The thing that is most striking to me about all the things I have read about what Minnesotans are doing to resist, is that to help, you don't have to do something dangerous, you don't have to learn a ton of new skills, you just have to do SOMETHING.
You can wash someone's laundry? That helps. You can put together care packages for kids cooped up at home? That helps. You can chip in to a fund to help people who can't safely leave their homes pay rent? That helps. You can stand and patrol outside a school or day care or mosque or church? That helps. You can start a signal group and dispatch observers to where there are reported ICE sightings? That helps. You can go out and patrol an immigrant neighborhood? That helps. You can order takeout or shop at immigrant restaurants and businesses? That helps.
No one has to do it all. In fact, they're asking that people NOT do many different things. Pick a way to help and stick to it. But EVERYONE has to do SOMETHING.
this post has really struck me today, and i appreciate @crafting-and-tea for posting it.
it is easy, especially right now, to get stuck into this mindset of helping the "right" way. of doing the "best" good thing. and we intellectualize SO MUCH that we never end up actually doing anything.
but it is far more important to just pick ONE thing that you CAN do and do it consistently.

























