Here is a preliminary list of resources meant to help you get started:
For talking to each other: For speaking up against bigotry:- Southern Poverty Law Center's "10 Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide"
- Southern Poverty Law Center's “Speak Up-Responses to Everyday Bigotry”
- Learn your House Representatives
- Learn your Senate Representatives
- For getting calls to action and calling scripts:
- Re:act’s weekly list of concrete steps to take during the Trump presidency
- Calling Scripts and resources for contacting elected officials on a number of issues, including healthcare, immigration, reproductive rights, civil liberties, marriage equality, criminal justice, refugees, gun violence prevention, and climate change.
- And if calling your reps makes you nervous, visit: How to call your reps when you have social anxiety
- Racial justice
- Immigration/Refugees
- LGBQT
- Religious Freedoms
- Civil Liberties
- Legal Defense
- Reproductive rights
- Gender equality
- National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV)
- National Organization for Women (NOW)
- National Women's Law Center
- Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network
- Running Start (educating young women and girls about politics)
- She Should Run (works to get more women into elected leadership roles)
- Climate Change
- Disability rights
- Criminal Justice/Police Violence
- Youth Enrichment
- Press Freedom
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