Know Your Rights and Help Explain Them to Everyone Else

Know Your Rights and Help Explain Them to Everyone Else

Know Your Rights and Help Explain Them to Everyone Else

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This week’s Take Action Now focuses on first-strike nuclear capability, sexual harassment, and knowing your rights.

Take Action Now gives you three meaningful actions you can take each week whatever your schedule. You can sign up here to get these actions and more in your inbox every Tuesday.

NO TIME TO SPARE?

Do you trust Donald Trump’s finger on the nuclear button? The Korean conflict is still escalating as the two countries’ leaders’ macho posturing intensifies. To head off an apocalyptic end, implore your elected reps to pass the Restricting First Use of Nuclear Weapons Act, introduced by Senator Edward Markey and Representative Ted Lieu. Call the congressional hotline at (202) 224-3121 and make your voice heard.

GOT SOME TIME?

In the wake of the #MeToo posts, Sarah Seltzer writes that “it’s crucial to use our voices if we safely can, whether loudly or in whisper networks to warn others of bad behavior.” She goes on to explain that one small thing many men with a little leverage can do to shift the culture and be better allies to women is limit the praise and appreciation of people who exploit power dynamics in obvious, less “creepy” ways than a Harvey Weinstein. Read her article and consider how your presence in the workplace affirms or interrupts bullying behavior.

READY TO DIG IN?

The resistance needs people who know their rights and can help explain them to everyone else. Build skills and learn how to organize actions, build messaging, know your rights, and more during Resist Here’s Fall Training Series. Check out the weekly training schedule and much more.

We cannot back down

We now confront a second Trump presidency.

There’s not a moment to lose. We must harness our fears, our grief, and yes, our anger, to resist the dangerous policies Donald Trump will unleash on our country. We rededicate ourselves to our role as journalists and writers of principle and conscience.

Today, we also steel ourselves for the fight ahead. It will demand a fearless spirit, an informed mind, wise analysis, and humane resistance. We face the enactment of Project 2025, a far-right supreme court, political authoritarianism, increasing inequality and record homelessness, a looming climate crisis, and conflicts abroad. The Nation will expose and propose, nurture investigative reporting, and stand together as a community to keep hope and possibility alive. The Nation’s work will continue—as it has in good and not-so-good times—to develop alternative ideas and visions, to deepen our mission of truth-telling and deep reporting, and to further solidarity in a nation divided.

Armed with a remarkable 160 years of bold, independent journalism, our mandate today remains the same as when abolitionists first founded The Nation—to uphold the principles of democracy and freedom, serve as a beacon through the darkest days of resistance, and to envision and struggle for a brighter future.

The day is dark, the forces arrayed are tenacious, but as the late Nation editorial board member Toni Morrison wrote “No! This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

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Onwards,

Katrina vanden Heuvel
Editorial Director and Publisher, The Nation

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