I am cohosting a fundraiser tonight for Sean Casten and am really excited to share how I figured out to blend this particular activism and my love of boosting teen voices. But first, a message: two weeks out until Election Day, and we are all http:// …
Read MoreHow YOU Can Get Involved
It’s officially September, which means it’s officially time to step up your game for changing the world. How? FIND A CANDIDATE TO HELP. It might be someone running for state senate, city council, US Senate, judge…. Just find someone and lend your talents. (This does …
Read MoreHow to Continue the March for Gun Reform
Looking for how to continue the fight to March for Our Lives? Read on for seven easy steps to staying empowered: Know Who Represents You. Go to Contacting Congress to find info on your two senators and your member of the House of Representatives. These …
Read MoreGuest Post: Bake Sale for Justice … $10,000 (& Counting!)
Note: Special thanks to changemaker (and Wake, Rise, Resist fan!) Nora for writing this blog post for WRR! If you have any doubt in your mind that youth are needed in this fight for our future, read on and be inspired at what Nora and …
Read MoreWelcome, “Two Broads Talking Politics” Listeners!
Joanna and I had the good fortune to talk with Kelly from Two Broads Talking Politics last night. (You can find the episode on iTunes here and on Stitcher here; it’s also available loads of other places.) It was a tremendous amount of fun to talk with …
Read MoreActivist Training Recap – Oak Park Progressive Women
Joanna and I had the honor of attending the “Be Impactful” activist training hosted by Oak Park Progressive Women on Saturday, November 4. It was the kind of valuable, information-packed session that has you zinging around for days, riding a joyous I-can-be-impactful-after-all high. Mad props to …
Read MoreHappy Veterans Day—Talk with a Vet
We include an action in the book advising readers to interview a vet (action #24!), which—to be honest—we debated a little about whether it belonged in the book. But upon about three seconds of reflection, we realized that OF COURSE it belonged in there. Veterans are …
Read MoreKnow Your Coates
Did you catch Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Daily Show this week? Did you see his 31-tweet smackdown on the disgusting things John Kelly said about the Civil War? (Or the article he published yesterday: Five Books to Make You Less Stupid About the Civil War?) …
Read MoreHow I Learned to Stop Hating the Elevator Pitch.
Action #33 Pitch in for Your Elevator Pitch (a planned short one- or two-minute spiel about something you care about) is an important and powerful tool to get your points across quickly to others—but that doesn’t mean that I (Kerri) was instantly in love with the …
Read MoreAnd We’re Off …!
Hollllllly smokes. Well. How to describe seeing my first book on sale on Amazon? (Is it bad for a writer to be short on words and to use a gif instead of text?? Baby, if gifs are wrong, I don’t wanna be right.) …
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