Are you a busy person who wishes you could resist more? Start where you are and take one step forward. Choose a schedule you can keep and commit to one five minute act of resistance. It can be daily (while you wait for the coffee to perk) or weekly (during your lunch break Wednesday) or even monthly. It can be five minutes of a larger task, or discrete, individual actions. What’s key is this: do just a little more than you were doing.
LGBTQ teen suicide rates track with support: just one support person can reduce risk significantly. Amid an escalating war on transgender Americans the Trevor Project’s anti-suicide work is more important than ever. Please consider a donation.
If you are able, set up a small, recurring donation to your favorite charity, instead of making larger annual contributions. Like all of us, charities need a budget they can count on. If money is tight, scan for a subscription you can cancel and donate an equivalent amount.
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Shift away from the capitalist mindset and build community by joining the local gifting economy! BuyNothing groups can be found across the country, are hyper-local, and help you learn how to give and receive goods and services without expecting or providing immediate recompense. It all comes back around! Check buynothingproject.org for information.
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The SAVE act would disenfranchise anyone who can’t produce a passport, or a birth certificate and current picture ID that match. It does more than that to steal the midterms, so call your Senator right now to tell them you oppose the SAVE act and will remember how they voted. If your Senator is a Democrat, thank them for fighting. The GOP is trying to spook them.
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.
If you’re looking for something easy to do on days you’re too busy for bigger tasks…how about postcards to voters? There’s always a campaign (right now it’s Supreme Court Judges in Wisconsin) and once you’re set up you can get sets of as few as five addresses. Think what you could do in a month, one card at a time!
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