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Get Online and Advocate on Social Media Day of Action, Jan. 22

This year’s Social Media Day of Action avatar. Thanks to Stephanie Velasco, who created the original image, and to Amy Phung for revising it for 2016.
This year’s Social Media Day of Action avatar. Thanks to Stephanie Velasco, who created the original image, and to Amy Phung for revising it for 2016.
Use your social media skills to advocate for affordable housing and an end to homelessness on the third annual Social Media Day of Action, this Friday, Jan. 22! We've got key messages and example posts for you here.

“I Feel Like Seattle May Be Kicking Me Out”

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Law student Josh loves Seattle, but rising rent prices make him doubt whether he'll be able to continue living in the city. The lack of affordable housing is a crisis not only in Seattle, but also in many communities across the state. Do you want to live in a community where everybody has the opportunity to live in a safe, healthy, affordable home? Then prepare to take action as we head into the state legislative session, which begins on Jan. 11. We share how.

A Return to the Fires

This is a still frame from a documentary film that Firesteel intern Carissa Daniels is producing. The film puts viewers in the shoes of someone who is experiencing domestic violence. Image courtesy Carissa Daniels.
This is a still frame from a documentary film that Firesteel intern Carissa Daniels is producing. The film puts viewers in the shoes of someone who is experiencing domestic violence. Image courtesy Carissa Daniels.
Domestic violence survivor Carissa Daniels decided to bring some positive into her experience by sharing her story and educating others. In this powerful post, she writes about what it's like to revisit some of her most painful memories in the hope of helping other people who are living with abuse.

Two Worlds Collide: Inequality in America

A “Sleep Out” in Washington, D.C.’s Freedom Plaza during Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week in mid-November. Photo Credit: Laura Tarnosky, <a href="http://streetsense.org/article/covenant-house-advocates-freedom-plaza-sleep-out-previews-vigil/#.VlzIkmSrRz9" target="_blank"><span class="s1">Street Sense.</span></a>
A “Sleep Out” in Washington, D.C.’s Freedom Plaza during Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week in mid-November. Photo Credit: Laura Tarnosky, Street Sense.
Seattle University student Lindsey Habenicht recently interned as a reporter with the Street Sense street newspaper in Washington, D.C. Because the internship was unpaid and housing costs were outrageously high (even for a shared bedroom), Lindsey also worked at Nordstrom in an affluent part of Virginia. She found it "eye-opening, jarring, and heart-wrenching" to go back and forth between settings of poverty and abundance, and also to watch her department store co-workers display a lack of empathy for a woman who was experiencing homelessness and spent time in the store. Lindsey reflects on her experience, takes a look at the national War on Poverty, and shares how we can all take action to address an economy that is out of balance.
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