(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
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.
I absolutely fucking love how well they're handling Robby's character. he's not overtly sad/slow anything like that— in fact, he seems almost cheerful. laughing and grinning, much lighter this episode than the season one pilot. why? because he already has plans. because he knows after this shift, it's over. it's the fucking warnings for suicide. if a depressed person suddenly seems "happier"... you check in on them.
it's reminiscent of s1, his interaction with Dana— "the hairier it gets, the funnier you get, and you are on fire today." he's not going to be obvious about it. the only reason he's a bit more settled is because there's 'an end in sight' of sorts. Robby please get help
wait i wanna weigh in on this as a suicidal person in active recovery SO TRIGGER WARNING!!
op is correct when you see someone who is depressed & is actively combating against their own suicidal ideation “happier” ie. more open, more accepting and productive, you should check in on them.
i’m currently writing an article— excerpt down below— on my experiences as a suicidal person & the humanization aspect of this. people think of being suicidal as a cancer, a higher purposeful transgression rather than what it is: a human going through something humans may unfortunately experience.
One thing I refused to do now that I acquired this new and quite powerful mental health struggle: isolate. To me, I was overdue on death for several months. Yet my family kept being impacted with grief.
It seemed selfish to deem my importance as something so trivial as grief, especially grief of others. Yet as I stood at my grandma's interment in a country she didn’t even want to be buried in, all I thought was, my grandma wouldn’t want it to be now. Truly, she wouldn’t want it to be soon whatsoever. Yet that didn’t matter to a girl who couldn’t even tell her parents what she was feeling, what she kept contemplating and even attempted.
Death for catholics is almost always an intimate affair that is aesthetically pleasing to the eye until you realize how doomful it is. Though lapsed catholic myself, there is still an intrinsic characteristic to all of those who had the privilege of now suffering catholic guilt: you’re baptized catholic, you die catholic.
So instead of isolation, I didn’t change anything about me. If anything I over-exaggerated my purpose just for the ones I loved to not miss me too much. I’d once in a while go out, then go home and wonder how many Tylenols would it take to kill me. Want to go shopping? Sure. Want to try to live to see another year? Still deciding on that, maybe I’ll know next month.
— end of excerpt.
so yes, it’s the extended gestures and pangs in your chest (ie. when robby saw the plaque). more importantly, it’s the escapism. when i was fully enthralled with the looming idea that i wasn’t okay, i traveled a lot. i tried to fill my cup as MUCH as possible, see everything i wanted to see just to see if that would “heal” me, tell my brain that life is beautiful… it didn’t but i am still breathing & alive, therefore it might of helped.
NOW i do give a lot credit to the mental healthcare providers & healthcare workers in general (esp. my papa who immediately referred me to an amazing therapist).
however what are your guys thoughts on robby’s sabbatical 🤔
Being reminded that robby is canonically the jealous type is like a hit of pure dopamine. This wonderful, brilliant man gets dumb when he feels challenged.
"This fic is literally just porn, why do you care about the quality of the editing" unfortunately, both my brain and my dick have strong opinions about verb tenses.
Pittsburgh’s hottest hospital is...Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
Run by a woman named Gloria wearing a Hillary Clinton-Approved pantsuit, it’s the only place in town you can crack a cold one with your attending after a mass casualty event. Don't be thrown off when you're greeted at the door by a woman in handcuffs calling you a fruitcake – you’re in the right place.
This place has everything: Trauma, egg salad, pig tail catheters, sad boys, unsupervised REBOA’s, a neurodivergent queen, The Kraken, doctors bumming Librium, antivaxxers, a non-practicing-Jewish man dime, a flight risk war medic, and a roof perfect for diving off of. It’ll make you finally stop asking, “are all doctors supposed to be that fuckable?”
Look who’s in the waiting room—is that Pittsburgh’s own Michael Keaton? No, it's a family of four rats hitching a ride in on a hobo
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