Irk a Politician This Holiday Season by Giving to These Progressive Causes
For some progressives looking for holiday gifts, there are guides to ethical and feminist products. Others prefer to donate to an organization or cause. This holiday season, let your gift-giving be inspired by celebrities and their charitable donations. Celebrities like Mila Kunis have been donating to Planned Parenthood in Vice President Mike Pence’s name—and others have followed suit.
Instead of donating to a charitable organization in the name of a loved one or friend, try gifting in the name of a politician who stoked the dumpster-fire of 2017 politics. Support the work of these important organizations and give a reminder that the resistance is stronger than ever.
1. If the Alabama special election had you on the edge of your seat and the thought of child-molester Roy Moore (who has still not accepted the election results) makes you want to punch a wall while throwing up...
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...then donate to organizations and campaigns working to support voting rights and black candidates. When pollsters examined the special election voter demographics, Doug Jones was victorious because of black voters, specifically black women (96 and 98 percent voted for Jones, respectively). In response, The Cut released a list of organizations and campaigns working toward voting access and political empowerment of black women. Check out Woke Vote and Higher Heights, and give Roy Moore a reminder of the power of local organizing.
2. If you despite head of the EPA Scott Pruitt for refusing to recognize human contributions to climate change and for subsequently leading the government in throwing the planet under the bus in 2017, and you're appalled by the plethora of climate change deniers, not just in the White House but also in Congress...
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...then support those who are standing up to them, like the youth activists who protested at the UN climate summit. You can also donate to organizations educating and raising awareness about climate change, including Earthjustice and 350.org.
3. If you oppose politicians like Representative Steve King for his support of the DACA repeal and for saying Dreamers can "live in the shadows"...
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...donate to organizations like United We Dream, which is calling for a clean #DreamActNow and organized a national call day on Thursday.
Yesterday @UNITEDWEDREAM launched their DreamActTron, a giant screen across from Congress that will showcase the stories of immigrant youth eligible for the Dream Act . Every single day members of congress will be reminded of our faces and of their duty to pass a #DreamActNow http://pic.twitter.com/Wkgx4JEI39
— Mariana A Castro (@marianalesandra) December 13, 2017
You can also support organizations like Movimiento Cosecha and the Immigrant Defense Project that are fighting back on Trump-administration policies, protesting the actions of ICE and advocating for the rights of immigrants.
4. If you’re outraged over Donald Trump ignoring the crisis in Puerto Rico...
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...and his childish behavior when he visited:
...donate to organizations that are providing services on the ground in Puerto Rico and working on rebuilding efforts due to the destruction of Hurricane Maria. A list of reputable organizations includes Friends of Puerto Rico and Light and Hope for Puerto Rico: A Citizen Campaign, which is raising money to purchase and deliver specific supplies: solar lights, phone chargers and washing machines that don’t require electricity.
5. If you hate that Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price and GOP lawmakers are reducing access to birth control, something Price clearly has no knowledge of...
...and the GOP tax bill, which is an overall travesty for poor people, because of health care provisions that will remove the individual mandate and hurt access to birth control...
Donate to organizations concerned with access to birth control and reproductive healthcare, like the Center for Reproductive Rights and Planned Parenthood, and feel inspired by their recent activism to stand up to the Trump administration for the birth control rollback:
We DID IT. Thanks to you, we submitted over 500K official comments telling the Trump administration #HandsOffMyBC. This fight is far from over, though. More to come http://pic.twitter.com/XvkxOw3AID
— KeepBCFree (@KeepBCFree) December 8, 2017
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