*FRIDAYS @ 1pm-2pm EST, starting Fri 1/8!*

While this began in June 2020 with three theatre folks (EllaRose Chary, Natasha Sinha, Jay Stull) asking friends and community to call for defunding the NYPD toward budget justice, we hope to consistently keep growing. Join this email list to stay in the loop, show up to as many Zoom events as possible to stay updated and work together, and share our easy step-by-step guides with more people that we hope will join these efforts. Let's use the power we already have, to build solidarity toward true justice for us ALL in New York State.

And -- very important! -- use your unique voice and your unique relationships to send this to 10 friends and encourage them to join us as well. With the election behind us, we finally have a chance again, to build a community that provides for everyone… let’s do that together now!

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WHAT IS AMPLIFYING ACTIVISTS TOGETHER?
Amplifying Activists Together is a group of people who live, play, or work in New York State (join us!) and who opt in to receive emails about how to take urgently-needed action steps toward progressive and radical movements. We gather together as often as possible on Fridays from 1pm-2pm EST, in order to take these actions together. We are always following the needs and strategies of longtime progressive and radical activists -- and sometimes these activists join us on our calls!

HOW OFTEN WILL YOU EMAIL ME?
You'll receive one informational email in advance of each monthly kickoff event, and then you'll receive an email with the Zoom link every Friday morning. That's all! If an actionable emergency arises (this has been rare), you may get 1-2 additional emails.

HOW DOES IT WORK ONCE I'M RECEIVING EMAILS?
Mark it down on your calendar to show up for the weekly Zoom events! If you can't make them all, that's okay. The Zoom details will arrive in your inbox on the morning of each event. At the AAT Zoom Monthly Action Kickoff events at the top of each month, the coordinators will speak briefly about AAT, introduce a guest activist who will update us all on the actions needed, provide you with a step-by-step guide with the exact information you need to easily plug in, and model a call for you onscreen by walking through the script. Then we all stay onscreen as we work through the step-by-step guide and ask any questions/share any information in the Zoom chat. Toward the end of the hour, we will send you into breakout rooms -- you can just keep yourself on mute and continue with your steps or you can take a break/finish up by saying hi to fellow AATers who just did what you did and who care about building solidarity.

The AAT Zoom Action Hours will work similarly, though Ella, Natasha, and Jay may not be present, and there will be no guest activist or walk-through. That said, we will do our best to capture and share these videos on the step-by-step guides. An AAT facilitator will be present onscreen and in the chat to provide the main links and to help navigate changes to the step-by-step guide. The Zoom chat will remain a space for everyone to share information and help one another.

HOW CAN I HELP FURTHER?
We're evolving as we go, while keeping in mind that the reason we gather is to sustain weekly action in amplification of progressive and radical NYS activists' work. We've had AAT folks help create graphics and help coordinate offshoot groups and projects -- and soon we'll have several helping facilitate our AAT Zoom Action Hours! If any of this or something else feels exciting to you, reach out to Ella, Natasha, or Jay. This is definitely a collective effort since it's work we're all doing for one another as well as for ourselves.

WHERE ARE YOUR RESOURCES KEPT?
https://tinyurl.com/AATresources

HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF FROM THIS LIST?
Easy! Just reply to whatever email you last received, asking to be removed. You may get a stray last email, but then you should be off the list. Please be kind, as we're all volunteering our free time on this and intentionally trying to keep it grassroots and direct. Sometimes this means something will slip through the cracks, but we promise to get you off the list ASAP, if you ask.

Thank you,
Natasha Sinha, EllaRose Chary, Jay Stull
January 2021