For those active, passionate, or at least interested in political/global or human rights issues, what is your primary cause, if you have one? And why? Mine is probably best summed up by the term climate justice. I support social environmental reform because, well, we need a planet capable of supporting us, and because I believe a true solution to climate change and other sustainability issues will also resolve a number of social issues, like capitalism.
My primary cause is gender justice. My thought is that intersectional movements will create the solidarity necessary to move mountains on all the other important things, like anti-capitalism and anti-statism. I only focus on gender justice because that's what I know. However, I think that all social hierarchies need to be attacked, or else we're not going to be able to fight class struggle effectively.
I think mine is equality. Either it is across genders or species. I believe an animal or plant has right to live as much as any human. If people think they can kill the creatures we share life easily, I think of them as easily disposeable.
Mine would be equality. I think, it is necessary that all people have equal rights for the world to advance further. Otherwise, we will be stuck in stagnant times of hate.
Libertarianism Government is far to overreaching. Not only in its citizens life, but those abroad too.
Environmentalism is important, but for me, it's LGBT rights. And I'm also very supportive of "men's rights" but not in the misogynistic Reddit way.
I am against most of the stuff that most governments spew out (especially the current US government). However my primary cause would be the pursuit of freedom and fair treatment.
Third world development: public health, widespread poverty, etc. Followed by gender equality, particularly in the severe cases such as the Middle East.
It's difficult to chose one that doesn't leak into another. I would say I care primarily about the accessibility of education, legal counsel and healthcare. I also believe that greater accountability for governments (such as the United States' atrocious decision to not consider ICJ rulings binding), which I feel allows relatively unmonitored abuses of power. There are many other things such as the sustainability of resources and the elimination of tax loopholes that matter, but those are things about which I know less and I'm unlikely to have anything very worthy to say there.
I have a few champion causes such as equal access to healthcare and decreasing the income gap between social classes (especially in the developing world), but my biggest cause by far is access to education. Knowledge is the most powerful thing that a person can obtain, so having a world full of intelligent people is vital to me.
Demolishing negative stereotypes. As a linguist, it concerns me how often we judge people based on the way they speak, whether it's the vocabulary they use, or the way they pronounce certain speech sounds, or how they choose to abbreviate words in writing. In a similar way, negative stereotypes against LGBT people persist despite the fact that they're all spurious. This is something I would like to fight against when I'm more out.
