Support Farmworkers in Their Fight Against Sexual Violence

Support Farmworkers in Their Fight Against Sexual Violence

Support Farmworkers in Their Fight Against Sexual Violence

You can also fight the Republicans’ tax plan and combat the Trump administration’s attempts to sabotage the Affordable Care Act.

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This week’s Take Action Now focuses on the Republicans’ tax plan, farmworkers fighting against sexual harassment and assault, and the Trump administration’s plan to sabotage the Affordable Care Act.

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?

Republicans in Congress are scheduled to unveil their tax bill tomorrow. We have every reason to believe that it will include huge tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, and little to offer the rest of us. Call your members of Congress at (202) 224-3121 and demand that they reject any plan that privileges the rich over the rest of the country. Indivisible has separate scripts for Republican and Democratic representatives that you can use.

GOT SOME TIME?

The Fair Food Program, an initiative to ensure humane wages and working conditions for farmworkers, has been lauded for its work combatting the staggering levels of sexual harassment and assault faced by women in agriculture (one study found that 80 percent of female farmworkers experienced such abuse). But despite the difference that its worker-led trainings and accountability mechanisms have made, the fast-food chain Wendy’s refuses to join the 14 other major companies that have signed on. The Women’s Group of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers recently wrote a letter to Wendy’s to request a meeting and demand that they join the program. Read their letter, share it on Twitter and Facebook, then deliver it yourself to your local Wendy’s manager and explain why the campaign is important to you and will influence where you spend your money.

READY TO DIG IN?

Having failed in its attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is attempting to sabotage it. It’s cut the open-enrollment time in half and gutted the ACA advertising budget—a strategy that the former chief marketing officer of HealCare.gov estimates could result in 1.1 million fewer sign ups. Fight back by volunteering with Get America Covered to spread the word about open enrollment. Sign up to join one of their “street teams” and they’ll give you the tools you need to get the word out in your community.

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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