Ideas and suggestions post

[tanaqui]

Please use this post to leave any links you'd like us to include in future link round-ups or to make suggestions for topics you think we should cover.

Feel free to comment on any existing posts with relevant new links as well.

And don't forget – you can also make your own posts at any time.

Topics we're planning on covering currently include:

• Inspiration


• Donate


• Reproductive Health


• Ally-ship


• Racism


• Antisemitism


• Trump Plans


• Love meme


• Supreme Court


• Personal


• Suicide Hotlines


• LGBTQA+


• Organize


• Internet Safety


• Lessons from Autocracies


• Voting Rights


• Climate Change


• Environment


• Electoral College


• Where Trump Voters are Coming From - Economics of the Midwest we can't ignore

Comments

[scribblesinink]

Hey! Not entirely sure what category this fits in, but the mayor of San Jose had this to say: “We’ve Got Your Back” by Sam Liccardo https://medium.com/@SamLiccardo/weve-got-your-back-4c2fdcb0b915#.64t5wreo4 (found through morgandawn who posted it verbatim in her journal).

[tanaqui]

(Dropping this here to make sure I don't lose/forget it.)

For Americans currently overseas: Democrats Abroad, the DNC's international branch, has a page for volunteering: http://www.democratsabroad.org/volunteer

[tanaqui]

spikedluv posted suggesting Boston residents phone/write in support of a councillor looking to get a similar initiative passed in Boston, so I'm sure there's a more general action point to be made for people to ask their city councilors to press for similar statements from their mayors. :-)

[tielan]

I haven't seen anything here about the run-off elections in Louisiana? Is that worth mentioning/pointing people to/working out how to get around things like voter suppression and lack of time, etc?

It's a long shot, I think, but to get one more seat in the House (and the Senate) the effort might be valuable?

[tanaqui]

Thanks for the suggestion - I've done some research into how people can help and will make a post shortly.

[hannah]

I've seen it suggested to pressure electoral college members to change their vote this year, but nothing clear on who to contact or what to say - that is, if I'm in New York, whether I should phone the Wyoming representative or not. Might you post something about that in the next couple of weeks?

[tanaqui]

That's a really interesting question. We can certainly do some research on the topic and see if we can put a post together helping to clarify the options with respect to the electoral college.

[tsumego]

One of the things I was thinking about for a centralized comm/space would be to have either state-specific posts or tags, and then a "national" section, which would allow people to navigate or filter to actions that are relevant to them - thoughts?

[cesy]

Also see spoonlessactivists, holyfucktheelection.com, Avaaz.com

[cesy]

And http://siderea.livejournal.com/1321238.html and other stuff by Siderea - further good links in the comments there.

[cesy]

This would be great, and also a tag for international-impacting stuff.

[snickfic]

Have you considered creating a feed from this comm to Tumblr? You can do it through IFTTT. I can set it up for you if you'd like. It would automatically crosspost all posts from this comm to a dedicated Tumblr, either full text or as links, as you prefer.

You guys are doing great work, and I'd like more people to be able to see it!

[tanaqui]

Thanks for the great suggestion -- crossposting to Tumblr is a great idea. We'll get back to the comm once we've got that set up (and let you know if we need help with IFTTT).

[tanaqui]

Siderea's link is on our list of upcoming posts. :-)

I'll add the others to the document where we're stashing links.

Thanks for the suggestions!

[tanaqui]

Good idea - we can add those tags as they come up. (I think we need a Louisiana one already....)

[snickfic]

Hey, I am putting together a "Why you should join your local Democratic party" post. Would that be appropriate to post to the comm? In terms of time investment it's less low-key than what you describe in the comm profile, so I wanted to check.

[tanaqui]

That sounds fine to me! The focus is on low-key actions mostly to provide resources for people who want to do something but haven't got a lot of time, money, energy or other resources -- but we're definitely happy to see a sprinkling of ideas that will work for people who are able to do a little more.

[snickfic]

Awesome! I will try to get it up in the next day or two.

[teaotter]

Maybe in the next round-up, we can have the calendar for Cabinet confirmation hearings or at least what we know so far.

[tassosss]

Thats a really good idea. We can do that.

[tielan]

A link: "So you just got home from your local Women's March. Now what?"

To be included in a 'what next' post, perhaps?

[tassosss]

Thanks! I'm putting together a post for this topic.

[glass_icarus]

Hi team, not sure where action-tracking falls, but I saw a friend of a friend had created Today in Trumpland for what looks like daily recaps of government action. It's missing the first few days, but I have a c/p'd fb post that covers (most of?) days 1-4 here.

[ghost_lingering]

Hey -- not sure if this is the right place for this comment, but I'm wondering if you've seen anything about the best people/institutions to contact regarding the changes in the National Security Council. Having a political advisor on the NSC is inappropriate (particularly one as odious as Bannon) and (possibly?) moving the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the NDI to positions of lesser importance is bizarre to me. I'd like to reach out to *someone* but I'm not sure who the best people would be -- I haven't seen any thing about it.

[tielan]

Saw this in terms of prepping for the 2018 Midterms. A long way away, but something to definitely be thoughtful of: http://spokespider.tumblr.com/post/156958752714/positive-pebble-elrond50-mewiet