Make an IRA or HSA contributionsfor *last* year through April 15th! Reduce taxes paid to this administration, entirely legally. HSAs roll over (unlike some FSAs) and can be used as retirement funds if you never need them. No taxes are due for health care expenses, and funds withdrawn in retirement defer taxes until use. Ask HR if you have access to either program, and consider a 2025 contribution today!
The food industry is one of the few not utterly monopolized in America. Protests can disrupt and drive away business, so if you’re turning out to an event, spend some money (cash is good!) at a nearby business. Take your sign along, and be a good customer. Tip well!
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From permits to porta-potties the logistics of gathering people together is significant. Add in security, medics and legal observer programs, and organizing protests is full-time activism with a significant budget. Donate the price of a movie ticket or dinner out to whoever is organizing No Kings III in your area. Especially if you can’t go!
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Protests aren’t for everyone. If you can’t attend, subsidize the protest! Sponsor a seat on a community bus, offer to taxi friends, help with sign making, or shop at sympathetic businesses. (Tell them why!) There are lots of ways to support participation, even if you can’t attend the protest Sunday. Click through for more inspiration.
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You have your protest sign…but do you have your protest outfit? From t-shirts to pins, wear something that takes the protest from the streets to wherever you go the rest of the day. Visit nearby businesses impacted by the protest and buy something. Tip well. If you have extra stickers or pins, pass them out to people who had to work and were sorry to miss the protest. Share protest energy wherever you go.
Public transport is a critical equalizer : the more vulnerable you are, the more you need it. Buy a monthly bus pass for yourself, or someone else. Donate one to a women’s shelter or community college if you don’t need it. And the next time public transit comes up for a vote, support it. Even if you don’t use it, you benefit: just imagine all the additional traffic if nobody rode the bus.
