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Don't Be Complacent, Be Pro-Active And Take Action!

Turn your anger and frustration from the election into positivity and change!

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Don't Be Complacent, Be Pro-Active And Take Action!
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If you want to volunteer or donate money:

1. The ACLU:

“For almost 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States.”

2. The American Immigration Council:

“The American Immigration Council (‘Council’), established in 1987, works to strengthen America by honoring our immigrant history and shaping how America thinks about and acts towards immigrants and immigration.”

3. Black Lives Matter:

“An affirmation of Black folks’ contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.”

4. Emily’s List:

“We ignite change by getting pro-choice Democratic women elected to office.”

5. Everytown:

“Everytown is a movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities.”

6. The Future Project:

“Young people everywhere should have opportunity to discover their potential and build the skills they need to change their lives and world. We exist to make that dream a reality, and we’re starting in American high schools.”

7. HIAS:

“HIAS stands for a world in which refugees find welcome, safety, and freedom.”

8. It Gets Better Project:

“The It Gets Better Project’s mission is to communicate to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth around the world that it gets better, and to create and inspire the changes needed to make it better for them.”

9. KIND:

“KIND staff and our pro bono attorney partners at law firms, corporations, and law schools nationwide represent unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children in their deportation proceedings. Together, we ensure that no child stands in court alone.”

10. The NAACP:

“The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination.”

11. NARAL Pro-Choice America:

“NARAL was founded before Roe v. Wade, before legal abortion was even possible in the United States. We as an organization and as a progressive movement exist to fight for the dignity and equality of all Americans. We hold the line—in good times and in bad—to defend the freedoms that are enshrined in our constitution and that define what it means to be American.”

12. National Center for Transgender Equality:

“The National Center for Transgender Equality is the nation’s leading social justice advocacy organization winning life-saving change for transgender people.”

13. Planned Parenthood:

“Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of women, men, and young people worldwide.”

14. RAINN:

“RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation’s largest anti-sexual violence organization.”

Don't let the results of this election placate you, let it enrage you. Fight hard and use your voice in 2018 for the Midterm elections!


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