Know Your Rights and Help Explain Them to Everyone Else

Know Your Rights and Help Explain Them to Everyone Else

Know Your Rights and Help Explain Them to Everyone Else

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This week’s Take Action Now focuses on first-strike nuclear capability, sexual harassment, and knowing your rights.

Take Action Now gives you three meaningful actions you can take each week whatever your schedule. You can sign up here to get these actions and more in your inbox every Tuesday.

NO TIME TO SPARE?

Do you trust Donald Trump’s finger on the nuclear button? The Korean conflict is still escalating as the two countries’ leaders’ macho posturing intensifies. To head off an apocalyptic end, implore your elected reps to pass the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act, introduced by Senator Edward Markey and Representative Ted Lieu. Call the congressional hotline at (202) 224-3121 and make your voice heard.

GOT SOME TIME?

In the wake of the #MeToo posts, Sarah Seltzer writes that “it’s crucial to use our voices if we safely can, whether loudly or in whisper networks to warn others of bad behavior.” She goes on to explain that one small thing many men with a little leverage can do to shift the culture and be better allies to women is limit the praise and appreciation of people who exploit power dynamics in obvious, less “creepy” ways than a Harvey Weinstein. Read her article and consider how your presence in the workplace affirms or interrupts bullying behavior.

READY TO DIG IN?

The resistance needs people who know their rights and can help explain them to everyone else. Build skills and learn how to organize actions, build messaging, know your rights, and more during Resist Here’s Fall Training Series. Check out the weekly training schedule and much more.

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With the midterm elections now firmly upon us, the question is whether Democratic candidates will do more than merely occupy ballot lines as mild alternatives to the red-hot crisis that is Donald Trump.

As Trump spends over $1 billion a day on a globally destabilizing war on Iran and admits that he doesn’t “think about Americans’ financial situation,” millions across the country are struggling with the surging costs of essentials. Democrats must seize this moment and advance bold, small-“d” populist ideas—not settle for cynical caution that once again snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.

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Onward,

Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editor and Publisher, The Nation

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