Find out how you can help at one of these links:
Read Up About What NY State is Doing About Controlling Gun Violence
Volunteer in some capacity with Everytown USA
Nearly 10 million mayors, moms, teachers, survivors, gun owners, students, and everyday Americans have come together to make their own communities safer.
Sign up to reduce gun violence by 2025 at Brady Campaign
Watch one of these films:
Bowling for Columbine (Available through Onondaga County Libraries)
The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed.
101 Seconds (Available on Hoopla)
The film follows individuals across a wide spectrum of political and philosophical beliefs as they engage in a debate concerning gun legislation in Oregon in the aftermath of a shooting at the Clackamas Town Center Mall in Oregon in 2012.
Living for 32 (https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/living-for-32/)
A profile of Colin Goddard, who survived the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings that claimed the lives of 32 of his classmates and galvanized him to become a gun-control advocate.
Read one of these books from an LGBTQ+ author and community member:
How it Always Is by Laurie Frankel
The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk
Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family by Amanda Jette Knox
Tomorrow Will be Different: Love, Loss and the Fight for Transgender Equality by Sarah McBride
Watch one of these films featuring LGBTQ+ themes:
Love Simon
Pride
Call Me By Your Name
Carol
The Danish Girl
Rocketman
Moonlight
Disclosure
Watch some of the videos on the National Holocaust Museum or read about confronting Genocide and Antisemitism.
Report Censorship
Censorship thrives in ignorance. The best way to prevent it is to make sure that free expression advocates know it’s happening, even if an official challenge hasn’t been made yet. 5 Things You Can Do to Support the Right to Read | September 2018 (Retrieved 9/29/21, bmf)
Speak Out
Attempts to ban books rarely succeed when people speak out against them. Here are a few ways you can speak out for banned and challenged books:
Be Wary of Self-Censorship
Intellectual Freedom Blog | February 2018
Here's an opportunity to give back and take pride in our community! Let's take a library team to help the Corps in honor of Earth Day! We will meet at a local location to be determined by the…
Entire Month of April
Meet one-on-one with community members who have various life experiences/stories and are willing to make their lives “an open book.” Rotate to spend 10 minutes with each of these fascinating indiv…
Join the Liverpool Community Gardeners for hands-on activities and special lectures by experts in the field of gardening and nature. April 19: Aaron Buchta will discuss The Science of Soil Topic…
Take out a CD and listen to it by one of these artists:
Doctor Dre
Nelly
Kid Cudi
Lizzo
OutKast
Drake
Tupac Shakur
Check out and watch one of these films:
Get Out
Selma
Just Mercy
Fences
Blakkklansman
Us
Antebellum
Black Panther
Check out this exhibit from the Glendale Central Library on how they reckon with the city's racist history.
Read one of these books and talk about it at the next meeting:
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabella Wilkerson
Caste by Isabella Wilkerson
March 1, 2, or 3 by John Lewis
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
White Rage by Carol Anderson
Read this blog on Ageism and how to push back against it.
Spend 20 minutes talking to an "Older" or "Younger". Ask them about their life and what their plans are. Suspend any preconceived thoughts or stereotypes. Really listen. Consider things from their point of view.
Watch this video about how Mental Health care is affected by the vote, then take the pledge to stay informed.
Read this short article on better understanding mental health and knowing the signs and symptoms of mental illness.
Changing the Way We Think About Mental Health
There are so many terms and conditions to understand. Read through this glossary from the National Institute of Mental Health to increase your understanding and be able to talk with authority about mental health.
Join Maggie and Cindy at the The Skä•noñh: Great Law of Peace Center on Thursday, October 2 at 10:00 a.m.
The The Skä•noñh: Great Law of Peace Center is located on the Onondaga Lake Parkway.
Cost is $5.00 ($4.00 for seniors) per person payable at the door.
Visit the Columbus Statue. Look at it carefully and consider it. Read all the inscriptions. Formulate your opinion on the removal, relocation or nonremoval of the monument. Research the options and write a letter voicing your thoughts on the matter. Mail that letter to Mayor Walsh, County Executive Ryan McMahon, and the Syracuse Common Council.
Watch this streaming film, part of the Point of View Season 34 collection of films distributed by PBS.
Rember Yahuarcani is an Indigenous painter from the White Heron clan of the Uitoto Nation in Peru. He left to pursue a successful career in Lima, but when he finds himself in a creative rut, he returns home to his Amazonian community of Pebas, visiting his father, a painter, and his mother, a sculptor, and discovers why the stories of his ancestors cannot be forgotten.
Investigate this topic more and in a broader context by taking this course for free on the MOOC server Coursera. Click the Join Free button in the top right hand corner to audit the course for free.
Race & Cultural Diversity in American Life and History
With the Taliban's take over of Afghanistan, treatment of women is changing. Read one of the stories of these women on their experience with the Taliban.
There are many types of abuse. Elder abuse has been on the rise since our population has started aging. Read this article about Elder Abuse.
This article looks back at a topic we discussed previously relating to poverty and Eviction. Eviction was mentioned in "No Visible Bruises". Read this article about affordable housing being built in Syracuse:
Double check your own registration status and encourage your friends to also!
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US Representative: John Katko
US Senator: Chuck Schumer
US Senator: Kristen Gillibrand
US President: Joseph R. Biden
March: Book One by 
Read President Biden's proclamation for Indigenous People's Day, 2021.
Learning for Justice
