Long story short: tell our government to investigate Ohio's recent voter purge, tell airline CEOs to stop using hurricanes as an excuse to price-gouge, and tell Tennessee to investigate hurricane-related worker deaths. Use the email/petition tools in the following paragraphs to communicate your will.
Civic Shout helps you tell our Department of Justice (or DOJ) to investigate the Ohio state government for its recent voter registration purge. Brook no silliness about "a government's duty to purge voters who no longer live in Ohio," because purging voters from Black and Brown neighborhoods disproportionately (which several civil rights groups allege Ohio has done) is not part of that duty, and anyway no one should lose a right simply because they haven't exercised it in a while. "Oh, but they can just go re-register!" Ah, not if they don't know the state has de-registered them, and besides, making people jump through extra bureaucratic hoops just makes it harder for them to vote. Is that right?
More Perfect Union helps you tell airline CEOs to stop price-gouging for flights out of the way of incoming disasters like Hurricane Milton. It's a shame we even have to say such things out loud, but apparently United and American have done this exact thing, despite the fact that we now live in an age where virtually anyone with an internet connection can discover them doing this exact thing. If anyone tells you this is just how the "free" market "works," ask them how they'd feel if it were their own family members facing this kind of price-gouging. Some people love saying grandma needs to be "sacrificed" to make burdens lighter for the rest of us, but those folks don't mean their own grandma.
Finally, Care2 helps you tell the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to, well, investigate Impact Plastics of Erwin, TN for telling their employees not to leave as Hurricane Milton was hammering them. At least three people died because their bosses told them the emergency just wasn't bad enough for them to evacuate, and then they were all trapped, and then when they tried to escape anyway they found themselves in the middle of a catastrophe. But good managers foresee catastrophes (like a hurricane whose approach has already been on the news for several days!) and plan for them. So we should keep demanding accountability for those who do not plan, and who kill their employees as a result.
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