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Welcome to The Final Word on all things Political and Pop Cultural. Comedic duo Frangela makes “Real News. REAL FUNNY!” Your positive “Back Up AND Black Up!” here to inspire you to #RESIST!
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Idiot of the Week – your weekly fix of wacky, zany craziness as only Frangela can provide! You send in stories of real-life idiots and Frangela mocks them for your edification. It is their sacred duty.
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As Heard on The Final Word – Important Links
Mike D’s GoFundMe Page – Our good friend, Mike D., has had some serious health issues and has set up a Go Fund Me page to raise funds to help pay some of his medical expenses. If you can, every donation will help.
From “Resistance Wrap-Up”:
| US Capitol Switchboard – |
(202) 224-3121 (U.S. Senate) |
Help to the Georgia Senate races – How to donate to the Georgia Senate runoff election: 8 ways to help the races before January
Women Voters USA – Making it easier to get ready to vote
Carpool to Vote – Connect volunteer drivers with anybody who needs a ride to claim their vote.
The Skimm’s No Excuses Tool – Find useful voter information for each state.
Swing Left Events – Virtual organizing
National Alliance to End Homelessness – A nonpartisan, nonprofit organization whose sole purpose is to end homelessness in the United States
Mobilize.US – Find events near you
Protect the Vote – Stop Voter Suppression
Election Protection – Protect Our Right to Vote
Give Smart 2020 – These are the eight campaigns in the country where your donations can make the biggest difference today.
Change.Org – Ask members of Congress to support the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
GoFundMe for Cordell Garrett’s Funeral
Fair Fight – Join our fight for free, fair and secure elections in 2020.
The 2020 Virtual March on Washington – Or text ‘power’ to 40649
USmailnotforsale.org – Save the postal service!
The Poor People’s Campaign – A National Call for Moral Revival
Crisis Text Line – Free 24/7 support. Text “HOME” to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor. The volunteer Crisis Counselor will help you move from a hot moment to a cool moment.
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition – Ending disenfranchisement and discrimination against people with convictions.
FairFight.Com – Fair and free elections
Change.Org – Petition to re-open the Sandra Bland case
Quit Or Get Fired.Com – Send the message that it’s time for Trump to resign.
Color of Change.Org – Fight to end the war on Black people in our country.
The Bail Project – Combat mass incarceration by disrupting the money bail system.
Campaign Zero – End police brutality in America.
SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) – Together, as part of a powerful multi-racial, cross-class movement for collective liberation we can force the system of white supremacy to crumble.
Frangela Book Club – Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man– Read chapters 1 and 2 by June 3
Call your representatives to support Mail-In Voting.
Marcus Books – The Nation’s first Black-owned bookstore.
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project – Donate to Families and Workers in Need of Legal Aid
Earth Day Live 2020 – Live Feed; take care of our planet.
AARP Community Connections – Map of Aid Groups by State
Stand Up America – A grassroots community committed to resisting Trump’s corrupt agenda
FeedingAmerica – Find your local foodbank. Donate, volunteer.
U.S. Census – Do the Census!
Color of Change – 5 crucial fights for surviving this crisis.
Let America Vote – Fighting voter suppression laws
Common Cause – We are more than 1 million powerful, fearless, ordinary Americans working together to build a democracy that works for us all .
League of Women Voters – Empowering voters. Defending Democracy.
ACLU – Beyond one person, party, or side — the ACLU dares to create a more perfect union.
Spread the Vote – Working every day to ensure that people have what they need to vote.
866 Our Vote – Election Protection Hotline. Working 365 days to advance and defend your right to vote
Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Fighting for civil rights, and empowering Asian Americans to create a more just America for all.
Brennan Center for Justice – Working to protect our Democracy to make it work for all.
Everytown.org – Demand smarter gun laws now!
YOU are an Influencer! Call the Senate! Tell them to follow The Constitution! The People are watching!
WomensMarch.com – 1/18/2020 – Join the movement
Puerto Rico Earthquake Assistance – Items needed: Camping gear, baby products, diapers, toothbrushes, sheets, towels, disposable gloves, games, first aid kits. These items can be sent to:
Julio Torres, Box 505, Rincon, PR 00677
Aid for Australia:
Wires.org – Help rescue and care for the innocent victims of the fires and drought
National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty – The Law Center works in a variety of arenas to help the nation’s 3.5 million people who are experiencing homelessness and its many inhumane effects.
Hands Off SNAP – Stand up for low- income people
Indivisible.org – Fund the Resistance
Let America Vote – Fight back against voter suppression
Human Rights First – Providing life-saving legal representation to families seeking protection at the border. Help keep families together. Reject the Detention of Refugees
Support your local food bank. You may save a life!
Swing Left – Empowering young leaders to help transform our government in the 2020 elections.
Innocence Project – Advocate for reforms that help prevent and address wrongful conviction.
FreeRodneyReed.com – Stop the execution of an innocent man.
Kincaid Fire Aid – Bridging the Racial and Economic Divide in Northern Sonoma County
Response.ca.gov – California wildfire relief and recovery donations.
World Central Kitchen Disaster Relief – When disaster strikes, WCK’s Chef Relief Team steps out of the kitchen and on to the front lines to provide meals to those in need.
Southern Poverty Law Center – Hate Watch monitors and exposes the activities of the American radical right.
Boricuactivated.org – Workshops to learn how to amplify your voice to achieve better conditions for the people of Puerto Rico.
SandyHookPromise.org – School shootings are preventable: protect children from gun violence by encouraging and supporting solutions that create safer, healthier homes, schools and communities.
Action.aclu.org – Support for Crystal Mason
Ask your rep to request that the U.N. officially condemn Trump’s southern border treatment of refugees.
HeadKnowlesBahamas – Hurricane Relief for Bahamas
We the People March – (9/21/19) Marching to remind our elected officials that they work for us and to demand accountability.
Ultraviolet – Petition Congress: stop White Nationalist violence. Gun control NOW!
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee – Link to White House comments to make your voice heard to keep SNAP benefits
The Florence Project – Free legal and social services for detained persons under threat of deportation.
UnitedWeDream.org – Help protect immigrants
MigraWatch hotline: 1-844-363-1423 – Rapid response against ICE
HopeBorder.org – Hope and resistance at the border
Chirla.org– Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
Raices.org – Serves immigrants and refugees in our community by providing immigration-related legal services, advocacy and opportunities for educational and social support
National Immigration Law Center – Dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income
ImmigrantLiberation.com – Migra Watch – No more ICE raids in the shadows
Lights for Liberty – Worldwide vigil on July 12, 2019 to end detention camps
Swingleft.org – Swing the Senate Left – Winning the Super States is how we’ll win the country
MarieNewmanforCongress.com – Tell anti-choice, anit-LGBTQ Dan Lipinski to go home. #NewDayforIllinois
TheTrevorProject.org – Keep LGBTQIA youth alive and thriving
InjusticeWatch.org – Conducts in-depth research on institutional failure that promotes injustice. Weed out racist, corrupt law enforcement!
WinningJustice.org – Find a local racial justice squad
CodePink.org – Stop hate ads
JaimeHarrison.com – Donate to Jaime Harrison’s campaign to unseat Lindsey Graham
CESinaction.org – Coalition of Economic Survival – Dedicated to organizing low and moderate income people to win economic and social justice since 1973
GoFundMe for Thelma Smith – 102-year-old activist is being evicted for no fault of her own
YellowHammerFund.org – Provides funding for care at any one of Alabama’s 3 abortion clinics
ACLUAlabama.org – Defending our rights to equality, liberty and justice
Planned Parenthood Southeast – Believes in the fundamental right of each individual to manage his or her fertility
SisterSong.net – To strengthen and amplify the voices of indigenous women to achieve reproductive justice
Sparkrj.org – Our bodies, our communities, our futures
Human Rights Campaign – America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve LGBTQ equality
Access Reproductive Care SE – Helps Southerners and their families with safe, compassionate, affordable reproductive care