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Featured Actions
Volunteer Month of Action for Abortion Access
Join USOW’s Volunteer Month of Action all throughout June! Each week, you will get trained on how to use digital organizing strategies to help you get involved in the fight for abortion access. Deepen your activism today and join our movement of abortion advocates fighting for a world where all people have access to the care that they need.
Support the Menstrual Equity for All Act
Period poverty currently impacts an estimated 16.9 million people who menstruate in the United States. The Menstrual Equity For All Act will work to address period poverty and provide equitable access to necessary reproductive health for all, especially for students, low-income individuals, people in prison, unhoused people, and trans people. Join USOW by taking action on the Menstrual Equity For All Act today.
Tell Our Courts: Save Mifepristone
The attack on medication abortion is not a question about safety or risk — it’s about anti-abortion advocates continuing to attempt to limit access and restrict reproductive freedom around the country. They didn’t stop at Roe v. Wade, they won’t stop at mifepristone. We need you in this fight. Add your name to our petition now to urge the Courts to save Mifepristone.
Support the Women’s Health Protection Act
The Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA) would protect abortion access for people across the country. Despite the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, this critical legislation would ensure that no person faces unnecessary barriers when accessing the healthcare they need. Urge your representatives to support the WHPA!
Support Employees with Disabilities
Employees with disabilities deserve to be paid a living wage. Join the American Association for People with Disabilities in supporting the Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act and urge our elected officials to recognize the importance of fair and competitive disability employment.
Pledge to be an Abortion Advocate
One in three American women now live in states where they no longer have control over their bodies. Now more than ever, we need abortion advocates to join us in an effort to protect abortion access. Pledge to be an abortion advocate with USOW today, and to take your activism to the next level.
Register to Vote
It’s important to vote in every election and use our voice to fight for the change we want to see. Take just a few minutes to register to vote or check your registration status.
The Feminist To-Do List
It takes less than one minute to fight the patriarchy
Want to get involved but only have a few minutes to do so? Check out these quick actions you can take!
Confirm Julie Su
Julie Su has made a career out of representing not only workers, but the most vulnerable workers in America. As a young attorney representing trafficked Thai garment workers outside of Los Angeles, she won $4 million in stolen wages. Her case set a huge precedent, and that was just the beginning of a storied career. Workers deserve a labor secretary who will fiercely defend us. Sign AFL-CIO’s petition to confirm Julie Su.
Support the Equality Act
Millions of LGBTQI+ people reside in states that fail to provide them with critical legal nondiscrimination protections and that have passed an onslaught of discriminatory anti-LGBTQI+ bills. That’s why we need the Equality Act. This landmark piece of legislation would strengthen and expand federal civil rights laws to ensure clear, consistent, and comprehensive nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQI+ people in all states. Tell your members of Congress: We need the Equality Act.
Protect Native Children and Families
The Supreme Court may soon decide to weaken or overturn the Indian Child Welfare Act, or ICWA. This child welfare law has addressed centuries of genocidal attempts to destroy Native cultures and languages. We must protect Native children, families, culture, and sovereignty by codifying the Indian Child Welfare Act into your state’s law. 12 states have already codified ICWA protections into state law, urge your Governor to do the same!
Pass Paid Leave
The U.S. is one of only six countries in the world without a national paid leave policy. One in four women have returned to work within two weeks of giving birth. Join Glamour and Paid Leave for All in demanding policymakers finally commit to passing paid leave by signing their petition. Its past time for all working people to have the right to care for themselves and their families without losing a paycheck.
Support the Black Maternal Health Momnibus
The U.S. continues to be the most dangerous place to give birth among high-income countries. Black women are bearing the brunt of this crisis, losing their lives at 3 to 4 times the rate of white women. The Black Maternal Health Momnibus is a robust package of bills that serves as a solution to our nation’s maternal health crisis. Every birthing person should be able to give birth without a risk of dying from preventable causes. Let Congress know they must pass the Momnibus to address this growing crisis!
Reject the “Parents Bill of Rights”
The “Parents Bill of Rights”, is a harmful bill that actually takes away the rights of parents, kids, educators, and families. In states like Florida where versions of this bill and others have already become law, we’ve seen a tremendous amount of harmful impacts such as book bans and policies that discriminate against LGBTQ+ students. Add your name to MomsRising’s petition demanding the U.S. Senate REJECT this bill and work FOR the policies that moms and families need to thrive.
Ban Assault Weapons
Assault weapons and high-capacity magazines have repeatedly been used to commit some of the deadliest mass shootings in modern U.S. history. These weapons of war continue to contribute to the daily toll of gun violence in communities around the country. Tell Congress to act immediately to keep these dangerous weapons out of U.S. communities.
Support the EACH Act
It is long past time for our elected officials to put an end to abortion coverage bans for good. That’s why we need the EACH Act, bold legislation that ensures that each of us, however much money we make, however we get our health insurance, and wherever we live, has insurance for abortion care. Send a message to your members of Congress urging them to support the EACH Act.
Protect Trans Care
A new bill has been introduced that would criminalize the health care trans people need. You and your elected Members of Congress are our last line of defense against this national threat. We must stop any effort to criminalize trans people and the families and communities who love us. Send your message loud and clear: Tell your Members of Congress to protect trans people from discrimination.
Tell Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act
Ending the wage gap is essential to creating a future where working women of color, nonbinary people, and our families can thrive on our own terms without worrying about economic hardships. Women of color, moms, and LGBTQ+ workers experience larger pay gaps than their peers, are more likely to be the primary or sole breadwinners in their families, have been affected by the pandemic job losses and care responsibilities, and are overrepresented in low-wage jobs. Tell congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act today!
Support the Equal Rights Amendment
New joint resolutions on the ERA were introduced in both the House and Senate that will affirm the validity of the Equal Rights Amendment and remove the time limit on the ERA, making it clear that there is no time limit on equality. Ask your members of Congress to sign on in support of the resolution!
Georgia Needs a Reproductive Freedom Act
Georgia needs a Reproductive Freedom Act! Sign Amplify Georgia’s petition demanding that Georgia lawmakers repeal the bans that stand between us and our care and affirm our right to decide.
Re-indigenize National Parks
Sign Native Organizer Alliance’s petition to tell new National Park Service Director Chuck Sams: Many national parks were created by violently removing Native peoples from our homelands. To make amends for past and present injustices, we must re-indigenize national parks.
For the five minute feminist
Have some extra time to commit to taking action today? These actions are perfect for you!
Join Black Feminist Future
Are you a Black woman, girl or gender-expansive person looking to squad up other Black feminist leaders and activist? Do you want to defeat misogynoir and advance Black feminisms? Are you looking for a community of Black people who are interested in liberation to learn and grow with? If so, our community of Black feminist leaders is the hub for you. Black Feminist Future (BFF) is a member centered organization and our members help inform our work, campaigns and initiatives. At BFF, we’re centering leadership development, community care, and joy in order to build the political and social power that we need to win concrete changes in our lives, community, and beyond.
Abortion Bans Are Racist
The criminalization of abortion care hurts Black and brown people the most. Everyone deserves to make their own healthcare decisions with support and compassion, not punishment. Join URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity in saying NO to racist abortion bans!
Join the Movement to End Sexual Violence
It’s been 5 years since the #MeToo movement went viral. Join me too. International in celebrating their groundbreaking progress by joining the movement to end sexual violence! Head to their website or text METOOACTION to 24020 to join.
Center Black Youth
It’s time that reproductive justice radically centers reproductive liberation for children and youth, especially Black girls and Black LGBTQ+ children and youth. Inspired by the landmark 1989 pamphlet, “We Remember: African American Women are for Reproductive Freedom,” Girls for Gender Equity has published “We Remember: Black Youth for Reproductive Freedom” to to express what reproductive freedom means to young people and how we can get there. Read it now and sign on to show your support.
Protect Trans Youth
Take action to protect trans kids by using Trans Formations Project’s guide to find and track hateful and helpful legislation proposals that impact the health and safety of vulnerable youth and their families. We protect trans kids one bill at a time, together.
For the volunteer with a vision
If you’ve got a few hours or more to spare, take your pick from the actions below!
Become an Abortion Plug in Your Community
An AB+ Plug is the one folks can come to for real life-saving information. An AB+ Plug, is someone who has your well-being in mind and is available to be a compassionate, supportive, and informed friend and aid. It’s our job to point people in our community toward safe abortion options. We are pro abortion, pro queer and trans, pro black liberation, and pro feminisms! Come learn some ways to organize in this moment and practice compiling resources and talking to your people. This training is only open to Black women, girls, and gender expansive people.
Expose Fake Clinics Monthly Virtual Action Hour
Join Abortion Access Front for their Expose Fake Clinics monthly Virtual Action Hour. This event is open to anyone across the country who is pro-abortion access and looking to warn people in their community about fake clinics AKA crisis pregnancy centers.
SuperWomen Wednesday
Join Supermajority every Wednesday for Superwomen Wednesday! SuperWomen Wednesday is a place for the Supermajority community to come together to learn and take action. It is an entry point for anyone new to volunteering and also a place for seasoned volunteers to take meaningful action on a consistent basis.
Sisterhood, Not Cisterhood
Join Trans Empowerment Project’s new program, “Sisterhood, Not Cisterhood”, designed to create safe spaces where all women can come together, learn from each other, and build strong and supportive communities. This program offers a variety of workshops, seminars, and events that are geared toward promoting understanding, empathy, and collaboration between cis and trans women.
Become an LGBTQ+ Youth Crisis Support Counselor
Make a difference by volunteering with The Trevor Project to support LGBTQ young people! As a Crisis Support Counselor, you will be on the front lines, working one on one with LGBTQ young people to help them navigate tough times and to prevent suicide.
Organizing Night School
Join Supermajority’s Organizing Night School, a place where you can learn all the tactics to step into your power and use it for good. Programming will include lessons from leaders in various movements, guidance about accomplishing impactful electoral work, and all the things you need to know to be a badass organizer in your own right, right where you live.
Support Student Survivors
End Rape on Campus launched the Campus Accountability Map + Tool, an online resource that allows students to easily access and compare sexual assault statistics, prevention efforts, and survivor support resources between colleges and universities. The CAMT is a volunteer-driven effort, and we need you to help us expand the CAMT. Join the volunteer Research Squad!
The Hidden History of the Second Amendment and What Came After
Join MomsRising on Thursday, June 8th for their teach-in, “The Hidden History of the Second Amendment and What Came After”, to learn more about the history of the Second amendment and how the NRA’s interpretation of it has brought us to our current era of runaway gun violence, a rising number of hate crimes, and insurrectionism.
Majority Leaders Speaker Series
Join Supermajority for their Majority Leaders’ Speaker Series, which aims to inspire women to grow, learn, and develop new civic engagement skills by offering YOU, our community, the opportunity to hear directly from leading organizers, grassroots activists, and elected officials who uniquely represent the kind of leaders we aspire to be someday. The opening session of the series: Our Families Are Supported will focus on how queer families can and should be supported- through health care, family formation, policy, and the community.
Join us in taking action in the fight for gender equity.