Sisters,

Do you feel like your head is on a swivel? Having a hard time keeping up with everything? Did news of the recent executive order that will make it easier to ‘discipline’ your child in school make your blood boil? Or was it the plans to essentially take over HBCUs that are upsetting you? Maybe gutting the Civil Rights Act is your line in the sand? Something else? Would you like a bit of advice about managing it?

The answer is two-fold. First, don’t even try. A BIG part of the dark side’s strategy is to keep us off balance, unable to tell which end is up and unable to FOCUS. We can’t let this strategy work. Keep up your radical self-care and limit your media intake to only trusted sources (like WE CAN 😉).

The second part is to MOBILIZE and focus our collective energies on the local and state levels. Since there are too few tools are available to us to win in the U.S. Congress, we need to do our best to limit the direct impact on our daily lives.

If policymakers don’t want to stop unfettered discipline of Black and Brown children in America’s schools, then we need to SHOW UP at local school board meetings to ensure those policies never see the light of day. We also need to demand that our state legislators create state laws that prevent disciplinary abuse and punish those who violate the law. We are NOT powerless.

WE CAN’s Action Teams are designed just for these types of local/state action. WE CAN get in the way, slow down, and even stop some of the really harmful things folks are conjuring up here in Washington.

You can sit at home, doom-scrolling through your social media feeds, or you can roll up your sleeves and get to work. I know some of you are committed to sitting things out, refusing to save democracy—again. But hasn’t our fight always been about saving ourselves and our community? Others have benefited from our efforts, but our priority has always been advocating for ourselves. Our collective house is on fire, and we can no longer afford to sit this one out!

Join an Action Team today to be prepared to advocate for yourself, your family, and your community with your local, state, and federal elected officials. If you don’t see an Action Team in your area, please schedule a brief call with the WE CAN team to learn how you can create one in your community.

Help WE CAN get ahead of the organizing game, and let us know what issues are keeping you awake at night. We want to get ready to start gathering intel to fight whatever is causing harm. Are there local cuts to education? Is your state invading your reproductive health privacy? Has your local community installed more cameras to police your neighborhood? Click below to tell WE CAN what’s on your heart and mind.

Remain strong and resolute! Even in our soft girl era, WE CAN continue to stand ten toes down and protect ourselves, our families, and our communities.

In solidarity,

Stephanie