When someone says “All lives matter” respond with any of the following, and if it is online by providing them links to the following
1. Wonderful here is a petition to end capital punishment
2. Wonderful here is a petition to force the US back into international existing climate agreements.
3. Wonderful here is a petition to end all gun sales in the US.
4. Wonderful here is a petition to force congress to legalize all immigration and migration for South American and for any refugee fleeing violence, domestic violence, poverty, or war because no one deserves to die trying to cross a border.
5. Wonderful here is a petition to force the US to pass universal health care.
6. Wonderful here is a petition to cut police forces by 1/2 and to spend the money saved on education and social services, because you are right the police kill other people as well and not just African Americans.
7. Wonderful here is a petition to force all States to end bail, and decrease their prison populations by 2/3rds.
8. Wonderful here is a donation form to the NRDC to protect the environment
9. Wonderful here is a petition to force Congress and the executive branch to immediately sign the ERA into law (it already has passed but the Trump administration has stopped it from being written into the constitution) because if all lives matter than your mother, wife, sister, daughters should have equal rights to the men in their lives.
10. Wonderful here is a donation form for the ACLU
11. Wonderful here is a petition to formalize protections for our LGBTQ brothers and sisters
12. Wonderful here is a petition to put back in place all of the environmental protections gutted by the Trump Administration.
13. Wonderful here is a petition to close the detention center on Guantanamo Bay Cuba.
14. Wonderful here is a petition to have congress create all Metropolitan School Districts in all of the 200 major US Cities.
15. Wonderful here is a petition to prioritize having the NSA track every pornographic image containing children and identify the owners of those images so search warrants can be put in place.
16. Wonderful here is a petition to decriminalize sex work
17. Wonderful here is a petition to have the US go to the UN to end child marriages and to end all child marriages in the US.
Now you might not agree with all of these, and there could be many others included in this list (please add), but the idea is to pick your particular poison to say, well if you think “all lives matter” than you must support this.
© words by Daniel DeMarle 6/21/2020
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