Four Types of Activism: What to Do When You Want to DO Something but Don’t Know What

Four Types of Action in Resistance:
1. Political-finding and supporting good candidates. If your district is safe, why not help in the nearest swing district. Or run for office yourself? This also includes calling your representatives, and active protests.
2. Intellectual-such as correcting misinformation when you see it, speaking to others about our cause of a just, free, and fair nation, writing about what you see, getting out information on “forbidden” subjects such as climate change, and giving support to the brave journalists out there working to publish truth. This also includes being a critical thinker yourself, by reading and thinking clearly.
3. Practical-such as starting a garden, or better yet a community garden, helping a kid, working on a community building project, or volunteering. When the federal government is in the hands of evil men and women, the local provides a vast opportunity to grow strong communities. If your town or city already has a good community, you can make it stronger. If it has none, you can help build it. And-if you live in a place that is openly hostile, build it anyhow, just disguise it as a non-threatening thing like a “knitting circle” or make it a church project.
4. Financial-which includes boycotting anything that will make malefactors richer. But it also includes giving-to defunded entities that are doing good work, and to those that are helping our most vulnerable. Good choices: Climate change organizations, women’s health, public arts, homeless support groups, food banks-the choices are endless.

This is a time of extreme hardship for our most vulnerable people and eco-systems, but it is also a time for our best and brightest ideas and initiatives. We all have a unique style and different resources and talents. You can make the world a better place. When you want to help but don’t know how, choose one of these ideas and make a contribution that will produce ripples out in to your community and the world.

Originally published at https://lifebeyondcapitalism.com on June 2, 2020.