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🩵Mutual aid

Reach out to your neighbors – especially if you know they are staying home right now – and ask if they need groceries or toiletry items. Offer to pick up prescriptions, give rides, or shovel their driveway. If you know them well, bring them a treat that you know they'll enjoy. Or just ask them how they're doing and let them know you are there to support.

Connect with any of the orgs above and see if they are looking for volunteers.

Connect with a church or mosque in your area. From u/MuddieMaeSuggins: "I know a lot of regular Redditors are not religious (myself included) but like it or not this is a where a lot of community organizing happens, especially in immigrant communities."

Connect with your local school's admin office and/or their PTA. It's ok to reach out even if you don't have kids at the school. PTAs are organizing mutual aid for school families, safe rides, school observers.

🩵Activism

Find an official protest or other event via Indivisible, 50501, FREE AMERICA, or MIRAC. Students at many high schools are staging walk-outs; if your local school is doing this, reach out to school leadership or the PTA and ask how you can support as a community member.

Join the effort to stop Hilton from housing ICE by booking hotel rooms and then cancelling at the last minute. This action can be done from home! The effort is being organized by Sunrise Movement, who are telling activists to target specific hotels one-by-one. More info: SHUT DOWN HILTON

Find people in your area who are actively monitoring ICE and/or stationing themselves in high-traffic areas and ask how you can help. Check for local FB events where people are organizing and just show up.

At minimum, read the COPAL Handbook before you go out to observe. The DFL, Monarca, and other orgs have been hosting online trainings for constitutional observers (though these fill up quickly).

When you see ICE in action, start recording. Be as loud and as disruptive as possible: honk your horn, set off your car alarm, blow your whistle. Let people know that ICE is in the area. If you see someone being detained, try to get their name and a phone number to call their emergency contact.

If you do not feel comfortable observing ICE in person, there are ways you can support from home. Just ask the people who are organizing in your area. I have social anxiety, and I had never participated in any kind of political action before this past Saturday. If I can do it, you can!

Local organizers are requesting that people who help monitor ICE DO NOT participate in 1-to-1 mutual aid efforts, as these can put the families you are helping at risk.

if you follow me on twitter (i know a lot of you are my oomfs over there) i have been very active this season and the simple answer is just. i love this sport and the people it brings me to

it's very obvious that my initial post was very emotionally driven & i don't really fault myself on it and i think it was very valid for me to be frustrated with the way hockey culture was at that moment & still is today. as a sports fan who has so many identities that put me at a disadvantage, i can't just ignore my players politics because they affect me (and even if they didn't, it doesn't change the fact that they support people's beliefs that directly harm others). to be very honest there's still a lot of cognitive dissonance between my love for the sport and what i know the culture of the sport is.

i think for the most part the gap between the current culture and what the culture could be feels very overwhelming when i'm looking at it. i look at my circle of friends and i feel very at home but when women, queer people, and poc are constantly dismissed it's hard to feel like i belong in this space

tldr; i would like to carve out a space for me to enjoy this sport because. i love it! it's (partially) brought me to an amazing city and has helped me find a circle of people that i love talking to. other people shouldn't get to take that away!