Dear MoveOn member,
It's (almost) summertime!
For many of us, summer is a time when we attend festivals, go on vacations with family and friends, spark up the grill for a delicious barbecue, and enjoy so many more fun, jubilant activities that recharge our batteries for the rest of the year.
And we sure do need to recharge our batteries!
There are many important fights ahead of us. The Trump administration and the GOP are still waging nonstop attacks against immigrant families, women, Muslims, people of color, and the poor in their attempt to hold on to power through bigotry and disenfranchisement and extraordinary power grabs. Additionally, there are more than 20 Democratic presidential candidates and hundreds of congressional races gearing up for a pivotal and decisive election cycle in 2020 to oust Trump and his cronies. There's a lot going on, and that's why we are taking a step back and reconnecting with communities and each other to recharge, build bonds, and lay the groundwork that will lead us to an energized and impactful election-year program over the next 16 months.
We know that the work of creating a society where everyone can thrive is year-round work. Part of that work is taking time each summer to strengthen the connection with the communities that we represent in our mobilizations. This year, we are doing this through service.
Summer Service Socials are opportunities to reconnect with each other as a progressive community, flex our organizing muscles through relationship-building with our neighbors, and break bread with one another. They are also an effort to begin to change the political winds by shifting the focus off the daily deluge of Trump's incompetent and hateful governance—which have exhausted and desensitized many people no matter what political affiliation—toward a more hopeful and inspiring calling to come together and engage in the tangible work that strengthens and builds our local communities.
This is a chance to host an event that connects folks and gives back to your community while also having some fun. Whether it's a park clean-up or donation drive, we'll help recruit neighbors to join you, and MoveOn volunteers and staff will support you every step of the way.
Summer Service Socials may be a mouthful, but planning your event is easy! Here's how you do it:
- Choose the time and location. Your event can take place between Wednesday, July 17, through Sunday, July 21.
- Post your event here. Once you post, you'll have access to our host guide, with tips and advice for planning your event.
- Choose your Summer Service Social event type: Community Clean-Up Social (maybe at a local park) or Item Donation Social (connecting with a local organization to collect goods for refugee families, survivors of domestic violence, or other folks who could use a hand).
- If applicable to your event type, research any organization you may want to partner with to provide donated items.
- Start recruiting folks to join you. We'll help!
- Prepare yourself for fun, fellowship, and service!
Thanks for all you do.
-Chris, Gabby, Iram, Liia, and the rest of the team
Want to support MoveOn's work? The MoveOn community will work every moment, day by day and year by year, to resist Trump's agenda, contain the damage, defeat hate with love, and begin the process of swinging the nation's pendulum back toward sanity, decency, and the kind of future that we must never give up on. And to do it we need your ongoing support, now more than ever. Will you stand with us?
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