Volunteer for Get Out The Vote (GOTV) or do Voter Protection with LFG Vote
Let's F------ Go Vote!! (LFGV) is a joint project of Fair Fight and
Vote Save America's Organize or Else program. LFGV says: "We’re empowering everyday Americans to support voters and protect our democratic process from election deniers and conspiracy theorists trying to tear our country apart. With the stakes higher than ever, we need your help to ensure fair and free elections in 2024, so LFG(V)!!!" - Specialist roles may be available for lawyers, law students, and paralegals.
Volunteer to GOTV, Register, Get Candidate Summaries for Your Address, Get a Mail Ballot, Find How to Vote, and more Resources at Vote Save America!!
Get Phone Banking, Text Banking and Door Knocking lists by volunteering!!
Write Letters to Voters while there's still Time with VoteForward.org!!
If you are writing letters with Vote Forward and you would would like to add 'fortune cookies' from my creation The Key of Sparrows to them, I have created a web page with a key to the beginnings of meanings for TKOS symbols stripped of partisan or one-click-away-from-partisan links so that I can do that (and now so can you if you want!) and still follow Vote Forward's rules. I dropped my first 6 letters for Vote Forward in the mail today after my 4 types of stamps for letters arrived from USPS. I am including a numbered & signed but no text block blank postcard with them with a 'fortune cookie' symbol string, and also a Vote Forward voter checklist printable and voter buddy printable in the envelope. You don't have to include as many of the extras or personal touches or you can invent your own. You can reach more people with your Only Two Hands if your extras and personal touches are briefer. They also have a Basics of the offices (not candidates) on a ballot printable for people new to politics which I am not including but you can.
A paper cutter and a $200 Epson EcoTank printer makes this process/activity faster and cheaper. Friends you can hang out with and not being down to your last dollar make it safer and more fun. You can get such things at your nearby Office Depot or for the Paper Cutter, some types at Craft stores like Joann or Michaels. Don't know about Hobby Lobby. The EcoTank can be fancy or cheap, but it's a range of printers not a single one. You can also decorate your walls with photos & other stuff from Unsplash.com or somewhere once you can print up as much color as you want without breaking the bank. Use loops of the blue painters tape on the back.
Not going to link all 4 here because I'm busy til after election tuesday (seriously can we not even move it to the weekend? this is bullshit. But you can vote early and/or by mail in most states now!), the ones I sent off today are the the Title IX Forever stamps. Remember to shred or burn the address lists from Vote Forward when you are finished with them, as that is sensitive information. Yes, that is in their instructions except they only mention shredding. I don't have a shredder, so a burnt offering on the porch or firepit would seem like the ticket. This may be a new printing I feel like mine looked a bit different not at home can't check right now: Title IX Forever Stamps
How Voter Suppression Works taken from fairfight.com's homepage
Below is the "Victory 2024!" postcard I'm sending out. The front stays the same, the back is always evolving.
My postcard project is now into its 9th year, 4th postcard design, and somewhere
north of 3,800 postcards sent or given out with something more than 900 and less than 1,000 of design #4 left to go.
The authors argue that while it seems like the climate change catastrophe is rolling on unchecked, governmental and international action are insufficient, and corporate power continues to hold back progress, the incredible advances that have been made since 2010 have already taken the direst scenarios of 4-8 degrees centigrade of warming off the table. They argue that if this is what could be accomplished in 10ish years with market, individual, NGO, and community forces and technological advances, now that governments (and some businesses) are gettng more serious (and technology continues to drop prices and raise efficiencies), far more progress is in the near future. Hence "We WILL fix climate change!". Not to say that there won't continue to be damages, but we are well on the way to taming their expansion and repairing some of them. There is an extended discussion of doomism and despair and how that really only helps the biggest emitters and fossil companies who benefit if people are too disengaged or depressed to do anything about it (they may even promote it...).
GeoGirl has a lot of interesting stuff which include slides and infographics, not just a talking head. She has posted several in recent months on oceans and climate change, and other climate change aspects. I am only including one here for simplicity, but definitely check out the others, if that's your kind of thing. She also has a website at geogirlscience.com and is on Instagram and LinkedIn.
GeoGirl says:
Hi! My name is Rachel, I post educational geoscience videos. Whether you studying for an exam, or just someone interested in geoscience and related fields, there is something for you on this channel!
About me: I earned my PhD in geoscience at UTEP and now work as an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the University of South Carolina!
The books and references I use for my videos are always linked in the individual video descriptions :)
Environmental educators face a formidable challenge when they approach climate change due to the complexity of the science and of the political and cultural contexts in which people live. There is a clear consensus among climate scientists that climate change is already occurring as a result of human activities, but high levels of climate change awareness and growing levels of concern have not translated into meaningful action. Communicating Climate Change provides environmental educators with an understanding of how their audiences engage with climate change information as well as with concrete, empirically tested communication tools they can use to enhance their climate change program.
Starting with the basics of climate science and climate change public opinion, Armstrong, Krasny, and Schuldt synthesize research from environmental psychology and climate change communication, weaving in examples of environmental education applications throughout this practical book. Each chapter covers a separate topic, from how environmental psychology explains the complex ways in which people interact with climate change information to communication strategies with a focus on framing, metaphors, and messengers. This broad set of topics will aid educators in formulating program language for their classrooms at all levels. Communicating Climate Change uses fictional vignettes of climate change education programs and true stories from climate change educators working in the field to illustrate the possibilities of applying research to practice. Armstrong et al, ably demonstrate that environmental education is an important player in fostering positive climate change dialogue and subsequent climate change action.
