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[rydra_wong]

GoFundMe: Honor Dr. Blasey as an Educator

On September 27th, 2018, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford (who uses “Blasey” professionally) carried on her career as a scholar and educator, by providing lessons in civic responsibility, courage, and using one’s knowledge to speak truth to power. Since 1995, at least, when she published her dissertation, Dr. Blasey has been engaged in research and teaching.

To honor her, particularly in her professional capacity, this is a campaign to raise funds to endow an academic chair (professorship) and/or scholarships, to be named so as to recognize Dr. Blasey.

It's being run by HeidiLiFeldman, a Georgetown law professor who ran the now-capped fund to cover Dr Blasey's security costs, so seems (as far as I can verify) as legit as possible.

She says: I know there are many requests for support for all sorts of efforts right now. I will keep at this project over time. But I don’t want our country or Dr. Blasey to go months, or years,without at least one formal, apt memorial to her guts, professionalism.

Note: this is a thing non-US people can donate to as well.

For your rage-donations

[rydra_wong]

This is brilliant and needs to go viral:

The #GrabYourBallot List

The 31 candidates on this list have one thing in common: they’re all Democrats running in especially tight midterm races for the U.S. House, U.S. Senate or U.S. governorships.

ActBlue: Donate to the #GrabYourBallot candidates

ETA: plaidadder makes an extremely important point:

I hate giving money to political campaigns because if they lose you feel like you just set it on fire but I now try to look at it this way: even if your candidate loses, if s/he makes the election more competitive that makes the RNC spend more money on it and that depletes their resources.

Weekly Check In October 7

[tanaqui]

Kavanaugh was, to no one's great surprise, confirmed to the Supreme Court yesterday. We're already seeing responses and actions to move forward, like this fundraiser to honor Dr Blasey, particularly in her professional capacity. But the focus is now switching back to the mid-term elections and taking back as much control as possible in Congress.

We've also been swapping advice on how to look after yourself when protesting, in case the Big Orange Baby throws another tantrum and threatens Mueller and Rosenstein again.

So what else has been going on in the comm?

Upcoming Elections - New

For Your Rage-donations
Strategy Call: Moveon.Org
More Postcard Campaigns!
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Voter Registration, Voting Rights and How to Vote

Useful How-to Guide For Voters
Link(Spam): US Voter Information
Deadlines to register: in table format and in graphical format.
There have been more reports of people being removed from rolls so check your registration and tell others to as well.
Cancelled voter registrations: If You're In Indiana Or Know People In Indiana
Check For Availability Of Provisional Ballots, And Resist And Win Calls

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

Poll #20543 The Week

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9

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called my one senator
7 (77.8%)

called my other senator
4 (44.4%)

called my representative
1 (11.1%)

called my governor
0 (0.0%)

called my state reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax
4 (44.4%)

attended a town hall
0 (0.0%)

donated money to a cause
5 (55.6%)

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

participated in phone/online training
2 (22.2%)

went to a protest
3 (33.3%)

signed up for alerts
3 (33.3%)

took care of myself
5 (55.6%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
1 (11.1%)

did something else
3 (33.3%)

committed to action in the coming week
2 (22.2%)

Actions: Find a DNC event near you and phonebank with MomsRising

[sathari]

Two more action opportunities that I haven't seen mentioned here:

Find a Democratic event near you!

Phonebank through MomsRising!