321ACTION: Online sex abuse, childcare funding, and U.S. v Rahimi
Ready to make a difference?
Here are three ways to get started:
1. Protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation on the internet.
Online child sex abuse has become a major crisis, with 80,000 reports of online child sex abuse reported a day. Join #TakeItDown, a NEW campaign to build public support and pressure tech companies to remove child sexual abuse material from their platforms. Share this campaign film to spread awareness and combat this growing issue.
2. Challenge Congress to prove its commitment to children
A lack of affordable and safe child care leaves parents and guardians with few options, none of them good. The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) stabilization dollars that saved the child care industry from collapse will expire in just a few days, leaving an estimated 32 million children without care, and their caretakers with impossible choices. This country says it cares about children and children’s lives: Tell Congress to prove it by continuing $16 billion of emergency funding. Click here for a toolkit of actions you can take and a letter to Congress explaining the crisis and the harm families and the economy will suffer without this emergency funding.
3. Explore survivor safety vs. the Second Amendment
What’s more important: The safety of survivors and communities, or allowing adjudicated abusers to possess firearms? In a nutshell, this is the case before the Supreme Court this November. Does the current Supreme Court's interpretation of the Second Amendment make current law prohibiting firearm access by these abusers unconstitutional? U.S. v Rahimi addresses the intersection of gun violence and DV, and will either uphold or undo Federal law criminalizing abusers’ access to firearms.
Join JWI on October 18th for to hear from lawyers and gun violence prevention experts about the significance of this case, learn about the process of the Supreme Court, JWI’s own amicus brief, and steps you can take to promote survivor safety. Register here.