The food industry is one of the few not utterly monopolized in America. As prices and cuts drive food insecurity, small restaurants will struggle. They are the first budget item most families cut.
To the extent your budget allows, shift spending from national chains to local ones.
Reward Restaurants Find Out How »
Whistle brigades directly protect your neighbors by letting vulnerable people know ICE is nearby, and by calling observers to active ICE detentions. Familiarize yourself with how it works and then spread the word through whistle-packs, trainings, or rapid response groups.
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Build relationships with folks in armed forces. They make choices every day about whether to cooperate, or be sand in the gears. Remind them what’s at stake, and avoid isolating them.
This is not incompatible with making ICE unwelcome in your city. Click through to learn more about confronting the uniform, not the human within it.
Actively support the content you want to see online. We’re in an eternal war with social media’s commercialization. They want to show you ads. You want to see friends, activists, or cute dogs.
Every time you see something you like, interact with it. Your feed will improve quickly, and everyone around you benefits too.
Get a t-shirt, jewelry, lanyard, pin, button, sticker…something that lets people know where you stand. I recently complimented a rainbow-flag peeking out from a doctor’s busy lanyard. She was so pleased and said she wasn’t sure anyone noticed. I assured her anyone who needs the reassurance, notices.
Normalize progressive messages! Flood the zone with symbols of the resistance. Make it cool to dissent!
Battles over symbols matter. Furious efforts to brand the No Kings! rallies anti-American were countered by a strong presence of American flags in protest images. It’s time we reclaim the image of America as inclusive and constantly striving for greater fairness and justice.
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