Posted on September 17, 2018
Making our elections work for everyone: How to protect the vote this November and every election
The 2018 midterm election is one of the most important midterms in decades. It’s the first since the presidency was decided by just 80,000 votes. And it’s the first midterm election since voter turnout scraped by at the …
Posted on August 16, 2018
What is Rise for Climate and why you should participate
Editor’s note: This piece is adapted from a post originally published by 350.org. Wildfires. Mudslides. Drought. In California, we’ve seen the terror that insufficient action on climate change has wrought – just like in the rest of the …
Posted on August 6, 2018
Transgender people’s rights and lives are under threat. Transgender Law Center is fighting back.
We are in a moment of intense violence and hatred, and there is a lot of fear in transgender and gender nonconforming communities. The number of transgender women of color murdered continues horrifically to rise. We are criminalized …
Posted on July 11, 2018
Defund the Agencies that Are Incarcerating Immigrants and Terrorizing Communities of Color
We all felt our hearts drop and fill with horror as we listened to the audio of children detained at the border crying out for their parents. For many immigrant families living in the United States, the sounds …
Posted on June 15, 2018
LGBTQ people in the U.S. must be counted in the census
Although this administration continually refuses to recognize it, LGBTQ people across the nation have celebrated June as Pride Month since transgender women of color and other activists fought for their lives at the Stonewall Riots in 1969. Pride …
Posted on May 16, 2018
It’s time to end Trump’s blank check for war
72 hours after the 9/11 attacks, every Member of Congress, save one, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), voted to give then-President Bush the authority to go to war against the perpetrators of those attacks. 17 years later, that authority …
Posted on April 24, 2018
Tuesday Tip: How to Update Phone Software and Become Harder and More Expensive to Hack
Not sure why you should update? Update your software for mobile phone security. “Keep your software updated!” is the closest thing we have to mobile phone security advice that will work for everyone. But the reasoning behind it …
Posted on April 17, 2018
Tuesday Tip: How to Encrypt a Phone, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying About a Stranger Accessing My Data
How to Protect Your Data by Encrypting Your Phone Losing your phone is the worst: you aren’t just out of a phone—you also have to worry about a stranger having access to all your photos, banking apps, messages, …
Posted on April 6, 2018
SOLAR XL: Resisting Keystone XL by Building Clean Energy in the Pipeline’s Path
TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline would carry 830,000 barrels per day of dirty tarsands from Canada through hundreds of American homes, farms and ranches. It would cross the delicate Sandhills in Nebraska and put the critical Ogallala Aquifer …
Posted on April 2, 2018
Tuesday Tip: How to Change Your Facebook Settings After the Cambridge Analytica News
Tuesday Tip: How to Change Your Facebook Settings After the Cambridge Analytica News This is the first part of a special three part series on digital security by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. You shouldn’t have to do this. …
