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.
There are so many cool designs funding resistance work we had to create a post just to collect them in one place. Flag your resistance everywhere you go with an artistic t-shirt, sticker or pin that signals your values.
On Valentines day, or any day dedicated to recognizing our love for each other, find a way to step outside commercialism into care. What causes are important to the person you’re celebrating? Center those values! Have dinner at an ethnic restaurant from a place they’ve always wanted to travel, or make a nice dinner at home and donate what you would have spent to their favorite charity.
Businesses in areas hit hard by ICE suffer. From staff decimated by raids and fear, to tear gas and broken windows, it’s hard to stay in operation when the streets have become a war zone. Choose an area currently under attack by ICE, and identify a local business with online sales of goods or gift certificates. Buy something. Donate back to the community, if you can, or just make online purchases.
