For 250 years the post office stamped mail the day you dropped it, then delivered reliably. Now, if you need a postmark by a specific date, you have to have it hand-stamped. Learn about the decade-long effort by the GOP to kill the USPS, and spread the word about these changes.
If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing poorly! Go to the protest without a sign – you still count. Call your Senator and rant at the machine. Donate $5 when you can. Replace some of your Amazon purchases with local stores. If reading a history book is overwhelming, listen to inspiring fiction. Embrace the power of doing something, and together it will be enough.
Guilt can motivate us, or cripple us. Turn those negative feelings into positive action. Choose something you feel badly about—saying nothing to your dad, or ordering from Prime—and plan a “penance” for each “infraction”. You could call to Congress, or tip the Prime driver in cash. Make the penance fit the crime if you can!
We’ve been at this for more than a year, and sometimes life gets busy for all the normal reasons. It’s easy to skip the resistance for a day that turns into a week or a month. Today: pick a default task to do when you’re too tired to make a plan. (You don’t have to do the task today — just choose one.)
Are you a summer gardener? Put extra produce on a table by the road, or donate it to a little free pantry. Start herbs to share with new gardeners, or with curious kids. If you need help in your garden, invite a neighbor to share in the bounty for some assistance.
Help spread food resilience!
ICE is still growing — it’s just quieter now. Project Salt box has a map of ICE detention centers and offices, and the current status of each project. Keep an eye out locally for new or in-progress expansion and push back hard!
