We've committed to volunteering our team's time to activism. Each employee gets paid to spend a minimum of two hours per week on activism.
Below is a list of what we're doing this week - it's organized so you can easily join us in enacting change.
register to vote!
→ If you haven't registered already - you may still have time! CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION STATUS!
Coronavirus
→ Urge congress to pass additional Coronavirus relief measures ASAP.
Workers rights
→ Demand that Amazon employees be granted time off to vote.
TRANS RIGHTS
Police brutality/Criminal justice
→ Ask NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio to have medical professionals enforce social distancing, not the police.
SUPREME COURT
→Text "RBG" to 50409 to automatically send a letter to your representatives to demand a delayed vote on a new Supreme Court justice (via Resistbot).
ICE
→ Use this tool to email your representatives and this tool to call you representatives to demand further investigation into ICE's forced hysterectomies.
→ Use this ACLU tool to demand that Irwin County Detention Center be closed and to defund ICE.
→ ICE’s main line is (888-907-6635) if you would like to call them.
voting / usps advocacy
→ Demand the Senate pass bipartisan USPS House legislation.
→ Demand Financial Transparency of Top USPS Leaders
→ Click here or dial (844) 402-1001 to be connected to an automatic dialer to call the Senate to advocate for the American Postal Workers Union. The APWU is currently demanding that $25 billion in stimulus funding be allocated to USPS. You can use this script if you would like.
→ Read this, then call your representatives to demand that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy resign (be sure to set your location to automatically access your representative contacts as well as view provided script).
→ Join Operation Swing State with HRC - they have phone banking sessions every Tuesday.
→ Message the National Election Pool to demand accountability on election day.
→ Help boost Black voter turnout via NAACP Black Voices Change Lives phone banking.
→ Sign up to be a letter writer for Vote Forward to ensure that the maximum number of unengaged voters go to the polls.
→ Call your representative in support of the Fair Representation Act
→ Adopt a battleground state to support Democratic voting efforts