Support diversity on your campus! In response to two Native American young men having the campus cops called on them last week, we ask you to pressure your university leadership via twitter, facebook, and post cards to support organizations such as SACNAS, Black Student Alliance, and various cultural centers.

Have you made your voice heard on combating sexual harassment in science?

This is the last week to submit your comments on the National Science Foundation’s proposed new policies to combat sexual harassment in scientific fields! These policies are open for formal comments until May 4, 2018. 

In honor of Earth month, we invite pods to sign up as teams in the Drawdown EcoChallenge, a three-week engagement program focused on carbon reduction.

For many, monthly menstruation remains a source of economic stress and shame. For this Take Action Tuesday, we want to address the menstruation taboo that continues to predominantly negatively influence women and girls around the globe, we want to talk about periods!

Today, for our #weeklyaction we encourage you to speak up for women, for science, and for justice.

This week we continue to highlight women history has forgotten or overlooked. We were inspired by this twitter thread where Candace Andersen is searching for a woman scientist from a photo taken in 1971.

“To all women and girls: own your voice and own your power. Carry it. Be proud of it. Always know that, whatever you're thinking or you're feeling, your voice is important and should be heard.” #WomensHistoryMonth - Kamala Harris

"Perhaps if more of us knew that there were actual professors who looked like them or loved like them, they would know that it would be possible to become one." --Dr Kevin Nadal

We are once again angry and heartbroken at yet another mass shooting, this time in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. We stand with the brave young students who are standing up to say “Enough!”.

All Black History Month we are taking action to show our support for women of color in STEM. Last week we shared a number of resources. This week we have 3 simple actions you can take. 

Dreamers need our support now more than ever. Congress has agreed to pass a legislative fix for DACA recipients by early February, and we must hold our representatives accountable to that promise. This week, make it clear to Congress that passing a clean DREAM Act should be their top priority.

Rise Up, Take Action! We hope you were inspired by the many MLK events yesterday. In that spirit, we focus on those under-served in science. Help us lift them up!

• A clean DACA - Read an inspiring story from one of our 500 WS members and sister. Below are their three actions:

For the new year, we're asking 500WS to look forward to the world we want, and the part we can play in it. Here's an activity for you to do as an individual or, better yet, as your first pod meeting of the year (tried and tested by the Boulder pod).

Our federal science agencies are world class and critical to our nation’s health and safety, yet this week the CDC was given a list of banned words. Neither the science nor its budgets should be censored. Help us speak up against the ban of 7 words in the CDC budget: