Save money with a library card! They have ebooks, audiobooks, magazine and newspaper subscriptions, movies you can check out, printing and sometimes craft supplies! Not to mention events you can attend and a place you can sit without buying anything. Support the library by using it, then donate what you saved to a good cause!
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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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Do you run a mutual-aid or community-building space? With school out, lots of families have to make food stretch further, so set up a snack stop. Free fruit for kids, or “take one, leave one” for staff and visitors. Make it feel like the most normal thing to grab a granola bar because it’s convenient.
Battles over symbols matter. As we head into our 250th birthday as a nation, 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 plan to fly them together as a counter measure to cage-match spectacle.
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Donate a copy of a book that inspires you to a friend, Little Free Library, or community center. Or leave one in a public place with a sticky note that says “borrow me, then pass me on!”
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Happy Pride Month! Coming out isn’t something to be rushed — it’s not easy to undo — but think through how you want to take steps towards being authentically yourself. June is the Queer Pride month, but everyone can take inspiration from the model of fearless insistence on authenticity! What are you hiding from the world?
