Synergy Action Center

Opportunities to take political action:

Here is your opportunity to share your ideas! Let us know how you flex your political, environmental, and social muscles!
Not sure how to take action? Now you can get ideas from Synergy contributors and from political websites (where the issues are presented and where you can find out what you can do). We have compiled some of those websites and particular issues here. Please let us know if there are other websites you would like to see represented.

Use your voice! You have power!
Your actions matter!

Amnesty International - working to protect human rights worldwide

What you can do right now:

  • Support your local farmer's market!

  • Support local independent booksellers.

  • Make informed decision about your shopping.

  • Email your elected official(s)!!!!

  • Become informed!

  • PERSONAL AS POLITICAL:

    What do you do in your daily life to protect the environment, to exercise your political voice, to make the world a better place?...
    - Send us an e-mail or feedback (see "how to contribute") about your daily action!

  • 03.06.02-- Everyday Resistance by e eyles
  • 02.26.02-- Fight the Credit Card Companies! ideas from Cary and eric
  • 02.12.02-- Trio (zen poems) by Cary Hopkins Eyles


    ISSUES:

  • Urge Congress to Protect Against Domestic Spying!
    Read article:
    Rights Groups Urge Secret Appeals Court to Reject Ashcroft's Radical Bid For Broadly Expanded Powers To Spy on U.S. Citizens
    Friday, September 20, 2002

  • Oppose the "Anti-Women's Health Care Access Act"
    September 20, 2002

  • SpeakOut.com

  • Want to know the gun laws in your state?

  • Let Him Stay: Florida’s gay adoption ban would take a boy from the only family he ever had
    - Take Action!

  • Support Due Process Rights for Non-Citizen Children!


    INFORMATION:

  • Responsible Shopper: Learn the truth about the companies you buy from so you can make informed decisions.

  • Corporations Behaving Badly: The Ten Worst Corporations of 2001
    from: Multinational Monitor - December 2001 - VOLUME 22 - NUMBER 12


    MORE ISSUES:

  • Citizen Works Community Projects

  • Declaration of Energy Independence: Sign the petition to call for a safe and secure energy future that won't destroy our last wild places.

  • Activism Tips: Everything you need to be cause some trouble!

  • Urge House to Support Education for Welfare Moms
    April 24, 2002

  • ACLU Applauds Changes to Application for Restoration of Civil and Voting Rights, Calls Upon Governor to Amend the Rules to Make Regaining the Vote Easier
    Wednesday, April 24, 2002

  • Action Alert: Urge House to Support Education for Welfare Moms - April 24, 2002

  • Protect Your Privacy! - ACLU Action Alert

  • Two words to remember - empires fall
    - As Mahatma Gandhi : "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."

  • Oppose Inequitable Voting Requirements!
    Last updated or verified on February 19, 2002
    - ACLU

  • Oppose Backdoor Attempts to Institute a National ID!
    Last updated or verified on February 12, 2002
    - ACLU

  • Protest George W. Bush's Decision to Classify a Fetus as an "Unborn Child"
    February 12, 2002
    - NOW

  • Oppose Attempts to Allow Unchecked Domestic Spying!
    from: ACLU Action Alert

  • Keep Customs Officers Accountable!
    from: ACLU Freedom Network

  • Design Wants To Be Free: Create Anti-Corporate Cool Products
    from: Adbusters First Things First

  • TV Turn Off Week: escape the phantasy!!! coming in April 2002
    from: Adbusters Campaigns


    ACTION SITES:

  • Responsible Shopper: Learn the truth about the companies you buy from so you can make informed decisions.

  • American Civil Liberties Freedom Network: Civil Liberties in Congress

  • Adbusters Campaigns: To curtail corporate power.

  • National Organization for Women's "Take Action" Page

  • Amnesty International World Wide Appeals: Appeal on behalf of victims of human rights violations. Every month they publicize cases where your appeals could make a difference.


    Please send me an e-mail or use the feedback button on the home page (very bottom) to suggest political actions. Thank you!

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