QUAKER CALL TO ACTION DECEMBER 2022 REPORT

Friends Committee on National Legislation  https://www.fcnl.org/issues/voting-elections

The national nonprofit, nonpartisan Quaker lobbying organization. Among other issues, they work on voting and election protection.

Protect Our Election  https://protectourelection.com

Actively supports non-partisan local election officials and is developing a zip-code searchable national database identifying partisan, anti-democratic candidates seeking election posts.  

Protect Democracy https://protectdemocracy.org

A nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting efforts, at home and abroad, to undermine our right to free, fair, and fully informed self-government. 

Represent.us  https://represent.us

National coalition movement to fix our broken elections, stop political bribery, and end secret money.

Faiths United to Save Democracy  https://www.turnoutsunday.com

An inter-generational, multiracial, interfaith voter protection campaign led by black clergy and national allies like Sojourners. Download the Voter Toolkit HERE.

League of Women Voters  https://www.lwv.org/

LWV is on the front lines defending democracy and expanding and protecting the right to vote across the country with volunteers working at the local, state and national levels to inform and protect voters.

HELPFUL RESOURCES

Faiths United to Save Democracy Voter Tooklit - Download HERE.

Choose Democracy  https://choosedemocracy.us/

A Quaker initiated national training movement to defend against an undemocratic power grab in 2020. Offers anti-coup training resources.

DC Peace Team https://www.dcpeaceteam.org

Training in non-violence skills, including: deploying unarmed civilian protection units; training in key non-violent skills; and facilitating restorative skills.

Training for Change  https://www.trainingforchange.org

A training and capacity building organization for activists and organizers. 

HELPFUL RESOURCES

How We Win: A Guide To Non-Violent Direct Action Campaigning, George Lakey

Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know, Erica Chenoweth

On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder

PolitiFact  https://www.politifact.com/

Independent political fact-checking organization.

FactCheck.org  https://www.factcheck.org/

Independent political and scientific fact-checking organization, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/  

NAACP https://naacp.org/

The dean of racial justice organizations.

Southern Poverty Law Center  https://www.splcenter.org/

Monitors hate groups and other extremists throughout the U.S. 

Poor People's Campaign https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/

Working to challenge the evils of systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, ecological devastation and the nation's distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.