WCID Wednesday: Compound Action happens IRL

• Volunteer: Jobs With Justice builds power for working people by fighting for collective bargaining rights, employment security, a decent standard of living, and more. Donate or volunteer to join the fight for workers’ rights. (go)

• Get Funded: Akiptan enhances the prosperity of Indigenous food producers by providing loans and technical assistance to Indigenous workers in the food system. Sure feels like a pretty great evergreen idea also right now! (go)

• Donate: Mutual aid relief in LA is all the rage, and for good reason. These groups have been on the ground doing this essential community-reinforcing work for a long time. (go)

• Volunteer: Awesome to see the Boomers among us stepping up to join legendary Bill McKibben’s Third Act group. Bring your invaluable life experience and skills to the fight for a sustainable future. (go)

• Verb: Healthcare claim denied? Join the team! Probably not a surprise that so many of you are using ProPublica’s Claim File Helper tool, which shouldn’t have to exist, but here we are! (go)

• Donate: Parents know babies (and their parents) need a lot of stuff. They know it’s expensive. And when it all goes up in flames, you need help, fast. Baby2Baby is doing that work. (go)

• Donate to and volunteer with disaster relief and mutual aid (go). The searches this week were obviously primarily targeting organizations in California, but you can find ways to support mutual aid and disaster relief anywhere in the US, and beyond.

• Buy an air quality monitor (go). It’s usually pretty obvious when the air quality outside is bad — the sun is bright red, your throat burns, your phone app tells you to stay inside. But indoor air quality is just as important, and it can be hard to tell when it’s time to open a window (provided the outdoor quality is fine…)! A monitor will let you know.

• Volunteer for mental health (go). From participating in clinical trials to signing up to answer the phone on a crisis hotline to joining an advocacy group, there are so many ways to give your time.

• Do anything (donate, volunteer, learn) to help with wildfires (go). Donate and volunteer to help the people affected right now, and get educated on how you can prepare for the next one.

• Teach about climate change (go). Your students need to understand how climate change connects to increased, more intense natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes, so they can participate in adaptation and mitigation solutions.

• Volunteer to work on climate policy (go). Individual actions are great, but we need solutions at the policy level. Sign up to start advocating for better climate policies, so we can all avoid future climate devastation.

• Learn about plastic pollution (go). Understand what you can do at home and in your city to reduce plastic use.

• Teach: Your students may have noticed all the cities burning on the news — or similar but floods etc — and asked “So what’s up with that”. The STEP Curriculum has 8 total lessons on specific disasters and how kids can prepare for them. (go)

• Learn: The Atlas of Sustainable City Transport is exactly what it sounds like. Print it up (you can’t actually print it up) and wave it in the face of your city council. (go)

• Learn: Around the world, correlation DOES equal causation when it comes to a lack of women’s empowerment and climate change (this is not a math podcast, sorry). Read up on/in (?) this essential UN report. (go)

Next week is gonna be a lot. Take care of yourselves, and stay with the fight. It matters more than ever. Fuck bad guys.

(Also remember — you can save actions for later with an WCID profile! Thank you as always for giving a shit).

— Quinn

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