#advocacymatters — Public Fediverse posts

You may need one or more of these poems today https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/08/we-are-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-poems.html.

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #activism #advocacy #AdvocacyMatters #WordsMatter

“There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the other person, but because if you don’t speak, they have changed you.” --Mary Quinn, 2010

#FreeSpeech #FirstAmendment #1stAmendment #activism #advocacy #AdvocacyMatters #WordsMatter #MaryQuinn

I come back to this post every so often. We can't win with poetry alone, but without poetry what world are we hoping for? https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/08/we-are-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-poems.html

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #PoetryOfPresence #PoetryOfPolitics #activism #AdvocacyMatters #advocacy

Excerpt from "And Then It's Exponential" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

"Then the bars of that cage
bend enough for the most
courageous part of the self
to slip through. I’m not
saying it isn’t scary.
But this is how
one becomes two."

https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/05/25/and-then-its-exponential/

#poetry #poem #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #RosemerryWahtolaTrommer #courage #RiseUp #Advocacy #AdvocacyMatters #activism

"And in very real ways, the inability to be with difference mitigates against the ability to create social movements that have an enduring quality. We cannot build movements that are exclusively based on what we’re opposed to." --John Paul Lederach

https://wagingnonviolence.org/metta/podcast/when-toxic-polarization-becomes-civil-war-john-paul-lederach/

#nonviolence #Activism #advocacy #AdvocacyMatters #NonviolenceRadio

Every so often I'm asked about how I became a bike advocate. Since it arose from lessons learned from my mom, I'm sharing this blog post on Mother's Day. Mom's been gone for years and her spirit lives on. https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2014/09/how-i-came-to-be-bike-advocate.html
And this one, on things she taught me: https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2009/09/3-things-my-mother-taught-me.html.

#BikeTooter #cycling #AdvocacyMatters #Advocacy #Moms #Mothers #MothersDay #kindness #feminism #community #CommunityService

" There’s nothing left except to try."
—Mrs. Whatsit in A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

#MadeleinLEngle #Try #effort #advocacy #AdvocacyMatters #AdvocacyInAction #activism

"Revolution" by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

"there they were, singing and showing up despite,
and this was the moment that made me believe
in the path—not just the grand marches toward freedom,
but also the thin trails marked with courage and creativity,
small moments I can follow like bread crumbs
till this country again feels like home."

https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/04/05/revolution-2/

#activism #advocacy #AdvocacyMatters #HandsOff #Revolution #poetry #poem #poems #PoemADay #TodaysPoem #RosemerryWahtolaTrommer

You may need this. https://www.findingsteadyground.com/

#ActUp #activism #advocacy #AdvocacyMatters #mindfulness #resist

Jewish tradition teaches: “You are not obligated to complete the task, but neither are you free to desist from it” (Pirke Avot 2:21). I'm not Jewish but this speaks to me.

#resist #resistance #persistence #Activism #advocacy #AdvocacyMatters #Judaism #Jewish

Progress requires that we protect Civil Rights.
Protect Section 504. Protect all Civil Rights.

https://nixonspeechandlanguage.com/progress/

#Section504 #advocacymatters #civilrights

SLPs & audiologists, review how executive orders could affect you.

Families, reviewing to know how your child's care (medical and education) could be affected.

https://www.asha.org/advocacy/executive-orders-impacting-audiology-and-speech-language-pathology/

#speechlanguagepathology #audiologist #ExecutiveOrder #alliedhealthprofessionals #advocacymatters

"...some ideas if you want to help stand for a world with tolerance and love, racial justice and acceptance of all people." https://wagingnonviolence.org/links/resistance-guidebook/ and https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PnA86CvqKNo1le3TEczIBQftX6Pq1n7G5ROHxS_fj1E/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.zbrky7na9owb

#activism #advocacy #AdvocacyMatters #ActUp #nonviolence #WagingNonviolence #peace #justice #love #RacialJustice #DEI #equity

I'll just leave this here in case you find yourself in need of it. https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/08/we-are-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-poems.html

#poetry #poems #poem #WordsMatter #AdvocacyMatters #advocacy #activism #protest #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #RiseUp #democracy #DemocracyInDanger

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, & you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be…This is the inter-related structure of reality.”

—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

#MLK #freedom #advocacy #activism #AdvocacyMatters #BlackLivesMatter

Another post on advocacy and the legislative process: Actions You Can Take for Active Transportation: Following a Bill. https://bikestylelife.com/2025/01/12/actions-you-can-take-for-active-transportation-following-a-bill/

#advocacy #activism #legislature #AdvocacyMatters #legislation #politics #PublicPolicy #BikeTooter #WalkTooter #ActiveTransport #ActiveTransportation

"They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving."
-- Rebecca Solnit

#hope #RebeccaSolnit #power #action #activism #community #advocacy #AdvocacyMatters

You may need this poetry collection I put together last year. https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/08/we-are-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-poems.html

#activists #ActivismInAction #poetry #poems #TodaysPoem #PoemADay #advocacy #AdvocacyMatters #AdvocacyInAction #WeAreTheOnesWeveBeenWaitingFor

William Whately, English Puritan, addresses reasons some might have not to give to the poor. Some might object, if that person had wronged them, but we are to commanded to feed our enemy (Rom 12:20), and remember God loved us while enemies (Rom 5:10). We are to imitate God in this way.

Today, do religionists teach us to remember every wrong by a migrant, so as to have less compassion on the group?

How can you feed an enemy today?

#christian #asylumislegal #advocacymatters #border #givingback

A bit about how I came to be doing the work I do now---getting on my bike led me to find my calling and my sweetheart.

http://bikestylespokane.com/2017/03/12/came-fork-road/
#BikeTooter #cycling #transportation #AdvocacyMatters #advocate #Life #BicyclesChangeLives #BikeLove

On my personal blog, a round-up of poems that speak to activists and advocates.

http://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/08/we-are-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-poems.html

#PoemADay #TodaysPoem #poetry #poem #advocate #AdvocacyMatters #activism #ActivismMatters