Let's Help
A lot of people are being harmed by the current administration. Let's mobilize & help them.
I'll pick a Trump order/policy weekly & highlight relevant orgs we can collectively help w/our money & time. Every little bit adds up.
(I'm @paix120.bsky.social)
- For week 9, and Earth Day, let's help the Earth www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/how...
- Harrisonburg, VA #handsoff protest
- I think one way to help today is to share photos of activists around the country. And share them with people who haven't been to a protest. Let's celebrate people making their voices heard!
- Share resources with people who might need it
- We must stand up against the Trump administration’s senseless demonization of our friends, family, and neighbors. 2/2 U of M Resources and FAQs: brief.umn.edu/federal-immi...
- If you are affiliated with a university, encourage them to publicly support their students like this.
- Faculty “support Tufts U commencing legal action, w/o delay…to enjoin the government & its agents from arresting, detaining or deporting university students, staff or faculty based upon their engagement in constitutionally protected expression” danieldrezner.substack.com/p/a-fletcher...
- In week 8, we're helping international students enrolled in US universities:
- This thread is relevant to this week's topic, and includes more ways to help
- Modern science is international. Travel is essential for training & collaboration, but the US is not reliably safe for many of us. We all have ways to confront the threat, even if leadership is failing us. More on that + Dept of Ed in this week's debrief buttondown.com/liminalcreat... (1/5)
- This week, let's help vulnerable international students who attend US universities. Below, I'm going to paste the text of a letter I sent my senators. It's best if you tie in your own experience, but feel free to copy/paste and use as needed.
- Let's make sure to help out the employees and mail recipients who will be most affected by the DOGE takeover. See pinned post.
- In week 7, let's help postal service employees and rural mail recipients most likely to lose service. Many postal delivery jobs, routes, and post offices are at risk under new plans for cuts. See the thread for info on actions you can take to help.
- Many of these are a result of individual people standing up to do what's right in the face of fascism
- Applicable to one of our previous weeks' action themes
- Want to do something to help people suffering because of the federal government cuts? Donate to one of the orgs in this thread bsky.app/profile/lets...
- Who we're helping in Week 6: Hungry and Unhoused Americans
- For week 6, we're going to help organizations that help those in need which are receiving funding cuts, or are not receiving increases they need because of increasing demand, due to the Continuing Resolution budget.
- Meals on Wheels and Habitat for Humanity are facing budget cuts 😞 I'll post in replies here if I see updates now that the CR budget passed www.ksat.com/news/local/2...
- Week 5: Helping feed and inform local folks
- Who we're helping this week: Informing local folks who aren't in your online circles, and local mutual aid Many ideas here thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lon...
- Who we're helping this week: Informing local folks who aren't in your online circles, and local mutual aid Many ideas here thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lon...
- Sorry for dropping off here, but it's temporary. I'm having an unexpectedly extra busy few weeks, and need to focus on other items. Take breaks for self care, but come back. I'll be back to pick up where we left off, soon.
- I know things are bad right now, but this feed is meant to counter the chaos and focus on one topic per week, so we can all make a difference for affected people, together. Please share. Let's help those we can. (Also, personally, it makes me feel better when I'm doing *something* to help)
- See my posts from this week for some ways to help migrant families (and send me more to share if you have any!)
- Buy or print your own to distribute in your community
- Personally I can’t imagine anything more American than making sure I and anyone who listens to me are aware of our rights under the law and Constitution and are prepared to exercise them as we may. www.ilrc.org/red-cards-ta...
- Who we're helping in week 4: The families of detained immigrants (thread) bsky.app/profile/lets...
