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Action Tips: Collect Testimonies About Why Parenthood Can Wait

Sometimes when it comes to making an impact, you need some help to get your voice heard. You can say the right thing all day, but your message could go unnoticed if no one is saying it with you. Collect voices and make your message loud and clear.

Ask a Big Question

Come up with a personal question, something better one than "Is teen pregnancy bad?" Try:

What are the reasons you don't want to be a parent yet?

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Education

Sex Education

Reproductive Rights

Physical and Mental Health

Healthy Living

Teen Pregnancy

Sex and Relationships

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How To: Support Immigration Reform

There is no question that comprehensive immigration reform is necessary, but the reform that some state governments are trying to pass is just plain eyebrow-raising. Case in point, the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act (AKA Arizona SB 1070) was the strictest form of anti-immigration legislation America has seen when it was signed in 2010. Some of the measures that riled up civil rights groups when it was signed included:

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Discrimination

Racial Discrimination

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Take an emergency education quiz to see how prepared you are

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How much do you know about emergency preparedness? In a crisis, would you panic or prevail? The answer may surprise you. Be Prepared made up a fun quiz to test your knowledge on various disasters and emergency preparedness items. See how well you do! BePrepared.com

Then visit our Disaster Prep & Relief cause to educate yourself.

Would you be prepared in the wake of a disaster? Check out your level of emergency preparedness!

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How To: Get Your School to Teach the Red Cross "Masters of Disaster" Series

Send an e-blast to your friends and loved ones about disaster preparation and response.

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Alone

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Disasters

Disaster Preparedness

Floods

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Find out how large (or small!) your carbon footprint is!

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Find out your carbon footprint - and make moves to lower it.

A carbon footprint is a measure of the impact our activities have on the environment, and in particular climate change. It relates to the amount of greenhouse gases produced in our day-to-day lives through burning fossil fuels for electricity, heating and transportation, etc.

Find your carbon footprint here and take steps to reduce it.

Do you know how big your carbon footprint is?! Cut back wherever you can, come one now, you can do it!!

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Clear or replace dirty air conditioner filters.

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How To: Create a Podcast For Your Cause

Maybe you don't have a radio station, but you can still have an audience listen to you. Record an internet podcast program that can be downloaded for listening on computers, mp3 players, and cell phones. You don't have to be a computer whiz. Podcasting is for anyone, so let the world hear about your cause.

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Physical and Mental Health

Alcohol Abuse

Sex and Relationships

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How To: Get Tanning Salon Ads Out of Your School Newspaper

There are no restrictions on advertising tanning salons to young people, so it’s no surprise the ads are in your paper… but there is something you can about it!

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Physical and Mental Health

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Action Tips: Create a video for Battle for the Bands

Music in schools is definitely worth saving, and we've got the way for you to help defend it. Make a video about the importance of music education for a chance to win $5K for your school's music program and tons of other hot prizes.

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How To: School your class on e-waste disposal

While it’s always better to hang on to your working devices for as long as possible to cut down on e-waste, we get that you have to keep up with the cutting edge. Make sure you’re upgrading in green style, and teach your classmates to do the same. Run a workshop for your peers on chucking electronics, or ask a teacher of a younger grade if you can come in and lead a workshop for their younger students. Here’s how:

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Register to VOTE

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Many people think that their vote does not matter. Imagine if everyone felt that way – we would never elect a president, a congressman or anyone, for that matter! So register today!

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How To: Conduct a Voter Registration Drive

Action Tips: Become a Rock the Vote Street Team Member

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Show your support for free education for every child by signing The Big Read petition!

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ONE and The Global Campaign for Education will present The Big Read, a storybook promoting literacy and education worldwide, to President Obama -- along with a request that he fulfill his campaign promise of contributing $2 billion to a Global Fund for Education.

Sign the petition and join the effort!

If you support free education for all children, sign the The Big Read Petition here: http://bit.ly/XJEQE

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11 Facts About Education and Poverty in America

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Alone

With Your Friends

Family

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Homelessness and Poverty

Education

Human Rights