreported. But employees continue to speak out about the animals suffering in stores.
React-Revert-Reduce Parenting
Support your child's agency to choose which survival strategies they want to keep, which ones they want to adapt and which ones they want to pass down to their own children down the line.
Congress: #StopTheShock by July 9!
Using sneaky language in a new funding bill, Congress is trying to take away the FDA's power to ban electric shock devices used to torture disabled people at the Judge Rotenburg Center.
Sign before July 9, 2024
Congress: Stop Forced Sterilization Of Disabled People
Tell your members of Congress to stand up for reproductive freedom for people with disabilities. Sign on to drive change and protect the freedoms that are fundamental to all.
Sign before July 9, 2024
Suggest An Action
Recommend a youth-centered action organized by people with lived experience.
Reduce Single Use Plastic
Will you be part of Plastic Free July by choosing to refuse single-use plastics?
Congress: Pass the 'End Polluter Welfare Act'
In 2023, Big Oil, Gas, and Coal spent nearly $137 million to lobby Congress in order to maintain their $17 billion in tax subsidies each year. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Ilhan Omar have introduced the End Polluter Welfare Act to end the practice of our tax dollars fueling the climate crisis.
Congress: Don't Roll Back EPA Protections
Despite state mandates, utilities have been moving ahead with gas expansions that generate harmful and unnecessary climate emissions, raise rates for customers and threaten reliability of the electric grid during extreme weather events.
FEMA: classify extreme heat and wildfire smoke as major disasters
Record-breaking heatwaves and toxic wildfires continue to devastate U.S. cities and ecosystems. The Federal Emergency can unlock federal support for resource-strapped neighborhoods, cities, counties, and states where thousands are dying and disabled by these disasters.
Stop plastic-burning facilities from harming vulnerable communities
Greenwashed incinerator plants burn plastic, creating chemicals that lead to more greenhouse gas emissions and a cocktail of toxins linked to cancer, nervous system damage, and harmful effects on reproduction and development.
Build a world without plastic pollution
Register Beyond Plastics Trainings to learn practical and powerful ways to end plastic pollution locally and engage your larger community.
First Session: Sept 7 or 10. Second Session: Sept 9 or 12 | Free | Online
Tackle tricky conversations with confidence
Need help starting hard conversations with your kids?
Get stories, tips, and tools to ignite the next generation of kind & courageous leaders.
Resilience Training
Using guided practices to hold our pain and still find joy and recoveingr quickly when we’re knocked down by the world.
Free | Online | July 18 3p ET
LGBTQiA2S+ Kids School Survey
Inviting LGBTQiA2S+ kids ages 13+ who attended middle or high school in 2023-24 to answer questions about about your sense of safety and ability to participate in school.
Congress: Pass the equality act to protect LGBTiA2S+ kids
We urgently need federal protections like those laid out in the Equality Act, which would give 2SLGBTQ kids the same protections from discrimination as other protected groups under federal law.
Raising Climate Justice Advocates
These monthly Quick Action guides are brought to you with the help of our Quick Action Coordinator, Shannon Brescher Shea.
Check out her book on juggling climate advocacy & parenting, Growing Sustainable Together
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Congress: Replace Police Escalation With Mental Health Response
88% of Black Americans support hiring mental-health professionals as non-police first responders to de-escalate mental-health crises. he People's Response Act emphasizes and adopts an inclusive, holistic and health-centered approach to public safety.
Understand the physical & mental health needs of people trapped in Gaza
Seven months into the war, there is no ceasefire and no safety anywhere in Gaza. How could healing ever begin? What can people do now to end the trauma and support the process of recovery for survivors?
Free | Online | Ends July 21, 2024
Congress: Address The Youth Mental Health Crisis
Congress must provide effective resources to federal agencies to establish a comprehensive system of care to address mental and behavioral health needs for infants, children, and adolescents.
Dear Schools: Reconsider 'Crazy Hair Day'
Beyond the racist and xenophobic implications of this practice, using the word “crazy” as a joke and an insult pushes people with mental health conditions to the margins and isolates students when they most need support.
Libraries & Lemonade
Show your support for public libraries this summer by sharing the impact they make on your community while serving up some cold lemonade. Libraries and Lemonade is back this year with resources to help you host your own lemonade stand.
Summer Luminator Collective
Join our 6-week summer collective, where radically progressive parents reflect, assess, and take action to make a laser-beam impact all year round.
It’s fun. You will like it. Join us.
Enrollment closes 7/1/24 | Online | Sliding Scale
What does local action look like for your family?
RAISING LUMINARIES
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