Activist Tips
1. Explore Breakingranks.net and learn about rankism and the Dignity Movement.
2. Help people name the problem by spreading the word. Mention rankism, the Dignity Movement, and Breakingranks.net in forum posts and blogs. Use “rankism” as a link label as much as possible.
3. Include link to Breakingranks.net in forum and email signatures. Use the “No Rankism” graphic as an icon, web sticker, microbanner, or signature. Link the image back to Breakingranks.net!
4. Take up rankism and the Dignity Movement as a theme for surveys and contests offered on your web site. Add special forum topics for discussion of the Dignity Movement.
5. Have you been the victim of Dignity-jacking? Tell us your Dignity-jacking story, and let us know if you want us to publish it.
6. Invite friends, relatives, neighbors to vist Breakingranks.net to learn about the Dignity Movement.
7. Create Indignity Free Zones in the classroom. Adopt a “No Nobodies” policy.
8. Join a conversation or start one up on the discussion board.
9. Be a Susan B. Anthony of the Dignity Movement. Throw a party, sponsor a campus teach-in, or give a mini-film festival to bring people together to discuss the Dignity Movement. Found a chapter for regular discussion in your area. Publicize, attend, and support events sponsored by others.
10. Take creative symbolic action! For example, bake cakes frosted with the No Rankism message for bake sales or to send to your political representatives.
11. If you have friends in the media, ask them to cover the growing Dignity Movement.
12. Encourage your local governemt to pass a resolution in support of the Dignity Movement.
13. Submit digital art that Breakingranks.net can use for postcards, web stickers, etc.
14. Help us build our mailing list! Send us the email address of people who want to help fight rankism and build the Dignity Movement. Let’s join hands to get things done.
15. Visit our sister site www.dignitarians.org.
Take Action Toolbox
BoardAnalyst:
Tool for tracing corporate board interlocks.
BullyBusters Advocacy Kit:
Help pass anti-bullying legislation.
Congress.org:
Find contact information for U.S. political representatives, government agencies, grassroots political organizations and more.
Guidestar:
Guidestar provides information about the non-profit community.
Media Transparency:
This site helps people trace partisan grants.
Open Secrets:
Follow the money in the U.S. political process.
Pacer:
Look up Federal court cases.
Workplace Fairness Action Tool:
Excellent tool to find elected representatives, pending legislation, and media.
Job Tracker:
Enables workers to find useful information about major corporate employers.
