As an activist working from home, it’s easy to let the day escape you.
Remember:
- Schedule your day. Prioritize spiritual, family, etc.
- Set healthy boundaries.
- Use a timer to avoid over or underachieving.
- Set time aside to take care of yourself.
We are waiting for SB163 to go to the House Health & Insurance Committee Hearing. By uniting, day by day we become stronger and can get more achieved to fight this bill. Let this energy rise and re-direct it toward authority and confidence.
Educating these politicians is only half of the battle.
The rest of the story is…
Advocacy! We must inspire others to advocate for themselves. There are several different ways to create a positive educational encounter with friends, family, or people in a position of authority. We desire to learn and there are specific actions that we can take to propel us in making these specific requests.
Remember, that the most powerful trips we can PACK the House Gallery at Capitol are:
- For the House Hearing
- The second reading
- The third reading. We should PACK the House gallery.
Please make every effort to be at the Capitol for those three events.
Thank YOU all for your commitment to fight for bodily and medical autonomy in Colorado. We need YOU!
Here’s what you can do from home:
Email and call all Reps and Senators. Challenge them about the attempt to remove religious and personal exemptions. Ask them why they are changing them to a “non-medical” exemption. Remind them that the American Academy of Pediatrics’ number one goal is to remove “non-medical” exemptions. SB163 supports the AAP agenda. The AAP was a stakeholder in SB163, yet the people who utilize these exemptions were not involved in the stakeholder process. This is a conflict of interest that needs to be accounted for. Ask them what plans they have in place to ensure that the “non-medical” exemption will be protected.
The AAP’s number one agenda item to remove non-medical exemptions.
Find your children’s school district on this PDF. Identify how much the district is getting paid for your kids. Call and email your children’s school principals. Tell them how much money they will lose if you pull your kids out of school if SB163 passes. Ask them to put pressure on the Superintendent to activate the district’s lobbyist to fight against SB163. School District Funding PDF.
Find your children’s school district on this PDF. Identify how much the district is getting paid for your kids. Call and email your children’s school district superintendent. Tell them how much money they will lose if you pull your kids out of school if SB163 passes. Ask them to activate the district’s lobbyist to fight against SB163. Colorado School District funding PDF.
Locate your children’s school district on this PDF. Identify how much the district is getting paid for your kids. Call and email you each member of your district’s children’s school board. Tell them how much money they will lose if you pull your kids out of school if SB163 passes. Ask them to activate the district’s lobbyist to fight against SB163. School District Funding PDF.
Email the administrators of your local pregnancy center. Ask them to read and consider this white paper.
Contact local charities who provide services to immigrants and help DACA recipients. Educate them on the tracking system. CIIS will enter all of their (children’s and adult’s) Private Identification Information. If they initiate additional contact with you, have a conversation with them and answer as many questions as you can. Ask them to contact their legislators with their concerns and use every tool in their arsenal to fight this bill to protect DACA’s data.
Find all the local crunchy groups you can and talk to them about SB163. List all of the most concerning implications of the bill. Invite them to join one of the local groups and get involved. Invite people to the medical freedom groups in Colorado. Ask them to post action items to their group about new information.
Find your local Weston A. Price group. Enlighten them about the bill. Ask them to alert their members. Make contact with the Chapter leader. Ask them to send emails with action items to their group’s email list with updates. https://secure.westonaprice.org/cvweb_weston/cgi-bin/utilities.dll/openpage?wrp=chapter_dir.htm
