Actions You Can Take
Environment
Educate: The Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale
Educate: Interfaith Water Resource Packet by People’s Water Board
Educate: Young Voices for the Planet – films and actions from young people on environment and climate change
Educate: Amazon Watch – supporting indigenous and environmental movements on the front lines of halting destructive development
Act: GreenFaith.org – mobilizing people of diverse religious backgrounds for environmental leadership
Act: BeatPollution.org – sign the pledge, reduce your footprint, and share this video of women human rights defenders speaking out
Act: Interfaith Power & Light – contact your representatives
Act: Join the Billion Tree Campaign – plant trees with UNEP
Food
Educate: Seed Freedom – defending the right to save and exchange our open pollinated, non GMO, non patented seed
Watch and Share: Roots of Change: Food Sovereignty, Women, & Eco-justice – a film by TOU
Watch and Share: Seeds of Sovereignty – African farmers revive traditional seed diversity
Watch and Share: How Can Faith Impact Sustainable Agriculture? – Islamic Farming Project
Act: Ample Harvest – gardeners donate fresh food to food pantries
Islamophobia
Act: Do’s and Don’ts of Bystander Intervention by the American Friends Service Committee
Act: What to Do If You Are Witnessing Islamophobic Harassment Comic – share on social media!
Act: 8 Ways Interfaith Partners Can Fight Islamophobia
Educate: Resources for Teaching and Learning about Islamophobia (requires Pinterest account)
Women & Men’s Activism for Women
Act: Women’s Earth Alliance – helping women leaders worldwide protect our environment and communities from the inside out
Watch and Share: “Boys Will Be Boys” – #ChangeTheNarrative
Watch and Share: Chilean Men Challenge Stereotypes with Knitting
Watch and Share: End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock
Educate: Women, Faith and Human Rights report by UNFPA
Educate: Religion, Women’s Health and Rights report by UNFPA
Effective Organizing
Educate: The Indivisible Guide – Former congressional staffers reveal best practices for making Congress listen
Educate: Free Human Rights Courses – offered by a diverse set of universities and advocacy groups
Examples of Hope, Courage, & Justice
Educate: Repairers of the Breach – Rev. Dr. William Barber leads a movement to “Rekindle a Prophetic Moral Vision for Justice, Social Change and Movement Building”
Act: A.C.T. to End Racism (Awaken, Confront, Transform) – Rally April 3-5, 2018 with the National Council of Churches and partners in Washington, D.C. for the launch of a comprehensive, multi-year program to address racism in our nation.