Now's the Time for Action 

Now is the time to continue to push for broad systemic change.
Here are a few ways you can seek justice in these uncertain and difficult times: 

CLIMATE JUSTICE

1. Contact your representatives and ask them to prioritize climate provisions in upcoming bills. 

ECONOMIC JUSTICE

1. Show your support of farmworkers and their fight for dignity by signing a petition to expand the Fair Food Program to protect more farmworkers. 

2. Help buy up medical debts through Undue Medical Debt. Learn about churches who have had successful medical bill forgiveness campaigns. 

3. Tell Congress to protect children in agriculture through co-sponsoring the Children's Act for Responsible Employment and Farm Safety (CARE Act).

4. Sign up for Coalition of Immokalee Workers Fair Food mailing list to learn more about what you can do to advocate for farmworker rights. 

5. Contact your Senators and Representatives to pass common-sense legislation that saves the lives of farm workers like the Asunción Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatality Prevention Act.

6. Call your legislators (202-224-3121) and advocate for permanent federal paid sick leave, expanded unemployment benefits, SNAP increases, and a moratorium on evictions, utility shut-offs, and payments. 

GENDER JUSTICE

1. Write your senators to urge them to prioritize the needs of pregnant and postpartum workers by passing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act without delay! 

2. Read MFSA's statement of solidarity

IMMIGRATION JUSTICE

1. Check out our Beyond Borders Immigration Webinar Series with UMVIM and DHM

2. How to Care for Immigrants in Your Community

3. Call on Congress to pass an Afghan Adjustment Act which will help keep families together and ensure lasting protection for at-risk Afghans. 

4. Join the #WelcomeWithDignity movement by signing the pledge to reimagine the way our country and our communities treat people seeking safety.

5. Write a letter and join the grassroots organizing for the rights of refugees, asylum seekers, and immigrants.

6. Read MFSA's statement of solidarity

JUSTICE IN THE HOLY LAND

1. Reach out to members of Congress to persuade elected officials to join the Resolution Recognizing the Genocide of the Palestinian People in Gaza

2. Join the boycott of Chevron who is profiting off the genocide in Gaza

3. Here is a list of products and services to boycott of companies that are supporting Israel's apartheid of Palestine.

LGBTQIA+ JUSTICE

1. Join the fight against anti-trans discrimination by learning what anti-trans legislation is proposed in your state and access information to contact your state legislator.

2. Tell your Senator to pass the Equality Act so that all people have comprehensive, nationwide protection against discrimination. 

PEACE BUILDING

1. Reject U.S. support of the Marcos Dynasty in the Philippines and sign the Unity Statement.

2. Urge your Senators to pass gun safety legislation now. 

3. Has your country signed on to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons?  Contact your elected officials to support the end of nuclear weapons in the world.

4. Sign the petition and tell Congress to abolish the federal death penalty.

RACIAL JUSTICE

1. Ask Congress to expand access to medical care as one way to fight back against racial inequality.

2. Contact your elected officials to take an intersectional response to the incidents of AAPI hate and to center the needs of those most impacted, Asian American women and elders.

3. Take free online university courses on systemic racism.

REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE

1. Contact your Senators and demand they vote yes on the Women's Health Protection Act. 

2. Donate to local abortion funds and providers

VOTING RIGHTS

1. Join the Poor People's Campaign effort. to educate and mobilize poor and low-wealth eligible voters for the Midterm Elections

2. This election season, pledge to vote your values and fight for your rights and encourage your friends and family to do the same.