Still looking for your crew? May Day offers an opportunity: call an old friend and invite them to play hookie with you. You can attend a protest together, or pretend you’re back in high school and call in sick! It’s a chance to reconnect, find out who your allies are, and build connections. It could even be the nucleus of your resistance pod!
Families are struggle to keep up with bills amid SNAP eligibility reductions and fear of triggering immigration review. Call your local school district and ask to pay off a student’s lunch debt, or offer to buy supplies for a classroom. Schools are a way to help the most vulnerable families anonymously.
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Friday May 1st we walk out! No work, no school, no shopping. We’re learning how to engage in economic pressure. Make a plan to join organized events, or take a personal day. Plan ahead for gas, groceries and whatever else you need to avoid engaging in capitalism for ONE day. Do the best you can—participation isn’t a boolean. Prepare today, to support the resistance tomorrow!
If you’re feeling hope, share that as widely as you can. If you’re feeling despair, treat it like the flu: try not to spread it, treat the symptoms, and work to recover. Neither hope nor despair is an objective fact, but despair saps your energy to bring about change. Treat it, don’t feed it.
Rent is due and families around the coun try are missing their wage-earners, can’t risk going to work, or have lost wages fighting ICE due to closures, walkouts, and tear gas shutdowns.
Contribute to a rent fund on StandwithMinnesota.com or in your areas.
Are you a busy person who wishes you could do more? Start where you are and take one step forward. Commit to one five minute act of resistance on a regular schedule you can keep: once a day or once a week. Do what you can. Do the same thing every time (call Congress?) or use our list of quick tasks for inspiration.
