A Message of Thanks

To you, our Causes Friends—

Wherever and however you celebrate Thanksgiving, the National Day of Mourning, Dia de Ação de Graças, Kinrō Kansha No Hi, the autumn harvest, the transitioning of leaves, we wanted to take the time, as the days get darker, to thank you for your light. To give a simple thank you for all the not-so-simple things you’ve done.

We’re thankful for your opinions, your questions, your comments, your activism.

We’re thankful our American friends voted to save democracy. For a peaceful transition of power. For conceding with grace. For believing America is worth fighting for. For showing the world that, sometimes, America gets it right. For the hope that Democracy will one day come and settle in the U.S.A.

We’re thankful for your tireless struggle to purify these spacious skies, conserve the purple mountain majesties, provide every citizen with the bread of amber waves of grain and apples from our fruited plains. 

We’re thankful our Iranian friends continue their fight for woman, life, freedom.

We’re thankful our Ukrainian friends continue their battle for their history.

We’re thankful for all users, everywhere, for standing with the citizens of Iran, Ukraine, the ideals of the United States. 

Thank you - all of you - for not taking the easy way out. We know how easy it would be to just disengage from all this. Thank you for your steadfast battles for human rights, civil rights, human dignity, women’s rights, minority rights, environmental justice. 

For being on the right side of history. 

For making history. 

Thank you for being the type of people we’re thankful for.

Keep the light burning,

-Josh & Bart

Josh Herman, Editor-in-Chief

Bart Myers, founder & CEO of Causes