(this list is mainly ways non-locals can donate but by extension offers a lot of resources and places to volunteer in the Twin Cities + there are specific ways to donate time under the cut which can be adjusted to your local neighborhood)
full credit to cataloo from r/minnesota [x]
🩵Immigrant support
Immigrant Defense Network – coalition of 90+ groups organizing rapid response and collecting evidence.
Immigrant Law Center of MN – free immigration legal representation to low-income immigrants and refugees.
COPAL – advocacy, organizing, phone hotline. Focus on Latine community.
Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) – education and protest organizing.
Interfaith Coalition on Immigration – advocacy, aid, events.
Monarca MN – training and phone hotline.
Unidos MN – education, protests, advocacy.
Center for Victims of Torture – advocacy and mental health services for immigrants and refugees.
International Institute of Minnesota – refugee resettlement group that provides support and legal help to vulnerable new-to-country families.
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota – offers services to refugees, including legal aid to non-citizens.
🩵Food support
If local, food donations are welcome, otherwise monetary donations help these types of orgs source what is most needed
VEAP
La Vina Community Church/Iglesia Cristiana La Viña Burnsville
Second Harvest Heartland
Every Meal
The Food Group
Meals on Wheels MN
Find a local food shelf
🩵Mutual aid funds & community support
Community Aid Network
Twin Cities Trans Mutual Aid
Leo's Tow (Venmo @leostowingmn) is towing cars back to families if a car is stranded when someone is detained.
🩵More links
MN50501 Mutual Aid Linktree – well-organized list of various Twin Cities groups.
Mplsmutualaid Linktree – many neighborhood and individual GoFundMes listed here.
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.
Stand with Minnesota – extensive list of organizations, mutual aid, and crowdfunding campaigns.
🩵Donate blood
Memorial Blood Center declared a blood emergency on Tuesday, Jan 13. MBC is the blood supplier for both tier 1 trauma hospitals in the metro area (Hennepin County Medical Center and North Memorial Health).
American Red Cross
🩵Donate food or other goods
Mpls.St.Paul Magazine – see Food Drives and Fundraisers.
Volunteer your time (under the cut)
🩵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 have friends/acquaintances who are sympathetic but not politically active, reach out to them. Show them that they're not alone in feeling helpless. Pick a few low-commitment actions from this list and do them together.
US people! The asshole who currently resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave signed an EO on 3/14/2025 to defund the Institute of Library and Museum Services. YOU have the chance to call YOUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVE and be REALLY ANNOYING in an INFORMATIVE WAY.
As an act of love to yourself, your neighbors, and your library workers, please call your Congresspeople and:
- Demand they do everything in their power to block this defunding
- Tell them libraries are important to you and you use their services and you don’t want those services to change or go away. You want MORE services which means MORE money.
- Demand they do everything in their power to end the current constitutional crisis. Congress has power of the purse, not the executive branch.
This is a fast and tangible way to support libraries! You get to vent your frustration about this regime! You get to know that I am genuinely thankful to you!
The information in this post is for the purposes of making phone calls. It is accurate, but not deeply nuanced. If you have further questions please send me an ask.
It's been two months since more than 100 thousand armenians have been ethnically cleansed from their homeland of Artsakh. This doesn't mean that everything is over and everyone can get back to their daily lives and forget about it. I found some ways to help that I urge you to at least reblog.
DONATE:
Greenhouses and Beekeeping for displaced Artsakhtsis
CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES:
H.R.5683 - Supporting Armenians Against Azerbaijani Aggression Act of 2023
H.R.5686 - Preventing Ethnic Cleansing and Atrocities in Nagorno-Karabakh Act of 2023
H.Res.320 - Recognizing the Republic of Artsakh's independence and condemning Azerbaijan's continued aggression against Armenia and Artsakh.
Just saw that FEMAs Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program has been canceled. As the disaster knowledge person, I come to you seeking hope- do you know of any other programs still doing this important community disaster preparedness work?
Unfortunately FEMA is under heavy assault, and that doesn't look like it's going to end any time soon. The BRIC program is just one portion of it so far. We're also seeing Trump be slow to sign disaster declarations, and even not signing them at all or denying them, and tons of grants have been frozen or revoked outside of the BRIC program as well. He also just announced the people he's putting on his FEMA review committee today and...ah...it's a terrible bunch.
This administration's goal with FEMA is to put disaster response back into the hands of the states. But that is just impossible. According to one higher up Emergency Management guy I spoke with recently, in Alabama, only four counties could afford to run their own Emergency Management departments without FEMA grants. Four. Alabama has 67 total counties. (He also stated that, to recover from Helene without FEMA help, counties in Alabama would have to raise property taxes 55-70%.) I would guess the numbers would be similar across most states.
Point is, yeah, it's a bad damn time right now. And it is probably not going to get better at any useful speed.
BUT.
But there are a ton of great people focused on this problem, and we're all working hard to plan for these changes as much as possible. What that looks like is changing all the time, due to the goalposts constantly getting yanked around, but it is being worked on. No matter what, some form of help is ALWAYS going to be there. It may not look the way you expect, or the way you want, but there will be something, even if it's just your neighbors.
Some things you can do to help:
Look up "Your State + VOAD." VOAD stands for "Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster." This will get you a list of local, vetted volunteer organizations that specifically offer their services during disasters. See if there's one you want to/can help out with, even during non disaster times! You can also look up "National VOAD" to find national groups.
If you have ever made use of ANY of FEMA's services, or you know someone who has, and you have a positive story to share about it, do so. Do it loudly and repeatedly wherever and whenever you can.
Go to your local city/state political meetings and talk about the value you see in FEMA and that you want to see it protected.
Call your representatives and tell them the value you see in FEMA and that you want to see it protected.
Make sure you are personally prepared as much as possible without it turning into an anxiety spiral. The more you can help yourself, the more weight you can take off a stressed system. A go bag and an evacuation plan are great places to start, and will already put you ahead of the game.
The global sumud(steadfastness) flotilla, en route to G@za, is being illegally intercepted in international waters and comandeered by lsraeIi t*rror forces, again, and mainstream media remains silent. the humanitarian civilian activists are being k¡dnapped to lsraeIi detention against their will.
if you could take a moment to contact our reps, it is set up pretty easy thru their website. there's a template and you can contact many at once.
if you could also share it really helps. the more eyes on these missions, the better protected they are. currently the humanitarians aboard the mission from all over the world are being illegally detained and ab*sed for simply bringing medical aid supplies, menstrual supplies and baby formula.
keep track here:
map live tracker (missions, routes, progress & interceptions)
boats livestream feed
all links
for some hope, it looks like there's global strykes and pr0testing again (join if you can!)
family on shore in G@za looking forward to the arrival of humanitarian aid❤️
remember the focus of the mission is always to return to the people in falasteen. thank you. 🇵🇸 !عاشت فلسطين
Hey, Illinois is currently reviewing a 2015 bill that sanctions companies for speaking out against Israel! You can submit a witness slip HERE for the rest of the day in favor of repealing the bill!!!
INSTRUCTIONS:
Fill in your basic information: Enter your name and contact details. For “Firm/Business or Agency,” write “Self.” Leave “Representation” blank
Select your position: Choose “HB 2723” (don’t worry, it’s the only option) in the first dropdown menu, and select “Proponent” under the next dropdown menu. Make sure to click “Add Position”!
Choose testimony: Select “Record of Appearance Only” (No written testimony required.) Click “Submit Witness Slip” and you’re done!
I don’t think it works outside the US, but please submit a slip if you can, or send it to someone you know!!
Again, the link to submit a witness slip is here!
Welcome to the Official government website of the Illinois General Assembly
Hey you do you want to get involved with politics and don’t where to start. Here’s some advice
information
Before you start talking about things you have to understand what they are. Here’s some news sources that doesn’t require subscription
- GZERO (specially the “what we’re watching”)
- democracy now!
- all sides
- Al Jazeera
- the jacobin
- activote
- counterpunch
Now here’s online creators (YouTube)
- Allie_202_
-the Marshall project
- Middle East eye
- more prefect union
- Nowthis impact
- Aj+
- breakthrough news
- advice from Louis
- Omar agamy
- ACLU
- endeavorance
- lady Izdihar
- theleftistpetspective
- user0731
- Ryan🇵🇸
- woke Karen
- a dude
Learn how your government works and what your countries law are
Some education on terms in global politics is also very usefulful
IGO- international governmental organization, think the UN or EU
NGOO - non government organization, think non profits like Doctors Without Borders
Legitimacy - how acceptable the actions of a person are
States - fancy word for country
Actor - anyone that plays a major role in politics, a president is a actor a leader of a civil rights group is a actor everyone is a actor
Realism - a part of thought in global politics that believes that the goal of states is to acquire
Liberalism - another party of thought that says that although humans can be selfish it’s better for everyone to work together
Involvement
It doesn’t matter how much therapy you know if you aren’t doing anything than it’s basically useless
Here’s some action you can take
- donate to charities
- join protest
- attend your local chapter meeting
- sign petitions
- share resources
- join soup kitchens
- hang up fliers or posters
- keep up with local elections, a lot of organizations actually have templates you can use
- email your representative
- join school clubs about politics, think model un or model general assembly or debate club
Implementation
If a movement is going to work everyone has to play a part. Practice what you preach
- boycott
- talk to others and build community
- inform others but dont talk down to them. They will just make people more dead set in their way (backfire effect)
- don’t let bigotry slide even if it’s your friends
- volunteer, best way to help community and meet new people
- keep supplies around. first aid kits, ice whistles, needles and thread, masks, food and water, ect.
- support creators with good politics
- LISTEN to minorities but DONT talk over them
- keep yourself safe, it’s it’s not safe to come out then don’t. If it’s not safe for you to protest, don’t. Don’t die
-think about your thinking. What I mean is explain why you believe the things you do, in simple terms try to unpack your beliefs.
Most importantly
In order to build a community you not only have to give help from others but also allow yourself to receive help. Learn to allow yourself to rely on others.
Tell the cops nothing and your doctors/ lawyers EVERYTHING
Do not let despair consume you. Yes everything sucks now. Yes it’s okay to feel sad. However don’t give up. The goal of evil people with power is to make you feel like there’s nothing you can do because they know that if we work together they are fine for.
Give yourself hope, even small victories are still victories
NO ONE IS FREE UNTIL EVERYONE IS FREE
If you have any more tips feel free to comment them
