Pointing again at my US Blue State Challenge. If you live in a "blue state", pick the red state you hate the most and the issue you care about the most and find a group in that state working on that issue and support them.
One thing I don’t understand is why, when people are outraged by some injustice or affront — like book bans — they don’t first look to see who is already tracking the issue, who’s already working on education + organization. “We need to do something!” People *are*. Find them. Help them.
I think a lot about the Freedom Summer in the context of my Blue State Challenge and the way folks realized shit in Mississippi was not going to get better without outside help, not because Black people in Mississippi were too weak but because they were up against a shit-ton of power.
