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Easy Action Ideas
- Speak up when someone speaks negatively or reinforces stereotypes about people with disabilities.
- Organize a celebration of the contributions by people with disabilities in your community.
- Write producers a note of support when they portray someone with a disability as a "regular person" in a movie or TV show.
- Wear a pink ribbon in support of breast cancer research.
- Volunteer to "beautify" your local homeless shelter
- Find a shelter in your area and offer your services
- Carry a non-perishable food like a cereal bar to offer to a homeless person
- Carry around a pair of clean socks and give them to a homeless person
- If you ever see or experience bullying, report it immediately to someone you trust
- Learn a language so you can understand someone else's culture
- Play musical chairs in your cafeteria - sit next to someone new
- Record acts of cyber bullying and report to your school
- Check out the security setting on your facebook or myspace
- Protect yourself: make sure you haven't put your phone number on the web
- Get your school to hire a counselor who specializes in bullying so bullied kids will have someone to turn to
- See if there are enough water fountains in your school or local park. If not, campaign for change
- Clean up your park or playground
- Volunteer at a summer day camp in your area
- Cheer up a child by sending get well cards to your local hospital
- Grab some chalk and decorate your driveway with a new colorful picture of fruit or veggie every day to inspire passersby
- Put on a presentation making smoothies at your school and teach about healthy eating at the same time
- Put on a night of entertainment for children with cancer in your local hospital
- Write down a fitness goal, give it to a friend and have them send it to you in a month to see how far you've come
- Bring and swap healthy snacks with friends at lunch
- Re-decorate your cafeteria with healthy eating art work
- Ask your parents what they remember of the civil rights era
- Find your local elderly home and find something that you are good at and offer your help
- Practice a reverse-discrimination exercise in your class, then discuss the results in your class.
- Walk with crutches for the entire day, see how you are treated.
- Host a black and white movie night at your elderly home.
- Perform songs from the fifties and sixties at a senior citizens home.
- Teach a senior how to use a computer.
- Smile at the next person you see no matter what.
- Find a women's shelter and volunteer at the organization doing something that you are good at.
- Spend some time writing down the stories of senior citizens at your local retirement home.
- Secretly discriminate against all the blue eyed kids in your class for a week, then at the end of the week explain, discuss how
- Hang outside a popular after school spot with a free conversations sign.
- Start a group with your friends that gives free hugs.
- Paint a mural celebrating diversity in action, show five black leaders you've never heard of before.
- Find your local elderly home and find something that you are good at and offer your help.
- Help the seniors in your neighborhood carry groceries and help them unpack them onto their shelves.
- Educate your friends at school with your new knowledge on the importance of arts in education.
- Pick up trash or recycling that you see around town- just because other people don't recycle doesn't mean you shouldn't.
- Try a reusable water bottle- they're easy to wash, and can be used for both hot and cold liquids.
- Turn off the sprinkler when it's raining or windy.
- Sweep the driveway or garage with a broom instead of the hose.
- Use a low-flow showerhead or toilet- they use a lot less water than regular ones.
- Get your school to use washable trays if they use paper plates or wrappers.
- Use biodegradable sunscreen- and protect yourself from harmful rays every day.
