Everyone: call on Virginia to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

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If you live in the US or visit it regularly, call on airlines in the US to stop using face recognition to identify passengers.

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The protesters in Sudan have launched a general strike.

Sudan's military rulers are arresting people to try to end it.

Hundreds of thousands protested in Hong Kong against the extradition law being imposed by the legislature, which has was elected under a system designed to give China control.

Many parts of Africa are wracked by intractable war.

It is easy to call for world powers to "do something", but what should they do? Some of these wars may be fueled by actions of foreign powers — for instance, corruption that sucks Africa's money out into tax havens — and we can see at least in principle how to stop that. But it is hard to see how to put an end to the violent Islamist extremist groups.