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April 2022 Edition: Respect Your Mother 🌎

What's New:
🚀 Program Launches
📰 Text Troop Candidates Making Headlines
💬 Resources For Better Conversations
📣 Share Your Story
❓ Trivia Question of the Month

🛑 IMPORTANT INFORMATION 🛑

Many of our texting programs now take place in the Civitech Workspace on TextOut. We will always make a note in emails and on Slack directing you to the appropriate workspace.

Making sure you are set up and ready to text, whether the program is in the Civitech Workspace or the Text Troop Workspace, is simple-- just click the join workspace button below and log in as usual. That's it!

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OUR IMPACT

👏 See the progress Text Troop is creating 👏

CO-AG Phil Weiser Sues Companies Contaminating Drinking Water with 'Forever Chemicals'
“These companies knew that these chemicals posed significant threats to human health and the environment and nonetheless put Colorado at risk; it is important that they pay for the harm they caused," said Attorney General Phil Weiser.

Read More at The Colorado Sun

GA Rep. Nikema Williams Co-Sponsors a Bill to Preserve the Chattahoochee River
The act mirrors the Senate bill, which would provide assistance for projects including: Sediment and erosion control, protection of eroding shorelines, ecosystem restoration, protection of essential public works, & beneficial uses of dredged material.

Both bills have been endorsed by the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper organization and several other environmental groups.

OUR GROWTH

💡 Resources for even better conversations 💡

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Environmental Justice in Action: Perspectives from Climate Change Activists
This panel discussion will center on environmental justice and its intersectionalities with health, racism, and economic well-being. Panelists and moderators are experts and climate justice leaders in the field.

When: Monday April 25, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET
RSVP HERE

Real Talk: Pop the Disinformation Bubble

Do you feel like you and those around you are swimming in a soup of disinformation and lies? Why is this happening? How can anyone believe this stuff? What can you do to help pop the bubble and bring people back to reality?

Join in on breaking down: How to identify disinformation, know why it is so common now, really understand how people can believe the lies, and how to use empathy to break through to them.

When: Thursdays, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM ET
RSVP HERE

Text Troop Calendar:

Late April: Vaccine Texting | 9AM-9PM in program timezones
Early Summer: Primaries! | 9AM-9PM in program timezones

*Please remember our program dates can be fluid, so be sure to subscribe to our Upcoming Program Calendar so you'll always be in the loop!

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Trivia Time!

True or False:
It's national volunteer appreciation month!
The United States is the country with the highest percentage of their population that volunteers on earth?

Last Month's Trivia:
Currently (as of 2022), four US states are represented by 2 female senators. Name two of them:

Answer: NH, NV, MN, WA

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