Fifteen Minutes For Our Future 

As a complement to and outgrowth of our partnership with teams from battleground states, we are having a weekly meeting to identify actions to protect our Democracy (and by default, our climate and future). We’re calling this “15 Minutes For Our Future!”

Goals:

We have had weekly Zoom calls to identify two (or more) actions that each of us can take that week in support of Democracy. These actions are intended to be:

  • Easy with clear instructions
  • Fun
  • Fast – can be completed in 15 minutes (or less) each
  • Minimal effort, maximum impact – protect people’s time, keep stress low

Meetings launched Monday, August 5th (for 15 minutes) at 8:30 A.M., and are happening every Monday since, through Election Day.

Zoom link:  

https://thirdact-org.zoom.us/j/86068042744?pwd=BGpTYaTwRyYpjfrwGP3nwsFDhtiWkP.

Suggested Weekly Activities – updated weekly!

Do you have a suggestion for an activity (KISS), or a question/comment – click here to send an email

August 5 – 

  1. Donate a dollar  to a high risk battleground candidate, or to each one (more is better)!
  2. Download the Project 2025 “Explainer” (which is a PDF file) from here and share with two friends

August 12 – 

  1. Invite a friend to the meeting next week – or the week after that
  2. Share the one page Project 2025 description to your favorite social media outlet or physical bulletin board. Click here!

August 19 – 

  1. Make sure your family/friends are registered to vote
  2. 100 Reasons to vote for Kamala Harris – post one a day to social media.  If you want to join the group of “posters” – please have email 100ReasonsToVoteHarris2024@gmail.com with “YES 100 Reasons” in the subject line and we’ll add you to our group.
  3. One for fun: Tiny Trumps – https://maketrumptiny.com/

August 26 – 

  1. Contact your county board of elections and volunteer to be a poll worker. This is  a nonpartisan position and there will be representatives from both parties working. There is usually a nominal salary.
  2. Check your voting location and remind your friends and family to do so too.

A Pennsylvania-specific suggestion:

Additional, easy-peasy actions:

  1. Make a suggestion for this list
  2. Print out a Project 2025 overview, post at your food coop, or other public bulletin board – take a selfie, post to FB or Instagram 🙂
  3. If in Vermont, post to Front Porch Forum (a town-by-town, online bulletin board). Other states may have something similar.
  4. Jo Parker suggests using DC partner Jim Lardner’s less hyperbolic – Trump on the issues – document as a postable item, too. Click here.

September 2 – Labor Day!

September 9 – 

  1. Sign up to take voters to the polls
  2. Remind your college age children or busy adult children to check their registration and remind them to request mail in ballots, etc.
  3. Women: Write a postit and leave in a public women’s bathroom stall with the quote “woman to woman, no one sees how you vote.  Vote Harris/Walz!” Like this (click here). 
  4. Post a photo of yourself on Facebook doing something to help the election–writing postcards, text banking, canvassing, etc.  Or post a photo of your yard sign or bumper sticker

September 16 – 

  1. BCC 15 minutes/Postcard webpages to all your contacts – it works!
  2. 24 hours in ’24 – 3rd bi-annual virtual Postcard Around The Clock gathering – https://www.eventbrite.com/e/24-hours-in-24-our-freedoms-are-on-the-ballot-postcard-around-the-clock-tickets-998091637957
  3. Donate to groups that try to get underserved communities to vote, like 
    1. Black Voters Matter (national) https://blackvotersmatterfund.org/upcoming-tours/
    2. New Pa Project (PA) https://www.newpaproject.org/
    3. Fair Fights (national–Stacey Abrams started) https://www.fairfight.com/

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October 28 – 

November 4