From 1984 to Beloved, books get banned for helping you understand power or empathize with the oppressed. Buy or borrow a banned book today, and build your anti-fascism-fighting mental acuity! Think of it as weight-training for the mind. Or browse used bookstores for copies of your favorites and sprinkle them around little free libraries!
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Last December CBS pulled a 60-minutes segment on CECOT the foreign prison we “deported” immigrants to. A bootleg copy that streamed in Canada went around, and eventually CBS aired the segment (opposite an NFL division playoff game…) with new content from the Trump administration. It’s important we witness what is being done in our names, so if you never saw the segment, take 14 minutes to watch it now.
Shift your spending from massive corporations to small artists, local venues, or better companies. Replace a Sinclair station with PBS Passport, buy from bookshop.org instead of Amazon or dump Spotify. Search local news for a concert, comedy show or art festival today!
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The “Community Emergency Response Team” program trains people to step up in emergencies. Focused on closing the inevitable gap until trained professionals could be deployed, this training is more relevant than ever as agencies are dismantled and climate change worsens. Click through for information about taking classes.
If you feel like calling state Senators makes no difference, go local: from ICE operations to checking girls’ panties to play sports, state decisions matter. Very few people pay attention to state-level politics, so you have extra clout if you do. Not sure who they are? Click through for tips to find them.
In a healthy country our elections would be fair, free and funded. Push back on the GOP’s voter disenfranchisement efforts by donating the price of coffee or a dinner to organizations fighting for fair elections. Skip the endless “DNC” texts that are mostly scammers and support democracy, not candidates.
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