CAUSES

  Here is a list of over 50 causes that need our attention. If you don’t already have a cause that you’re involved in you can use this list to find one that speaks to you and get into action.

Here are my top ten most pressing issues at the present (in no particular order) Remember my rule: trying to focus on more than one cause, or two at the most, at a time is self-defeating. Pick your one or two. If something happens that changes your focus, that’s fine.

  1. Black Lives Matter

  2. Climate Crisis

  3. Bail as a Social Justice Issue

  4. Dismantling Systemic Racism

  5. Voting Rights and Accessibility

  6. LGBTQIA+ Rights

  7. Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women

  8. Immigration Reform

  9. Refugee Crisis

  10. Redirecting $ from Police to Community Programs

Here’s a list of other things that I am concerned about but that aren’t top of mind. Shifting attention from one cause to another is totally natural. Things happen in the world, George Floyd, children in cages on the southern U.S. border, and they pull our attention.

A lot of these issues intersect, pay attention to the intersections. They will help you find a larger support community.

  1. Suicide Prevention

  2. Abortion Rights

  3. Rights of Indigenous Peoples

  4. Criminal Justice Reform

  5. The Equal Rights Amendment

  6. The #MeToo Movement

  7. Clean and Available Water

  8. The Death Penalty

  9. Education Equality

  10. College Affordability

  11. The Environment (with just a few subcategories)

    1. Save the Bees

    2. Ocean Pollution

    3. Species Extinctions

    4. Combatting Climate Change

  12. Veteran’s Rights issues

  13. Disability Rights

  14. Food Deserts

  15. Gerrymandering

  16. Gun Control

  17. Income Inequality

  18. Literacy

  19. Anti-Muslim Violence

  20. Anti-Semitic Violence

  21. Term limits

  22. Prescription Drug Prices

  23. Public Transportation

  24. Fair Housing

  25. Representative Education

  26. Online Privacy

  27. Arts Education

  28. Transgender Rights

  29. Police Accountability

  30. Detention of Children on the Southern U.S. Border

  31. Sexual Harassment/Assault in the Military

  32. Fat Rights

  33. Free Press

  34. Food Insecurity

  35. Distracted Driving

  36. Equal Pay

  37. Opioid Epidemic

  38. Food Safety

  39. Clean Air

  40. Plastic Pollution

  41. Worker’s rights/Collective Bargaining

  42. Right to Die

  43. Access to Mental Health Care

  44. Rights of Student Athletes

  45. Electing Women to Public Office

  46. Sex Trafficking

  47. Child Labor/Slavery

  48. Woodlands Conservation

“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.”
~ Alice Walker