Weekly Check In March 4

[tanaqui]

It's been another chaotic and ridiculous week in the White House. (Warning: link goes to CNN with an autoplay video, but it's a good summary of all the madness that's been going on.)

It's been much quieter in the comm, but we've been following up on elucidate_this's great idea for Giving up on Giving Up for Lent. nanila made a Check In Post where members have shared some of the good things they've been doing. Feel free to tell us in comments -- there or here -- about anything else you've been doing to Give Up on Giving Up.

Ongoing Actions

Make a difference in the 2018 Midterms - Organization organizing for all levels of elections
March 24: March for Our Lives - Gun control protest in Washington DC and local communities
Boycott the NRA - Contact streaming media companies to ask them to drop NRATV
District funds for the mid-terms

Housekeeping (the usual stuff)
Reminder that we now have a Friending Meme and a (locked) post where you can connect with others with live in the same area. We hope you find both of these posts useful!

We also have a suggestion post if there’s a topic that you’d like to see discussed but would like to ask the mods to look into. This can be anything from general information, or a how-to-do-a-thing, or something you may want to discuss as a community. Folks are welcome to post directly to the comm as always, but if you’re not comfortable/don’t have spoons, we can help too.

As we don't always get the time to pull things out of the suggestions post into their own separate posts, it may be worth checking every week (or tracking the post) to see if there's any new information you're interested in.

Also if you need help with tags, PM redbird, who is our tag guru. Both tassosss and I are very grateful for the help.

So, what have you all been up to in the last week or are planning to get involved in next week?

Poll #19593 The Week

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

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called my one senator
2 (33.3%)

called my other senator
2 (33.3%)

called my representative
1 (16.7%)

called my governor
1 (16.7%)

called my state reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax
2 (33.3%)

attended a town hall
0 (0.0%)

donated money to a cause
3 (50.0%)

attended an in-person activist group
0 (0.0%)

participated in phone/online training
0 (0.0%)

went to a protest
0 (0.0%)

signed up for alerts
2 (33.3%)

took care of myself
3 (50.0%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
0 (0.0%)

did something else
4 (66.7%)

committed to action in the coming week
0 (0.0%)