As the Muslim Ban Goes Before SCOTUS, Share the Stories of Its Victims

As the Muslim Ban Goes Before SCOTUS, Share the Stories of Its Victims

As the Muslim Ban Goes Before SCOTUS, Share the Stories of Its Victims

You can also support farmworkers and domestic workers fighting sexual harassment in their workplaces and get your community registered to vote.

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This week’s Take Action Now looks at the victims of Trump’s Muslim ban, farmworkers and domestic workers fighting sexual harassment in their workplaces, and tools for getting your community registered to vote.

Take Action Now gives you three meaningful actions you can take each week, whatever your schedule. Sign up here to get actions like these in your inbox every Tuesday.

NO TIME TO SPARE?

In the run-up to tomorrow’s Supreme Court arguments on President Trump’s Muslim ban, the ACLU has collected stories from people whose lives have been upended by it. They include parents unable to visit their children, married couples forcibly separated, students torn between their studies and being able to see their family, and grandparents who’ve never met their grandchildren. Read these heart-wrenching stories, then share them through Facebook, Twitter (#NoMuslimBanEver), or over e-mail.

GOT SOME TIME?

Today, over 100 farmworker women and domestic workers will meet with members of Congress. They traveled to the capital as part of a campaign led by the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Alianza Nacional de Campesinas to demand that lawmakers expand sexual-harassment protections that currently exclude workers in their professions and leave many vulnerable to harassment and abuse. Join the campaign by writing a letter to Congress echoing their demands.

READY TO DIG IN?

With special elections in Arizona and New York today, 2018 is already shaping up to be a critical year at the polls. Make sure your community’s voice is heard by using Indivisible’s Voter Registration Guide. The guide includes directions for Indivisible’s online voter-registration tool, ideas for places to register voters, and advice on how to talk to people about voting. Check it out here and then get started.

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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