Thread on action items if you want to help Uyghurs by don’t know how
#uyghur #freeuyghur #starvationgenocide
#uyghur #freeuyghur #starvationgenocide
What can we do? Who can we turn to?
Individual Actions:
Spread awareness: not only on social media. Speak to your friends, colleagues, and bring it up in your class discussions.
Call and email Chinese embassies. You can find contact details for your country’s embassy on Google
Individual Actions:
Spread awareness: not only on social media. Speak to your friends, colleagues, and bring it up in your class discussions.
Call and email Chinese embassies. You can find contact details for your country’s embassy on Google
Contact your government reps. Let them know that as their constituent you believe this to be an important issue and that they should place pressure on China to stop their Covid policies. Do this in person if you can, or call. If not possible, send a physical letter and email.
Contact journalists, local papers, news sites, large social media accounts, influencers, etc to tell them to write about these issues.
You can also write op-eds or small articles - news outlets are looking for Uyghurs in their localities to comment on these issues.
You can also write op-eds or small articles - news outlets are looking for Uyghurs in their localities to comment on these issues.
Group Actions:
If you are part of a group, or in a club at school, you can coordinate these actions for greater impact.
Protest. Organise a demonstration in your city. Print out flyers and hand them out to people. Consistent efforts will gain attention!
If you are part of a group, or in a club at school, you can coordinate these actions for greater impact.
Protest. Organise a demonstration in your city. Print out flyers and hand them out to people. Consistent efforts will gain attention!
Ongoing actions:
Boycott and call out forced labour products and companies that that continue to benefit from forced labour. Follow @forcdlabourfash or @JewherIlham for more
Products linked to forced labour are still being found in US stores despite bans!
Boycott and call out forced labour products and companies that that continue to benefit from forced labour. Follow @forcdlabourfash or @JewherIlham for more
Products linked to forced labour are still being found in US stores despite bans!
In the US, you can call your representatives and ask them to support these bills:
-Uyghur Human Rights Protection Act
-Uyghur Policy Act
-Uyghur Human Rights Protection Act
-Uyghur Policy Act
A thread on how calling out companies for forced labour can be effective
https://twitter.com/ameliapangg/status/1569479025885847553
Another thing Uyghur and Chinese speakers can do:
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