Dear friends,
Today is the six-month anniversary of this baby. Six months is a great age — no longer newborn, mobile (but still easy to keep up with), full of possibility.
Of course, babies need attention. Maybe you’ve noticed that
actions now appear in bigger, bolder type.
Here are some things from the last few days that are scattered around. Please pick something up:
Please contact Mayor De Blasio and Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver to demand space for community composting; here are ready-made letters !
Donate to the Young Leaders of Staten Island in their mission to fight injustice, educate youth, and activate voters in Black and Brown communities.
Please contribute to NY Working Families Party to help elect progressive candidates to City Council.
Educate yourself (and others) with the Reparations Now Toolkit from M4BL!
On Juneteenth of last year, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on H.R.40, a bill to establish a Commission to study the question of reparations for Black people in the United States.
Contact your U.S. Representative to ask them to support and pass H.R. 40 immediately.
Support the New Georgia Project, which is working hard to register, educate, and turn out Georgia voters for the Jan 5th runoff.
Find time to phone-bank, text bank, and/or write postcards for the runoff in Georgia.
We are all fortunate enough to have homes from which to work for justice, but some folks face eviction at the end of this month. This puts their lives at stake:
Expiring state eviction bans have led to hundreds of thousands of additional coronavirus cases, new research finds, raising alarm about what will happen when the national eviction moratorium lapses.
The researchers, from the University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, San Francisco, Johns Hopkins University, Boston University and Wake Forest University School of Law, found that lifting state moratoriums and allowing eviction proceedings to continue caused as many as 433,700 excess cases of Covid-19 and 10,700 additional deaths in the U.S. between March and September.
Please write a letter to your state legislators, urging them to pass the Emergency Housing Stability and Displacement Prevention Act, a comprehensive eviction moratorium. This is a ready-made action that will take you one minute.
Working for justice is like raising a child — joyous, exhausting, and rewarding. We can’t do everything, but we can give our baby love and attention every day. I’m already boastful, and the baby can’t even walk yet. Just imagine how proud we’re going to be.
with love,
L