diff --git a/src/content/_index.md b/src/content/_index.md index 1ded219..1f46f64 100644 --- a/src/content/_index.md +++ b/src/content/_index.md @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ The ILRC’s Red Cards help people assert their rights and defend themselves in - [Red Cards](https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas) \/ _[Tarjetas Rojas](https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas)_ | [Immigrant Legal Resource Center](https://www.ilrc.org/red-cards-tarjetas-rojas) - [Immigration Preparedness Toolkit | Immigrant Legal Resource Center](https://www.ilrc.org/resources/community/immigration-preparedness-toolkit) +Show up to your city and county commission meetings to demand sanctuary policies, protecting our neighbors from the ICE police state. + ## Encourage and support labor unions, workers, and small businesses Get involved with unions and co-ops in your local area. Join picket lines and participate in boycotts. @@ -62,7 +64,7 @@ By state Visit [vote.org](https://www.vote.org/) for state-by-state links to state and local election information, voter registration rules and deadlines, and absentee ballot information. -Encourage and vote for public servants who are focused on the public—not on special interest-funded career opportunities. +The policies we want to see enacted at a federal level start at home. It is surprisingly easy to get involved with your city and even county commissions. Encourage and vote for public servants who are focused on the public—not on special interest-funded career opportunities. Lobbying is the act of soliciting elected officials to use their office to benefit the interests of corporations and [wealthy oligarchs](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/22/oligarchs-visible-more-vulnerable). [Filing taxes could be a lot easier without Intuit's lobbyists](https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free), but this is just one example of the power tech companies and oligarchs exhibit over government policy. @@ -71,6 +73,8 @@ Contact your senators and congresspeople to remind them of who they're fighting - [Find your congress member](https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member) - [Find your senator](https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm) +If your congressperson has a mailing list, sign up for it. Review their voting history. Engage with them at town halls. + ## Share and promote these resources. Submit resources you've found helpful to the email at the bottom of this page. @@ -79,4 +83,4 @@ Submit resources you've found helpful to the email at the bottom of this page. # What is fascism? -Fascism is a system of government with a centralized authority, a capitalist economy, violent suppression of the opposition (like we saw on January 6th, 2021), and a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. Sound familiar? We think so. +Fascism is a system of government with a centralized authority, a capitalist economy, violent suppression of the opposition, and a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. Sound familiar? We think so.