<![CDATA[Sounds Like Impact: Calls-to-Action]]>https://www.soundslikeimpact.com/s/calls-to-actionhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DMww!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51139dcd-ad89-4dc7-938f-0a5ad3c1d36c_256x256.pngSounds Like Impact: Calls-to-Actionhttps://www.soundslikeimpact.com/s/calls-to-actionSubstackThu, 14 May 2026 09:48:24 GMT<![CDATA[✅ CTA: Economic Inequality]]>https://www.soundslikeimpact.com/p/cta-economic-inequalityhttps://www.soundslikeimpact.com/p/cta-economic-inequalityWed, 31 Jan 2024 23:24:27 GMTTable of Contents

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Our Debt Crisis

From carceral debt to renter’s debt, this Debt Collective x Prism partnership series, “We Owe You Nothing,” examines and celebrates the growing debt abolition movement.

Children are going hungry over school lunch “debt” (and those lacking empathy want to shame students and punish their parents as a result by threatening Child Protective Services). If you want to learn more about school lunch issues in the U.S., please check out my interview with Jessica Terrell, host and reporter of Left Over.

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The State of Education: Higher Ed

The State of Education: K-12

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The State of Education: K-12

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]]><![CDATA[✅ CTA: Civic Engagement]]>https://www.soundslikeimpact.com/p/cta-civic-engagementhttps://www.soundslikeimpact.com/p/cta-civic-engagementTue, 30 May 2023 04:37:01 GMTEfforts related to responsible tech will be posted here, as the most effective or scaled measures will involve government regulation.

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Nothing Just About Juvie

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Peacebuilding in Practice

Curated by Jamil Simon

  • Reflect: One of our podcast guests, social psychologist Peter Coleman, started something he called the Starts With Us challenge. Based on his research at Columbia University, the project is a once-a-day challenge for people to practice a bit of self-reflection when it comes to how they might be contributing to toxic polarization, especially in the United States. But I think a lot of the practices and insights he provides can also be applied to a broader commitment to media literacy for ourselves, especially when it comes to listening to news we may not agree with but can nonetheless still respect.

  • Engage: It also never hurts to write to your favorite media outlets and ask them to focus more on stories about reconciling differences, that promote dialogue among disparate groups, and that help people focus on our commonalities.

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Building Civic Power

Curated by Jenna Spinelle

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Get out the vote or go home [to vote]

Curated by Sammy Kanter & Maddie Medved

  • Register: Register to vote if you’re not [and ask your friends if they’re registered too], here:

    • Check your voter registration status there too – it’s always important to check in and see that everything is up to date so there are no surprises on election day.

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Resist A.I. hysteria, but educate yourself on ethical A.I.

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We [should] care, A LOT

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Gun violence is a public health issue.

]]><![CDATA[✅ CTA: Public Health]]>https://www.soundslikeimpact.com/p/cta-public-healthhttps://www.soundslikeimpact.com/p/cta-public-healthTue, 16 May 2023 05:24:30 GMTTable of Contents

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Minding Our Mental Health

If you or someone you know is in need of help, please contact the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting 988 if in the U.S. or checking out Befrienders Worldwide for resources near you.

  • Listen:

    • The podcast Baggage Drop is not just about mental health, it’s about creating healthy habits through adjusting your mindset. Yes, it is branded content, but it does provide tips some may find helpful. It’s organized into 12 steps, and the episodes average about 10 minutes.

    • Work often plays a huge part in our lives, so The Anxious Achiever is a podcast that aims to reframe the conversation about anxiety and mental health in the workplace.

  • Learn: Did you know it is possible to get certified in Mental Health First Aid? You can look into this, or mental health education in general.

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Spiritual Trauma

CTAs curated by Simon Fung from Dear Alana podcast.

  • Seek: Seek support from those who’ve been through similar experiences. The Reclamation Collective partners with trauma-informed clinicians, community leaders, and activists to provide resources, support groups, and workshops on the subject of spiritual trauma and recovery.

  • Share: Share stories like Dear Alana, to help bring awareness and empathy to sensitive subjects such as spiritual abuse and moral injury.

  • Support: Give to the Alana Faith Chen Foundation — a mental health nonprofit created in Alana’s name.

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We [should] care, A LOT: Caregiving

  • Sustain: Check out these NPR Life Kit stories that have tips to make your caregiving experience more sustainable: “How Caregivers can prevent burnout” and “How to Be a Better Caregiver When A Loved One Gets Sick.”

    • Also, CareWalks from iHeartPodcasts is a show that encourages you to take walks while listening to the episodes (they offer abridged versions too!)

  • Advocate: Help get Paid Leave for ALL passed – “The The United States is 1 of only 6 remaining countries in the world with no guaranteed form of paid leave.”

    • Maybe you’ve seen a couple of celebs, such as Stephanie Beatriz of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, make a funny video called “Get Your Sh*t Together, Baby”? It was for the #PaidLeaveforALL campaign. Let’s legislate change!

  • Support: The National Domestic Workers Alliance, an organization advocating for the rights and economic security of care workers. You can hear / read more from executive director Ai-Jen Poo on “How to care for the people who take care of us.”

  • Read: Hilarity for Charity, an Alzheimer’s and caregiving advocacy organization founded by Seth and Laura Rogen, has a book club #HFCReads you can join. Follow their Instagram to stay up to date.

  • Join: Find your community by joining a support group. There are so many different types, including virtual ones if finding local or attending in-person groups is inaccessible.

    • Our interview guest Anita Flores talks about support groups on her podcast CareTalkers in this episode.

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Gun violence is a public health issue.

  • Follow: Organizations such as Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action often have rallies and other events you can get involved with.

  • Train: Get certified in CPR & First Aid. Why? Training increases your confidence in situations where you are under pressure and these are practical life skills regardless of what type of emergency you may encounter.

  • Learn: The Center for Gun Violence Solutions from the John Hopkins School of Public Health is a great resource for education and advocacy information.

  • Volunteer: If you are a student, you can start a campus hub of March for Our Lives and anyone can start a community chapter or join the national team.

  • Share: Your stories matter. If you or a loved one has experienced gun violence, Moments That Survive is collecting submissions here.

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]]><![CDATA[✅ CTA: Environmental]]>https://www.soundslikeimpact.com/p/environmentalhttps://www.soundslikeimpact.com/p/environmentalThu, 20 Apr 2023 06:37:01 GMTTable of Contents

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Cramming for the Climate Apocalypse

Recommendations by Elizabeth Doerr

  • Create: Channel Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson from the recommended episode by creating a Climate Action Venn Diagram, an incredibly useful tool to think about how each individual can take climate action. It doesn't require doing something that isn't in your wheelhouse, it requires thinking about where your superpowers lie!

    Once you've identified that area of climate action, you can do the following things:

    • What organizations are already doing the work in your area or nationally?
      Find out how you can get involved in their work (no need to reinvent the wheel).

    • Talk to other people about what you're doing. As Katharine Hayhoe says in her book "Saving Us," one of the most important things we can do is talk about climate change. It normalizes the conversation and it helps motivate people to take it seriously and to take action.

  • Prepare: While I’m no expert, here are some ways to be ready for disasters:

    • Think about what is the most likely disaster to befall you and your community. (E.g., hurricanes, wildfire, earthquake, flooding, ice storms etc.). While climate change is increasing the chances that disasters you never expected might come your way, it's helpful to think about a specific disaster as it helps channel your thoughts about it.

    • Start focusing on the basic needs which involve food and water. You want to stock up on at least three days of food and water for your home (and if you have space up to a week). Water storage should be one gallon of water per person per day. You don't need to do a big stock-up on MREs or water bottles for this. I recommend just getting a bunch of canned goods from Costco that you normally would use for your day-to-day cooking. As you use those, you can stock up later. For water, you can stock up gradually (e.g., every grocery store visit, pick up a couple gallons).

    • Create a family emergency plan. At the basic level think about where your families are at any given point a day and think through scenarios should a disaster happen while you're in those places (i.e. daytime, nighttime, etc.). Write it down along with emergency contact information and put it somewhere visible in your home. Make sure to communicate these plans with those emergency contacts.

    • Get to know your neighbors. Researchers say that one of the most important factors to survival in a disaster is knowing the people in your neighborhood. Know who to check on (e.g., the elderly) and make a plan with at least one of your neighbors on a disaster plan.

    • Check out Brekke Wagoner's "Sustainable Prepping" YouTube channelwhere she provides a whole host of resources and recommendations in bite-sized videos.

      • Brekke Wagoner and I will be launching a 10-week Disaster Preparedness Toolkit series for paid subscribers of "Cramming for the Apocalypse" later this spring. It'll be a series that makes disaster preparedness more accessible to help push through the overwhelm of it all.

    • Talk about your disaster preparedness. Like with climate change, talking about it normalizes it among other people and encourages them to think about their preparedness as well.

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Countering Climate Denial & Delay

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Dissecting climate activism and its coverage

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The Changing Impact of Climate on Our Food

  • Compost: Learn some tips from the EPA or the NRDC on composting. I personally keep my scraps in the freezer if you are concerned about smell.

  • Plan: Meal prep is a good way to make sure you are consuming only what you need so you aren’t prone to waste. Here’s some advice from NPR’s Life Kit.

  • Learn: We have Indigenous people to thank for what we know about regenerative agriculture and other land conservation practices. Check out this PBS video “How This Indigenous Farmer is Solving Food Insecurity.”

  • Follow: The Rainforest Alliance is an organization that works on conservation, human rights, food business / agriculture and climate solutions.

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Nothing natural about it: surviving climate change’s impact on weather

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All the feels: sorting through climate emotions

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Engage in ethical environmental practices and support those sounding the alarm about corruption and pollution

  • Protect: Journalists and activists! Helping the environment with donations to conservation orgs is important, but it must be in tandem with supporting the people on the ground and reporting about issues. Organizations such as the Committee to Protect Journalists and Global Witness are some ways to start.

  • Read: Independent journalism, such as Heated, that holds the fossil fuel industry accountable.

  • Host: If you love plants, you can share that love with others. Consider hosting a plant swap, a free and legal way to get plant life into your home. And remember that it is illegal and potentially ecologically damaging to traffic plants, so only leave with admiration for species you (or someone else) encounter abroad.

  • Follow: The Goldman Environmental Prize to learn about extraordinary activists, many whom have quite literally put their lives on the line. And The Wildlife Justice Commission, which conducts investigations into wildlife crimes.

  • Consume: Ethically and sustainably caught seafood, if you eat seafood. The Monterey Bay Aquarium (one of my faves; you should go!) has consumer guides you can use to help make decisions about what to purchase or eat out.

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Form an intersectional perspective on environmental issues

  • Watch: Learn more about about a ‘Just Energy Transition’

  • Browse: Lemonada Media partnered with Only One, an ocean conservation platform, to further educate us about plastic pollution and ways to take action. Check out the site and listen to their excellently podcast about “Cancer Alley.”

  • Read: All We Can Save, an inspiring anthology that is intersectional and solutions-oriented.

  • Apply:

    • (Grant): NDN Collective has launched applications for Community Action Fund (CAF) grants of $15,000 - 30,000, which will support efforts that include community organizing, amplification of community voices, and a wide variety of tactics imperative to shifting the political and financial systems that are impacting Indigenous communities, April 17 - October 31st 5:00p.m. CST.

    • (Jobs): Want to transition to a “Green Job”? Look at these job boards.

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]]><![CDATA[✅ CTA: Allyship]]>https://www.soundslikeimpact.com/p/calls-to-action-allyshiphttps://www.soundslikeimpact.com/p/calls-to-action-allyshipThu, 13 Apr 2023 19:14:52 GMTTable of Contents

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Inclusive Design 101

Curated by Tosin Sulaiman

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Indigenous Science

*This isn’t an ad for Spotify, I’m just passing along info as a user.

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The Past & Present of LGBT Pride

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Being in Solidarity with Iranian Women, Artists and Activists

Curated by Sounds Like Impact community member Sara Dinari, who wrote this op-ed on the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s deaht (9/16).

1.) Join a rally, vigil or protest near you! You can check @middleeastmatters.info for locations of activations near you and @diasporaforiran has put together a drive of protest signs created by Iranian artists and activists that you can download for free and use day-of. 

2.) Sign the open letter by Iranian and Afghan women, international lawyers, and global women leaders urging countries to recognize the crime of gender apartheid. The aim is to expand the international understanding of apartheid to include gender hierarchies, not just racial ones as a way to expand the set of moral, political, and legal tools available to mobilize international action against and ultimately end the regimes that are oppressing women because of their gender. 

3.) Support the Mahsa Amini Human rights and Security Accountability Act (or the MAHSA Act for short). This is a bill that was first introduced in the US in the wake of Mahsa Amini’s death in 2022. Its aim is to hold the Islamic Republic’s leaders accountable for ongoing human rights abuses in Iran by implementing sanctions.

For those who are based in the US, they can help support the MAHSA Act by finding out who their representative is, and contacting them to ask them to support the Act. 

4.) Sign the Change.Org petition urging the Islamic Republic to put an end to the executions of protestors. Those convicted of crimes were often not given the option to have a lawyer or thier lawyer present and trials lasted an average of 15 mins before death sentences were handed down. More can be learned about these trials here via Amnesty International. 

5.) Donate to organizations doing work to protect, support financially and document on the ground. This is vital for convictions that may come after the fall of the Islamic Republic at the International Criminal Courts: 

  • Center for Human Rights in Iran is an independent, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2008 to protect and promote human rights in Iran by researching and documenting human rights violations across the country as well as disclosing them to the public through News and Art. 

  • Abdorrahman Boroumand Center (ABC) is a non-governmental non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of human rights and democracy in Iran. They do so through the promotion of public awareness of issues concerning democracy and human rights in Iran. Through its programs of research, documentation, publications, and outreach, the Center hopes to help restore the dignity of Iran's countless victims of human rights violations.

6.) And lastly, #BeTheirVoice! More than anything the freedom fighters on the ground in Iran need us to be their voice outside of Iran and disseminate their messages and stories as they continue to fight for freedom. This is the one instance where "Social Activism" makes a massive difference and on many occasions has saved the lives of protestors awaiting execution or sentencing. 

There are countless accounts on different social media platforms that provide videos, photos, stories and breaking news as information comes out of Iran where Internet is currently being disconnected or connectivity is being heavily reduced according to netblocks.org an organization mapping internet freedom. Accounts I recommend and follow are below: 

  • @iranrights (Instagram)

  • @action_for_iran (Instagram)

  • @from___iran (Instagram)

  • @diasporaforiran (Instagram)

  • @AmnestyIran (X/Twitter)

  • @HRANA_English (X/Twitter)

  • @HosseinRonaghi (X/Twitter)

Celebrating Disability Pride & History

For the full list of Calls to Action curated by Carolyn Kiel, click here.

Additional CTAs from Ayo

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Making space for trans joy

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Making media that reflects our society

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Weight stigma is the subtext

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