Transition, Native American History Month, and 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence: Your civic action to-do list for 11-23-20
This Thanksgiving, we want to express our gratitude to all our loyal 321 readers, change-makers, and community activists. We deeply appreciate your commitment to advocating to protect and advance health, rights, safety, and economic security for all women and girls. Thank you for making your voices heard and helping to create a more equitable world.
3. Our public health, economy, and basic food and housing security all depend on the incoming administration’s ability to prepare a coronavirus response plan that can be implemented on Day 1, but the General Services Administration (GSA) has blocked transition activities.
In a nutshell: By refusing to formally ascertain Biden's election win, the GSA is undermining the federal government’s response to the raging pandemic. Biden's transition team needs access to government resources and information to establish plans for vaccine distribution and expand testing and tracing.
Take action: Tell your senators that the American people elected a new president and that the GSA must ascertain the outcome and allow transition activities to begin.
2. COVID-19 has disproportionately impacted Native American communities and exacerbated economic distress, food access, and housing shortages in Indian Country.
In a nutshell: This Native American History Month, we must redouble our efforts to address chronic underfunding and barriers to sovereignty in Indian Country.
Take action: Learn more about the importance of health and human rights for Indigenous communities in “From Erasure to Resilience: The Future of Food Security and Food Sovereignty in Indian Country.”
1. 243 million women and girls around the world were sexually and/or physically attacked by an intimate partner in the last year.
In a nutshell: As we share Thanksgiving with family and friends who are members of our own households per CDC guidance, it is important to keep in mind that home is not always a safe place those experiencing domestic violence, sexual violence, and child abuse.
Take action: Follow #16Days and @JewishWomenIntl on social media for the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign, which begins this Wednesday, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and continues through Human Rights Day on December 10.
