The United States is facing a serious challenge to our civil rights and the ideals our country has worked to uphold through over a century of increasing the support of the rights of all people. Bridge Foundry was created to foster positive change in providing equal access and opportunity.
We have a voice and a platform for reaching people who have the privilege and power that comes with tech skills, and many of those people, who have been active teachers and organizers of Bridge activities, are are feeling very disempowered right. I've been thinking of how we might provide leadership in these times.
Though our focus is on technology education, our work rests on a foundation of basic human rights, and other organizations that protect those rights make it possible to do what we do.
Inspired by this tweet. I thought that maybe we could put together a list of organizations that support the civil rights of marginalized people, so that our community might consider how we as individuals might support fundamental needs and rights, without which our work is not possible.
We are not a political organization, and specifically exclude political activities in our policy. By focusing on non-profit organizations that support human rights which are aligned with our work, we can keep this initiative out of the political sphere while making it immediately actionable.
@ardan-bkennedy observed that this would be more awesome (and impactful) if we could have some kind of on-going initiative and not just a one-time message
The United States is facing a serious challenge to our civil rights and the ideals our country has worked to uphold through over a century of increasing the support of the rights of all people. Bridge Foundry was created to foster positive change in providing equal access and opportunity.
We have a voice and a platform for reaching people who have the privilege and power that comes with tech skills, and many of those people, who have been active teachers and organizers of Bridge activities, are are feeling very disempowered right. I've been thinking of how we might provide leadership in these times.
Though our focus is on technology education, our work rests on a foundation of basic human rights, and other organizations that protect those rights make it possible to do what we do.
Inspired by this tweet. I thought that maybe we could put together a list of organizations that support the civil rights of marginalized people, so that our community might consider how we as individuals might support fundamental needs and rights, without which our work is not possible.
We are not a political organization, and specifically exclude political activities in our policy. By focusing on non-profit organizations that support human rights which are aligned with our work, we can keep this initiative out of the political sphere while making it immediately actionable.
@ardan-bkennedy observed that this would be more awesome (and impactful) if we could have some kind of on-going initiative and not just a one-time message