Your exhaustion is part of the plan. Constant crisis wears you out—they hope you’ll give up. Schedule half an hour to sit quietly with a cup of tea or a cocktail. No phones, no news. How are you feeling? What do you need? Schedule more of that. Self-care is resistance.
Gestapo-like abductions are happening wherever you are. Bring attention to this fact with signs documenting where people have been snatched. Use chalk, stencils, yellow flowers, posters, or pop-up protests to let passers-by know an atrocity occurred right here, where they live.
Cards and postcards are harder for officials to ignore than phone calls, emails or petitions. If you enjoy writing old fashioned letters, set up your stationary and start telling your elected representatives what you think!
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Do you send physical thank you cards? Whenever you’re writing one, send a spare to a politician or activist group you’re grateful for. Use up leftover seasonal cards (ask buy nothing for leftover wedding cards?) and be specific about what you appreciate! Everyone loves a kudo!
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Normalization numbs us. it tells us nothing requires urgency, and we’d be a chump to keep acting like things are on fire. Panic burns us out with the same result: we stop taking action. Click through for ways to re-calibrate, then break ennui by taking action.
Don’t put your Pride flags away! As we head from Pride to the 4th, push back at the tacky orange man by flying the U.S. flag side-by-side with a second flag that shows your values. Pride, peace, Ukraine, Canada…pick something meaningful to you and make a statement!
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