I don’t usually clog your inboxes with “extra” posts, but I’m making an exception.
As many of you recall, I posted a few weeks ago about a tool my son was creating to make activism simpler. He is a web developer, and his goal was to help people who wanted to make a difference but were neither “tech savvy” nor previously politically involved.
If you missed those posts, they are here and here.
Just to remind you, on the site you can search for issues of concern at either the state or national level, in one of three ways: you can look for pending legislation, you can see what sorts of direct actions–meetings, rallies, petitions, marches, etc.–are upcoming, and you can find a list of organizations working on those issues. You can then take action on items–you can call your lawmakers, you can send emails, join or contribute to an organization, attend events…the list goes on.
And you can track all of your activity and impact on a myActivism dashboard.
What is really cool is that you can call up a current list of every elected official who represents you– from the President on down to City Councillor– with clickable phone numbers and email links to directly contact them.
And it’s all really intuitive and SIMPLE to use. Visit and see!
For the next couple of weeks, my son will be “beta testing” the site in Indiana–people who have signed up (nearly 300 so far) will use the site and let him know if they encounter bugs or problems. When he’s confident the site is working as intended, it will be rolled out nationally.
If we are going to resist what I am beginning to call the “Trump coup,” we need involvement by every good citizen who is disheartened and/or terrified by what is happening in and to our country. This tool makes that involvement much simpler and easier.
I hope you will use it, and share it widely! And if you are politically or civically engaged, I hope you will sign up to provide information about pending bills and actions. Without that “on the ground” information, the site won’t do what it is designed to do.
Very cool!
Excellente! These are the kinds of tools we need to be informed so that we can write and speak with authority. I am not in Indiana but look forward to the national rollout. Let’s go!
How do different events proposed legislation, etc. get into the database?
This. Is. Awesome!
He’s a genius! Love this!
Katherine, They get in via the content providers, who can sign up here: https://beta.activismengine.org/content-provider-account-request/
Had the opportunity to work with it todzy. It is easy to work with and presents the opportunity to post to social media as well as respond to appropriate legislators. He Is a genius.
There were over 600 attendees at the IN-ACLU First Wednesday gathering tonight. A very wonderful experience. IN-ACLU is one of the first Orgs on Activism Engine.