Projects with Clear Short-Term Goals

These projects all have short-term goals. Ideally each contributes to a campaign with a clear, well-defined path to a goal. Ideally, there are targets—people, institutions—that the project (and/or campaign) pressures and which, if pressured, can help achieve the goal.
Emergency Fund for Trans Community Amid COVID-19
Practitioner:
LGBT Center Intercultural Collective Inc and Lorena Borjas Community Fund
Date:
Mar 17 2020

During the current COVID-19 outbreak in New York, many transgender people are experiencing a loss of income that, over the next few days, may increase dramatically.

Protest at Howard County Detention Center calls for release of immigrants amid coronavirus outbreak
Practitioner:
Organizers from CASA, Doctors for Camp Closure, Takoma Park Mobilization Equal Justice Committee, Immigrant Justice & COVID-19
Date:
Mar 29 2020

A group of organizers came together Sunday afternoon at the Howard County Detention Center to protest the detention of immigrants charged with civil infractions, along with all nonviolent offenders, who they say are at greater risk of contracting the coronavirus inside the facility.

With #FrontlineHouses, a Phoenix Nurse Is Connecting Hospital Workers With Housing
Practitioner:
Jason Odhner
Date:
Mar 17 2020

A 43-year-old ICU nurse, Jason Odhner is, as one might imagine, awfully busy these days. He works at several local hospitals, is the co-founder of a health-justice nonprofit called Phoenix Allies for Community Health, and he recently started an initiative called #FrontlineHouses, which is connecting health care workers with housing during the coronavirus pandemic.

Firefly Project: How to Send Feminine Hygiene Products to Female Health Care Workers When They are Fighting against Coronavirus
Practitioner:
BIE别的女孩, 孙百卉
Date:
Feb 17 2020

One of the donators, Sun Baihui, wrote her in-person experience when she participated in the project, which is translated from Chinese and abridged from the original text.

Preface

On February 7, Weibo blogger @ Liang Yu Stacey released a message on Weibo calling for attention to the shortage of feminine hygiene products for female medical staff, and "overnight comfort absorbency," began to enter the public eye.

Huntsville Fighting Covid
Practitioner:
Smarter Every Day
Date:
Apr 7 2020

Destin from the Youtube channel Smarter Every Day has started the "Hunstville Fighting Covid" website in order to mobilize and teach those who have 3D printers how to print Personal Protective Equipment to aid medical professionals fighting the COVID-19 epidemic.

Mass Protests to Online Activism: How Coronavirus is Changing the Ways Activists Fight
Practitioner:
Youth Activists, Fridays for Future strikers, Climate Strike Online
Date:
Mar 13 2020

Fridays for Future strikers around the world shared their demands for bold climate action online Friday as many youth activists heeded public health experts' recommendations in the face of the coronavirus pandemic by eschewing public protests in favor of digital demonstrations.

The online displays followed the call earlier this week from school strike for climate pioneer Greta Thunberg to #ClimateStrikeOnline.

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