Action
This growing list of Chicago-based and national organizations could use your dollar-power, people-power, and, at least, your basic support by connecting to their social media and email lists. This info is meant to be shared, used, and customized. It has been compiled collaboratively by Sixty Inches From Center and On The Real Film located in Chicago, Illinois, and was presented at our Transition to Power Inauguration Day Screening + Action Session on January 20, 2017.
Download the extended pdf version to use as a presentation, and learn more about hosting your own action session at SixtyInchesFromCenter.org
Download the extended pdf version to use as a presentation, and learn more about hosting your own action session at SixtyInchesFromCenter.org
Indivisible
A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda - indivisibleguide.com
A pretty solid guide created by former progressive congressional staffers who saw and studied how the Tea Party beat back Pres Obama’s agenda. They created this guide to provide insider info on how individuals can best influence Congress, including the basics on petitions and calling our legislators. Shows special care for immigrants and non-citizens. Shows how to organize locally using town-halls, meetings, sit-ins, interventions at legislator photo-ops, and coordinated calls. Invites you to share, use, amend, and customize.
Americans Civil Liberties Union of IL
aclu-il.org
The ACLU of Illinois has been the principal protector of constitutional rights in the state since its founding in 1929. The ACLU of Illinois (ACLU), and its affiliated Roger Baldwin Foundation (RBF), are non-partisan, non-profit organizations dedicated to protecting the liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, the state Constitution, and state/federal human rights laws. The ACLU accomplishes its goals through litigating, lobbying and educating the public on a broad array of civil liberties issues. They Provide a way to keep track of our state legislators and see how they vote on different issues using the ACLU Scorecard, scorecard.aclu.org
Best way to get involved:
Donate! Or volunteer--you don’t have to be a lawyer. Check the Action Center on their website for the latest calls to action and calls to reach out to legislators. Learn more about the key issues they focus on, including free speech, children’s rights, reproductive rights, racial justice, religious liberty, LGBT Rights, Government surveillance, criminal justice system reform, immigration, rights of persons with disabilities, women’s rights, voting rights and more.
312-201-9740 / [email protected] FB: @ACLUofIllinois / Tw + Insta: @ACLUofI
Planned Parenthood
plannedparenthood.org
Planned Parenthood is America’s most trusted provider of reproductive health care. Our skilled health care professionals are dedicated to offering all people high-quality, affordable medical care. One in five American women has chosen Planned Parenthood for health care at least once in her life. Planned Parenthood believes in the fundamental right of each individual, throughout the world, to manage his or her fertility, regardless of the individual's income, marital status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or residence.
Best way to support:
Donate, and make those phone calls when it’s at risk.
Tw: @PPact / @PPFA FB: @PlannedParenthood
Black Lives Matter Chicago
blacklivesmatterchicago.com
Black Lives Matter Chicago is an intersectional vehicle that values Black people and our right to self-determination. They fight for justice with families most impacted, while working to create just and equitable systems. They work to end state violence and criminalization of Black communities by deconstructing white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy. They provide an online Know Your Rights guide, reports, reading materials and statistics on social justice issues, particularly ones relevant to Chicago
Best way to get involved:
Follow them on social media and keep an ear to the ground for their events, calls to action, donation drives, actions, and other activities.
Tw: @BLMChi / FB: @BlackLivesMatter
Southern Poverty Law Center
splcenter.org
The SPLC is the premier U.S. non-profit organization monitoring the activities of domestic hate groups and other extremists – including the Ku Klux Klan, the neo-Nazi movement, neo-Confederates, racist skinheads, black separatists, antigovernment militias, Christian Identity adherents and others. They're currently tracking more than 1,600 extremist groups operating across the country and publish investigative reports, train law enforcement officers and share key intelligence, and offer expert analysis to the media and public. They have several projects aimed at educators and youth.
Best way to get involved:
Read their reports, donate and follow them on social media.
FB + Tw: @splcenter
Arts Alliance Illinois
artsalliance.org
Arts Alliance is the largest statewide arts advocacy network in the country. Through research and working with policymakers and public agencies, they advance widespread support of all the arts. They provide information on state and national campaigns + initiatives, monitoring of the Chicago Cultural Plan, data and reports on the arts, travel to DC for National Arts Advocacy Day
Best way to help:
Donate, get on their mailing list to stay updated on legislation and actions, use their tools.
FB + Tw: @ArtsAllianceIL
A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda - indivisibleguide.com
A pretty solid guide created by former progressive congressional staffers who saw and studied how the Tea Party beat back Pres Obama’s agenda. They created this guide to provide insider info on how individuals can best influence Congress, including the basics on petitions and calling our legislators. Shows special care for immigrants and non-citizens. Shows how to organize locally using town-halls, meetings, sit-ins, interventions at legislator photo-ops, and coordinated calls. Invites you to share, use, amend, and customize.
Americans Civil Liberties Union of IL
aclu-il.org
The ACLU of Illinois has been the principal protector of constitutional rights in the state since its founding in 1929. The ACLU of Illinois (ACLU), and its affiliated Roger Baldwin Foundation (RBF), are non-partisan, non-profit organizations dedicated to protecting the liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, the state Constitution, and state/federal human rights laws. The ACLU accomplishes its goals through litigating, lobbying and educating the public on a broad array of civil liberties issues. They Provide a way to keep track of our state legislators and see how they vote on different issues using the ACLU Scorecard, scorecard.aclu.org
Best way to get involved:
Donate! Or volunteer--you don’t have to be a lawyer. Check the Action Center on their website for the latest calls to action and calls to reach out to legislators. Learn more about the key issues they focus on, including free speech, children’s rights, reproductive rights, racial justice, religious liberty, LGBT Rights, Government surveillance, criminal justice system reform, immigration, rights of persons with disabilities, women’s rights, voting rights and more.
312-201-9740 / [email protected] FB: @ACLUofIllinois / Tw + Insta: @ACLUofI
Planned Parenthood
plannedparenthood.org
Planned Parenthood is America’s most trusted provider of reproductive health care. Our skilled health care professionals are dedicated to offering all people high-quality, affordable medical care. One in five American women has chosen Planned Parenthood for health care at least once in her life. Planned Parenthood believes in the fundamental right of each individual, throughout the world, to manage his or her fertility, regardless of the individual's income, marital status, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or residence.
Best way to support:
Donate, and make those phone calls when it’s at risk.
Tw: @PPact / @PPFA FB: @PlannedParenthood
Black Lives Matter Chicago
blacklivesmatterchicago.com
Black Lives Matter Chicago is an intersectional vehicle that values Black people and our right to self-determination. They fight for justice with families most impacted, while working to create just and equitable systems. They work to end state violence and criminalization of Black communities by deconstructing white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy. They provide an online Know Your Rights guide, reports, reading materials and statistics on social justice issues, particularly ones relevant to Chicago
Best way to get involved:
Follow them on social media and keep an ear to the ground for their events, calls to action, donation drives, actions, and other activities.
Tw: @BLMChi / FB: @BlackLivesMatter
Southern Poverty Law Center
splcenter.org
The SPLC is the premier U.S. non-profit organization monitoring the activities of domestic hate groups and other extremists – including the Ku Klux Klan, the neo-Nazi movement, neo-Confederates, racist skinheads, black separatists, antigovernment militias, Christian Identity adherents and others. They're currently tracking more than 1,600 extremist groups operating across the country and publish investigative reports, train law enforcement officers and share key intelligence, and offer expert analysis to the media and public. They have several projects aimed at educators and youth.
Best way to get involved:
Read their reports, donate and follow them on social media.
FB + Tw: @splcenter
Arts Alliance Illinois
artsalliance.org
Arts Alliance is the largest statewide arts advocacy network in the country. Through research and working with policymakers and public agencies, they advance widespread support of all the arts. They provide information on state and national campaigns + initiatives, monitoring of the Chicago Cultural Plan, data and reports on the arts, travel to DC for National Arts Advocacy Day
Best way to help:
Donate, get on their mailing list to stay updated on legislation and actions, use their tools.
FB + Tw: @ArtsAllianceIL
