Weekly Check In December 16

[tanaqui]

This past week has been very quiet, as everything winds down for the end of year holidays. You may have seen that a federal judge in Texas said on Friday that the Affordable Care Act's individual coverage mandate is unconstitutional and that the rest of the law therefore cannot stand. However, this twitter thread explains why you shouldn't worry too much (just yet, at least).

Meanwhile, rydra_wong has posted some great news about the fundraiser to honor Dr Blasey.

We still have some ongoing actions if you have time and energy in this coming week.

Protecting the Mueller investigation
Encourage your senators to follow Flake's lead

Other Actions
Charity comic anthology to aid survivors of the Grenfell tower fire
Write Letters of Support for Muslim Girl Who Received Threatening Letters
Links on Voting Rights Movement
Donate to Honor Dr. Blasley as an Educator
Boycotting Fox: Call To Boycott Companies That Advertise On Fox, We Got A List and Petition

Housekeeping (the usual stuff)
Reminder that we now have a Friending Meme and a (locked) post where you can connect with others who 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 #20946 The Week

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4

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called my one senator
2 (50.0%)

called my other senator
1 (25.0%)

called my representative
1 (25.0%)

called my governor
0 (0.0%)

called my state reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax
0 (0.0%)

attended a town hall
0 (0.0%)

donated money to a cause
0 (0.0%)

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
0 (0.0%)

worked for a campaign
0 (0.0%)

did textbanking/phonebanking
0 (0.0%)

took care of myself
1 (25.0%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
2 (50.0%)

did something else
1 (25.0%)

committed to action in the coming week
1 (25.0%)

Comments

[sabotabby]

Organized my workplace to participate in an admittedly heavily biased consultation process. Went to a union meeting, ran a union meeting, committed to doing more graphics for my union.

[tanaqui]

That sounds awesome! Much kudos for doing such important work.

[sabotabby]

Thanks. The organizing work I do isn't much; the union exists, and my workplace has five other people, half of whom still seem unclear as to what a union is for. But the graphics have a bit more reach.

[jjhunter]

Another update: CAIR-MA Receives 500+ Letters of Support for Muslim Girl Targeted by Threatening, Islamophobic Messages

[tanaqui]

Oh, what a fantastic update - thanks for sharing it!