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The intention for this page is to be a place to serve as snapshots on issue areas that don’t fit neatly into our defined Issue Pages but are (obvi) worthy of our community’s attention and action. You’ll notice that this page will have some overlap with other Issue Pages, but will take a slightly different format in an effort to cover as much ground as we can.
That said — it’s a big world out there and we’re fully aware that this page does not (and cannot) incorporate it all. Drop us a line at info@the-outrage.com with thoughts or feedback!
KEY ISSUES
ASSOCIATION
EDUCATION
HEALTH
LIBERTY
PEACE
PRIVACY
RELIGION
SELF DETERMINATION
SPEECH + EXPRESSION
WELFARE
See Dive Deeper + Act Now section below for definitions and resources for these Key Issues!
DIVE DEEPER + ACT NOW
BREAKING NEWS / Rapid Response International Crises+
- Iranian Revolution —
- Learn —
- Learn How Mahsa Amini’s Death Reignited a Movement — Anti-Racism Daily
- Iranian women are rising up to demand freedom. Are we listening? —LA Times
- Mahsa Amini Protests in Iran: Beatings, Killings, and Arrests of Women Continue—Teen Vogue
- Photos Show World Reactions to Mahsa Amini’s Death in Iran—TIME
- What happened to Mahsa Amini? —Harper's Bazaar
- Why Iranian women are risking everything by burning their hijabs —VOX
Association+
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Everyone has the rights to freedom of assembly and association which ensures that individuals are free to organize and form and participate in groups, either formally or informally. It also ensures that no one is compelled to belong to an association.
- Learn —
- Clément Voule on Freedom of Assembly and Association —OHCHR
- Crackdown on peaceful protests since death of Jina Mahsa Amini needs independent international investigation, say UN experts —OHCHR
- Governments must embrace and enable social movements as key partners in “Building Back Better”: UN expert—OHCHR
- Justice for repression against anti-coup protesters in Sudan is key to breaking cycle of violence and political turmoil, say UN experts—OHCHR
- Summary of the panel discussion on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests —OHCHR
Education+
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Everyone has a right to education, and that education should be free and compulsory in elementary and fundamental stages.
- Learn —
- Afghan girls’ will to learn is powerful. Even a bomb won’t crush it.—The Washington Post
- All Children Have a Right to Pre-Primary Education—HRW
- Human Rights Education for, with and by Youth—OHCHR
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- The Privatisation and Commodification of Education: Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education—OHCHR
- Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
- Underfunded and Devalued: Mismanaging the Teacher Retention Crisis —ARD
- Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love
- Act—
- Sign the Petition:Defend Every Student’s Right to Learn
Health+
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Everyone has access to timely, acceptable, and affordable health care, including reproductive and sexual health. This also includes the underlying determinants of health, access to food, clean drinking water, sanitation, housing, and more.
- Learn —
- Death of 14-year-old triggers protests for abortion rights in Morocco—Open Democracy
- End racism to advance health and other human rights says UN expert—OHCHR
- Experts of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women Commend Belgium on Tremendous Progress made in Legislation, Ask about Gender-Based Violence and Women in Decision-Making Positionst—OHCHR
- Human Rights and Gender Equality in Health Sector Strategies: How to Assess Policy Coherence —OHCHR
- Summary of the panel discussion on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of peaceful protests —OHCHR
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A Washington
- Privatization Helped Make Jackson, Mississippi’s Water Undrinkable —Jacobin
- Right to a Better World: Contraception, Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Maternal Mortality and Morbidity, and Violence Against women—OHCHR
- Reproductive Rights are Human Rights: A Handbook for National Human Rights Institutions —OHCHR
- Support prescription drug price reform—ARD
- The Water Crisis In Hawaii Highlights America’s Failing Infrastructure—ARD
- Will Polish police repeat crackdown on anti-abortion protests two years on?—Open Democracy
- What Vaccine Apartheid Portends for the Climate Future—NYTimes
- Vaccine Apartheid is Prolonging COVID – Not Vaccine Hesitancy —Open Democracy
- Act —
- Call Your Reps to Support HR 3 to Reduce Prescription Drug Prices
- Donate to Pakistan Fundraisers after the 2022 Floods
- Donate to Fiona Community Response Funds in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic
- Donate to Hurricane Ian recovery + relief in Cuba, Central Florida, and Southwest Florida
- Support Cooperation Jackson and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement fighting to repair city infrastructure and provide clean water to folks in Jackson, Mississippi.
- Use this climate mapping tool o see the climate-related disasters in the U.S. and how you can support local and national efforts.
Liberty+
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No one is subject to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile. This includes a presumption of innocence, the freedom to leave and seek asylum, and freedom from slavery and forced labor. Additionally, there should be no torture or cruel and unusual punishment, including extended isolation and the death penalty.
- Learn —
- 17 People Have Died in New York City Jails in 2022 — Vera
- AOC Says US Should Treat All Asylum Seekers How We Treat Ukrainian Refugees — Truthout
- Five Things to Know About the Right to Seek Asylum — ACLU
- Slavery Hasn’t Been Abolished, It’s Been Reformed — ARD
- The case against the Death Penalty — ACLU
- The UK government is undermining decades of anti-slavery efforts — Open Democracy
- Follow —
- Equal Justice Institute
- #FixThe13thNY
- Unlock the Box Campaign to End Solitary Confinement.
- Act —
- Donate to the National Bail Fund Network
- Sign the petition: Close the Guantánamo Detention Center!
- Urge President Biden to Take Executive and Legislative Action to Adopt the Federal Blueprint for Ending Solitary Confinement.
- Write Your Reps: Send the Global Death Sentences and Executions 2021 report and tell them to support legislation to end the federal death penalty.
Peace+
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Article 28 says that we have the right to live in peace. We all have the right to live in a peaceful and orderly society so that all human rights and freedoms can be protected, and these rights can be enjoyed in all other countries around the world.
- Learn —
- Behind Enemy Lies: War, News and Chaos in the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn.
- Disability Justice is a Politic of Peace — Sins Invalid
- The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold by Tariq Ali.
- The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine by Andrew Cockburn.
- Youth Are Challenging the US War Machine as Tensions Escalate With Russia — Truthout
Privacy+
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There should be no arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy, family, home, or correspondence. Privacy and increased control individuals have over their personal information is essential to autonomy and human dignity.
- Learn —
- Girl Online: A User Manual Girl Online: A User Manual.
- Government given formal warning over personal data failures —Open Democracy
- Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future by Ben Tarnoff.
- It’s Time to Break Up Facebook by Chris Hughes (May 2019) — NYTimes
- Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin.
- The Battle for Digital Privacy Is Reshaping the Internet — NYTimes
- The Twittering Machine by Richard Seymour.
- Uncomputable: Play and Politics in the Long Digital Age e by Alexander R. Galloway.
- New Domestic Terrorism Laws Won’t End White Supremacy — ACLU
Religion+
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Everyone has the right to teach, practice, worship, and observe freely.
- Learn —
- Jewish People + Anti-Semitism —
- How antisemitic rhetoric is impacting Jewish communities, and what to do about it — NPR
- Unlearn misconceptions about the Holocaust — ARD
- What's the difference between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism? — BBC
- Muslims + Islamophobia —
- #BlackIslamSyllabus
- How the FBI Spied on Orange County Muslims and Attempted to Get Away with It by Lelia Rafei — ACLU
- Rally against Islamophobia — ARD
- Who gets the privilege of being paranoid? For a Black Muslim woman LEARN: in America, surveillance is no conspiracy. — Mic
- And more —
- See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
- Your Right to Religious Freedom — ACLU
SELF DETERMINATION+
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This right allows a people to choose its own political status and to determine its own form of economic, cultural and social development. Meaning that everyone has the right to nationality and freedom from occupation.
- Learn —
- Brazil’s Indigenous peoples mobilise against encroachment on their lands — Open Democracy
- Guam —
- Fanachu! Podcast: The official podcast of Independent Guåhan
- Guam’s Independence Movement Grows — The Real News
- Hawaii —
- Native Hawaiians Are Leaving Hawaiʻi – and What That Means — Ka Wai Ola
- Respect Hawaii’s sacred land — ARD
- #ShutDownRedHill — Oahu Water Protectors Syllabus
- The Struggle for Hawaiian Sovereignty: Introduction — Cultural Survival
- Palestine—
- BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti
- Decolonize Palestine
- A Guide to Difficult Conversations about Israel and Palestine — Jewish Voice for Peace
- Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze
- “Palestinian Resistance and Sheikh Jarrah” Devyn Springer, Mohammed el-Kurd, and Abu Shuwarib, Groundings Podcast (2021)
- “The Palestinians’ inalienable right to resist" Louis Allday (2021)
- “Tal’at: a feminist movement that is redefining liberation and reimagining Palestine” Hala Marshood and Riya AlSanah (2020)
- Puerto Rico —
- Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico by Ed Morales
- How colonialism and racism explain the inept US response to Hurricane Maria — VOX
- Puerto Rico and the History of Colonization — ARD
- Puerto Rico’s Status Debate Must Be Settled by Puerto Ricans — Teen Vogue
- The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernández
- War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America’s Colony by Nelson A. Denis
- Why isn’t Puerto Rico a state? — Youtube
- Ukraine —
- Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine by Anna Reid
- Deaf Republic: Poems by Ilya Kaminsky
- From Odessa With Love: Political and Literary Essays from Post-Soviet Ukraine by Vladislav Davidson
- The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
- The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine by Serhii Plokhy
- Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov
- Life Went on Anyway: Stories by Oleg Sentsov
- Lucky Breaks by Yevgenia Belorusets
- Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
- Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know by Serhy Yekelchyk
- The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II by Svetlana Alexievich
- Why Clean Energy Is Our Best Response to Free the Energy Market from Russian Aggression — Evergreen Action
- The U.S. Refuses to Give Up Its Colonies — The Progressive Magazine
- Follow —
- Brigada Solidaria del Oeste
- Climate Justice Alliance
- Hawai‘i Peace and Justice
- Hawai’i Alliance for Progressive Action
- Ka’ohewai
- María Fund PR
- Organización Boricua de Agricultura Ecológica
- Palestinian Youth Movement
- Taller Salud
- Act —
- Call Your Reps to Support the Ukrainian Resistance to the Russian Invasion
- Call Your Reps to Call for De-Escalation and Ceasefire in Israel and Occupied Palestine
- Contribute to Hurricane Fiona Relief
- Get involved with BDS
- Mālama Wai Advocacy Kit
- Utilize this guide from Dissenters to learn how to talk about Ukraine
SPEECH + EXPRESSION+
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Freedom of speech includes a free press, bolsters the democratic process (aka the right to participate in government), and supports diversity of thought.
- Learn —
- Ask an Expert: What is Free Speech? — At Liberty Podcast
- Dangerous, Dystopian New Legal Amendments: New Censorship Threat with Elections Looming in Turkey — HRW
- Freedom of expression is key to countering disinformation — OHCHR
- Internet shutdowns violate human rights, Activists say — OHCHR
- Dangerous, Dystopian New Legal Amendments: New Censorship Threat with Elections Looming in Turkey — HRW
- Freedom of expression is key to countering disinformation — OHCHR
- Internet shutdowns violate human rights, Activists say — OHCHR
- Regulating online content - the way forward — OHCHR
- The Use of Free Speech in Society — Verso
WELFARE+
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Freedom from economic and social exploitation ensures a minimum wage for a decent living, the right to social security, the right to work, and the right to rest and leisure.
- Learn —
- Increase benefits and wages in line with inflation or lives will be lost: UN poverty expert — OHCHR
- Will Qatar and Fifa remedy the abuse of migrant workers? — The Independent
- The US Must Follow Through on Its Promises to Protect the Victims of Modern-Day Slavery — ACLU
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. Maybe many of us won't be here to greet her, but on a quiet day, if I listen very carefully, I can hear her breathing.”
— Arundhati Roy
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This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated Jan 2024.