Grab your Pen Party!

1. Pick one thing to start with. This is an incomplete list, let me know what else should be here.
2. For each action you take (or commit to), write it on a post-it and put it on our Grand Totals of OCC Actions. We’ll keep running totals on display on The Wall.
3. Stay for the meditation on prayer circle 4-4.30 with Rev. Sally Train.

Who to Call or Write about What:

• Call/write on any issue with script and who to direct your message to at 5calls.org
• Find your lawmaker at Common Cause – Holding Power Accountable.
• Single Payer Health Care in California – call your State Senator here

Commit to More Actions – marches, town hall meetings with elected representatives etc.

• UCC Justice Events calendar of marches
  happening in the near future and more.
• Orinda Progressives Action Alliance – we are working with this group. You can get directly involved too.
• March for Science SF, April 22nd
• Michael Moore’s Resistance Calendar

The Indivisible Guide to resisting the Trump agenda: the playbook being used by much of the resist movement. See this for where OPAA and others are coming from.

 

 

• Donate to:

• Interfaith Movement on Human Integrity (Rev. Debbie Lee’s immigrant welcoming non-profit that OCC will start working with.
• UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)
• Planned Parenthood
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• American Civil Liberties Union
• And more… let me know what.

Subscribe to Fact-Checked News Sources:

• New York Times digital or home delivery.
• Washington Post
• KQED/NPR donation
• And more…

Commit to Consumer Action

• Grab your Wallet! See the list of companies to boycott

Write Signs for the Scientists’ March on April 22nd

• Effective wording at The Metaphor Project based on Prof.George Lakoff’s work
• Sign ideas from Pinterest

Knit a Pink Hat for Marches etc.

• The Pussy Hat Project patterns and video clips.

Commit to Divest and Invest in Ethical Ways

• We need someone to head this up – powerful but complex…

Get Inspired with Good News

• Good news from Upworthy.com plus ideas for more actions.
• STAY FOR MEDITATION AND PRAYERS run by Rev. Sally Train.