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@ Quenby (they/them)
2025-02-23 16:11:50
Ok I maybe oversold the list but you're here now.
💰 Try to keep as much money as you can in the local economy. Before you buy something from a chain store, find out if there's a local place to get it and do that. Support local businesses over chains.
🪧 Stand in solidarity with workers. If you need money that you earn from your labor to make ends meet, you're a worker. A rising tide lifts all boats.
🗳️ Vote in local elections and organize to bring more voters to the polls. The smaller the office, the smaller the turnout, so you can really make some progress on things this way. Look up voter turn out in your neighborhood and see if you can improve it.
⛑️ Take courses in first aid and disaster response, get your HAM license, find a way to make yourself useful in the event of an emergency and then pray you never need to do it.
🙋♀️ Volunteer at a local org important to you. There are so many solvable problems in the world that someone local to you is already working on. Find out what local efforts are going on around you and join.
Remember that this is a numbers game and the more of us there are working in the same direction, the more progress we can make.
Anything you can do right now to get a more solid circle of community built is going to help.