Dear UCS supporter,
This summer may be halfway over, but there is still plenty of time to have an impact. Just as happens every summer, members of Congress are about to enter their District Work period, commonly called August Recess, when they are meant to return home to the district they represent and spend the month of August listening to and interacting with their constituents.
Together with others in your family, friends, neighborhood, workplace, civic or faith community, you can speak to your representative in Congress on the issues that matter to you most.
In speaking with my family, my neighbors and friends, the issue that keeps surfacing, across all demographics, is the urgent need to keep public policy principled, evidence-based and free from political manipulation. I hear my retired neighbors up the block worrying about rising electricity costs given their fixed income, or fellow parents at our neighborhood school concerned about accurate vaccine information for their children’s back-to-school physicals. It's in the spirit of these kinds of interactions that we are working this August on activating Generations of Science, a community-based effort joining together to defend scientific integrity in the United States.
Scientific integrity is the principle that scientific research and evidence should guide public policy without being censored, manipulated, or distorted by political or corporate interests.
It's so important to show up for scientific integrity right now when it's under attack that we’re activating Generations of Science to turn out in your communities this August in support of the bipartisan Scientific Integrity Act! Check out this toolkit to learn how to build your Generations of Science team (extra points for teams who have two or more generations present) and gather support for the Scientific Integrity Act to deliver to your congressional representatives during their District Work period. Take action with Generations of Science, tell us about it, and you could earn yourself a UCS t-shirt!
We hope this is a fun activity to strengthen your community connections, or perhaps even build new ones, while defending science. You can get started today, while we have all of August ahead of us.
