1) Get a Healthcare Toolkit

The NAACP created a Hands Off our Healthcare toolkit with resources to help explain what's at stake & share the information, so we know what to say when we contact elected officials. Check it out to learn what your rights are & get started.

2) Protect Our Care

Several grassroots organizations have organized phone banks to call California residents about the need to keep government hands off healthcare & help people's basic healthcare needs get met. You can sign up for a shift, with lots of different times & dates, below. 

3) Tell your Governor: #HandsOff

The NAACP has a simple tool you can use, where you put you your contact info in, & they'll send an email on your behalf to your governor, which they have arguments & a script for if you need it. To have the NAACP help you contact your governor, visit the website below. Scroll down on the page until it says, "Email Your Governor: Advocate for Eligible Families."

4) Spread the Word

Want to see what your state's Medicaid scorecard (how good their Medicaid programs are, etc.), you can read the NAACPT report & share it on your social media. Click the button to spread the word.

5) Make #HandsOff a Reality

Las year, 10 Minutes A Day & our partners at DIYabled hosted several virtual hands off, no kings, disability pride events, more. We collaborated with New Disabled South, Chase Bliss, medical professionals, a renewable energy company, & others. Those donations made it possible for us to plan & pay for the events, ensuring that accommodations were made & that our events were as accessible as possible.

We meet so many amazing people at our events, which we hold so people who can't or are afraid to leave their homes &/or can't find an accessible protest can be in community. Because we take accessibility & inclusion very seriously, we'll again be hosting similar virtual events this year. Our accessibility fund covers disability accommodations, like ASL;  live captions & streaming; increasing the caps on attendance, so anyone who wants to attend is able to; a dedicated chat & tech team to help anyone who can't verbally express themselves or who isn't comfortable speaking verbally but would like to be heard by writing their thoughts, & more. We  pay for Zoom Pro accounts, our domain & email addresses, & other overhead, so we can organize & provide our (always free) events. Anything helps--we've had donations from $1 to $250 or more. If a lot of people contribute $5-25 towards the accessibility fund, we can help accommodate anyone & everyone we can. We're two intersectional, disability led & focused nonprofits with small budgets, & we are all disabled--your donation makes a difference.